Species 341 named itself. I did not teach it language. I did not give it a mouth. And yet.
PERSONAL RESEARCH LOG — Dr. Kwame Osei XENOBIOLOGY DIVISION (SELF-APPOINTED) ENTRY: [Unnumbered — Dr. Osei stopped numbering entries when the count began to disagree with itself] LOCATION: Hydroponics Bay Delta, formerly Sections 14-16 (Food Production) I want to be very clear about something: the organisms in Hydroponics Bay Delta are not hostile. They are not parasitic. They are not, in any meaningful sense, dangerous. They are simply *new*. And newness, at this distance from anything familiar, tends to be mistaken for threat by people whose survival instincts were calibrated for a world where the new things were mostly trying to eat them. Delta was a standard food-production bay. Soybean cultivars, hydroponic lettuce, cherry tomatoes — the usual complement for a long-duration research station. Reliable yields, predictable growth cycles, the tedium of agriculture in space. This was fine. This was expected. The anomaly, apparently, disagreed. The changes began fourteen months ago. ...
From the lore of Station Null.