The feed brightens from black to a grainy white before the picture slowly resolves. The image is of a room tilted at a half angle shaking slightly as someone shifts in the background. You can just see a window in the back far corner. Space glitters in through an inky blackness dotted with a smattering of glittering white, blue and red pinpricks. The camera tilts slowly around, and a face comes into view. It is an inhuman face dark brown in color with large prismatic orange eyes and short antae atop it's rounded head. It adjusts the picture to the horizontal straightening out the canted view of the room.

"Ok..... it says it's on." The creature clears his throat and straightens up, "So for introductions, I am Dr. Krill of the Vrul chief medical officer aboard the human vessel U.S.S Harbinger I have been working with humans for well over a year and a half now. Some say I am the leading expert in the field." He turns in a circle and heads towards the door, the camera shakes a bit as the room recedes into the background, "I don't know about that, but I do have the most experience. I have been writing reports on the human's behavior for some time now, but some comments have been made about my potential biases. Others have pointed out that I am not, in fact a behavioral expert and have asked for video footage on the subject of humans to make their own judgements." He passes through a door into another hallway flipping the camera around so the viewers can see the long space ahead. Compared to the camera height, the hallway is very tall.

"So I thought it would be prudent at first to introduce you to some of my humans let you know a little about them." He steps through another doorway, "First of all I am here to dispel a lot of negative rumors that have been going around about humans lately, and let you all see the truth of humans, the good side of them. First off, I am going to be addressing the idea that 'humans are the most animalistic sentient species in the galaxy' I personally think this is a dumb statement, first off it makes no sense, and second off it can be intermitted many ways. Yes, humans are more in touch with their animal instincts than a lot of us, they have lots of primitive nonverbal communication, a strict social hierarchy led by unwritten social rules, and they do tend to act on their instincts a little more than we do. However humans are also remarkably smart, and very easy to bond with."

He passes up a set of metal stairs clattering and clanging while the camera bobs back and forth "Humans are a very pack-oriented creature, and this instinct has allowed them to bond with many other species. I would estimate that my acceptance aboard the ship took about a week to set in and a little under a month to fully form. At that point the humans will accept you as one of their own and place you within the social hierarchy. Human hierarchy tends to have a very pyramid like structure with an alpha human at the top followed by their Betas and then going on down the latter. I would place myself somewhere in the Betas of this human pack." He turns a corner and stops before a door, "I am about to introduce you to one of my favorite humans, he is the leader of the pack but actually one of the most affable of the humans. It is important to note that each human has a fascinatingly distinct personalities, very colorful characters. This humans name is Vir, and I would characterize him as very social, surprisingly juvenile, but aggressively loyal and laid back for, so here let's just go in and say hi."

He turns the camera back towards the door, which clatters lightly before swinging open. It takes a moment for the camera to adjust to the darkness, but when it does you can see the silhouette of a large figure cured atop a strange platform- like object. "Humans use up a lot of energy during the day, and when they nest at night they have to find somewhere dark and soft to do it. Now, imposing on a human's sleep is not recommended, so we have to feel things out to make sure he's going to be ok seeing us. I may be part of their pack but every day I have to remain wary and am very careful with how I approach humans."

The camera zooms in on the figure which churns rolls and then sits up. A single large, forward-facing eyes greet them from the darkness flashing with light from the hallway. It tilts it's head blinking as the pupils quickly constrict against the light, "This human is a male approximately 26 solar cycles old, 6,2 and 205 pounds with athletic body composition aside from a missing leg and a missing eye, unlike other species humans accept the survival of extreme injury as a status symbol."

The camera picks up a series of guttural grumbles, hums, hisses and clicks as the human opens its mouth teeth glittering against the incoming light.

"Now, see, right here, he's protecting his territory wants to make sure I know what I am getting myself into and asking me what I am doing." More hissing and humming, "He's warning me, but something I've learned to do to calm a human." The camera turns a little just so you can see his face silhouetted against the backdrop of light. He opens his mouth very wide before, "Yawning is thought to be a social symbol for letting others know everything is ok. It's contagious." He turns the camera around, and the large human has a paw over his mouth chest rising with a very deep breath. He stops ad turns to look at the camera.

"See, he will probably let me approach now." The light flicks on momentarily blinding the camera as it struggles to focus. The human makes a pained mewing sound as he holds his paw up towards the light. Its face is very expressive under a creamy white skin and a dusting of tawny fur atop its head. The tips of its digits glitter with strange translucent claws.

The human grows bigger in the lens as Krill moves closer right up to where the creature is lying. The large head turns to follow the progress single jade eye blinking from deep within its socket. The grumbling noises rise up from the creature's chest as its teeth flash, "It may look intimidating, but this human knows me, and wouldn't be likely to hurt me. Humans are very curious, so he will want to know what I am doing in his territory at this time. Now if he really wanted to, as leader of the pack, he could make me leave at any time, but due to his curiosity, I bet he won't." The human snorted ejecting a puff of air from flared nostrils.

"See that, right there, humans have a lot of nonverbal noises they use to communicate. That one is exasperation or annoyance. It's not really a sign of danger in a human but an indication they are willing to put up with you." The human rolled its eyes flashing the white sclera of its strange orbs towards camera before shifting towards the edge of its sleeping space and throwing off the sheets in which it was wrapped. The camera quickly zooms In on the missing leg before panning out to capture the creature as it raises its hands above its head arches it's back, flexes it's arms and cranes it's neck.

Its strange pink tongue runs over its teeth as it yawns again.

"The human muscular system is very fluid rich, this behavior right here helps the human to prepare for movement by moving fluid into the correct places and recalibrating feedback systems that allow it to move." The human finishes its stretch and turns to look at Krill, the eye flickers towards Krill and then the camera. It growls, and then with one paw, it swipes at the camera.

"Now, that may have looked aggressive, and I suppose it could have been but that's what happens when humans get confused and curious. He just wants to know wat I am doing."

The human sit back with a reproachful expression on his face shakes its head quickly back and forth and then flops backwards with an exaggerated sigh still eyeing Krill with that one green eye. "Now this is rather large for a male human, the average height being around 5'11, but he is by no means the largest male on the ship. Human hierarchy isn't denoted by size or gender, but rather, the entire human race is placed into a hierarchical structure with their UN president at the top of that hierarchy, currently a short human female. Is has nothing to do with physical prowess and more to do with authority and social standing."

The camera moves a bit closer to the human who leanes away brows furrowed before turning with a grumble onto his side facing away from the camera, "Now this is pretty interesting, humans have some of the best hearing known to the sentient species. See those folds inside the ear, helps them to funnel sound and determine the directionality of the noise. They have excellent horizontal and vertical sound location when the sound is in front of them. In fact, the path of sound into the brain is directly connected to the movement of the eyes."

"Another important thing to remember around humans, as I said before, each of them are different, and this is important to note if you ever come into contact with humans. Some are more social than others, and some are more willing to let you touch them than others. This particular human is willing to put up with more than the average human." A hand reaches out from behind the camera and proceeds to pat the human on the head. The human's facial muscles contort into an unknown expression, "Now, no one really knows why humans have hair on the tops of their heads, it isn't particularly useful for anything. At this point it's mostly just believe it was selected for in the species as an attraction point for mates. Some humans lose their hair over time and others choose to get rid of it all together."

The human sat up again catching the hand that had been panting him on the head and turned to look at Krill making more noises with his mouth, "Ah see, now there he is warning me off, so I'll just pull back a little." The camera shows Take a look at the eye, yes, see the large black aperture, that is the pupil and it gives humans the ability to control the amount of light they allow into their eye. When it is dark, the pupil will dilate giving them the ability to see in both the dark and the light, which is rather unknown to those species who use the spectrums of light between ultraviolet and infrared. Despite this inability, humans have the best depth perception, for reasons of hunting. Of course the alpha has lousy depth perception since you need two eyes for that"

The human's head levels out, and its single eye locks onto the camera. The lid drops sweeping a layer of mucus over the outer layer of the eye, and then it lunges. The camera spirals spins, there is a scuffle as the image sees only patterns of shape and movement as the picture careens around the room, then it evens out. The camera turns around to view the human looking wide eyed into the lens. It grumble, then the image turns around to look down at Krill who has his arms crossed, "See, now that I have invaded on his territory he has deemed it necessary to prove his dominance over me by stealing my property, but you see there is a simple way to deal with a naughty human, at least this one anyway."

The camera pans down as Krill walks forward and mercilessly jabs the human in his single leg. The human lets off a high pithed yelp of pain. The camera spirals and tilts viewing the room from floor level before it is snatched up turning back to face Krill, "I do not recommend doing that to two legged humans." Behind him in the scene, the human is scrambling to his single leg, and rooting around beside the nest. Krill begins to speed up and then breaks into a scuttle, "Of course, I didn't hurt the human. When dealing with their species, it is important to treat the humans the way humans treat humans, and between two dominant male humans physical dominance is very important..... What I employed was a simple dominance tactic to let him know that steeling my property isn't allowed"

Something rattles behind him as Krill speeds up, "Of course it is wise to note that not all alphas will take things so well. This particular human is likely to interpret the action as play rather than a threat." He cuts a corner and hides in the darkness of the next room over, "Keeping the human mind spry with play is very important for their happiness." He quieted down very quickly as a set of footsteps stalked up the hall.

Loud hooting and chirping echoed from the hallway, "Humans enjoy being able to practice their hunting skills. That would be a hunting call to lure me out." He whispered, "Luckily humans have terrible senses of smell."

A shadow blocked the doorway, and the growling was suddenly very close by. Krill squeaked and the camera went black.

Subtitles Krill Neglected to Add

Krill, what the hell are you doing? Why.....krill it's four in the mourning.

You have got to be kidding me.

Wait, are you seriously filming right now.

I'm not a golden retriever Krill, why are you petting me! Who are you talking to? If this is going to be replacing your reports, I don't know if I'm down for that.

Lousy depth perception my ass.

OW! SHIT no fair!

Alright, come out come out wherever you are.... Ok if you want to play this game, we can play.

But as you said before, we have excellent hearing.