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silurians
The original reptilian civilised inhabitants of Earth, the Silurians were the surface equivalent of the Sea Devils. Their people dominated the Earth at the end of the dinosaur era, just as mammalian life was beginning. Their scientists detected a large asteroid approaching Earth, reasoning that as it passed, it would draw the atmosphere away, making Earth uninhabitable. The reptile people built themselves vast underground and undersea shelters, placing themselves into hibernation, setting timing mechanisms that would awaken them once the atmosphere returned after the asteroid had gone. However, the asteroid fell into orbit, becoming the Moon, so the atmosphere never altered and the timing mechanisms never awoke them. Over millions of years, Earth's continents moved, destroying all evidence that their civilisation had ever existed. A Silurian shelter was disturbed under a Nuclear Research Centre in Derbyshire. One faction of its people wanted to destroy humanity with a plague and reclaim their planet. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart was forced to reseal the entrance to their shelter, entombing them. In 2084, Silurians joined some Sea Devil warriors in an attack on Sea Base 4, attempting to start a nuclear war in which mankind would wipe itself out. However, they were killed themselves.