Alien (Zombies 3)

The Aliens (strangely, that's the actual name they use for their species) are a sapient, extragalactic race whose homeworld was destroyed in an environmental disaster.

After centuries of searching for an "utopia" (i.e. a perfect planet to settle in), their search eventually brought them to Earth, specifically to Seabrook: a town inhabited by Humans, Zombies and Werewolves.

Biology
The Aliens physically resemble Humans, only distinguished by their blue hair and a number of silver spots on their left temples. They are natural telepaths and their minds are all linked with each other, although they remain free to act as individuals. Despite always knowing what each other is thinking, the Aliens still use verbal communication among themselves. It's not known whether their language is identical to English or they just learned English by telepathy, although the latter would be more likely.

Every Alien is born with what they refer to a "stardust spark", which gives them all their powers. The spark allows them to join their minds telepathically, move objects by telekinesis, and generate large amounts of electricity. It is also the key to operating their technology and surviving space travel. If an Alien is separated from the rest of their kind for too long, their hair turns from blue to white and they lose their spark and the powers enabled by it.

Like Humans, the Aliens are known to sweat when nervous.

After the destruction of their planet, the Aliens' population was apparently reduced to only about a couple dozen individuals travelling in their mothership, plus a number of single agents traveling in scout ships. However, it is possible that the mothership might contain more passengers who didn't take part in the Seabrook mission. Among the Aliens who landed on Seabrook, neither children nor elders were present. The only elderly individual seen was a scout who had been separated from the group-mind for decades, suggesting the possibility that the stardust spark might prevent the Aliens from aging.

The Aliens are genetically-compatible with Humans, able to have hybrid offspring with them. Growing up separated from the group-mind, such hybrids will appear like perfectly ordinary (albeit white-haired) Humans, and display no extraordinary abilities. Upon rejoining the group-mind, however, their hair will turn blue and they will develop their own spark as well.

Culture and society
The Aliens use emotion suppressors that can be turned on and off at will. They claim that emotions can be "messy" for telepaths, which is why they suppress them. However, it's likely that the reason is also related to their culture, which values harmony above all else, to the point that they take care to never voice disagreements or to allow discord among them, feeling that they must preserve unity and harmony.

The Aliens initially consider the Earth an unremarkable planet and consider themselves intellectually superior to its inhabitants. They have been described as having a non-hierarchical approach to leadership, with decisions being taken collectively.

Their technological achievements include interstellar flight, mind scans, cloaking, teleportation, devices that can download information about any subject, emotional suppressors, anti-gravity devices, and frozen yogurt.

On the other hand, some ordinary Earth objects are completely unfamiliar to them, such as handcuffs (which they mistake for ceremonial jewelry) and pencil sharpeners. The concept of competitions is initially unknown to them, as they never compete among themselves.

History
The Aliens' home planet was destroyed in an environmental catastrophe that occurred over the course of many years, but that wasn't stopped because none of the Aliens dared to do something about it, fearing that doing so would have created conflicts and disagreements, and jeopardized the peace and harmony that they prize so much.

After developing spaceflight to escape their dying planet, the Aliens traveled for centuries searching for an "utopia": a perfect world to relocate. Individual scout ships were sent to look for such a place, one of which crashed on Earth in the town of Seabrook. The agent in the crashed scout ship recorded a message to her people, claiming that she had found the coordinates to utopia and hid them in the most precious thing in Seabrook. Separated from the Aliens' group-mind, the agent lost her spark and was forced to live the remainder of her life among Humans, eventually marrying and having a daughter, and later a granddaughter.

Many decades after the scout's ship was lost, the Aliens' mothership finally arrived on Earth, having faced a perilous journey with dangers such as space squids and carnivorous black holes. Suspecting that the population of Seabrook wouldn't give away their "most precious thing" willingly, the Aliens initially concealed their motivations and claimed that they had come to participate in Seabrook's cheer competition (this in spite of being unfamiliar with the meaning of both "cheer" and "competition"). After going after the Werewolves' Moonstone and the Seabrook Cup trophy and finding that neither was the "most precious thing" alluded to in the message, the Aliens finally found that the scout's "most precious thing" was her granddaughter, and the coordinates had been encoded in her DNA. And, to top it off, the coordinates pointed to no other location than Seabrook itself, as the scout had come to realize that, despite being no "utopia", it was still a perfectly adequate home to live, in spite of (or perhaps even because of) its imperfections.

Appearances

 * Zombies 3 (2022)