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Space 'cold' is not like normal 'cold'. Undead are immune to cold, but perhaps not to being frozen. Just declare it to be so, if you want the scenario to work. Number 1 Kelvin street is a bad neighborhood for _everybody_.
So freeze the Tarrasque solid, hit it with some impacts that break off pieces and perhaps disguise its overall form by slamputation.
It's brought aboard, of course. Won't fit through the usual cargo bay door, so there's a cool CGI of the Planetary/Orbital Dispatch boat being launched, flipped, landed ON, rather than IN the main ship, and tethered in place, by hard-faced folk in suits, with starbursts and nebulae and lots of lens flare beauty shots. Some one gets the line about quarantine protocols so someone else can have the line about just exactly how dead this thing must be. The Feyland-Garundi cor-rep has a solo scene where he's furiously texting with Corporate...
It gets warm enough that a retracted leg (it's a turtleoid, right?) spasms out, jamming the POD bay doors, just so that when Dade later tells the computer to open those doors, it can say, "I'm sorry Dade, I can't do tha-", and Dade shoots the speaker.
This mostly writes itself. You want your drama to be what flavor? Politics among the crew? Some parasite off the T, stalking the crew? Maybe the Lab Ratfolk fed some of the T to actual lab rats, and... Bad Things Happen. Whatever.
"Why can't we jettison it? If those Unusually-Sized Rodents have all dug into it, just set it adrift. We'll get an orbital reading, put a beacon on it-"
"Can't. Dade says the POD bay doors are jammed."
"BLOW the damn doors. Cut the main strut, charges on the outer hinges. Gimme an hour. Tops."
"Thermostasis. The POD bay is a big, deep hole in the ship. Without the doors, it's like a wound, open to the cold of space. Life support wouldn't keep up. Not long enough."
"So we get in the POD. It's the planned lifeboat, anyway."
"We are NOT, abandoning-"
"No! We stay _with_ the ship, we just _live_ in the POD..."
Hardest thing for me would be resisting the growing impulse to name the Feyland-Garundi ship TERASK.
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I would probably have the tarrasque just be a curiosity. It is permanently held in temporal stasis alwaye 18 seconds from regenerating. If the crew isnt stupid they can study it from a distance and get some emmision spectra from it. They would determine it is living and about to come back. After it doesnt they would find what it is and toss up a warning beacon. Dont hit this.
So its in a crate (or giant obscured ice block whatever works) marked dangerous. So now of course the party has to check it out pick it up move it on ship and study it. Oh turns out there is some giant dead animal in it. oh know the cooling system is malfunctioning. ITS THAWING! well surely its dead....
Que space monster movie.
Launch tow cables, propel toward nearest uninhabitable planet.
Hm. The constant damage from radiation and cold might just keep it from regenerating back to life. If you stuck an engine and a bridge onto the Tarrasque's back, you could have a space ship. Organic spaceship for the win!
Maybe the Tarrasque evolves with the times (or was mutated at some point during the gap) and is now a deadly force of destruction that travels from planet to planet by smashing its way into the drift and smashing its way out again.
Maybe the Tarrasque evolves with the times (or was mutated at some point during the gap) and is now a deadly force of destruction that travels from planet to planet by smashing its way into the drift and smashing its way out again.
The only way to enter The Drift is with technology, so it would have to be a cyberterrasque. I could totally see that happening though. It's looking for Golarion because it's creator is still trapped inside The Cage. Forever searching, forever lost. Destroying worlds as it searches in vain... Kinda sad, but pretty cool.
Also, the terrasque's regeneration rate would keep it alive and even active in the vacuum of space, but maybe it just decided to go to sleep. If they woke it up during a space walk along its carapace, you could get straight to the monster vs starship battle.
Maybe the Tarrasque evolves with the times (or was mutated at some point during the gap) and is now a deadly force of destruction that travels from planet to planet by smashing its way into the drift and smashing its way out again.The only way to enter The Drift is with technology, so it would have to be a cyberterrasque. I could totally see that happening though. It's looking for Golarion because it's creator is still trapped inside The Cage. Forever searching, forever lost. Destroying worlds as it searches in vain... Kinda sad, but pretty cool.
Also, the terrasque's regeneration rate would keep it alive and even active in the vacuum of space, but maybe it just decided to go to sleep. If they woke it up during a space walk along its carapace, you could get straight to the monster vs starship battle.
Or it's the one creature that can do so without any visible technology. No one is sure why this is.
Though the mental image of the Tarrasque with a robotic spine and laser eyes is pretty awesome.