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08-02-2009, 21:46
Vector Industries Deep Space Research Laboratory, Outer Rim, Corusca Galaxy
Many months have passed since the last time Director Rina Masaki had tried to find out what made Thur'tag tick. Now, she has returned with a vengeance, ready to conduct her mission once more! She went through security checkpoint after security checkpoint until she reached the particular lab where the samples taken from the Third Fleet awaited.
She now had some information on the Balroggan Strain of Kythons, coming from reports on the frontlines of the war.
First of all, energy and matter are equally fed upon, but energy is the primary food. That means any energy weapon is useless. Kinetic Energy, however, is still effective, since it's still very hard to survive being hit slugs and asteroids at relativistic velocities. Any further inquiries will have to take that into account.
Secondly, they seem to have a psychic component to them. It all fits now to her. The Kythons can emit a psychic scream that can disable affected people. Plus, there's the incredible coordination they displayed in combat, like they're under a permanent Battle Meditation. Perhaps something could be done to disrupt their psychic connection?
And thirdly, they can pretty much do anything to infect, even turn into clouds of dust like they did over Jurai, which resulted in the loss of three ships to the anti-Kython destruction order.
Now...comes the tricky part. Just what does the infection entail? She suspected it was on the atomic level, or even below that, and hopefully the experiments will let her know this. Just what would it take to kill a Kython? Perhaps the findings could reveal something that could stop them.
Of course, there was the problem of figuring out how to detect what the Thur'tagh does without using the usual suspects of shooting quantum microscope energies at it, since the Kythonic material would eat it up and grow and likely infect the research base. Even Rina knew that she had a most difficult task ahead of her, but she wasn't nothing if not Vector's top scientist! She glared at Sample, as if willing it to do something useful for her.
Many months have passed since the last time Director Rina Masaki had tried to find out what made Thur'tag tick. Now, she has returned with a vengeance, ready to conduct her mission once more! She went through security checkpoint after security checkpoint until she reached the particular lab where the samples taken from the Third Fleet awaited.
She now had some information on the Balroggan Strain of Kythons, coming from reports on the frontlines of the war.
First of all, energy and matter are equally fed upon, but energy is the primary food. That means any energy weapon is useless. Kinetic Energy, however, is still effective, since it's still very hard to survive being hit slugs and asteroids at relativistic velocities. Any further inquiries will have to take that into account.
Secondly, they seem to have a psychic component to them. It all fits now to her. The Kythons can emit a psychic scream that can disable affected people. Plus, there's the incredible coordination they displayed in combat, like they're under a permanent Battle Meditation. Perhaps something could be done to disrupt their psychic connection?
And thirdly, they can pretty much do anything to infect, even turn into clouds of dust like they did over Jurai, which resulted in the loss of three ships to the anti-Kython destruction order.
Now...comes the tricky part. Just what does the infection entail? She suspected it was on the atomic level, or even below that, and hopefully the experiments will let her know this. Just what would it take to kill a Kython? Perhaps the findings could reveal something that could stop them.
Of course, there was the problem of figuring out how to detect what the Thur'tagh does without using the usual suspects of shooting quantum microscope energies at it, since the Kythonic material would eat it up and grow and likely infect the research base. Even Rina knew that she had a most difficult task ahead of her, but she wasn't nothing if not Vector's top scientist! She glared at Sample, as if willing it to do something useful for her.