Velken



The term Velken refers to several animals native to Titan

Biology
Titanian life uses a natural pneumatic system that allows the lifeforms to breath a diverse array of gasses. Being carbon and genetic-based lifeforms they adapted well to human terraforming and survived and thrived.

The most well known examples of this are the titanian creatures known as "Velkens" or "titanian chickens" There are three known species, the common, arctic, and savage, each having different roles in different environments.

Arctic
The Arctic Velken are large arctic burrowers about the size of a small emu.

Common
The common Velken is a very common creature, nearly as common as rabbits they do a sort of "hop skip" that people have described as "grasshopper like" to move around in the light gravity of the moon. They are roughly chicken-sized creatures that have nearly achieved flight ability.

Savage
the Savage Velken are foxlike predators.

History
When the League of Suns colonized Titan, the largest moon of saturn, in the year 2880 they discovered a small struggling biosphere in isolated pockets. Surprisingly these lifeforms seemed to struggle within the methane atmosphere of titan, and were not particularly well adapted.

It was discovered over time that Titans conditions once resembled that of earths, and that the surviving life forms were the few that managed to survive and adapted to the hostile environment.