Sauvage X247000-0
Volcanoes and hot vents speckle the surface of this small planet, creating sulfurous fumes and cloud of ash that taint the thin air. A cold ocean covers most of the surface. Forests and grasslands of sickly yellow vegetation blanket the single continent, located in the southern hemisphere. Orbital views reveal no signs of industrialization, no starport, and no cities of any sort. Animals, yes, but no people. A close survey may reveal several buried, partly disassembled starship hulls.
What’s not apparent from space is the nature of the little world’s only two large animal species. Stilt-legged dog-things with elongated, semi-human faces prey upon wooly quadrupedal herbivores with equally manlike features. Any doubts explorers might hold will soon be dismissed by the results of a medical analysis; the creatures definitely originated with geneering of homo sapiens. Further analysis shows the changes must have been made within the last few millennia.
Volcanoes and hot vents speckle the surface of this small planet, creating sulfurous fumes and cloud of ash that taint the thin air. A cold ocean covers most of the surface. Forests and grasslands of sickly yellow vegetation blanket the single continent, located in the southern hemisphere. Orbital views reveal no signs of industrialization, no starport, and no cities of any sort. Animals, yes, but no people. A close survey may reveal several buried, partly disassembled starship hulls.
What’s not apparent from space is the nature of the little world’s only two large animal species. Stilt-legged dog-things with elongated, semi-human faces prey upon wooly quadrupedal herbivores with equally manlike features. Any doubts explorers might hold will soon be dismissed by the results of a medical analysis; the creatures definitely originated with geneering of homo sapiens. Further analysis shows the changes must have been made within the last few millennia.