Origins of the Lylisan Faux Wolf

On an ice shelf in the empire, a large metallic object is detected by a military base. its rich metallic composition makes it a prime target for harvesting. However, it seemingly escapes the tractor beam’s pull and crash lands nearby.
A science crew is officially requested by the Lylis DCDEA Base Director Rundrum Bronzeface Morger from Freiensoix, North Pantone. They share the evidence that an unknown flying craft of some kind crashed nearby. High speed photos of an object moving downward, up and on a straight line not the movements of a meteor. Scans reveal that the meteor weighed 20 000 tons and was mostly composed of bauxite. 
The science crew and DCDEA base senior staff fly to the crash site aboard the science team's ski-equipped whirler. The meteor is buried in the ice, with a vertical stabilizer protruding from the surface. They are shocked to discover that the meteor is some sort of craft. They try to free it with thermite heat, but in doing so accidentally destroy the craft, which sinks to the bottom of the frozen over lake. Staff Sergeant Thorold Roughplank Boweyin locates a body nearby, frozen in the ice.
They excavate the tall body, which resembles an anthropomorph in a deep diving suit, preserving it in a large ice block and return to the research outpost as a major storm moves in, making communication with Lylis very difficult. Some scientists want to thaw out the creature immediately, but Morger orders everyone to wait until he receives orders from authorities. The servo servant guarding the body, mistakenly following a medical protocol covers the ice block with an electric blanket and the creature thaws out, revives and escapes to the outside cold. 
The creature wards off an attack by snow wolves defending their den. The scientists discover the creatures escape and venture out. They recover an arm, bitten off by the wolves. As the arm warms up, it ingests the blood from one of the dogs and begins to come back to life. 
Back at the base, they hypothesize that, while appearing to be a classical anthropomorphic mammalian, the creature is in fact an advanced form of plant life. The Staff are just as sure it may be dangerous.
Finding more corpses of wolves when sweeping the perimeter of the base the Staff soon realizes that the creature requires blood to reproduce. Boweyin later discovers the hidden body of a snow wolf, still warm, drained of blood. Dr Ethetroar Flintstriker Volbach uses blood plasma from the infirmary to incubate and nourish seedlings taken from the arm, failing to advise his colleagues or Staff of what he has done. 
The creature tries to break into another part of the base. Staff puts the entire guest section of the base on warp lockdown until the issue with the creature is resolved
The creature returns and the Staff crew, after gunfire has no effect, trap it in the greenhouse and set it alight. 
== Faux Wolves ==
It has been later revealed that the plant organism imitates and feeds on snow wolves native to the region. The creatures resemble the snow wolf, gaining their trust before splitting its front from the nose to the breast, revealing its vertical mouth full of jagged needle teeth designed for exsanguination. 
The creature, supposedly born from the seedlings does not display any particularities beyond its feeding system, and reproduces like actual wolves. 
Since the Faux Wolves are not deemed a threat greater than actual Snow Wolves, its existence is maintained as it is now part of the ecosystem, having carved a niche in the plateau’s ecosystem.
The incident was filed under “minor extra weltian encounters”.
No particular jurisprudence was exhumed from this encounter beyond increased suspicion of bauxite meteorites, methods of dealing with the extra weltian beyond more strict sample collection policies and the obligation for on site encampments for the purpose of containment of new species. 
The Faux Wolf was later integrated into the biosphere of Welt, and is Whirler hunted to this day. Its resilience to conventional weapons makes it a challenging quarry.
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Category:Extra Weltians
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