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So while I take a break after my super fun day getting attacked by some seriously gross looking birdwhatever animals every three minutes while totally failing to find anything worth hunting, here's a thought:

What are the chances that finding nanite canisters in the woods and then the animals getting all mutated is a coincidence? I'd bet probably pretty low. I mean I don't remember any of us going crazy aggressive, but the physical symptoms seem pretty similar, don't you think?

As far as I know we don't have the ability to test for them to be sure and I don't think there really is anything we can do about it if it is, either. (Science people please feel free to correct me, I'd be happy to be wrong!)

But it begs the question of how the nanites got out there to begin with. We should be careful until we figure out the source, because it seems like it's probably got to be something bigger than the couple closed cans we found at that crash site. Maybe? Maybe not, I don't know. But any ideas or if anybody else has spotted them anywhere, speak up and maybe we can figure this out.

They look like this: [ A brief video clip follows, where she holds up a metal canister in illustration. ]

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Hello Kate Im glad you're intact.

Dont think itd be impossible to get a micrograph of nanites from the fucked up animals, same as I did with our standard crew nanites in Medbay the other year. Just have to get a proper blood sample (and not get infected right)

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and get the shit into Medbay to take pictures of. the big microscopes are built in with the consoles that have got the imaging software. ship should be able to handle it even in the state its in. On that note very nice to have these comms back isnt it.

[Going weeks at a time without talking to people has befuddled him with regard to the niceties of conversation tracking.]

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How are you besides intact?

Hey, William. If it doesn't require a salvage trip and draining the camp's power, it's probably worth a try. At least then we'd know if it's them or some other weird disease. Although if it is the nanites we're kind of out of luck here, aren't we? Even if we can still get to that machine we used there's no way we'd get all the animals into it to remove the nanites.

I'm glad you're still alive out there. Are you still in the woods or did you come back to camp finally? How's Takeshi? I'm doing fine, just frustrated. If this keeps spreading our food stores are probably going to get even thinner than they already are. Finding anything around that doesn't look sick is getting difficult and that's not even counting having to fend off the crazed ones along the way. I'm definitely glad we've got the comms back, though. The mirrors were fun at first but pretty annoying.

Its true you wouldn't be able to run all the critters through the extraction device. but maybe it'd be possible to figure out where they're being seeded or something like that. Somebody dumping them in the water, or if they infected a particular tree or a salt lick or some shit. And then who. and things. anyway maybe you can at least extract the bad nanites from the meat youre going to eat then

Have the chickens been infected? the ones from the ship.

[Articulate doctor man so doctor.]

I came by camp last month but Im out here still most of the time. check in now and then. Takeshi fucking disappeared so I timed a profound dump in my trousers in sync with that.

[so articulates.]

Yeah, finding the source is key. I can help spearhead that and you can come work with science on the testing parts. I guess extraction from meat might become necessary, too. [ blech ]

I don't know about the chickens. I don't think so.

Are you positive he disappeared like the ship did something and not like he wandered off and got lost? Is there any chance he got snatched by someone? [ she has to ask, sorry william ]

oh i suppose thats possible.

[William sits around staring at his little device after typing that, without sending it for some minutes.]

As applies to both the science and Takeshi.

[Kate you don't sound very sorry.]

I dont feel very positive but ive looked around some

[Look what you've done, he's going to spiral off into depressive isolation now.]

I examine a corpse but not useful. I thought to take it to science tent. Possibly optimistic.

Yeah, Science is definitely the place for it. I could be wrong and this could be caused by something totally different. It's not really my area of expertise. But it does look a lot like what happened to us when the nanites got swapped.

It is before my time here. What happened?

is that the only one you have

[ tell him the truth ]

Yes. I gave the other ones to the science tent.

idk some of us were crazy aggro w/out the help of shitty nanites. wtf tho? you ok??

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[ he read everything and committed it to memory, but he's more interested in her handle for the time being. ]

Can I ask how you came about that handle?

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