The Selenite Leader
The Selenites were an advanced race of intelligent ant-like people from the 1964 retro science fiction film First Men on the Moon. The Selenites had a different society than humans, where they didn't make war, however they put employees or other Selenite workers under a form of suspended animation when they were no longer of use. Selentites inhabited catacomb like tunnels beneath the moon's surface, where they were free from the moon's meteor showers, and where they generated their power from the sun, using gaps from the surface. Because the Selenites' world rotated around the Earth, they showed
| Selenites | |
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 An Army of Selenites | |
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Type |
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Status |
Humanoid |
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Group |
Anthropoda |
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Size |
Small Size (1-5 feet) |
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Appearances |
First Men in the Moon |
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Behavior |
A Group of Insect Humanoids with an advanced society |
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Weaknesses |
Humans/Viruses |
respect and interest towards humans, however found them defective because they made war.
Society[]
Selenites were an advanced group of highly evolved insects (ants) on the Moon. Selenites had an advanced society that was different than those on Earth, that humans did not fully understand. During the late 1800s and early 1900s before their extinction, Selenites evolved large "moon cities"
Selenite Workers in Suspended Animation
with a complex tunnel system underneath a large majority of the moon's visible surface. The Selenite had a rich deposits of minerals such as dimonds and gold that they found on the moon, and used to develope numerous technology. Selenties had a system if a worker was no longer in use to their system, they would suspend them in a cocoon like state until they were needed. Selenites also were under one leader, like a queen ant, that commanded the Selenite armies. Selenites didn't fight wars, but attacked in self defense of the colony if they felt was necessary. Selenites behaved similar to a colony of ants or bees, however ants have been known to attack other colonies of ants, while the Senenites acted as one whole colony.
Technology[]
Using the various minerals the Selenites found on the moon, the Selenites devoped advanced technologies based on solar energy. Their energy was developed from a large crystal in the center of the lunar city that was
Selenites' Solar Powered Technology
inside a large tunnel over looking the sun. During a lunar eclipse, the Selenites were blocked off from solar energy, making all their machinery shutdown. However, Selenites used this as a resting time, until the machines were operating again. Selenites also developed high powered microsopes that they used to study humans.
Domestication[]
Selenites domesticated large herbavorious animals known as Moon Cows to humans. Selenites domesticated these large beasts as live stock for food, and they had developed special ray-like weapons to kill them and
Selenites Harvesting a Moon Cow
harvest their meat. Large graveyards of Moon Cow skeletons were found in the Selenite cities, which is unusual, because most caterpillar species lack bones.
Description[]
Ray Harryhausen matched H.G. Wells' description of Selenites closely, decribing them as ant-like people. Selenites were small creatures and were weaker than humans, because of the Moon's low gravity, making them easy to defeat. They had compound eyes, were winged, and had the ability to speak the human language. However, they recieved extinction some time in the early 1960s, because they had little immunity to human deseases.