Re: In Concordance with Science (Caitlin Hall)
The scientist frowned as the thing continued. Pain receptors or no the browns had stopped after a while, but this one seemed less inclined to. She‘d speak to it again, but that option was gone as well. The slim woman wracked her brain for another idea on how to calm or destroy the creature, but nothing came to mind. She had no poisons she could pump in, couldn‘t fabricate any with any speed, and any other method involved putting something in the bay with it that it had a chance of usurping and breaking out with.
It was wait and see if the shocks were enough to do it in after some indeterminate time, or hop into Alpha and try the usual method, despite this spore‘s greater quickness. She doubted the first method had any real chance of success, so she opted for the latter, heading for the slim fighter in the other bay and buckling in.
She took her time making sure she had the best possible chance to deal with the creature when she began, using her ship‘s scanners to see where the spore was in the bay before it opened. The thing would likely head straight for the doors as the opened, so she continued that directional line outwards, placing herself on the other end, and lined up her weaponry. It would head straight into her line of fire, and she‘d still hit it if it remained stationary. She warmed up her weaponry and gave the command to Bob to open the bay doors, firing as soon as the gap was large enough to do so, and not letting up until scanners registered the yellow spore as dead. There would be irreperable damage to it, and that was a shame, but that was the cost she paid for being unprepared in the first place.