FROM: LIEUTENANT LANCE CASEY
TO: MAJOR KARL BOWEN, MAJOR TERRENCE O'HEARN
SUBJECT:RE: POSSIBLE SITUATION

MAN, I JUST DIDN'T PAY ENOUGH ATTENTION TO THOSE XENOBIOLOGY COURSES IN THE ACADEMY.

I REMEMBER AS A KID WATCHNG VID AFTER VID MY FATHER MADE FOR MY MOTHER, AND FOR ME NEAR THE END. HE WAS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE MORONS IN TCIS WHO WERE OVERLY EAGER TO JUMP INTO THE RECLAMATION GAME BEFORE KNOWING ALL THE RISKS. I'VE TAKEN THAT AND TURNED IT INTO A PIECE OF ADVICE TO LIVE BY:

"IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SOMETHING IS, LET SOMEONE ELSE FIGURE IT OUT BEFORE YOU GO TRYING TO HAND FEED IT."

FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THESE BUGS IT WOULDN'T SUPRISE ME IN THE SLIGHTEST THAT THEY LEFT SOME SORT OF SICK-GOO ON EVERYTHING THEY GOT NEAR.

I'LL STICK TO MY SHIP AND LET THE SCIENTISTS DO THE TOUCHING. PERSONALLY, I PREFER TO DO MY OWN RESEARCH WITH THOSE NEW CHAIN-ION GUNS ON LIVE BUG SHIPS.
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