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resort_link2014-08-11 08:30 am
usfuzzies) wrote in resort_link2014-08-11 08:30 am
Video: PSA
Someone wasn't doing inventory on liftoff--
[Ben's red whiskers bristle irascibly. This is careless stuff. It happens, but he doesn't have to like it.]
Everyone who goes outside the fence should already be counting their gear, but if you needed a reason, these props are it. Adaptive little critters like this can wreak havoc on an ecosystem, and this ecosystem is plenty problematic already.
The largest 'predators' on Quadratus, the spiders, won't eat props. Hounds may be able to detect them and hopefully the pseudofelinoids-- the beasts or the cats depending on your parlance-- will think they're tasty. But the upshot is that there may not be a control if these things get a foothold in the wild.
We all know what bullfrogs did to Australia on Terra, right? And terran brown rats on Shesha?
Double-check your gear before you go out. Even if you don't care about the ecosystem, the last thing you want is to reach for your last bottle of water and have it run off.
[Ben's red whiskers bristle irascibly. This is careless stuff. It happens, but he doesn't have to like it.]
Everyone who goes outside the fence should already be counting their gear, but if you needed a reason, these props are it. Adaptive little critters like this can wreak havoc on an ecosystem, and this ecosystem is plenty problematic already.
The largest 'predators' on Quadratus, the spiders, won't eat props. Hounds may be able to detect them and hopefully the pseudofelinoids-- the beasts or the cats depending on your parlance-- will think they're tasty. But the upshot is that there may not be a control if these things get a foothold in the wild.
We all know what bullfrogs did to Australia on Terra, right? And terran brown rats on Shesha?
Double-check your gear before you go out. Even if you don't care about the ecosystem, the last thing you want is to reach for your last bottle of water and have it run off.
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Poisons that will kill a prop but not us might be more difficult. We'll have to run trials.
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What eats them where they're from? What's native to here that's benign to the locals but would kill anything that hadn't co-evolved? What's their prey, and can it be spiked so the poison would accumulate without harming lower rungs on the ladder?
[She shouts to someone, muffled by her hand over the communicator's microphone:]
Gale! Get the jar, we're milking a spider again.
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[He could be offended or he could do science. It's not that much of a decision.]
In order; I don't know, they seem to scavenge organic detritus like Terran cockroaches but I haven't had time to make a study, I'll call some people back in the institute and see if I can find out, but I expect given their average size that if they're predatory they'd be competing for food with the cats. I'm hoping the cats will eat them, so whatever poison should hopefully be less severe on mammals.
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More accurately, they have me. I'm a researcher for them.
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Xenoecology in general-- Quadratus is my current assignment.
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Unless you're going to talk around that, too, in which case have a blast but do it without me, will you?
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I'm not talking around it, but pay depends on seniority and the job varies from planet to planet. I'm here to study the ecosystem, try to map the food chain and get a sense for the important links in it, and now I've got a mystery on my hands with these 'creepers'.
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How are you with soil samples?
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I can probably judge the magic, but not the alchemistry.