65 million years ago, an intelligent yet savage specie of dinosaur called the Alimon left earth before the meteor impact. There was only one ship which could hold only 100,000 alimons. Riots broke out, everyone wanted on, but the hierarchy refused. Stow aways were hunted down and brutally slaughtered. The ship departed earth just seconds before the meteor impact. The ship sped towards the neighboring planet, Mars. There, they built a colony in which to thrive in, but the alimons wanted their kind to live on for millions of years. So, they placed the entire populace inside an air tight cave, where they hibernated for millions of years. over the Millenia the habitat domes were buried under rocks and sand. For millions of years, the ghost colony remained untouched. Until another creature set foot on the red planet, the human. In 2130 a teenage scientist super soldier named Tanner Colvin discovered the colony, buried underneath the face of Cydonya, where an new science station was erected after the first one at the space port was destroyed so many months back. They ventured further into the ancient city until they came to a sealed cavern. When the humans entered the cave, they discovered the hundreds of thousands of alimons, still hibernating, after millions of years. A male and a female was taken back to the lab and placed in suspended animation tubes for further study.
Present day
"Incoming transport detected" says a computerized voice as the image of mars appeared on screen with a red blip getting closer to the atmosphere of the planet.
(PS: F-14, I was thinking maybe your character could pilot the incoming shuttle.)