Xenomorphs > Synths

Shy has seen synthetics do amazing things: lift cars, jump twenty feet, strip cables just by ripping off the insulation like shucking corn. Underneath that sweet exterior is a machine capable of feats of wonder—but there’s no way in hell he’s a match for the x-rays.

They both look at her expectantly.

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There’s nothing more dangerous than a synthetic without a behavioral inhibitor. He could crush Becker’s throat, break his neck, cave in his skull—the list runs through his mind on repeat as he stares into Marcus’s impassive eyes. He doesn’t want to tell the contractors the whole story—not yet—but Marcus might end him right here.

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Alien: Into Charybdis, Chapter 15, 20