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[B3 ARK HAULER] CAPTAIN'S TERMINAL ....
USER: ALFYN ....
PERSONAL LOGS ....
NEW ENTRY ....
MISSION REPORT ....
ENTRY 36 ....
[LOCKED] [ENCRYPTED] ....
....
That bug job was brutal. We've done cleanups before, but this one has me rethinking ever taking another.
It looked like a standard infestation, at first. Pistols and flamethrowers, normal drill. But as soon as we popped the first one, the rest fled. At the time, Felix and I thought maybe that was that, that maybe the bugs had smartened up and were making an escape rather than getting splattered.
Well, we were half-right; they had smartened up. Apparently these things we've been killing are just the young. Would have been nice if ANYBODY hiring us for these jobs had EVER mentioned it.
So, here's what I've now learned, for ship record.
Trypoptera, called Tryps by most, have a four stage life cycle similar to Earth insects.
Egg. Larva. Nymph. Adult.
Adults typically lay their eggs and move on, leaving the larva to fend for themselves after they hatch.
Typically. But not always.
Occasionally, an adult will hibernate nearby the eggs, awaking to eat any stragglers of her brood after they hatch.
More rarely, the adult will adapt a maternal instinct and protect the brood until they mature.
And this is what happened here.
And let me tell you, the adults are nothing to be trifled with!
They are about ten times the scale of the largest bug we'd seen so far. They're more sleek, faster, with bigger mandibles. And did I mention? They have wings!
Felix and I were lucky enough to make it back to the drop site. We took her out with the ship's point-blank defense systems. Our guns weren't even leaving a scratch against her hide.
I managed to haggle out twice the original payment from our client, but I honestly don't think we'd have taken a job like this, actually knowing the dangers, even if they had quadrupled the price...
I still reek of bug guts. Need to hit the showers but Felix is using it first. Its a big room, but showering at the same time as someone else has never been my cup of tea. Wish dad had bothered to install a private shower in his captain's quarters.
Still, thank Gatow we made it out alive. Another life down, I suppose.
END ....
USER: ALFYN ....
PERSONAL LOGS ....
NEW ENTRY ....
MISSION REPORT ....
ENTRY 36 ....
[LOCKED] [ENCRYPTED] ....
....
That bug job was brutal. We've done cleanups before, but this one has me rethinking ever taking another.
It looked like a standard infestation, at first. Pistols and flamethrowers, normal drill. But as soon as we popped the first one, the rest fled. At the time, Felix and I thought maybe that was that, that maybe the bugs had smartened up and were making an escape rather than getting splattered.
Well, we were half-right; they had smartened up. Apparently these things we've been killing are just the young. Would have been nice if ANYBODY hiring us for these jobs had EVER mentioned it.
So, here's what I've now learned, for ship record.
Trypoptera, called Tryps by most, have a four stage life cycle similar to Earth insects.
Egg. Larva. Nymph. Adult.
Adults typically lay their eggs and move on, leaving the larva to fend for themselves after they hatch.
Typically. But not always.
Occasionally, an adult will hibernate nearby the eggs, awaking to eat any stragglers of her brood after they hatch.
More rarely, the adult will adapt a maternal instinct and protect the brood until they mature.
And this is what happened here.
And let me tell you, the adults are nothing to be trifled with!
They are about ten times the scale of the largest bug we'd seen so far. They're more sleek, faster, with bigger mandibles. And did I mention? They have wings!
Felix and I were lucky enough to make it back to the drop site. We took her out with the ship's point-blank defense systems. Our guns weren't even leaving a scratch against her hide.
I managed to haggle out twice the original payment from our client, but I honestly don't think we'd have taken a job like this, actually knowing the dangers, even if they had quadrupled the price...
I still reek of bug guts. Need to hit the showers but Felix is using it first. Its a big room, but showering at the same time as someone else has never been my cup of tea. Wish dad had bothered to install a private shower in his captain's quarters.
Still, thank Gatow we made it out alive. Another life down, I suppose.
END ....
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