Clay Crawlers

I watched the Galactica season 3 on the Christmas holiday so now I'm definitely in alien/space mood. :) Here's a short glimpse of the lives and times of the distant clay planet dwellers.

The planet used to be a nice place, not a boiling rock facing the fate of being eaten by the neighbour star systems (wow I'm pro in stellar stuff- not!). A flaming giant meteorite crashed the planet thousand of years ago. Due the low oxygen levels the intelligent, highly civilized colony that inhabited the planet turned with the speeded up evolution these slow and sluggish clay crawlers.

The only reminiscence of the heyday of the intelligent culture is the slowly deteriorating humidity tanks on the backs of these creatures - the iron relics made by the last generation of intelligent individuals of the race, knowing their descendants would lose their mind and their lives also without these tanks on their backs pumping the precious liquids to their bodies. It's too sad that the final of the tanks are now so rusty that it's only a matter of time when the last clay crawler sees the red hot sky and the twin suns.