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“Why do they have to make these damn suits so uncomfortable?” Ggrrby motioned and squawked in irritation. “I can hardly even spread my wings in this thing!”
“If you rather go out naked, that’s fine to me,” Kbrddsss chirped in a dry tone. She looked out into the desert environment that was the surface of the Moon, known as Ytkddoffb in her species’ tongue. The cold environment of the satellite glared back at her, as if daring her to venture out of the protection of her ship. “But I’m putting on this suit for my own safety.”
Ggrrby attempted to twitch his wings in dismissal, but found the thick protective suit too restrictive do so. Instead, Ggrrby resorted to snarling, “It doesn’t mean that the engineers can’t make a more comfortable suit. Those guys are all just lazy live-birthers.”
Kbrddsss only locked her helmet on her head and said in an exasperated tone, “Come on, we have a video to film.” Ggrrby clicked his teeth together in response and secured his helmet as well. He then walked toward the tightly sealed door that kept both of them separated from the cold depths of space.
After shooting a glance at Kbrddsss, Ggrrby unlocked the door to the Moon. For a second, a small gust of wind flew out of the ship as the air escaped into space. Then, silence. Ggrrby turned to Kbrddsss and asked, “Is the camera ready?”
Kbrddsss lowered her head for a second and used her claw to awkwardly turn on the camera attached to the side of her helmet, “Yep, feel free to start.”
Ggrrby snapped his jaws in the suit, looked at Kbrddsss and said as loudly and articulately as he could, “Well, Cttlops of Rtdr, we have just landed on Ytkddoffb.” He then looked out into the open lunar wasteland. Folding his body as if to launch into flight, Ggrrby said, “This is one small flight for a Cttlop,” he proceeded to launch from the ship and glided for a few seconds in the vacuum before landing about 10 feet away, “One giant flight for Cttlop-kind.”
“Don’t be so reckless, show-off” Kbrddsss hissed. “You could have sent yourself into deep space.”
“Oh you’re no fun,” Ggrrby growled in annoyance. He then looked over to the quiet expanse. “I wonder if we’ll find any alien technology here.”
Kbrddsss remained silent for a short time. Ggrrby’s eyes snapped back at her. He couldn’t see her body due to her wearing the suit, but he could tell she was flashing out a hysterical laugh. “Oh yeah sure, Ggrrby,” Kbrddsss chirped sarcastically, “We’ll find portable radios, colored televisions, and slow-moving aircrafts! It’s all just waiting for us in the next crater.” She then became silent, but took on a position that clearly showed that she was flashing out a wave of laughter.
Gggrrby felt his wings get hot from embarrassment. In sever annoyance, he yipped, “I was just making a comment. I don’t actually think we’ll find anything.”
Kbrddsss chirped, “Come on space flier, be a bit more optimistic! Maybe we’ll end up finding something and we’ll give the viewers something exciting to see!” She then strode across the landscape with determination. Ggrrby followed at the exact same speed, but with much less bravado than before.
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7 minutes later, Ggrrby ended up walking in front of Kbrddsss, in order to give the potential views a sight of their celestial neighbor. While she first had a difficult time acclimatizing to the alien gravity-no preparation could get her ready for the weightlessness she felt-by now she was fairly adept at walking across the surface. She continued to think to herself up until she hear Ggrrby’s voice squawk through the speakers, “What in the darkest depths of the sea is that?”
Kbrddsss snapped her head up and said indignantly, “Watch your gullet! This is being filmed publicly!” Ggrrby didn’t seem to hear her though, seeming focused on the ground. Kbrddsss strode next to him and snapped her head to the ground. To her surprise, what she saw was 7 parallel rows depressed into the ground. Compared to the otherwise irregular landscape, this looked almost as if it was Cttlop-made…
“Do you think some other Cttlop got here first?” Kbrddsss asked to no one in particular. She looked up to spot the culprit’s getaway vehicle. To her dismay, she saw nothing within sight. Just as she finished looking 360 degrees around her, Ggrrby said, “No, I don’t think so. We would’ve probably heard radio chatter about the incident if that was the case,” he paused. “It probably is just some fluke. I mean, Ytkddoffb’s been around for 4.5 billion years, so this print could form.” His voice said he wasn’t convinced.
Kbrddsss gave a sharp jaw snap as an affirmative, although she had similar doubts that Ggrrby had. She suddenly got to thinking of the aliens Ggrrby had mentioned earlier, and how they could have visited the natural satellite to analyze the inhabitants of Rtdr. Had they come here to simply research, or to plan an atta-
She tightened her jaw and changed her skin color in attempt to shut out the seemingly irrational thoughts. After suppressing the ideas, she looked up and saw that Ggrrby had walked off into a large crater, as if to investigate something else. Kbrddsss said through her radio, “Where are you going Ggrrby?” The accompanying cosmonaut replied, “There’s something else here, it looks like…”
“Looks like what?”
“By Lord Dovakin… Kbrddsss, you should get over here,” Ggrrby finally responded, “Now.”
Kbrddsss moved as fast as the suit allowed her, occasionally making flap movements in order to move even more quickly. When she reached the lip of the crater, she stopped in her tracks. Inside the crater were Ggrrby, and two peculiar large and heavy metal doors that showed evidence of being battered by several meteorites. She scrambled down the crater and walked up behind Ggrrby, in total silence. The large Blast doors looked as if they once could withstand a volcanic explosion with little problem, but after who knows how long, the doors looked as if they would break at the slightest nudge.
Just was that thought had entered her mind, Ggrrby suddenly slammed into the doors, snapping the terribly weakened armor and sending them flying inward. Kbrddsss suddenly jumped with a squawk, interrogating, “What are you doing?!”
“I’m going to get to the bottom of this and find out what is going on here”, Ggrrby said stonily as he regained his balance.
“You idiot,” Kbrddsss snarled in anger, “You could have ruptured your suit by doing that! Be more careful!” She then peered into the dark cavern that the doors had flown into. As her eyes adapted to the darkness, she spotted something that took her voice away. The cavern was obviously designed, being unnaturally rectangular with the exception of occasional areas where the walls collapsed and revealed the natural rock formations behind the artificially refined metals. But what was inside the construct was even more astonishing. Mechanisms that seemed straight out of a science fiction were slung all over the area, most seeming in disrepair. Some of the technologies in there weren’t even recognizable, their use being totally unknown to her.
She didn’t dare walk in the cavern, afraid that one of the mechanisms would destroy her. Ggrrby suddenly jabbed his head forward and said, “Look, one of the aliens is lying there dead!”
Kbrddsss snapped her head in the designated direction and felt her heart leap to her gullet. Down in the darkness, one of the aliens lay on the ground with most of the fluid drained from its body, frozen in its final and failed attempt to reach the doors for salvation. After a few seconds of looking at the extraterrestrial, Kbrddsss suddenly realized something.
“This isn’t an alien,” she thought out loud, “It’s a Tuckfr!”
It was true that it looked nothing like how any of the images illustrated them, with them usually being big, hairy and crested animals, but the skeleton matched a Tuckfr perfectly. Vaguely, she heard Ggrrby say, “Turn off the recorder!” but she did not respond, trapped in her own thoughts. If we weren’t the first to reach space, then how did the Tuckfr get rendered extinct?
She looked up into the endless expanse of space with a new look. Suddenly the shining stars no longer looked beautiful. They now looked absolutely menacing. Each one of those seemingly innocent stars could hold a potential threat, just waiting for the chance to attack again. We weren’t the first, Kbrddsss thought.
We weren’t the first.

These, in case you couldn’t guess, are the descendants of the Tepazepies of Not of this World, although they’ll probably keep the same name do to my laziness. Here, the Tepazepies reach the space age, doing their first successful land on the Moon. While the flight is merely planned to be propaganda, it becomes so much more…
I’m thinking that finding humanity’s lost relics on not only the Moon, but on Mars, Titan, Io, Europa, and around Neptune and Uranus would have huge implications on how the Tepazepies will interact with all things having to do with space. They’ll probably be very paranoid and will attempt to mask any sign of their existence for centuries to come, for a good reason of course. When it comes to their civilization in general, I think the state of the world will definitely have an effect on them. Since they can fly long distances and since the world is much more flooded than today-causing the fragmentation of many continents, communities will likely not be into the business of warring over territories when they are already so fragmented. They’ll probably be more into trade, and thus might be considered a bit greedier than us. Also, I think the Tepazepies will be a little less into playing fair during wars than us, since we’ve been in it so long that we form up rules to make the wars more official than before. But, once again, I don’t think wars would be a common place for them. What I do think will be more of a common place are plagues, as the frequent trades will lead to diseases being transported to unprotected areas, where the viruses would ravage the populations.
Artistically, I didn’t want to color this, so I just used line work to make the illusion of shade. I think I really got the perceptive right this time around, since I edited some of my work so that the walls and horizon all met at a two point reference area.

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“Why do they have to make these damn suits so uncomfortable?” Ggrrby motioned and squawked in irritation. “I can hardly even spread my wings in this thing!”
“If you rather go out naked, that’s fine to me,” Kbrddsss chirped in a dry tone. She looked out into the desert environment that was the surface of the Moon, known as Ytkddoffb in her species’ tongue. The cold environment of the satellite glared back at her, as if daring her to venture out of the protection of her ship. “But I’m putting on this suit for my own safety.”
Ggrrby attempted to twitch his wings in dismissal, but found the thick protective suit too restrictive do so. Instead, Ggrrby resorted to snarling, “It doesn’t mean that the engineers can’t make a more comfortable suit. Those guys are all just lazy live-birthers.”
Kbrddsss only locked her helmet on her head and said in an exasperated tone, “Come on, we have a video to film.” Ggrrby clicked his teeth together in response and secured his helmet as well. He then walked toward the tightly sealed door that kept both of them separated from the cold depths of space.
After shooting a glance at Kbrddsss, Ggrrby unlocked the door to the Moon. For a second, a small gust of wind flew out of the ship as the air escaped into space. Then, silence. Ggrrby turned to Kbrddsss and asked, “Is the camera ready?”
Kbrddsss lowered her head for a second and used her claw to awkwardly turn on the camera attached to the side of her helmet, “Yep, feel free to start.”
Ggrrby snapped his jaws in the suit, looked at Kbrddsss and said as loudly and articulately as he could, “Well, Cttlops of Rtdr, we have just landed on Ytkddoffb.” He then looked out into the open lunar wasteland. Folding his body as if to launch into flight, Ggrrby said, “This is one small flight for a Cttlop,” he proceeded to launch from the ship and glided for a few seconds in the vacuum before landing about 10 feet away, “One giant flight for Cttlop-kind.”
“Don’t be so reckless, show-off” Kbrddsss hissed. “You could have sent yourself into deep space.”
“Oh you’re no fun,” Ggrrby growled in annoyance. He then looked over to the quiet expanse. “I wonder if we’ll find any alien technology here.”
Kbrddsss remained silent for a short time. Ggrrby’s eyes snapped back at her. He couldn’t see her body due to her wearing the suit, but he could tell she was flashing out a hysterical laugh. “Oh yeah sure, Ggrrby,” Kbrddsss chirped sarcastically, “We’ll find portable radios, colored televisions, and slow-moving aircrafts! It’s all just waiting for us in the next crater.” She then became silent, but took on a position that clearly showed that she was flashing out a wave of laughter.
Gggrrby felt his wings get hot from embarrassment. In sever annoyance, he yipped, “I was just making a comment. I don’t actually think we’ll find anything.”
Kbrddsss chirped, “Come on space flier, be a bit more optimistic! Maybe we’ll end up finding something and we’ll give the viewers something exciting to see!” She then strode across the landscape with determination. Ggrrby followed at the exact same speed, but with much less bravado than before.
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7 minutes later, Ggrrby ended up walking in front of Kbrddsss, in order to give the potential views a sight of their celestial neighbor. While she first had a difficult time acclimatizing to the alien gravity-no preparation could get her ready for the weightlessness she felt-by now she was fairly adept at walking across the surface. She continued to think to herself up until she hear Ggrrby’s voice squawk through the speakers, “What in the darkest depths of the sea is that?”
Kbrddsss snapped her head up and said indignantly, “Watch your gullet! This is being filmed publicly!” Ggrrby didn’t seem to hear her though, seeming focused on the ground. Kbrddsss strode next to him and snapped her head to the ground. To her surprise, what she saw was 7 parallel rows depressed into the ground. Compared to the otherwise irregular landscape, this looked almost as if it was Cttlop-made…
“Do you think some other Cttlop got here first?” Kbrddsss asked to no one in particular. She looked up to spot the culprit’s getaway vehicle. To her dismay, she saw nothing within sight. Just as she finished looking 360 degrees around her, Ggrrby said, “No, I don’t think so. We would’ve probably heard radio chatter about the incident if that was the case,” he paused. “It probably is just some fluke. I mean, Ytkddoffb’s been around for 4.5 billion years, so this print could form.” His voice said he wasn’t convinced.
Kbrddsss gave a sharp jaw snap as an affirmative, although she had similar doubts that Ggrrby had. She suddenly got to thinking of the aliens Ggrrby had mentioned earlier, and how they could have visited the natural satellite to analyze the inhabitants of Rtdr. Had they come here to simply research, or to plan an atta-
She tightened her jaw and changed her skin color in attempt to shut out the seemingly irrational thoughts. After suppressing the ideas, she looked up and saw that Ggrrby had walked off into a large crater, as if to investigate something else. Kbrddsss said through her radio, “Where are you going Ggrrby?” The accompanying cosmonaut replied, “There’s something else here, it looks like…”
“Looks like what?”
“By Lord Dovakin… Kbrddsss, you should get over here,” Ggrrby finally responded, “Now.”
Kbrddsss moved as fast as the suit allowed her, occasionally making flap movements in order to move even more quickly. When she reached the lip of the crater, she stopped in her tracks. Inside the crater were Ggrrby, and two peculiar large and heavy metal doors that showed evidence of being battered by several meteorites. She scrambled down the crater and walked up behind Ggrrby, in total silence. The large Blast doors looked as if they once could withstand a volcanic explosion with little problem, but after who knows how long, the doors looked as if they would break at the slightest nudge.
Just was that thought had entered her mind, Ggrrby suddenly slammed into the doors, snapping the terribly weakened armor and sending them flying inward. Kbrddsss suddenly jumped with a squawk, interrogating, “What are you doing?!”
“I’m going to get to the bottom of this and find out what is going on here”, Ggrrby said stonily as he regained his balance.
“You idiot,” Kbrddsss snarled in anger, “You could have ruptured your suit by doing that! Be more careful!” She then peered into the dark cavern that the doors had flown into. As her eyes adapted to the darkness, she spotted something that took her voice away. The cavern was obviously designed, being unnaturally rectangular with the exception of occasional areas where the walls collapsed and revealed the natural rock formations behind the artificially refined metals. But what was inside the construct was even more astonishing. Mechanisms that seemed straight out of a science fiction were slung all over the area, most seeming in disrepair. Some of the technologies in there weren’t even recognizable, their use being totally unknown to her.
She didn’t dare walk in the cavern, afraid that one of the mechanisms would destroy her. Ggrrby suddenly jabbed his head forward and said, “Look, one of the aliens is lying there dead!”
Kbrddsss snapped her head in the designated direction and felt her heart leap to her gullet. Down in the darkness, one of the aliens lay on the ground with most of the fluid drained from its body, frozen in its final and failed attempt to reach the doors for salvation. After a few seconds of looking at the extraterrestrial, Kbrddsss suddenly realized something.
“This isn’t an alien,” she thought out loud, “It’s a Tuckfr!”
It was true that it looked nothing like how any of the images illustrated them, with them usually being big, hairy and crested animals, but the skeleton matched a Tuckfr perfectly. Vaguely, she heard Ggrrby say, “Turn off the recorder!” but she did not respond, trapped in her own thoughts. If we weren’t the first to reach space, then how did the Tuckfr get rendered extinct?
She looked up into the endless expanse of space with a new look. Suddenly the shining stars no longer looked beautiful. They now looked absolutely menacing. Each one of those seemingly innocent stars could hold a potential threat, just waiting for the chance to attack again. We weren’t the first, Kbrddsss thought.
We weren’t the first.

These, in case you couldn’t guess, are the descendants of the Tepazepies of Not of this World, although they’ll probably keep the same name do to my laziness. Here, the Tepazepies reach the space age, doing their first successful land on the Moon. While the flight is merely planned to be propaganda, it becomes so much more…
I’m thinking that finding humanity’s lost relics on not only the Moon, but on Mars, Titan, Io, Europa, and around Neptune and Uranus would have huge implications on how the Tepazepies will interact with all things having to do with space. They’ll probably be very paranoid and will attempt to mask any sign of their existence for centuries to come, for a good reason of course. When it comes to their civilization in general, I think the state of the world will definitely have an effect on them. Since they can fly long distances and since the world is much more flooded than today-causing the fragmentation of many continents, communities will likely not be into the business of warring over territories when they are already so fragmented. They’ll probably be more into trade, and thus might be considered a bit greedier than us. Also, I think the Tepazepies will be a little less into playing fair during wars than us, since we’ve been in it so long that we form up rules to make the wars more official than before. But, once again, I don’t think wars would be a common place for them. What I do think will be more of a common place are plagues, as the frequent trades will lead to diseases being transported to unprotected areas, where the viruses would ravage the populations.
Artistically, I didn’t want to color this, so I just used line work to make the illusion of shade. I think I really got the perceptive right this time around, since I edited some of my work so that the walls and horizon all met at a two point reference area.