Selenite (Dinosaur Warrior)

The Selenites were an million years old ancient species that once inhabited the interior of the Moon.

Biology
Selenties were a humanoid species that resembled humanity, which isn't surprising as humans were made in their leader's image. Though they appear to come in a variety of skin tones such as blue, yellow, pale white, etc.

Some Selenites were capable of flight, super strength and the ability to survive in a vacuum. In addition they had very long-life spans extending millions of years.

History
Millions of years ago the one and only leader of the Selenites Ingrid Cold launched a grand experiment and seeded Earth with life, the very first of his creations being the great creatures known as dinosaurs. The various species of dinosaurs worshipped Ingrid and his kind as gods. On Earth they evolved and eventually became sentient. Both carnivores and herbivores learned to live together in harmony, creating a highly advanced civilization ruled by King Allosaurus.

King Allosaurus also sired a son named Yangchuanosaurus who was unique among his kind as he was gifted with with incredible powers such as flight and superstrength, becoming the dinosaurs very first superhero. Other superpowered dinosaurs soon followed. These abilities were not missed by the Ingrid who viewed both Yangchuanosaurus and King Allosaurus with jealousy. Not just because of Yangchuanosaurus's powers, but because of the dinosaurs love for King Allosaurus. The Selenite then decided to end his experiment on Earth with the dinosaurs and sent aberrations to wipe the dinosaurs in the form of the Mothmen who enacted of their god's vengeance by destroying the dinosaurs and burning their cities.

King Allosaurus hoping to reason with his god tried to plead with Ingrid Cold to cease their attack on his world. However Ingrid being a cruel and sadistic god, and instead took King Allosaurus prisoner and forced the monarch to watch his world and destroy his kingdom.

The dinosaur civilization was wiped away by the Mothmen in a single day. However it did not go quietly as Yangchuanosaurus and a group of superpowered warriors known as the Defenders rose to combat the invasion. but against the might of the Mothmen they were felled. Yangchuanosaurus stood as the sole remaining survivor of the Defenders. Eventually it prompted Ingrid to confront Yangchuanosaurus himself. Though Yangchuanosaurus managed to land some wounds on Ingrid, he was ultimately no match for the false god who proceeded to rip out the dinosaur's heart and take it as a trophy.

As Ingrid planned his next scheme, King Allosaurus who was still a prisoner, managed to awaken his own dormant super-powers breathing fire on his captors and escape. He went on a path of revenge against the false god and his ilk for what they did to his dynasty. King Allosaurus managed to have the upper hand on Ingrid until the god threw Yangchuanosaurus's heart at the king, causing King Allosaurus to lose his composure allowing Ingrid to skewer him in the heart and behead him. Due to Allosaurus possessing incredible regenerative abilities, the dinosaur king was still alive to which Ingrid used to his advantage to keep him in a containment unit as a trophy.

Following the extinction of the dinosaurs, Ingrid Cold created a new experiment this time creating a new species in his image called Cro-Magnon, the early ancestors of humanity. During the Cro-Magnon's development they reached the level of hunter-gatherers and began to develop mentally by occupying their minds uncovering the mysterious cave paintings and texts they found. The writings on the wall warned the Cro-Magnons to love the gods. Though like always love is fickle and jealousy lasting, with Ingrid deciding to create a new species know as the Neanderthals to wipe away the Cro-Magnons after seeing his creations love each other more than him. Unlike the Cro-Magnons, the Neanderthals possessed power but none of their precursor's intelligence and acted out as perfect soldiers in hunting down the former.

The newly created Cro-Magnons were driven from the homelands and slowly towards extinction. On Cro-Magnon though through sheer will awakened his superhuman abilities and managed to fight against the Neanderthals after witnessing the death of his lover. Even with his new power, he was still no match for the Neanderthals numbers and was ambushed, beaten, and left for dead in a chasm. While recovering the Cro-Magnon met with a raptor. named Chicken and a survivor of the previous extinction event and the author of all the cave paintings that the Cro-Magnons had read. Chicken noticing The Cro-Magnon's powers, proposed in giving him tools to fight back against the oppression of the gods, though Cro-Magnon having felt defeat believed it was hopeless as the gods were too strong and only saw him and his kind as entertainment and that only history will repeat. Chicken believed that the only viable option was to fight back and refused to be forgotten and that they owed it to avenge the fallen. This finally rekindled the Cro-Magnon's fill to fight and the two journeyed to the ruins of an dinosaur city where Chicken used the surviving steel works facilities to forge weapons and armor for them in the coming battles.

The two friend would then hunt down the Neanderthals and protecting any surviving Cro-Magnons. Unfortunately Chicken was killed during one of these confrontations, leaving the Cro-Magnon who mourned his friend. Still he resumed the mission hunting down the Neanderthals bringing their time on Earth at an end in five years time. The destruction of the Neanderthals was not enough for the Cro-Magnon as he desired to to kill all the gods. The Cor-Magnon having no way to reach the gods' sanctuary built a gateway that would transport him there. However a glitch in the gateway occurred and instead of moving the Cro-Magnon to the Moon, it instead moved him forward thousands of years into the future.

The Cro-Magnon was then confronted by a team of superheroes led by Arlan who demanded him to leave. Things though got violent when trigger happy police offer agitated the Cro-Magnon's wolf steed leading it the officer shooting it with his revolver. This in turned angered the Cro-Magnon who split the man's head with his sword. Arlan then retaliated with his fellow heroes following suit, although the Cro-Magnon and his wolf were more than a match for the heroes of the future, Things eventually deescalated when Arlan conjured a triceratops to fight alongside him against the ancient human who refused to fight one of his people's allies.

After learning that the Cro-Magnon was seeking to kill the gods, Arlan and the man spoke. Arlan was well aware of the gods in which the man spoke of as he had personally killed their leader. Though the Cro-Magnon was surpised that the gods or Selenites still lived and now had a treaty with Earth.

Arlan revealed that years ago he was an archaeology student studying abroad where at a dig-site fell in a hole and found the fossilized remains of Yangchuanosaurus and his ghost. Upon touching the fossils Arlan was soon put in a coma. While in a coma he was met by Yangchuanosaurus's spirit, gaining not only his memories but also powers. Yangchuanosaurus having used his limited psychic abilities even in his dead state was he one responsible for drawing the archeologists to his burial. He warned Arlan of the Selenites and their plans for humanity, urging the human to become his host to save the world. Arlan accepted and was transformed into a superhero.

Arlan took to social media to rally support against the Selenites, but even with his powers and appearance his warnings fell to humanity's deaf ears due to their complacency and he was considered a joke. Thinking he would have better luck in reach out to the independent hero organization, Arlan began searching for other heroes to aid him. He was met by Neon, who believed his claims as he had long suspected that there was something beneath the Moon where the Selenites allegedly dwelled.

Neon using a dimensional portal went to the Moon with Arlan to investigate the celestial body. Their presence was detected and Neon was killed by a trap. Arlan though managed to survive as he was attacked by the Mothmen and hurdled back to Earth. The Mothmen then began an invasion of Earth, signaling the extinction event. Arlan managed to regroup with the other heroes of Earth led by Neon's wife. However the heroes base was then attacked by the Mothmen. Arlan being separated from his allies, realized that fighting the Mothmen was pointless and instead returned to the Moon to convince the Selenites to stop the invasion.

The hero managed to find the underground civilization of the Selenites which to his shock were more peaceful and in the dark of the outside world. He was captured though by Ingrid Cold who was revealed to be the mastermind behind the extinction level events and a dictator to his people. Arlan tried to plead with Ingrid to spare Earth, but the false god was not interested as he only wanted to meet Arlan so he can dissect him and pass his genes to his next iteration of species. When he learned that Yangchuanosaurus was latched onto Arlan, Ingrid became delighted about the prospect of killing the dinosaur hero again. Arlan demanded Ingrid free him or else but the god still ever arrogant declared to end the experiment that was humanity.

Arlan managed to break free from his restraints and engaged Ingrid in battle, landing a few impressive blows but was pierced in the chest by the god. When thrown across the room, through a containment unit, Arlan managed to awaken Yangchuanosaurus's potential of harnessing the power of dead dinosaurs. Arlan using this power incinerated Ingrid ending his reign of terror. The Selenites who were unaware of their leader's atrocities then recalled the Mothmen back, ending the invasion. Arlan then addressed the U.N. with the intent to use his powers to create a dinosaur nation, by resurrecting the fallen species.

Back in the present the Cro-Magnon notice one thing about Arlan's story, the containment unit that crashed into. He asked if he knew what was in it? Arlan was unsure but the Cro-Magnon believed that from the cave paintings it may have contained the head of Allosaurus and warned the hero that the dinosaur king may seek vengeance on the Selenites and all their creations.

Arlan then hurried back to the Moon to investigate the warrior's claim. Since the Selenites had been silent for a year, Arlan had no news of what transpired in the Moon, but found only ruins and a grisly massacre of both the Selenites and Mothmen. King Allosaurus appeared alive with millions of years of pent of revenge. After Arlan had defeated Ingrid, the dinosaur was free to fully regenerate into his proper body. The Selenites were without a leader, leaving the entire civilization at its weakest, allowing the dinosaur to easily overtaken the gods.

Though a few of the Selenites tried to fight back, Allosaurus defeated them and even more so combined his body into them to create dinosaur-Selenite hybrids to slaughter every living thing in the Moon. Allosaurus then took the next step of his plan into action, being to crash the Moon into Earth ending humanity and the last of the Selenites legacy. Arlan fought to stop Allosaurus, but was held back by the hybrids. Allosaurus knew of Arlan containing the spirit of his deceased son and believed that he could remove Yangchuanosaurus spirit from him. No matter how many hybrid Arlan killed, more would just regenerate and rise to fight him again.

Arlan would receive reinforcements in the form of soldiers from Earth, the Cro-Magnon and the other heroes. This allowed Arlan to approach Allosaurus, allowing his to touch him, bring Allosaurus to a plane where he was confronted by his son and the spirits of the deceased dinosaurs who opposed his plan to kill humanity. Yangchuanosaurus held the king's mind at bay within his own body, allowing a depowered Arlan to land a fatal blow on the king, cutting his regenerative powers from his thralls.

The thralls were all cleaned up and the dead Moon was up back into orbit, whilst humanity and dinosaurs lived together in peace.

Culture
The Selenites were seen by their creations as superior beings, who believed themselves to be gods. Their work involved creating countless species, and quelling them when it suited them. The Selenites were said to salvage the strongest genes of their experiments to be used in their next project. They were believed to have no ethical conscience or saw other species nothing more than playthings.

This was the impression given to the gods due to the actions of Ingrid Cold, the Selenites one and only leader. In truth the Selenites knew very little of the outside universe and life outside their domain. Generally with the exception of Ingrid and his followers, most Selenites were peaceful.

However the Selenites appear to lack cohesiveness as a society as they relied on a leader to direct them. A year after Ingrid Cold's death, Selenite civilization was said to be crumbling, with city fixtures and livelihood falling into decline.