#alien verse

[almostdefinitelydying]

[heromuses]

“Wonder if it would even be possible for me to have a kid here...”

[beasts-at-our-core]

Exchange Program - Closed Starter w/ @the-mind-of-xelyn​’s Space!Alma and Alien!Rachel

It had been years since the humans had arrived to their desecrated planet. After the devastating attack by the neighbouring planet, leaving their people in shambles, the Congress accepted the arrival of the humans with reluctance and skepticism, uncertain of whether they could trust another people to honour the peace.

However, the alliance had proven useful and the humans had indeed kept to their word. And what was better, through her people’s contact with the humans, they were able to reach out to other planets and form relationships and alliances with them as well and were able to rebuild their people.

But for her, life was dull. For one of her own, a life without a band was a pitiful life. Many of her kind did not survive for very long alone. Their bands were their family. Stronger than their lifesblood. And their partners were their closest allies.

It was no wonder that it was very common for them to become mates.

So, when she was summoned by the Congress, essentially her race’s Band In Charge, she was surprised by their request. She had been assigned along with one of the other survivors who had lost his band to become part of the Horizon’s exchange program.

And at first, she didn’t want to. She was afraid of losing what it meant to be in a band and what it meant to have a mate. But she was also tired of being alone.

So...so very alone.

And besides...she couldn’t help but be curious as well. She’d kept the humans at a distance, but always watched them. Fascinated by them. So, reluctantly, she accepted and was instructed to quickly learn the most common human language to make contact easier, as new languages were much simpler for her kind to learn rather than their kind to learn.

She and her fellow charge were also tasked to choose a name to be referred to by as their own names could not be pronounced by the human tongue. She had chosen hers along with Quinn and was now boarding the ship.

Taking a nervous breath, her ears perked inquisitively and her head held high, tendrils hanging loosely down her long scaled neck, she walked towards the registration office. From what she could understand, she was being assigned a new partner and a new team. Blinking her bright amber eyes one after another, all six of them each darting independently from sight to sight, she approached the desk with Quinn in tow, the other clearly unhappy to be here but unwilling to refuse to stay.

She could understand his struggle. His hesitance. Honestly, she was in the same boat as he was.

“Welcome aboard the Horizon, members of Planet 615X.” The receptionist greeted in a templated manner as she addressed the pair. “We’re very excited to have you as a part of our interplanetary exchange program. Your names, please?”

The other huffed, his forked tongues flicking out in indignation as he glared at her. “Quinn, in your...common human tongue.”

Paying him no mind, she gave her introduction. “Rachel. It’s an honour and a  pleasure to be included in your prestigious program.”

The receptionist acknowledged them with a nod, inputting data on a monitor before nodding at the two of them, a symbol phasing onto the chestplates of their armour. “Please proceed to Instruction Hall B12 for orientation.”

Nodding politely at the human woman, Rachel proceeded, pulling up the digital map of the ship that she had preemptively downloaded onto her com. 

“<This is ridiculous...>” Quinn hissed in their native language. “<Ordered around like common drones.>”

Thwacking the other with her tail, Rachel gave him a stern glare of her own. “<Enough!>” She scolded him. “<This is a great honour to be volunteered for such a program by the Congress. They are being incredibly hospitable to us. We shouldn’t make them think us ungrateful.>”

Rolling his eyes, he shouldered past her. “<Yes. Ever so grateful for their unwelcome arrival on our planet.>”

Before she could even snap a rebuttal at him, he’d sped off. Sighing, Rachel’s ears drooped. She really did understand the hesitancy and the mistrust. She really did. But...haven’t the humans proven that they could be trusted? The Devastation wouldn’t happen again. It wouldn’t.

She had to believe that. She had to.

Shaking her head, she continued making her way to the aforementioned location to be given orientation.

[realkaijuhavecurves]

Someone: *hates on Prometheus*

Me: But sir, that's my emotional support shitty prequel

[sieldraws]

Inktober day 21: Bishop

For @theonlyconstantinlife who shares my love for androids.

[storiesofwildfire]

v; sharp sticks 

tracktag ( CURRENT )

status; OPEN ships; MULTI

Dr. Loki Laufeyson was one of ten scientists and one of three medics aboard the self-sustaining spacecraft the ISS-Beserk. Through a company called Paradox, established in 2220, Loki and his crew were sent to explore unknown regions of space and the worlds and asteroids that inhabited other galaxies. 

Their mission? To land on and map out as many unexplored worlds as possible regardless of individual cases of pre-existing life or lack thereof.

Originally there were twenty-five crew members including the scientists, medical officers, technicians, engineers, captain, and first officer. Along with a synthetic human by the name of Artemis and a white cat named Morph, the crew set sail through the unknown reaches of space, excited and nervous to start their lives-long voyage through the stars.

For over two centuries, the crew traveled the universe in search of as much information as they could possibly gather. The extended life expectancies, as well as the modern technology of the era, allowed them to travel for hundreds of years without much aging or decline in health. Between extended research trips to various worlds, they would go into hypersleep while their ship and their synthetic traveled through the stars, allowing them to sleep for weeks, months, or even years when necessary without aging a day.

They were humble and peaceful, carrying weapons on board only in the event of the need for self-protection. Due to the risks that came with such extensive travels, they lost a few members here and there. Each death was like a blow to the ship’s morale. Despite the lack of blood relation between any of the explorers, they formed a tight-knit family upon the ISS-Beserk. Had they not loved and trusted one another, their objectives would have never been fulfilled.

Thanks to their technology, they rarely needed to dock or resupply. Occasionally, when death did occur, or serious damage to the ship needed to be repaired, they could dock at any of Paradox’s space stations known as the Mythos series. Each space station had its own name based off of a myth or deity from Earth. Their stops at such stations were minimal, though, as each and every one of them was nothing short of eager to continue on their mission.

Doubling as a field scientist and a medical officer was a tough job on Loki, though. He had so many responsibilities upon the vessel that he often found himself overworked, exhausted, and easily irritable. Fortunately, there were always a few people aboard who could always make him smile. Fródi and Inka, for instance, were always there to cheer him up in even the sourest of moods.

Loki’s drive for knowledge was nothing short of sheer passion. He never would have given up his life for this sort of work had he not been, but life upon the ISS-Beserk could be difficult to say the very least. Fights often broke out when people felt like they were trapped with the same group of people for too long a period of time. No one aboard could hope to hold onto any secrets. Physical, emotional, and mental needs became very apparent.

Each member of the crew knew every other member quite intimately and that had its highlights and its downs.

Aside from the few deaths and the frequent fights, the crew maintained a progressive and aggressive approach to exploring as many new worlds as possible. Within the 200 years they spent aboard the vessel, they explore over 150 new planets, of which almost half had been inhabited by life and a fifth held some form of sentient being.

Everything that the team accomplished during their travels together seemed so minuscule in comparison to the massive expanse of the universe, but they kept on going and pushing forward to gain as much as they could.

At least, they had until they landed on one fateful planet shrouded in darkness.

Originally, the ship headed for a very specific planet near the black world that they landed on. As they approached, they picked up the existence of this second planet closer to their position than their original target. The planet had no records of ever existing and it hadn’t shown up on their equipment until they were extremely close.

So, making a detour, they landed and sent out a crew of five field scientists to do an initial scout. Loki and the rest of the crew stayed on the ship, watching via monitors as their friends embarked on their newest expedition. At least, until the feed and communications were disrupted.

One by one, the crew disappeared from the ship until all that remained was Loki and his best friend, Fródi. Up until the moment that Fródi was taken, Loki hadn’t seen anything abnormal and couldn’t account for the missing people. He caught just a split second glimpse of a long, black tail with ribs running down like exposed vertebrae as the appendage wrapped around his friend’s midsection and hauled him up inside of one of the vents. Loki tried to pursue but was unable to catch up with whatever had taken his best friend.

In a matter of twenty-four hours, as Loki locked himself and his cat into the bridge of the ship and sent out a distress beacon, he realized that they’d finally come to make a grave mistake.

And he feared that each and every one of his friends would turn up dead.

Or worse....

[heromuses]

@darkseraphscorner

She still didn't quite understand what a quirk was, but no one had really looked into if she had one or not. No one questioned her too much really. But when she'd been asked by Caroline, someone she now considered a friend, what her quirk was, she froze up.

Quirks were like powers, right? But she had several, and she could see most people only had one. So what was her answer?

"Uh..."

[heromuses]

@inventorofbabies

"Ok ok, I'm not gonna hurt you. Don't worry." She held her hands up to show she meant no harm. Though she wouldn't put it past anyone to not trust her. She was an alien, after all.