Symbiote Creation Project, Day 13:

We’ve made solid strides towards achieving our ultimate goal of creating a symbiotic relationship between the parasites and mankind. So far we’ve managed to create a version of the parasite that could now be classified as a symbiote. As of now this symbiote only functions within the body of the reptilian creatures found on outpost E-4R7H. Our next step is to move on to rodent trials using already infected rodents to see if we can incorporate this symbiote into a parasitic host in order to modify said parasite into a symbiote.

So far the reptilian creatures have shown very promising results, they’ve displayed a significant improvement in various physical tests. Most notably is the fact that any physical damage sustained appears to be healed much faster than normal, albeit slightly slower than the parasite would heal, and said damage seems to be less painful for the test subject when inflicted. We’ve also noticed a roughly 30% increase in stamina when chasing prey, this could be attributed to either the physical augmentation provided by the parasite or perhaps mental augmentation providing an increase in will power, further study is required to know for sure. Something slightly concerning is that creatures with a symbiote appear to be much more docile, or perhaps friendly would be the right term, when they aren’t hunting, however during the hunt they are much more aggressive than normal, suggesting that the symbiote alters the mental state of the creature it inhabits, definitely something we need to look into more.

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I suspect that the unstable mood of our reptilian subjects could be attributed to their bodies attempting to reject the symbiote but I can’t know for sure until we conduct some more tests, for which we require the equipment necessary to conduct some brain scans on these creatures. We have the equipment to do this on humans and rodents but with these larger creatures we will likely have to modify some of our existing equipment. I’ve already notified High Command about our situation but they’ve said it would take months before we get any kind of equipment capable of what we need it for. If scans show a high amount of mental tampering by the symbiote we’ll most likely need to modify it some more before we can even begin to think about implementing it in human trails, we’ve all been itching to save the infected crew members of the IES Ice Breaker but we need to take every precaution we can, especially now that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps I’ll think up some incentives to keep everyone on the team as cautious as possible until this is done.