Alien Planet (Verse)



The most important travel of the 24th Century

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Summary
Alien Planet is a 94-minute docufiction, originally airing on the Discovery Channel, about two internationally built robot probes searching for alien life on the fictional planet Darwin IV.

It was based on the book Expedition, by sci-fi/fantasy artist and writer Wayne Douglas Barlowe, who was also an executive producer on the special (the documentary takes place near the end of the 21st century). The book is about the wildlife encountered in Dark IV, through paintings done by Wayne Barlowe, himself. The documentary first aired on May 14, 2005. It shows how a spacecraft named Von Braun, leaving Earth's orbit. Traveling at 20% the speed of light (37,000 miles/s), it reaches Darwin IV in 42 years.

Upon reaching orbit, it deploys the Darwin Reconnaissance Orbiter, which looks for potential landing sites for the probes. The first probe, Balboa, explodes along with its lifting body transport during entry, because one of its wings failed to unfold. Two backup probes, Leonardo da Vinci (Leo) and Isaac Newton (Ike), successfully land on the planet and learn much about its strange indigenous lifeforms, including an apparently sapient species.

Power of the Verse
Alien Planet and Expedition have species that are in some ways similar to the ones that we have on Earth. The aliens encountered in Alien Planet and Expedition are mostly Tier 10 and 9.

The only one being the Emperor Sea Strider who reaches Tier 8, due to its tremendous size. As a side note: both the book and the documentary have differences. For example, the species Yma (who helped humanity) do not appear nor are they mentioned in the documentary.

Another difference is the Emperor Sea Strider, in the book it's stated to reach a size of 189 meters, whereas in the documentary is only 21 meters. For Alien Planet profiles both versions will be used. Also, not all species will be used, i.e. only those seen in the documentary will be made.

Supporters, Opponents, and Neutral
Supporters:


 * Rora Raro (I watched the documentary when I was a kid, I loved it. Oh, and I love Sci-Fi too, and anything speculative in general)

Opponents



Neutral



Profiles

 * Amoebic Sea
 * Arrowtongue
 * Beach Quill
 * Bladderhorn
 * Daggerwrist
 * Emperor Sea Strider
 * Eosapien
 * Flipstick
 * Groveback
 * Gyrosprinter
 * Jetdarter
 * Littoralope
 * Pronghead
 * Skewer
 * Trunk-sucker
 * Unth
 * Butchertree
 * Yma