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Early Survey Work
ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Conversation Log PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Engineer [ID: DNOR], UESC Officer [ID: BHER], Xenobiologist [ID: JJUR] TOPIC: Ecological Adaptation SUMMARY: A recording of a conversation between two survey specialists, establishing infrastructure for New Cascadia prior to the colony's official founding. Specialists were woken before civilian colonists based on technical expertise and the colony's emergent needs. =================================================================== [JJUR]: You're not usually up this early. [DNOR]: Double shift to rewire a prefab panel. Ticks keep snipping through the insulation. [JJUR]: Well, at least they're not aggressive. [DNOR]: Trying to eat our hab units seems pretty damn aggressive to me. [JJUR]: Tobias says it's just… what was the phrase? "Non-territorial experimental foraging." They're taking nibbles of our stuff to see if it tastes good. [DNOR]: Yeah, and Tobias is a weirdo who loves giant bugs. No thanks. [JJUR]: Ticks aren't giant; they're still under a meter. [DNOR]: That's still too big! No bugs should be cat-sized! [JJUR]: During the Carboniferous period, Earth had giant, dog-sized dragonflies. [DNOR]: Can we talk about literally anything else? [JJUR]: Hey, we're just as alien. I mean, look at us. Bipedal gait, flat feet, no carapace, feathers, or fur to speak of. Teetering skulls on skinny necks. [JJUR]: To the native creatures of Tau Ceti, we probably look like giant fleshy freaks. We're something out of their nightmares. [DNOR]: God, how did you make it worse? [door opens] [JJUR]: At least we're trying to be harmonious aliens. [heavy bootsteps] [BHER]: Keep it movin'. [DNOR]: Most of us. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X] TAGS: fauna; luttero, t.; new cascadia; ticks