Thread: Crashed on Slythxx {darkest_fate&Zacki}

Slythxx. A planet located seven light years from Earth. The second planet orbiting a Sun only slightly larger than Earth's sun, and yet, with a planetary orbit that was a bit more stable than Earth's. The planet itself looked like a large, cracked desert, with grey dust covering the planet and red gorges that lined the planet, giving it an ethereal beauty. As voyager passed by it, tests confirmed that the planet had an atmosphere remarkably like earth's atmosphere, which provoked an unmanned shuttle to the planet five years ago. It was supposed to be routine - just determine if there was any primitive life on the planet and determine if it could support human life. From the beginning, the finds were amazing - the surface was made up of several kinds of indigenous rock, but a good deal of the surface was fine sand-like dust, which would blow in the wind. Proving that the soil was suitable for earth plants, the probe made it's first trip to the valleys - and there it found the plants. The red color from the skies were discovered to be large cactus-like plants which used primarily carotenoids to perform photosynthesis, hence the red color, which turned more green at the stock of the plant. Diving into the valleys, the probe found that far below the surface of the planet, there was a steady supply of water, which the prove tested and found mostly drinkable, once it was cleaned. Finding moving life forms, primarily reptilian in nature, celebrations occurred throughout the scientific world. However, these celebrations did not detail the most amazing thing, what happened once the dun came out. Then, it seemed, the true owners and denizens of the world emerged. The probe's pictures were quite detailed, showing a reptilian humanoid that stood about six and a half feet tall, with grey scaly skin and a long tail, which was quickly discovered to be prehensile when the reptilian being began to climb one of the trees, using both hands and feet, which were noted as prehensile, with it's tail to assist him in climbing the trees to the top, where it ate the thick red leaves of the plant. This footage only lasted a few minutes, before the reptilian creature saw the probe. The creature was distinct in that it began to make distinct noises, and to the scientist's excitement at the time, proved to wield a metallic device like a staff, indicating intelligence. The probe ceased to transmit anything after that point, leaving Scientists curious as to the nature of the intelligent beings that stood in the image. It was about mid-light cycle when the object came hurtling from the sky. It made such a noise and shook the ground, sending the Slyth into a frenzy, disturbing their mid-day routines of packing supplies. Although a few worked to secure their nests, an Alpha, one of the stronger Slyth which served as a guard of sorts called for a few of it's fellows with a high pitched clicking of it's tongue, and about a dozen such warriors came at his call. They travelled through the tunnels under the ground, with the Alpha picking up a metallic staff along the way, moving to emerge only a couple thousand feet from where the ship had landed. The Alpha began to communicate with his hunters, and began to crawl forward, using his limbs and tail to remain balanced close to the ground, where his skin color matched the color of the desert, unlike much of the easier food supplies in the valleys. It's face was decidingly versatile - much like the cross between an ape and a crocodile, golden eyes which had a second layer of skin for protecting the sensitive eyes against the sun glinting about as the beasts spread out on their own, moving forward with a slow speed, as they cautiously approached the vehicle. As the Alpha approached, taking a slight detour to get closer to the ship, he saw Amelia, and his eyes blinked in surprise. It had seen these things before - they were images shown via the sound waves that began to hit this planet, years ago. The presence of foreign creatures brought both a curiosity and an irritation to the Alpha - after all, they had dangerous weapons called 'guns', he recalled. Gripping his Staff, which he had held in his tail until this point, the Alpha moved to point one end of it, the main weapon at Amelia's general torso, before it made a loud hissing sound, which it expected to alert her to it's presence. Srree...Eeze, EU-HEU-MANG. The Alpha managed to eek out, obviously not being used to speaking in the tongue of a human. Similarly, both Wu and O'Reilly would find themselves threatened - if they did not notice the approach, the Slyph would try to tackle them to the ground, wrestling them down with their great strength and the threat of their teeth. If they noticed it, the Slyphs would charge, still trying to knock them down with momentum before the pair could fight back. The torsos and bodies resembled humans, though there was no sign of reproductive organs, save for a set of scaly plates from around the abdomen downwards.