AGRICULTURAL INSPECTION[edit]
ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Emergency Inspection Log
PERIOD: Colony Era
SPEAKERS: Song, C. [ID: CSNG]
TOPIC: Novel Contagion
SUMMARY: A recording of Dr. Clarissa Song, New Cascadia's principal agronomist, performing emergency inspection at Algae Ponds. This log represents an early recorded incident of a novel contagion affecting the colony's food supply.
[CSNG]:
This is Dr. Clarissa Song, beginning emergency inspection log. OK, let's crack open that water filter.
[scraping] [CSNG]:
Yeah, sure enough, filament worms are back. Ugh. They build nests faster than the BoBs can scrape them off. Adaptable little buggers. Pesticides, targeted genome disruption, nanotech—nothing sticks.
[CSNG]:
Their nesting medium smells like… tamarind? Might be edible when dry. I'll bring some back to Darius for analysis.
[sample collection] [CSNG]:
No sign of the fungal growths from algae pond 3, so the novel contagion hasn't spread here…Yet.
[CSNG]:
Cleaning the filters requires a temporary shutdown, and pond 3 is already offline. That brings us down to… 30% below our food quota. Damn it.
[CSNG]:
I'll put in a request to Reed, ask him to open up the emergency stockpiles. We're not all hardened soldiers, and we… we can't keep asking our neighbors to tighten their belts.
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