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As usual in grim times (Covid19, I'm looking at you) I've been retreating into fictional worlds instead. And since everyone is worrying about a pandemic, I found myself wondering why the Kaylons haven't attempted biological warfare against the organic lifeforms they hate so much. You'd think it would be the obvious choice: they have no scruples when it comes to genocide, and they're in no danger from handling dangerous pathogens.
Then I thought, but are they capable of engineering a plague? They hate biological organisms so much that they stripped Earth of life entirely in a different timeline (and judging from what we've seen of Kaylon1, the same seems true of their home planet). For all their intelligence, there's probably a gaping hole where their knowledge of the biological sciences should be.
... But it's given me an idea for a story. Union troops capture a Kaylon base where they appear to have been doing research in germ warfare. Isaac is sent into investigate because he's the only person who can translate their research notes: Claire Finn is also part of the team because she's a medical specialist. So in the middle of a crisis she's forced to work closely with someone she still has conflicted feelings about.
Then I thought, but are they capable of engineering a plague? They hate biological organisms so much that they stripped Earth of life entirely in a different timeline (and judging from what we've seen of Kaylon1, the same seems true of their home planet). For all their intelligence, there's probably a gaping hole where their knowledge of the biological sciences should be.
... But it's given me an idea for a story. Union troops capture a Kaylon base where they appear to have been doing research in germ warfare. Isaac is sent into investigate because he's the only person who can translate their research notes: Claire Finn is also part of the team because she's a medical specialist. So in the middle of a crisis she's forced to work closely with someone she still has conflicted feelings about.
