Grand Lunar

Name: Grand Lunar

AKA: Master of the Moon

Location: Moon caverns, Great Hall

Novel: The First Men in the Moon

Author: H.G. Wells





Natural History:
The greatest of the Selenites and ruler of the Moon. The Grand Lunar seemed to be no more than a brain, which looked like a featureless bladder with dim, undulating ghosts of convolutions writhing visibly beneath.

Upon further inspection, two elfin eyes peered out from below the bladder. The Grand Lunar did not appear to have a face. A small body, dwarfed by the immense brain, had insect-jointed limbs that were shriveled and white. His voice was like the rubbing of a finger upon a pane of glass. A faint wheezy noise.

The Grand Lunar had many attendants, Selenites of all all shapes and sizes. Many  sprayed the great brain with a cooling spray, while others patted and sustained it. He has also had a group of Selenites that were encyclopaedic in their knowledge of the galaxy. These attendants gathered around his throne, which was bathed in a blue radiating blaze from behind, which the Grand Lunar could control.

The Grand Lunar was immensely interested in the affairs of planet Earth. Though upon hearing about war, the Grand Lunar cut off all of Cavor's communication. Most likely in fear of more humans coming to the Moon.

"You mean to say," he asked, seeking confirmation, "that you run about over the surface of your world - this world, whose riches you have scarcely begun to scrape - killing one another for beasts to eat?"  - Grand Lunar

Phi-oo

Name: Phi-oo

AKA: Selenite, Man-Insect, Mooney

Location: Moon caverns

Novel: The First Men in the Moon

Author: H.G. Wells





Natural History:
Phi-oo was a Selenite sent by the Grand Lunar to establish whatever mental communications that were possible with the man from Earth, Cavor.

The Selenites were a race of insectoid beings that lived below the moon's surface in large and extravagant caverns. Each Selenite, it seemed, presented an incredible exaggeration of some particular feature - one had a vast right forelimb, an enormous antennal arm, as it were; one seemed all leg, poised, as it were, on stilts; another protruded an enormous nose-like organ beside a sharply speculative eye that made him startlingly human until one saw his expressionless mouth. Some had horns or strange features like whiskers, microscopic heads, distended brain-cases, blobby bodies; some seemed like flimsy things that existed just to hold large white-rimmed eyes. Their eyes were calculating or looked like black bottomless pits, both large and small. Some even carried umbrellas in their tentacular hands! A Selenite was born into their place and all of their training, education, and surgery he undergoes is to fit that place so he has so purpose beyond it.

Phi-oo was a Selenite with a large brain case. He was about five feet high with small, slender legs. One could see his pulsating heart through his small body. Pulsating brain movements could be seen behind the thin membrane that stretched from his small head over the large, globe-like bladder. From behind he looked like Atlas holding the world. Phi-oo was a Selenite of the top class, an adminstrator, Selenites of considerable initiative and versatility.

Phi-oo was sent to communicate with Cavor. He did so by imitating every sound Cavor made, beginning with a cough. Phi-oo would point and imitate Cavor until he felt he had mastered the word. The first word he learned was "man" and "mooney," which is what Cavor called them instead of Selenite.

Phi-oo caught on to one or two phrases, especially "If I may say," "Do you understand," and "M'm-M'm," and adorns all his speech with them.

"M'm - the Grand Lunar - wished to say - wishes to say - he gathers you are - m'm - men - that you are a man from the planet earth. He wishes to say that he welcomes you - welcomes you - and wishes to learn - learn, if I may use the word - the state of you world, and the reason why you came to this." -Phi-oo

Mooncalf

Name: Mooncalf

AKA: Unknown

Location: Moon

Novel: The First Men in the Moon

Author: H.G. Wells





Natural History:
The mooncalf was an enormous beast, about 24 feet high and almost 200 feet long. Its sides rose and fell with its labored breathing. It appeared to have no feet, but instead rolled along the ground, creasing its leathery skin and dragging itself forward.

Mooncalves can emit a loud bellowing sound while browsing the unusual fauna of the moon. They were noisy eaters and appeared to relish the act of eating. Selenites herded them out during the day, when the moon was not frozen over and tolerable to living creatures.

The Selenites used the mooncalves as a type of cattle.

"They seemed monsters of mere fatness, clumsy and overwhelmed to a degree that would make a Smithfield ox seem a model of agility."