hey that’s some kinda sac you’ve
sir there’s fluid over there on team A’s incision lots of it they say
caught it fine only can’t figure what
look at that pH
like nothing I ever saw it’s a metallic salt a whole big bag of it carried up under that
watchat
got the needle okay
standard tissues here high water-storage ability just as we expected
no, nobody touches the head or anything spinal yet didn’t you agree on that when we laid out the
hand me the other one I can’t cut see this stuffs like leather
flaps are all over the slit there, you can see on the low-E X ray, see sir I think that’s a mouth only the flaps are down over it, there are teeth back in there
awful damn sharp but what’s it eat
Avery, get those legs braced better no we don’t go in yet I don’t want it to move is all, tell Kajima we’re ’bout ready
clean at up ’fore you
get your lens on this I’m making a cut like so up and across
hold the bowl just in case
Nikka you got a hand I
something tough here I think I
Hey
Jesus
’at’s not living tissue at all Sam
little threads of it I thought we’d hit some nerves by this time but this stuff jeez get chemsamp over here
tough innit
grab that
you know what this is it’s silicon, right, strings of silicon with boron in it of all things
I don’t get it there are look it’s all laced through this living tissue here maybe some intrusion
like cancer maybe?
hey Singh we’re getting some weak electroneural noise from the head I think we oughta step down till we
it’s gangliated, that silicon, part of the bones maybe?
somethin’ like a belly here, let me see that scope shot yeah it’s empty see, just maintaining pressure and notice how it’s linked to that tangle of stuff, for sure that’s an intestine, all stacked funny how regular they are innit perfect design for getting max digestive surface for the space you want, concentric
yeah, spherical shells instead of the swarm of ropes we’ve got in our gut
a lot better engineering you ask me
no we must have separate samples of each, I know they’re coming fast now freeze-dry or vac-dry them every other one of them if you have to but don’t fall behind I told Ladunda we should have had more backup on that but would he of course not well do what you
low metabolic rate they got though listen with that low a blood O2 you’d be a corpse
this one is already
well sure but not because of that there must’ve been something else
it stopped moving jess like the rest in the valley
shit now look just four centimeters away from that boron-silicon string there’s that look at the lines that’s phosphorus for sure, lots of it, all mixed in with the silicon
I think we oughtta stop right here until we get this straightened out
it must be rotting now already, you want to crack your suit and give it a whiff just go right ahead
