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subnautica2016-12-28 11:04 pm
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\\ 25th December // valeneezer scrooge
My birthday present to myself is ignoring the celebrations and compiling this research data for your general consumption.
[ She sounds amused rather than put out. There's also the glug of liquid, and then something pouring into a glass before she speaks again. ]
As always, the actual experimentation and write ups can be found on URSULA's database. Review them at your own leisure. This is simply to remind you that while parties and ferris wheels are all well and good, there are some serious issues in this planet that we need to be aware of.
It won't take long. Just read it.
> As suspected, the Sea Dragon is infected with a strain of the Carar disease.
> Its particular symptoms are due to interaction with the 42nd enzyme. The disease targets it and the enzyme traps and neutralizes it. Rather than curing the illness, it leaves the Dragon in a perpetual state of sickness. It can't neutralize all of the disease, but it works enough to stop it from killing the infected host.
> In summary, our good friend the Sea Dragon is sick with a fatal disease that its body will not let kill it.
If we are searching for a cure, my hypothesis is that if we can strengthen the enzyme, we could find a cure. However the enzyme is very weak, and any attempts at modification could result in the Sea Dragon leaving its delicate balance of infection and neutralization and becoming dangerously ill.
Before anyone asks, I've done some research, and yes, the enzyme is found in other fish native to the planet. These quantities are extremely small and not enough to stop the disease on their own. Furthermore, study has shown that after the initial production that these fish do not produce more.
> Mimi died from a lack of air. Her lungs were collapsed and there was bruising on her chest. Her lungs were also damaged from the bad habit we like to call 'smoking'. Not even once, children.
> Of more interest, Mimi had been infected with the Shroom Sickness. Her symptoms were considerably more advanced than ours had been. They did not have the resources that we did. On that note, everyone really out to come by for more booster shots soon. I don't bite; it's more of a nip, really.
> A quick scan shows that the disease did damage to Mimi's actual DNA. It's difficult to tell how much as we don't have a sample from before Mimi was infected, but there are some very definite abnormalities in the dead tissue samples.
There wasn't much here that we hadn't figured out before, but it's good to have a proper understanding of her situation.
I've also archived the samples of the sickness that we found in the Degasi. It seemed like it may have been grown there for research purposes, but otherwise there isn't any more to say.
Have a very happy birthday. I mean, a Merry Christmas.
[ There's the sound of her blowing on a party horn, and then she ends the communication.]
[ She sounds amused rather than put out. There's also the glug of liquid, and then something pouring into a glass before she speaks again. ]
As always, the actual experimentation and write ups can be found on URSULA's database. Review them at your own leisure. This is simply to remind you that while parties and ferris wheels are all well and good, there are some serious issues in this planet that we need to be aware of.
It won't take long. Just read it.
> As suspected, the Sea Dragon is infected with a strain of the Carar disease.
> Its particular symptoms are due to interaction with the 42nd enzyme. The disease targets it and the enzyme traps and neutralizes it. Rather than curing the illness, it leaves the Dragon in a perpetual state of sickness. It can't neutralize all of the disease, but it works enough to stop it from killing the infected host.
> In summary, our good friend the Sea Dragon is sick with a fatal disease that its body will not let kill it.
If we are searching for a cure, my hypothesis is that if we can strengthen the enzyme, we could find a cure. However the enzyme is very weak, and any attempts at modification could result in the Sea Dragon leaving its delicate balance of infection and neutralization and becoming dangerously ill.
Before anyone asks, I've done some research, and yes, the enzyme is found in other fish native to the planet. These quantities are extremely small and not enough to stop the disease on their own. Furthermore, study has shown that after the initial production that these fish do not produce more.
> Mimi died from a lack of air. Her lungs were collapsed and there was bruising on her chest. Her lungs were also damaged from the bad habit we like to call 'smoking'. Not even once, children.
> Of more interest, Mimi had been infected with the Shroom Sickness. Her symptoms were considerably more advanced than ours had been. They did not have the resources that we did. On that note, everyone really out to come by for more booster shots soon. I don't bite; it's more of a nip, really.
> A quick scan shows that the disease did damage to Mimi's actual DNA. It's difficult to tell how much as we don't have a sample from before Mimi was infected, but there are some very definite abnormalities in the dead tissue samples.
There wasn't much here that we hadn't figured out before, but it's good to have a proper understanding of her situation.
I've also archived the samples of the sickness that we found in the Degasi. It seemed like it may have been grown there for research purposes, but otherwise there isn't any more to say.
Have a very happy birthday. I mean, a Merry Christmas.
[ There's the sound of her blowing on a party horn, and then she ends the communication.]