Bugs's Research Log
Record of the research performed by Lenore Janning prior to her disappearance.
Purpose
Lenore's research log
Historical Details
Background
Lenore kept extensive notes documenting her research into alien insects found on Earth. She stored these notes on her tablet.
This article is a stub.
I'll be adding more content to this article in the future.
Bugs's Research Log
Aliens are real.
The best part of aliens is that, just like everyone else, they travel with their own local bugs. I have a whole new variety of creatures to explore and learn about.
Working at the spaceport, they tell me I'll be able to travel and take classes and maybe even get to go to a symposium on insect life next month.
While I was on the space station, I noticed some researchers were working with diagrams of bugs I had never seen before. They looked a lot like ticks. When I asked about them, they told me they were just average terrestrial ticks that they were studying. But when I looked at them closer, they were different. They have two more legs than the usual tick, smaller than the others. I'm not sure what they are for. When one of the researchers looked away, I scanned a whole bunch of the information to my tablet.
I started reading the information I could translate about those bugs. Those ticks are tiny. Barely even visible. I'm not sure you could see them without a microscope. You could be crawling with those things and not even realize they existed. Which gives me a little bit of the creeps.
They seem to be located all over the planet. I'm going to need to do research to make sure that they're the same species. Fortunately, I have access to a bubble ship and a security guard who's happy to fly the thing around the world so I can pick up samples of these things.
Everywhere I've searched, I've found the same ticks. Identically the same. Impossibly identically the same.
Under a high-powered microscope, I swear I see something that looks like circuitry on the backs of these things.
The computer has translated more of the information that I scanned on the station. It seems like these may have been introduced into the Earth's ecosystem by the Harperions during a crash many years ago.
The thing I can't understand is that Harperions apparently try not to interfere with the culture of any other planet they encounter. I need to see more of their initial landing site before I can fully understand this.
I took the bubble ship all the way into the South Pacific to this remote island where the Harperions crash landed more than 2,000 years ago. There's not much left, of course, but I found some old structures, almost like small stone monuments. Not big like Easter Island big, but one in particular looked like a 5 foot tall chicken.
I've found several others that were two feet tall, definitely alien. Once I knew what to scan for, I found these small bird statues all over the planet. They seem to be just random bird statues stuck in strange places. They're ancient.
I found a couple of other artifacts at the original site that didn't seem to be terrestrial in origin, so I brought them back to the Spaceport because I'm not sure what else to do with them.
I'd love to get a group of archaeologicsts on this site. It may be as exciting as Pompeii. While the settlement was definitely smaller than that one, this one was alien. Completely alien.
This island is still home to a huge variety of bird life. It is creepy looking through the exposed remnants of this civilization. I was glad to leave and get back to the 'port.
From the space station I was able to scan and found the bird statues spaced around the surface of the planet fairly regularly. Apparently these were being used by the Harperions to communicate over great distance.
One of the aliens on the station had a painting that I recognized as being from an Italian painter. I took a trip to a museum and scanned some of that artist's work. During the plague, some of those nanoticks were trapped in his paint. Their coding is different than the ones I've already studied. I need to get a computer specialist to decode this.
It turns out that what I'm calling nanoticks and those bird statues are connected. When I asked the researchers on the space station about them they explained that the bugs are a delivery device for DNA modification. I need to tell Cord about this, but he's been preoccupied. I'm going back up to the station tomorrow to try and find out more about these ticks.
Comments