Scarny Lantera
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Lagenya, The Frozen Ocean and the Lagenyan
Scarny's homeplanet, Lagenya, has a surface consisting of 97% water. There is only a slim ring of islands stretching around the equator of the planet. Most of the ocean is frozen, which has caused most of the aquatic life to live near the bottom, where volcanic activity manages to keep it at a temperature, which they have much easier thriving in. The dominant species are the Lagenyan, who are humanoid creatures, that evolved directly from the planet's fish, very similar to the Lemurians. Infact, they share quite a few features with the Lemurians. Those are features such as, their blue skin, gills (although the Lagenyan can also breathe on land), et cetera. The Lagenyan have cities both on the islands, aswell as on the bottom of the ocean. In despite of their mostly aquatic world, they are quite adept in space-travelling, aswell.
As the species have gotten more and more advanced, they have had fewer and fewer problems with their natural enemies, however ever since they began travelling the space-region around them, they have made enemies with a reptilian species known as the 'Kataarsh'. Around 1979, Earth-time, Lagenya was invaded by the Kataarsh, due to numerous political and ethical disagreements. It is unknown how long the invasion lasted, as well as who came out victorious, as the only Lagenyan in the Milky Way, Scarny Lantera, escaped the planet just before the invasion started (Will be described in more detail later on).
There is only currently on Lagenyan in the entire Milky Way, and that would be, as you probably know by now, Scarny Lantera. Therefore, there is a severe lack of detail on the species, their society and their home-planet. The planet is, however, believed to be located somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy, although it's exact coordinates are unknown. There has never been established any contact between Earth and the Lagenyan government, however Scarny Lantera is acting as a sort of unofficial ambassador for the planet.
The Man, The Legend, The Fish, T-.. Scarny Lantera.
Scarny was born around 91 years ago, on the previously mentioned planetary state of Lagenya. He was born in one of the major underwater cities, named Targen Thos. He was raised as a lone child, by his mother (The Lagenyan females instinctively devour the males after mating). Like most of the children from his species, he was f*%#ing terrified of his mother. As a teenager, he began surrounding himself with some shady groups. Eventually he got the offer to become a Gartena, a space-smuggler. They promised him, that he would get to travel the quadrant, get a fantastic pay and he would receive protection from the rest of the group, provided he carried out all his jobs, otherwise he would get his throat slit and fed to the Giganturanhas (Large piranha-like fish). He gracefully accepted their offer, and became a Gartena!
He quickly showed, that he was a natural talent at his art. He could smuggle anything from seasoning, to weapons, to robots, to rare animals and so on, without getting caught by the Quadrant Regulators (space-police). After years of hard work, he could finally afford a shack on the islands! This is what any young Lagenyan desires to have, as it means that the possibility of being devoured by large carnivorous beasts is significantly lower, than it would've been, before they move up there. Life was looking good for Scarny. "Nothing can go wrong now!" he thought. And, uh. That probably wasn't too wise, for he totally jinxed it. You see, life on the surface wasn't all fun and games. Sure, there weren't any big predators, but there were significantly more natural disasters, like volcano-eruptions, earth-quakes and the like. One awful day, a tsunami hit, while Scarny was smuggling weapons to buyers in the other side of the quadrant. He came back, to realize that his shack, along with all his possessions had been completely ruined.
That unfortunate event led Scarny to travel back into the city, that he was born in, Targen Thos. But the worst part was yet to happen, for he had to temporarily reside with his biggest fear. His mother. She was now an old, bald, sharp-toothed and incredibly muscular (Most of these traits are very common for the female Lagenyan, although Scarny's mother was especially fierce), lady. Didn't exactly help his reputation as a bad-a$$ space-smuggler, but he got along. Sorta. Eventually his mother was tired of having him around, so she did, what any sane mother would - she tried to bite his face off. Scarny just barely managed to jump out the way. What, on Earth, would be a cute game, that you'd play with your baby, had become a grim reality for Scarny."I've got your nossssse!", she hissed. Scarny, now infuriated by his newly found lack of smelling-device, did something, that would quite possibly change his life forever. He pushed his mother out of their window, using a strong gust of wind. This ability was special, even for a Lagenyan. Infact, not even Scarny knew he had this power, it just sorta happened. He put a bandage on his face, to stop the bleeding from his face, then fled, in fear of being arrested by the local authorities. Little to his knowledge, no investigation was ever held for the murder, as his mother was viewed as the neighborhood-bully, hated by everyone. So, uh, they just shrugged it off as a suicide, as she had no friends, and was a miserable miscreant.
What's big, black and shoots white blinding beams? That's right, a Kataarsh war-fleet! The relationship between the Lagenyan and the Kataarsh had been very shaky for a long while. It seems like the two species had problems on multiple different layers. First off, there was the ethics. The Kataarsh were a proud reptile warrior-race. The Lagenyan had drugs, smugglers, corruption and strong independant blue females, who indulged in the act of cannibalizing their mates. The Kataarsh had ancient traditions, that they worked hard to maintain. The Lagenyan had almost forgotten their own. Then there was also the political reasons, for they had borders that were progressively growing closer and closer to eachother, which was a development that neither of the two peoples particularly wanted. There were too many conflicts to mention here, but now, alas, it had developed. The mighty Kataarsh war-fleet was on it's way. And those news quickly spread to the planet of Lagenya. The government managed to play it down, by lying to the civilians. Scarny had seen the war-fleet, however, so, inspired by the actions of most government officials on the planet, he stole a capable ship and fled.
Matter of fact, he flew for several decades, before arriving on Earth. He had travelled through foreign star-systems, through asteroid fields, and even through wormholes, to get to this little planet. If you ever met Scarny, he'll probably tell you that he intentionally travelled to Earth. He'd probably also tell you, that his entire species is nose-less. Both of those are, of course, not true. His ship was actually malfunctioning. It had locked onto the Milky Way-galaxy, where he ended up, so he was forced to travel to the planet, that was able to sustain life. Earth, like you've probably guessed by now. He, like most aliens seem to do, crashed his ship. He was left confused and slightly mad, when he looked around, and saw the frozen landscape of Northern Canada. He took some supplies from his ship, then just flew in a random direction, on a gust of wind that he had full control over, because being a Super-Lagenyan rocks. He ended up in the city of Ottawa. He found a disguise, blended in, pretended to be an immigrant, and went to a language-school. The teacher thought he was sort of weird looking, with that wig, all that make-up and that height, but she shrugged him off as being one of these 'transsexuals'. And thus Scarny learned the English language. Although he had to work hard to get rid of that annoying Canadian sound.
What does an ex-space smuggler, now unregistered alien on Earth, do, when they've just learned English? Register themselves at the closest UNTIL HQ? Naaaaah, that's way too much paperwork. Scarny made his way south, to the United States. He eventually ended up in a city, that was absolutely packed with aliens, superhumans, duperhumans, robots, cyborgs, demons and EVERYTHING inbetween. Scarny survived for quite a while, by carrying out acts of petty theft, stealing whatever food he felt like eating, and also a bit of money now and again, for things like clothing and other accessories. Luxury, huh? Not really, he was a homeless alien, that would either get arrested, deported or even worse, forced to do boring paperwork, if caught by the police. He often got in trouble with gangs, since he thought it was /HIL-A-RI-OUS/ to steal from them. Sure, he got beaten up a couple of times, but as the ancient Lagenyan saying goes - "Just be f*#king happy you ain't dead". He was thriving. If he wanted clothes, he would steal them from a store. If he wanted disguises, he'd go to a Toys R' Us (He always, ALWAYS payed for the stuff he bought in Toys R' Us. I guess he liked the people there). But then, that lifestyle came to a halt..
