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New Enceladus - chapter 7
Date: 5/16/2024, Categories: Science-Fiction , Male/Female Males / Females, Romance Author: Limnophile, Source: sexstories.com
... forty to one hundred kilos. They grow a fourth set of appendages with one hooked claw and two fingers, between the fine manipulator hands, and the feet with 3 claws. Females are typically larger, and may grow to over two hundred kilos. Adults appear to be intelligent, and use a wide variety of tools. Tads have many clans, typically 1 to 3 per lake or river near the ocean. The clans fight each other when resources are scarce. The ocean temperature of 40c is perfect for them. They swim in the ocean and hunt food there, but cannot reproduce in it. Every twelve close passes with planet C, the adults move to fresh water and lay several eggs in the shallows, typically six to ten per female. Being cold-blooded, they slow down and cannot survive long near the equator, where temperatures are typically about 20 degrees C. They also have trouble maintaining bodily moisture, and need to drink or sit in water frequently. We can probably avoid contact with them if we stay near the equator, or south of it. Their tech level is similar to Europe in the year 50 BCE, the early Roman Empire. They have bronze tools and weapons, and a few larger tribes have early iron technology. They have tools as advanced as small cranes and catapults, and many clans have a stone fort in their village protecting their community’s pond. The adults produce food mainly by farming and ranching. A few of the largest clans have castles, very heavily built due to ground tremors. They frequently throw ...
... bronze-tipped spears when hunting or fighting each other. They also use wooden shields edged with bronze, and catapults for inter-clan warfare. The tribes that live away from the ocean build and spend large amounts of time in artificial ponds, which they heat by burning wood. Some of our scientists find it humorous that their most important invention so far seems to be the hot tub, which triples the area they can survive in. The Tads have relatively low technology, but a large group of them with catapults, spears, and shields are still a serious danger. Note that due to low gravity and thinner atmosphere, thrown spears or rocks travel roughly twice as far as on Earth." - I chose three of the recommended landing sites about 30 kilometers apart, at least 100 km farther South than the natives traveled. There would be constant partial sun, due to the planet being tidally locked. The position of our new 'sun' would always appear to be two hours after dawn on Earth. The Botany and Agriculture teams assured me this would be enough light for adequate food production. Our first two landings went perfectly. Landers one and three touched down softly, within ten meters of their aim points. Our main ship, the Conestoga, wasn't capable of entering an atmosphere safely, but it had resources we could use. As planned, I set the autopilot on the Conestoga to crash it as softly as possible, 100 km east of the lander four site six hours after we landed. A lot of the ship would burn up on ...