People of the Ocean

The People of the Ocean are a humanoid species that appeared in the series Ocean Oddysey.

Appearance and Anatomy
The species is physically indistinguishable from humans, but internally they are quite different.

While they are capable of surviving on land, individuals must periodically enter a body of water to rehydrate their cells. If they fail to do this, they will dehydrate and die. They are capable of spending prolonged time beneath the ocean withought breathing equipment, due to heightened lung capacity and greater oxygen intake.

Members of the species are physically stronger than humans, and some members of the species can communicate telepathically with certain sea creatures like whales.

Culture
The People of the Ocean are a highly advanced spiecies capable of inter stellar travel and can generate technolegy than can cause Earthquakes and floods. Despite these advancedments their society is similar to an Iron Age or Roman society on Earth.

They have a Royle family and governing body that has ruled for many years though at the time of the series there was a civil war between those more millitant members of the spiecies and the rest of the population. The Queen is viewed as both a monarch and spiritual leader of the race.

History
Prior to the beginning of the series the aliens had recently managed to rebalence their ecosystem after years of industrial development had poisoned the Oceans. Despite this it would be many years before the Oceans would be compleatly healed. In that time their Scientists intersepted early transmissions from Earth into space.

The discovery of Earth sparked a large debate among the spiecies; some felt the planet should be colonised while others thought the entire spicies should move there. When it was discovered that another sentient spiecies was already inhabiting the planet it was decided a diplomatic mission should be undertaken. The plan was to send an envoy to open negotiations with Earth in return for teaching humanity how to use their Oceans withought damaging the ecosystem the aliens would be allowed to take samples of Earth's waters and aquatic spiecies back to their planet in order to speed their own world's recovery.