Creature:Maladan

Maladan is a strange, bat-like creature.

Appearance
•	Large, bat wings o	Have a flap of skin that spreads from the upper wrist/pinkie, all the way down to the pinkie toe, which is 8in long.. Used for flying and gliding. o	When flying they flap first their pinkie finger up, then their pinkie toe goes up, then their pinkie finger comes down, followed by their pinkie toe again. Create forward movement. o	When doing a vertical launch without any running space, they flap both pinkies and their entire arm/legs at the same time, can hop up about 10ft with that first flap alone. o	When doing a running start, they kick off which bt •	3ft tall, 1ft wide, 12ft wingspan for gliding and soaring without flapping. •	3 fingers, 1 thumb, pinkie as wing holder o	Fingers end with small nails, hard and curved for gripping cliffs and trees. Thumb ends in a larger claw used to impale threats. o	Feet have 5 toes, each about 3in long and prehensile like their hands. Pinkie toe is also about 8in long, hold end of wing. •	flap their pinkie to fly •	Have fur covered body, one of the few true mammals on their planet •	Have large eyes, about 2in diameter •	Large ears as well, cat like and about 5in long •	Fingers are about 5-6in long, excepting pinkie with is almost 5ft long (wow!) •	Hollow bones, lightweight keratin (found in insect shell/hair/fur/scales) teeth •	Always have triplets, no matter what •	Can come in all the colors of the rainbow, except for yellow. Their brighter colors often come in around the head and back, rarely on the bottom (need to hunt) •	Eyes can come in Green, Brown, Blue, Orange, Turquoise, Magenta, Cyan, Dark Red, Light Red (but not red or blood red), gray, silver, gold, and pink. •	Have large, cat-like whiskers, about 8in long.

Evolution
•	Flew to an island system far from the other continents, and were the only “mammals” there. They were bats, only 3in long with a 12in wingspan, designed to glide not flap. •	After a few million years they grew larger, until they reached a whopping 3ft long with a 12ft wingspan. They also gained the ability to glide for hours on end without once touching the ground. •	Nocturnal, due to a large predator called “Rochan” which means, literally, ‘Giant Bird Monster’. It was a relic from an old age when birds ruled the entire planet, even reaching sentience and creating cities. They died out many years ago, but the Rochan survived. Rochan were carnivores. •	As the Maladan slowly reached sentience, it started messing with fire. They managed to master it, and then, to their horror, set the forests ablaze, burning the entire island forest to the ground. They were forced to leave, but the Rochan couldn’t follow them. It died out with the fires, but the Maladan brought some of them with them, for reasons unknown, as eggs, which they cared for and then released into the wild. •	The reason: They used the eggs as a food source, and thus saved their main source of food. They never tried to domesticate them, and the Rochan are still a major predator of their species. They have simply come to accept that as a fact of life, on their planet. It has, however, been a driving force behind their intelligence, and their wish to leave their world. •	After they started to create cities, they began to tame other life on their planet. Such life included a small bird species called Faladon, which was a herbivore about 13ft tall and completely flightless. They protected Faladon from other land-based predators (including Rochan) and the Faladon give them meat and eggs. •	Also domesticated was a much lager, much more dangerous carnivore. A massive bird with a wingspan almost 30ft across, the Rochadotan (meaning ‘Giant Bird Monster of the Sky’) was the apex predator of it’s time, and had survived for millions of years without change. When the Maladan arrived in it’s territories, it very nearly wiped them out. Only their use of fire saved them. They came to use Rochadotan the same way that humans used wolves, and now have a great many smaller versions that they bred to do certain jobs. •	The most notable creatures domesticated were the Rochadotan Galanita, better known as Sky Lizards. They are large, beaked, and have leather wings. In fact, they are basically Maladan if they were reptiles, even to the point of having prehensile hands and a high level of sentience. Not to the point of creating their own fire, but to the point they can learn tricks and use simple tools. Basically, equal to Chimpanzee or Gorilla, but in pterodactyl form. •	After they mastered fire and the like, they went on to take control over their entire planet, and then to learn ways to reach space itself. They reached space and were forced into the Order of Imperialism.

Planet: Mountainia
•	Mountainia is a planet covered in mountains. Due to some long past apocalyptic disaster in it’s history, the entire planet is almost nothing but mountains and ocean. No plain lands, no vast forests on flat plateaus. The Entire planet is covered in either mountains, islands, or oceans filled with small arcepelgos and underwater mountain ranges. •	Mountainia is a very active planet, geologically. Filled with energy, and a crust only half a mile thick in places. The thickest place in the crust is a whopping 12 miles think, due to an overlap of 5 large tectonic plates that have completely buries a 6th one. This single area is the only place that their planes cannot touch, and happens to be right on the equator, thus allowing for their SkyBridge to be build with ease.