Creature:Champ

Description
The Champ is a kind of purple bipedal reptile that eats meat. The creature is aggressive, though not essentially hostile. They are very fast. They use their slashing claws to deliver the killing blow to prey.

When they went sentient, they proved to be aggressive tribes. Known history on their planet shows that the only tribe they befriended was a race of dragon-like reptiles. As a civilization, military force drove the Champ Nation to worldwide domination. As they discovered space, they never really got the hang of galactic warfare, and eventually transported their race to an isolated planet on the edge of the longest arm of the galaxy, where they now live as a peaceful civilization. Their home planet has been abandoned and has been since destroyed by the Arvann empire.

Whatever you do, do not refer to this creature as "Barney", or you may find yourself skeletonized within seconds.

Name
They are called "Champ" because of their resemblance to the prehistoric earth Crocodile, Pristichampsus. Some believe that, one day in the Eocene epoch, a UFO abducted a Pristichampsus and used the Creature Tweaker to create Champ. However, it is now known that the species evolved from cell-like aquatic reptiles that came to their planet by a comet.

Impostor
There was once another race of reptiles that coincidentally called themselves "Champ", but this species is completely unrelated to the Champ that is discussed in this article. This striking resemblance between species was a class example of convergent evolution. The "impostor" Champ was eventually driven to extinction by the real Champ.

Classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Sauropsida

Order: Squamata

Family: Mosasauridae

Genus: Crocodylomimus

Species: C. pristichampsus