Alien Event

On June 30 of 1908, a meteor destroys a forest in central siberia, but this was no ordinary meteor and Earth never will be the same.

Timeline

At 0 hours 13 minutes 35 seconds Greenwich Mean Time, an Alien Spacevessel carrying WOMD crash landed near to the Tunguska river in Russia. The Vessel itself was protected from the blast because of its advanced shielding that had never been seen on Earth. The Aliens, named the 'Xalaxians' managed to survive in the icy tundras of Siberia for several years, until their discovery in 1921. Local witnesses of the event, such as the Evenki hunters are the first recorded humans to come into contact with the Xalaxians. The Evenkis were deeply disturbed by the Xalaxians, naming them the 'Valleymen'.

There was little scientific curiosity about the impact at the time, possibly due to the isolation of the Tunguska region. If there were any early expeditions to the site, the records were likely to have been lost during the subsequent chaotic years — World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War. The first recorded expedition arrived at the scene more than a decade after the event. In 1921, the Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, visiting the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin as part of a survey for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, deduced from local accounts that the explosion had been caused by a giant meteorite impact. He persuaded the Soviet government to fund an expedition to the Tunguska region, based on the prospect of meteoric iron that could be salvaged to aid Soviet industry. Kulik's party eventually undertook an expedition in 1927. Upon arrival, Kulik made arrangements with the local hunters to guide his party to the impact site. Reaching the explosion site was an extremely arduous task. Upon reaching an area a mile south of the impact zone, the Evenki huntes would not go any further due to their fear of the Valleymen. Kulik had to return to the nearby village, and his party was delayed for several days while they sought new guides.

When the expedition finally reached the impact site, they were ambushed by the Xalaxians who were able to communicate with Kulik by writing. The Xalaxians told Kulik that their race had been studying Earth and its inhabitants for two-hundred years.