Test Subject 51:

Even More remarkable news today, during one of our previous gene splicing experiments Dr. Charlis Hanbak noticed a surprising similarity in the behaviors of the parasite and Urci embryos. When studied further, although it took a few tries to get a stable specimen to study, we revealed that the parasite is indeed a heavily modified form of an Urci embryo, this would explain why the parasites showed some symbiotic behavior rather than killing the host subject outright. Humans and the Urci race had been at each other’s throats for centuries shortly after the war with the Ympine but while we were in the first encounters stage of our relationship a few “curious” individuals found out that the Urci are a unisex species that implants a parasitic embryo in their partners (or victims in most cases). These embryos inevitably kill their “mother” when it is time to be born and claw their way out of their incubation chamber which sparked the centuries long conflict between the Human and Urci races. Now, the unique thing about Urci spawn is that during the incubation process the embryo gains some of its hosts’ features, weather those be physical or mental, so over time the Urci have picked up traits from the Elphari, Darvic, Humans, and even many predator species from their homeworld. Somehow they even managed to pick up photosynthesis along the way, giving them their distinct green skin.

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Despite the horrors that are the Urci reproductive cycle a coalition of Human, Darvic, and Elphari scientists developed a way to inoculate our populations to the harm done by Urci embryos making it so the fear of dying to an Urci time bomb was no longer present, making it so relations between Urci and the other three races could become more diplomatic in nature. While this heavily modified version of an Urci embryo shows an impressive mastery over genetic manipulation the fact that they managed to miss our species wide resistance to this phenomena shows a distinct lack of foresight and capability to gather information. Now that we know these parasites are Urci at their core it should just be a matter of digging up old research logs and modifying the original cure to fit our current needs. Our adversaries have resorted to hastily produced bioweapons in an effort to stop our exploration of the galaxy but we won’t be deterred so easily. As long as I draw breath I will make sure the Human race stands tall in the face of all who would seek to bring about our end. I’ll also have to make sure to thank Hanbak for his contribution to this discovery.