Slitherfang

The Slitherfang is an enormous, fast combat machine that can lash out from long range. Once it assumes a coiled stance, it has access to its full arsenal as its rotating body snaps into place.

Utility

The Slitherfang has the ability to spew pressurized streams of both Acid and Purgewater from its mouth, with the liquid being generated in a tank at the base of its throat. It can also use the rattle on its tail to fire bolts of lightning which generate a wide-reaching wave of electricity. The Slitherfang has multiple nodes on its neck it can use to temporarily stun and deafen its enemies.

Complexity

The Slitherfang is a large serpentine machine with traits of both a cobra and a rattlesnake. Its head is similar to a cobra, a pair of tri-ocular sensors on a head with two extendable metal fangs. The "sonic hood" on its head resembles a cobra's frills, and can extend them to use as sound blasters. it has a pair of earth-grinding drills on its front, including three big, detachable spinners. It has a sac on the throat and a sac on the back that can change between Metalbite and Purgewater. The data nexus of the Slitherfang is at the back of the neck. Its body is composed of multiple segments that can freely spin, allowing it to move like a snake. The end of the tail consists of three shock units that charge by the Slitherfang shaking it like a rattlesnake, and then snapping them into place for electric attacks.
The Slitherfang is capable of coiling around ruins and burrowing underground. Although they appear to be solitary machines, three of them had gathered at the Far Zenith Launch Facility. As the Slitherfang takes damage during battle it will change its attack pattern.
The Slitherfang's acid and Purgewater sacs can be shot and destroyed, preventing it from spitting acid or Purgewater. If the chest sac for Metalbite is destroyed and the Slitherfang switches to Purgewater, the chest sac will reactivate for Purgewater and can be destroyed again, as can the back sac. The pieces of the sonic hood can be destroyed, and the earthgrinders can be shot off, preventing it from digging. Its rattle can be shot off and then be used by humans against it.