TOLNEPS ARE A RACE OF REPTILIANS BELIEVED TO BE THE FIRST SENTIENT SPECIES TO INHABIT THE EARTH. TOLNEPS EVOLVED FROM DINOSAURS. THE TOLNEPS EVOLVED ALONG SIDE THE VERY DIFFERENT MAMMAL-LIKE CETACEANS. AT THIS TIME THE CETACEANS WERE LAND DWELLERS. THE TWO RACES LIVED HARMONIOUSLY FOR EONS UNTIL THE EARTH'S WATER LEVELS STARTED TO RISE. THE TOLNEPS HAD THE CAPABILITY FOR SPACE TRAVEL AND SOUGHT OTHER WORLDS, BUT NOT ALL WERE EVACUATED. THE CETACEANS CHOSE TO STAY AND ASSIMILATE WITH EARTH'S CHANGING CONDITIONS.
IN THE IMMEDIATE SOLAR SYSTEM THERE WAS ONE PLANET THE TOLNEPS WERE CONSIDERING COLONIZING, MARS. AT THIS TIME MARS WAS COVERED WITH DEEP RIVERS AND DENSE FORESTS. THERE WAS ONLY ONE PROBLEM, HUMANS! MARS WAS THE HOME TO MILLIONS OF HUMANS WHO WERE VERY ALARMED AT THE PRESENCE OF THE TOLNEP VESSELS HOVERING IN THEIR SKIES. CONTACT WITH THE HUMANS WAS ENTIRELY UNPLEASANT SO THE TOLNEPS LEFT MARS AND INTO DEEP SPACE. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE HUMANS BUILT A GIANT STONE FACE TO SCARE AWAY ANY FUTURE ALIENS. THIS STRUCTURE CAN STILL BE SEEN TODAY AND HAS BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY NASA'S VIKING AS IT ORBITED MARS.
THE TOLNEPS FOUND SEVERAL WORLDS TO INHABIT IN THE HYDRA AND DRACO SYSTEMS. AS EON AFTER EON PASSED, THE TOLNEP POPULATION THRIVED AND SOUGHT OUT OTHER WORLDS. IN IT'S EXPLORATION IT ENCOUNTERED A RACE OF DINOIDS. THE TWO SPECIES HAD MUCH IN COMMON AS THEY BOTH EVOLVED FROM REPTILES, BUT THERE WERE DIFFERENCES... THE DINOIDS WERE EXTREMELY WARLIKE AND CARRIED OUT CAMPAIGNS IN DOMINATING THE GALAXY. BEING LARGER AND MORE ADVANCED THE DINOIDS "ACQUIRED THE SERVICES" OF THE TOLNEPS. THIS NEW ALLIANCE BROUGHT ON WARS WITH OTHER SENTIENTS THROUGHOUT THE GALAXY. ONE GROUP OF SENTIENTS FROM VEGA AND SIRIUS DESPISED THE "REPTOIDS" THEY WERE THE HUMANOIDS. GRAND SCALE EXTERMINATION WAS WAGED ON BOTH SIDES. IN TIME, THE WARS FRAGMENTED EACH CIVILIZATION AND EACH SIDE FOUND THEMSELVES LOST, SEPARATED FROM THEIR OWN KIND ON STRANGE WORLDS.....
SOME OF THE TOLNEPS FOUND THEIR WAY BACK TO EARTH. ON THE WAY THEY NOTICED THAT MARS HAD DRIED UP AND THE HUMANS SOMEHOW MIGRATED OVER TO EARTH AND RESIDED ON NEARLY EVERY SQUARE MILE OF HABITABLE DRY LAND. USING THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON AS A BASE OF OPERATIONS THE TOLNEPS BEGAN TO STUDY THE EARTH FOR COLONIZATION PURPOSES. THEY DECIDED TO INHABIT THE VAST CAVERNS INSIDE THE EARTH......
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