Freeport 10's Research Deck: Commonwealth Research and Development Wing.

[JaaY]

When Achille passed him, Kenji glanced up and looked him in the eye. Achille was a cold and calculating man who - despite his narcisstic appearence - was fully commited to his fraternity. Kenji knew only little about the other scientists or their projects, but he didn't mind that because he prefered to work alone.
Two days ago he started the first phase of his project. He brought one of the two dead Wilde pilots carefully into a surgical suite and turned it around, so the body laid with it's face down on the table. Kenji cut slowly the skin of the specimen, from it's upper neck to his upper back. He was fascinated deeply by what he saw; a bluish lifeform was clinged to the spine and it seemed to be connected to the brain.
Upon closer examination Kenji noticed that it was indeed connected to the nervous system. It seemed to act as a parasite, which infiltrates the host's body by oral or surgey delivery. These small incubi seem to work as some kind of control station; all electrical impulses from the brain have to pass the incubi first to be able to reach the body in the end.

"I wonder how long these things live. Will they look for a new host, after their former died if they are left unharmed? Are they even able to survive the death of their host? This thing right here is definitly dead."

Kenji sewed the body together and dragged it away, back to the security container. He branched off the dead infectee and entered the laboratory to record his results and observations.

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