 People would be infected by spores and would turn into drones for the Colony.They also had red eyes and appeared similar to the Xenomorphs from the "Alien" movies.The Children of the Shadow appeared in the episode "Secrets, Not Long Buried" when Cyclops flies solo to Skull Mesa, a tiny western desert community of mutants and humans to see an old friend Dr. Prescott and his plane is blasted out of the sky.