Subject E-25:

Progress has slowed significantly, it’s felt like we’re on the cusp of a breakthrough for months but we can’t seem to get this damned parasite to mesh with larger specimens and we’re beginning to run out of options. The parasite adapts too slowly to be able to overcome these creatures' unique blood structure, the only thing I can think of right now would be a complete blood transfusion from a group of the smaller category of creature but that doesn't even guarantee compatibility of the blood itself. Even if the larger creature survives the process it would likely become too weak to even be useful to us. If we can’t think of something soon we’ll have to resort to this method as a last ditch effort but to give us some time I've placed live test subject experiments on hold in order to run more tests on the parasites themselves, perhaps there are some things we missed in our initial analysis of its biology.

Due to slow progress and low moral I ordered a mandatory vacation for the entire team two weeks ago and we just got back to work a few days ago, so while progress has continued to be slow it’s showed signs of picking up again with the team in higher spirits, it seems like just a matter of time before we’re making breakthroughs left and right. With all this in mind I’ve also split the team into two groups, an analysis team and an implementation team. The analysis team will be responsible for studying the parasite closely to perhaps pick up on any traits we missed in our prior examination of our goopy adversary. Meanwhile the implementation team will test out methods of forcing the parasite to adapt to certain conditions and perhaps even make it a symbiote if the proper conditions are met. If the analysis team comes up with any useful information the implementation team will act on it accordingly to develop new methods of adaptation, infection, and prevention. In light of needing to halt live subject testing, our need for acquiring new subjects will be drastically reduced for the time being so our capture team will be switched to maintaining the current subjects for the most part while keeping track of potential subjects for future tests and/or if the current subjects need to be replaced for one reason or another. We’ve had a rough time these past few months but we’re determined to see this through to the end, regardless of what we may find.

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