TISSUE SAMPLE 44E-13

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Barrera: Dr. Hugo Barerra - analysis log for tissue sample 44E-13, harvested from an Alpha-class Dark Aether organism.
Barrera: This is by far our cleanest sample to date, and what the sequencer shows is, well, increíble.
Barrera: No, no really - I mean it this time.
Barrera: See, with earlier samples we established a symbiotic relationship between Dark Aether organisms and their environment - a transfer of energy and matter that fuels biological evolution at a rate we’ve never seen before.
Barrera: But what if it’s more than that? What if... what if they’re also feeding off our reality - cloning, or somehow corrupting organic tissue?
Barrera: I may have just discovered the existence of naturally occurring nucleic acid analogues.
Barrera: Well, it’s hard to say without additional data, of course. Ah, I’ll need to ask Commander Greene to set up a bounty system to bring more of these Alpha classes in.
Barrera: But I’ve seen enough to know that we should be careful out there.
Barrera: Horizontal gene transfer concerns aside, the idea that the Dark Aether is able to mimic facets of our reality, even imperfectly, is... unsettling.
Barrera: We’ve only seen this in dead, decaying matter, but what if that changes? What if the data’s wrong? What if the data’s wrong?
Barrera: Can the Dark Aether corrupt a living person?
Barrera: Ah Dios mio... No, no, no, okay. I... I... I need to sit down.