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- “I couldn’t let Marcus see, or he might tell someone, so I covered my workstation, but by the time I could look again, the fluid had metabolized with the soft tissues of the host.”
- “What did you see?”
- He pulls on his stubbly chin. “I think you’re right… Plagiarus praepotens is real.”
- There it is. Her life’s work, or the work for her life. The second animal that none of the Company researchers seem to recognize—a bacterial terror that can rewrite DNA orders of magnitude faster than CRISPR technology. Weyland-Yutani thinks the face-huggers are larval snatchers, but they’re really hosts for the deadliest pathogen in the universe. And within the genetic code of praepotens lies an unlimited potential for a cure for her genetic disorder—for everyone’s disorders.
- Blue has given the face-huggers a real name, too: Manumala noxhydria. The evil hand, the jar of night.
- ***
- Her intellectual property might’ve belonged to the Company, but the book deals and film rights would’ve been worth a fortune. She’d have been set for life—a much longer life. Plagiarus praepotens is the ultimate builder, able to rewrite and reconstruct organic matter in seconds. It should’ve built her a brighter tomorrow.
- ***
- Alien: The Cold Forge, Chapter 4, 10
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