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 giant theropods 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.

Appearances

 * 65 (2023)