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The planet looks like an ideal spot for colonization from a distance. Covered with a range of biomes, from lush forest to long coastlines to roaring rivers. However, when the Amentans arrive they quickly notice anomalies on their scans.
A population of humanoids lives on the planet, scattered - sometimes individuals are spotted alone and other times they appear in groups of up to a few thousand. They appear similar to child Amentans, except for a general lack of bright hair colors. Civilization appears primitive - in some cases so primitive that it's confusing how they survive at all, with small groups managing to survive in environments as harsh arctic tundra huddled around campfires, in sandy villages in a desert with a single well. A small number of cities exist, most without obvious sources of sufficient food to support them.
As the Amentans investigate further they notice more anomalies of a far less consistent nature. There's an aurora in the northern hemisphere that shines continuously, day and night. One of the cities appear to change subtly in composition and position constantly, with no obvious construction visible. A group of the humanoids appear to live underwater, alongside a gigantic manta ray, hundreds of feet in breadth. A giant skeleton statue of green crystal seems to be moving. A blur of feathers and wings zooms across the planet like a missile at one point. Except for the humanoid species, none of the anomalies repeat.
These are just the anomalies they notice easily from orbit, more may be found on closer inspection.
She can do that but she'd need to bring a pilot; does it work to talk on the phone?
They could but it sorta feels harder. They could go pick her up in Peli?
(Lucien is thinking that these aliens are really sort of awkward about first contact with new people. Though it is a pretty hard job.)
Lucien gestures at the giant elderly looking many winged pelican that brought the amalien delegation here.
...even if it can fly in space it looks like it would not be comfortable for an Amentan to ride in.
The mouth is bigger on the inside, that's how they all fit. He's not sure if it could fly to space, he's never been. Meelia might know.
They do prefer that.
Lucien doesn't say sorry aloud cause he thinks it's important to have boundaries with new people and that means meeting them in comfortable ways if that's possible. But, he's thinking he's sorry.
See her soon!
Lucien bounces a bit at the prospect of the meeting. He's excited about important things happening!
In the meantime there are refinements to be made and gaps to be filled in the corpus, and also some greys want to take video of flinging amaliens into the air and catching them if they think that would be fun.
Lucien is taking this very seriously. He can play when there arn't brand new aliens for the first time ever.
Meelia giggles as she's thrown into the air. The second time she lands on her hands and then stands on one hand briefly before collapsing, giggling and smiling.
"Can I try tossing one of you now?"
Meelia will do her very best! She is actually quite strong - she can lift one of the greys up and throw them a tiny tiny bit in the air. If any of the greys have heard about very strong grey children they will realize that some of the strongest amentan kids who train a bunch are at least as strong.
Yeah, the one who volunteered knows how to land well, though as expected she didn't get much air. "Thank you!" Hair-ruffle.
Meelia smiles! She helps tossing the other interested amaliens - a few of them seem to specifically want her to toss them. Also she tosses an insistent Fluffeld a little higher then she managed to toss the grey.
Fika gets everyone to toss her at least once! Include all the greys and Meelia and any of the other amaliens who want to try. She also tries to get Fluffeld to toss her but can't figure out how to make it work.
