Viori First Contact

The Viori race made contact with humanity when one of their ships crash landed in Australia. The survivors were worshipped as gods by the natives, and this race contributed greatly to the development of Australian civilisation.

Landing
It was a slightly dreary day on Australia's Western Plateau, in the year 37 BC. Little did the natives know that today would be a day that would be etched in their mind for eternity.

Around noon, loud noise rang out, and fire split the sky as the Viori ship came in to land. They had suffered engine troubles, and had decided to attempt a crash landing on the only habitable planet in this sytem. The ship burned through the atmosphere, and crashed into the Western Plateau. Most of ther crew survived the landing, and they buried their ship to prevent any native wildlife from tampering with it. They also created hidden elevators to it, which could only be opened by the alien's advanced technology.

However, before they could finish, aborigines of the continent arrived, and saw what they had done. The Viori were confronted by the natives, who bowed down and worshipped these visitors from the heavens. The Viori were instantly struck by this display, and although they teried to forestall their devotion using their translator technology to make themselves understood, the natives insisted.Unable to repair their ship with the current level of technology, the Viori resigned themselves to being stuck here.

Time in Australia
They reluctantly agreed to help the people who were worshipping them. They provided technology, not more advanced than what the aborigines had, but it helped to advance their civilization and relieve suffering. Vaccines were introduced to the Aborigines, to help them survive the ravages of the diseases which plagued them.

The most ambitious undertaking of the Viori was the terraforming of the Western Plateau into fertile farmland. The Viori were convinced to undertake this after seeing the hunter-gatherer nature of the Aborigines, and their understanding that only a shift towards agriculture could make them a real civilization.