Agricultural Inspection

ANALYZING…   

FILE TYPE: Emergency Inspection Log 

PERIOD: Colony Era 

SPEAKERS: Song, C. [ID: CSNG] 

TOPIC: Novel Contagion 

SUMMARY: A recording of Dr. Clarissa Song, New Cascadia’s principal agronomist, performing emergency inspection at Algae Ponds. This log represents an early recorded incident of a novel contagion affecting the colony’s food supply. 

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[CSNG]: This is Dr. Clarissa Song, beginning emergency inspection log. OK, let’s crack open that water filter. 

[scraping] 

[CSNG]: Yeah, sure enough, filament worms are back. Ugh. They build nests faster than the BoBs can scrape them off. Adaptable little buggers. Pesticides, targeted genome disruption, nanotech—nothing sticks. 

[CSNG]: Their nesting medium smells like… tamarind? Might be edible when dry. I’ll bring some back to Darius for analysis. 

[sample collection] 

[CSNG]: No sign of the fungal growths from algae pond 3, so the novel contagion hasn’t spread here…Yet.  

[CSNG]: Cleaning the filters requires a temporary shutdown, and pond 3 is already offline. That brings us down to… 30% below our food quota. Damn it. 

[CSNG]: I’ll put in a request to Reed, ask him to open up the emergency stockpiles. We’re not all hardened soldiers, and we… we can’t keep asking our neighbors to tighten their belts. 

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TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]


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