: Posted by Lieut (j.g.) Kasumi (Chief Science Officer) in Science Lab
: : Posted by Gamemaster [GM] Strandedjedi (GM) in Science Lab
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: : : : T'dira gave Kasumi a raised eyebrow 'that's a bit overkill' look, though said, "That is a logical precaution," and set the instruments down and proceeded to seek out a suit.
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: : : : Later, with the venom removed and analyzed, she reported. "Lt, the venom is mostly harmless. It has a sting equivalent to that of an average earth honey bee to induce paralysis. This would be effective only on small creatures about its size or smaller, however if a larger creature were swarmed it could affect them in the same way."
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: : : "That matches with what we saw on the surface and the bite that Koats first received. Go ahead and remove the venom sac for further analysis later. I'm more worried about that egg sac. Let's be very careful as we remove it."
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: : : Kasumi carefully helped remove the venom and egg sacs. She was a bit worried that something might still be viable in the sac, but was hoping that the cryostorage had killed everything.
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: : : -Lt (j.g.) Kasumi, CSO
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: : The egg was partially 'attached' much like the venom sac to the same stinger. Just as the venom was injected into the hapless prey, the eggs were injected into the new host. By themselves, it looked like unless the eggs were injected and 'hatched' they weren't going to go anywhere. Though the 'laid' and 'hatched' times did seem to have something to do with the host - body temperature reactions, etc.
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: Kasumi carefully detached the egg sac and set it aside for further analysis. "T'dira, go ahead and drop the precautions around the corpse and dissect as normal. I'll handle the egg sac. I'll need a good view at the stinger once you have finished your analysis of it for the venom."

"Yes, Lt," T'dira said, looking down at the remains of the small creature as if contemplating what would be the next logical place to carry on. "I'll forward a high resolution image of the tail section to you." She moved the dissection table over to an image scanner and initiated the 360 degree scan. That would take a few minutes so she brought up some of the data collected thus far to study.
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: She took the egg sac to a private section of the lab and once again raised the precautions. Just because the thing looked dead and acted dead was no reason to drop your guard. Carefully she slit open the outside of the sac and looked within.
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: -Lt (j.g.) Kasumi, CSO

It was a tad anti-climactic really. The sac was made up of several chambers that were loosely segregated by fine filament like webs. By all appearances the scans of the different areas denoted eggs of differing maturity - those with the eggs closest to the tail assembly would be the most mature.

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