Nexus Shape-Shifting Scarecrow Nest

I had landed a few weeks ago on Nexus for a routine scout mission of this peculiar human outpost. Nexus is an Earth-like planet in a vast solar system with sixteen other planets about 17 light-years from Earth, orbiting Altair, a type-A main-sequence star with about 1.8 times the mass of the Sun and 11 times its luminosity in the constellation of Aquila. Nexus is about twice the size of Earth with a slightly heavier gravity force, about 1.5 times that of Earth. Survival is always high on the list of priorities of any organism. The main native specie on Nexus have taken this to a gorgeous next level. On arrival the colonists still didn't have a word for the huge, winged birdlike reptilian in...View all