[ WP ] You are a member of a mildly intelligent species that evolved on the inside of Enceladus 's ice crust . Humans have just bored through and made contact .

I was in the mines when it happened. It started with a vast rumbling, as if the ground itself was tearing apart. Ice and rocks tumbled down on me, and I heard screams in the distance. Suddenly, the shaking stopped. I rushed towards the mine's entrance, curious, yet terrified for what I might find. Several guards rushed past me, brandishing their polished spears. As I exited the tunnel, I saw the carnage in front of me. Our home, the cave of life, was ruined. The Eternal Igloo, home of the Emperor, had collapsed. It's large dome had smashed through the smaller foundation domes, causing the structure to collapse. Replacing it was a giant grey cylinder, reaching from the cave's top to it's bottom. The rest of the cave had feared no better, the endless array of igloos that filled our homeland had crumbled, with only a few surviving structures. Soldiers rushed towards the center of the cave, willing to lay down their lives for the Emperor. Without warning, light shot out from the sides of the metal structure. Light brighter than anything I had seen, one hundred times brighter than the glowbats that covered our cavern's roof. I slowly walked towards the shiny thing, transfixed by its extreme brilliance. Then, as if the light had never existed, it shut off. My vision darkened for a moment, before they adjusted to the regular glow of the cave. What I saw I will never forget: strange figures dropped down from the giant calendar. Covered in bulbous, ice-colored suits, they looked foreign in our jagged world. They hit the ground, and stood, staring at us with the one black eye in the center of their heads. Everything was still for a moment. Then, suddenly, one of the soldiers charged the creatures. Likely to avenge the destruction of our home, he stabbed the white creature. His weapon punched cleanly through the strange animal, who promptly collapsed. The other creatures stepped back, and pulled out their own strangely-shaped spears. However, instead of rushing the soldiers of my race, they stood their ground. For a moment, there was silence, and it seemed like it would never be broken. But it was not so. Bright light shot from the creature's spears, accompanied by extraordinary noise. Then our soldiers began to fall. The Emperor's men rushed forward in a carpet of running troops, only to fall before reaching the creatures. Some tried to throw their spears, but their short arms could not reach the invaders. Within a minute, all the soldiers were dead, and not a single invader was harmed. The strange creatures walked methodically among the bodies, the ice now soaked with their blood. Slowly they walked towards me, weapons raised. In a burst of movement, one jumped at me, tackling me to the ground. It grabbed my arms, and wrapped them together with some sort of cord. Then it slammed it's weapon into my face, and everything went black.
