Creature:Unknown Life Form

This unknown life form, discovered by a collection of archeologists while unearthing a series of ancient ruins on a dead planet revolving around an longer dead sun. So far it is the only one known of its kind, and yet has puzzled various races ever since its discovery, seeing as it has no known related species.

Biology
Physically, this life form has characteristics that are similar to those of both a reptile and a cephalopod. It has evolved a thick protective layer of overlapping scales that has proven so far to be indestructible, even when tested with high power lasers and other various cutting tools, and thus preventing further study physically of its internal structure. Its facial structure, which is predominated by a series of tentacles that, though lacking suction cups like those of typical cephalopods, contains a large amount of neural tissue. Finally, study of its wings that, while appearing to be rudimentary and frail, have been revealed to produce massive amounts of thrust via detailed scans.

Scans of its internal systems have revealed some surprising information. For one, the entity is not dead, even though it had lay buried in ruins deep below the planets surface, and was in fact in some form of hibernation. It was also noted that its brain was extremely well developed brain with rather large lobes which, if they are used as speculated, would grant the entity a form of powerful telepathy, and if was true, the entity would then be fully aware of their presence. Besides this, the most surprising discovery was that the entity, though it appeared to be made up of flesh and bone at first glance, was revealed to actually be made up of something that appeared to be made of something that was not all together created of matter.

Further study is required before more can be learned of this strange entity and its peculiar biology, though it can be stated that it is extremely old, and apparently not native to the planet.

Other


This entity, whatever it may be, has apparently resided on this planet for millennia, as its crypt alone when carbon dated indicates that. It appears that a religion was based upon this life form, created by the inhabitants of this world before they eventually died out from unknown causes. Though little of this religion remains, having long eroded with the wear of the ages, what does remain has been used to provide a trickle of information about it, such as the former inhabitants of the world believed the creature would one day awaken, and that all would be "freed" by it, though what this means is unknown.

Part of the scriptures that have been translated so far have been used to help identify this organism with a taxonomy, as well as possibly leading us to other such temples mentioned, all of which may contain others of its kind.

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 * Genus: Immortas
 * Species: Immortas cthulhu