The Jovian Lion

The Jovian lion is a very smart race, when they were awakened from a long hibernation by terrestrial probes flyby's they immediatly started to plan. The Moon of Callisto had long since become insufficient to support the growing clan and other planets were always worth an investigation. For roughly 30 human years the Jovians worked on using there technology to both monitor earth and improve themselves, the first use of there impressive bio technology was to breed the next generation with a lung system that can adapted to any air mixture from there own to the oxygen rich earth(by comparison to them) Second was a less successful program to allow sheding to happen naturally to adapt to the "broiling" heat of earth, this has success in a case by case basis and every jovian lion carries a shaver just in case things go back to the traditional ways. While the geneticists did this work the more extroverted designed the ship to send, a biological construct of roughly 1200 feet in diameter and 50 feet high, Discuss shaped. The powersource was basic fusion, and let the ship pass into the earths atmosphere during a total eclipse, timed to make its entrance undetected or explained as an abberation. Landing in the artic circle. The flight took 1 human year to arrive and they have slowly gotten there bearings in the year following(bringing us to today) The 49 Jovian lions on the ship are all young, all exceedingly suitable for there roll as trailblazers. There was one death on the collision with earth. They buried him in an iceburg.. which then broke.. losing him. They do not know the "Body" is lost. What they don't know Is the dearth was actually in deep shock. He will be thawed out and terrified soon enough...

The Jovian lion culture is cautious and insular, they tend to think things through and have never had a internal war or a case of cannibilsm in there whole species, the concept strikes against the core of there being. There is a racial consciousness that allows them to keep in contact without words baring some extreme of mental stress