Riots and alien worlds

This entry concerns two dreams, the first of which I had in the middle of last week, but I was away from home and didn't get a chance to record it until now.

In that dream, I found myself hovering over an alien world.  I was on a planet that looked as though it had been blasted by an asteroid, but was still inhabited.

The planet surface was rocky, and the asteroid appeared to have gouged a huge crater out of the planet, leaving the inhabitants to live around the edges of that crater and along the perimeters of its ledges towards the planet's centre.  Think of someone taking a huge bite out of an apple, and you'll get the idea.

Anyway, it was dark, and the air had a strange, brown mist to it.  In the distance I could see a silvery orb of light which I presumed was the planet's moon.  The moon was actually very bright, more so than our own in fact.

As I hovered, I caught a glimpse of the beings that lived there. They were dark skinned humanoids in appearance, but were definitely not humans like us.  Their hair formed long dreadlocks or plaits and their bodies were very athletic and muscular.  They seemed like a tribal, warrior race of sorts.

These beings lived in abodes that appear to have been dug out of the rocks (caves with front doors, basically) and their streets were lined with large statue-like things that opened to one side (like iron maidens) and housed sentinels who would come out at the first sign of a disturbance in the neighbourhood.  From what I could make of the planet, it was as if they had technology at some point, but the asteroid had forced them to revert to a simpler, more primitive way of life.

These aliens also did not strike me as being particularly friendly.  As soon as they saw me, they started trying to chase me, shooting me with arrows, which they bound, five in a row and shot from large crossbows.  I was fortunate that they were not able to hit me.  Their tongue was guttural and coarse and they seemed quite feral.

At one point, I landed on the surface and came face to face with a female alien, and at this proximity, I was able to get a closer look at their appearance.  Their brows seemed to be creased to a perpetual frown and their teeth were sharp and pointy.  You could say they looked like Klingons, but with smoother, more human-looking faces.  The female alien spoke to me in her alien tongue and was quite aggressive.  For some reason, I felt the need to kiss her and she responded by wiping the kiss and spluttering.

In the second dream, I was floating along an urban cityscape at night.  There were lots of people running around who were suddenly attacked by police in riot gear.  The people then started screaming and running for their lives and I ran with them for a while.  I then thought about trying to help them, so I took off from the planet, charged up a huge ball of energy and fired it towards the surface.  It was then that I realised I'd wiped everyone out.  I felt remorseful at this point, but it was too late to do anything about it.  I had killed everybody.