Somarisian

Somarisians are a sapient humanoid species who explored the stars 65 million years ago, and who once crash-landed on a prehistoric Earth.

Biology
Somarisians are externally indiscernible from Humans, with a similar variety of skin tones. They do not have any known biological differences from Humans, and are internally red-blooded. While able to breathe oxygen and survive in an Earth-like environment, they are unable to eat certain plants that were present during the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction.

Culture and society
Somarisians are an advanced spacefaring civilization, with many colonies across various planets. Many of these colonies developed their own distinct cultures, including unique languages, although their colonies are known to work together for various purposes, such as further colonization and deep space missions. General Somarisian culture appears to have many parallels to modern Earth societies, and at least one Somarisian language is written through blocky letters. Notably, Somarisian systems of measurements appear identical to Earth's metric system.

Technology
Somarisians have advanced spacecraft, although they only appear able to fly sublight, as they require cryogenic technology to keep crew alive for especially deep space missions. These cryogenic ships are equipped with interstellar communicators and at least one smaller emergency craft with self-repair functions that can hold at least two occupants, and has passengers held in detachable cryogenic pods, which can remain functional even if separated from the ship. The cryogenic ships require only one crew member, and are able to fly autopilot for most of their journeys, thus only having proper living quarters for one person, but still have enough amenities for all passengers, including weaponry and survival gear, located near the ship's prow.

Somarisian weaponry is known to consist of sleek, powerful rifles whose heavy caliber rounds can easily kill theropods and other large armored creatures, even able to severely injure and kill Tyrannosaurus Rex. The guns have a digital display on their sides that display their ammunition reserves and general status to the user, and can be used as an interface to reset the guns if they jam. Other Somarisian weaponry include grenades that resemble tiny orbs, which, when activated, open up and hover, before flashing red a few times and exploding with enough power to destroy stone blockage and obliterate small animals.

Somarisians also have access to holographic technology, which somewhat resemble film reels, inserting holographic datacards to project and able to flip through them. They also have scanner technologies that somewhat resemble a handheld PDA with a rectangular holographic sight, which can zoom in over very far distances to scan and identify objects, even able to scan incoming asteroids from a planet's surface and calculate time until impact. Their survival kit canteens are able to scan alien fruits to determine if they are edible or not.

History
65 million years ago, the Somarisians explored the galaxy, creating many colonies on many worlds, some with distinct cultures. One Somarisian, a male pilot named Mills, took on a wife named Alya, who bore him a daughter named Nevine. However, Nevine contracted a terminal disease, and her parents didn't have the funds to pay for her treatment. Mills decided to take on a job for a 2-year mission to get the needed funds, ferrying a deep space expedition crew aboard a cryoship to uncharted sectors, but during the mission, Nevine died of her illness.

On the return journey to Somaris, the cryoship passed through the Sol System, and as it flew over the prehistoric Earth, it was suddenly hit by an unexpected meteor storm, forcing it to crash on Earth, near what is now known as the Yucatán Peninsula. While going down, the ship split in half, each part separated by 15 kilometers, with the only survivors being Mills and a young girl named Koa, whose parents were passengers of the expedition. Taking her back into the ship to let her recover and wake up from the effects of stasis, Mills reactivated as much of the ship as he could and left to inspect the landscape, although the girl woke up while he was away. After discovering that the other half of the ship was on a mountain 15 kilometers away, with the escape craft still intact and functional, Mills was attacked by a small carnivorous dinosaur, but managed to kill it with his rifle.

On his way back to the ship, Mills came across the girl, who had left the ship, and after she tried to run from him, he brought her back to the ship while he gathered supplies. There, the girl discovered holographic recordings sent to Mills by his family, and Mills tried to explain what happened, only to discover that she did not speak his language, as she was from one of the outer colonies. As Mills' translator was destroyed in the crash, he used the girl's passenger number to find that her name was Koa, and tried to explain to her that they needed to get to the top of the mountain by using a crude diagram drawn in powder, but Koa believed that she could find her parents atop the mountain. Seeing that she only seemed responsive to the idea of family, Mills used the drawing to claim that Koa's parents were on the mountain, convincing her to come with him, the two setting out as Koa noticed a strange object in the sky.

Traversing through the prehistoric landscape, the two Somarisians came across various dinosaurs and prehistoric insects, being attacked by some large predatory dinosaurs that Mills had to kill, allowing them to make for a cave opening as night fell, the object in the sky getting closer, which Mills soon discovered to be an incoming asteroid. Shortly before morning, after dealing with a parasite that tried to crawl into Koa, the two were attacked by a giant theropod, which Mills managed to injure by shooting one of its eyes out, him and Koa being forced deeper into the cave and falling into one of its lower levels. There, Mills used his scanner to find a way out of the cave, discovering air currents leading to a small mostly blocked opening on the wall, and after failing to break the blockage with a shovel, he blasted the space open with some grenades, also giving a few to Koa for safekeeping. He and Koa tried to crawl through to the surface, but a rockfall separated the two, Koa being able to get to the surface while Mills was stuck in the cave. However, Mills found a new way out, but first had to fight a cave-dwelling dinosaur that attacked him, managing to blind the creature with lights from his scanner before shooting it. Meanwhile, Koa had to fend off a small carnivorous dinosaur that chased her into a hollow tree trunk, managing to trap the dinosaur inside the trunk and get out, throwing the grenades Mills gave her into the trunk to destroy the carnivore.

After coating a sharp piece of bone from a dinosaur carcass with some poisonous berries, Koa reunited with Mills, who managed to find his way out of the cave, reaching the base of the mountain, with Mills having previously seen that the time until impact was less than 12 hours, ticking away as they moved. By the time they reached the top of the mountain, night had fallen again, and Koa discovered that Mills lied about her parents being on the mountain, finding only some remains of passengers in destroyed cryogenic pods. Mills then revealed to her how Nevine died during the expedition, as Koa had previously watched some holographic recordings of Nevine before going to sleep back in the cave, with Mills promising to get Koa back home.

Mills also found that rescue was on its way, with a rendezvous point already set, but as they boarded the escape craft, small meteors flying ahead of the larger asteroid began striking the nearby area, one meteor knocking the escape craft to the ground, where its orientation prevented it from being able to take off. Two Tyrannosaurus Rex then approached the two, trying to bite the ship open, with Mills managing to jump out of the ship to draw them away, also making the dinosaurs drop the ship in a manner that got it to a proper orientation, but found that his gun was jammed. Managing to get it fixed under a piece of debris, and with Koa distracting the predators using a holographic projection, Mills managed to kill one of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and injure the other, only to be confronted by the same theropod whose eye he shot out at the cave. The theropod chased Mills to a nearby area full of geysers, with Mills running out of ammo, but then, Koa left the ship and ran after the creature, jamming the poison-coated bone into its other eye just before it could kill Mills, making the theropod fall onto a geyser, which killed it with its blast, blowing off most of the creature's scales.

Mills and Koa then got back into the ship as meteors kept coming down, activating it and taking off just as the Chicxulub Impactor entered the atmosphere, striking the surface as the Somarisians cleared the atmosphere, flying off to return home. Behind them, the dinosaurs were wiped out by the impact, and over the next 65 million years, the landscape and biosphere evolved, eventually reaching the time of modern man. It is unknown what became of the Somarisians since the time of Mills' expedition.

Appearances

 * 65 (2023)