TEXT; Dated about 7 minutes after the mini-event explosion on Nov 17

[squadgoals]

Attention all:

At approximately 2200 hours Avagi Station time, you may have heard a loud noise in the Animal Nursery. I can now confirm that this was the ceiling panels collapsing due to excess weight in the Nursery's venting crawlspace. Damage is superficial only, and no primary systems were harmed. Cleanup and repair is underway now.

The good news is the collapse was caused in part by the weight of a nesting ground, and we can now confirm that the infestation plaguing the Avagi station is due to a group of mirco-sized dinosaur-like creatures, ranging from roughly the size of a cup of coffee to a large saucepan. Although there are around ten different species, they are clearly intelligent, and have worked together to keep their presence a secret. However, they are attracted easily to the materials brought back from Kaittos, so now that they are out of the vents, culling efforts should take a minimum amount of time.

Should you happen to see any of the roving micro-dinosaurs, please do not attempt to interact with them if you are not equipped to do so. They are wild animals with razor-sharp teeth and claws. Please leave a message here, and someone will come and help you take care of it ASAP.

For any follow-up questions or concerns, please feel free to post here. Thank you for your time and patience

-Shepard

[wait did she say micro-dinosaurs???]

Comments

[saveyourserpent]

Do you think they might be related to larger ones?

I might have to catch one for myself. It can make friends with my dog.

[Maybe he's joking. Maybe he misses his dino buddy already.]

[squadgoals]

No idea, but there's several similar species among them.

[And there it is. Pets. She saw this coming from miles, lightyears away.]

How about a compromise: catch one, get rid of all the rest.

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[brokeassgoing]

HE WAS RIGHT HE WAS FUCKING RIGHT!!!!!!!!! IT FOUND A WAY

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[squadgoals]

Who?

What found a way?

[saveyourserpent]

Sounds reasonable enough.

[No point in a bunch of them running around, after all.]

No need to end up with Michael Crichton in miniature.

[peridork]

HOLD ON A SECOND

DID YOU SAY MICRO DINOSAURS?

[Peridot's inner human 5 year old is getting REAL AMPED]

I WAS LEAD TO BELIEVE THAT EARTH DINOSAURS WERE ALL EXTINCT EXCEPT FOR THE AVIAN THAT DESCENDED FROM THEROPODS. THE ONES YOU HUMANS CALL "BIRDS".

[tearsinajar]

I feel like Jurassic Park is becoming a trend we really don't need at this point.

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[brokeassgoing]

THOSE FUCKERS FOUND A WAY
GOLBLOOM WAS RIGHT!!!!!

[squadgoals]

Right.

[Whoever Michael Crichton is.]

Any preference? I might be able to scoop one up for you. Name a species, and there's probably a lookalike running around.

[squadgoals]

Did someone predict this?

[BUT SHE'S BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR WEEK!!!]

[squadgoals]

About the size of a coffee cup to a large saucepan, right.

On Earth, the dinosaurs still are. But on Thisavrou, we ran into someone planning to run a kind of theme park for them, and now this. Can't help but wonder if they're related.

If it's any consolation, these guys have feathers.

[squadgoals]

Jurassic period?

[brokeassgoing]

well he figured theyd find a way to mate even tho the dinos were all girls in the park THATS NOT THE POINT THERE WAS ONE IN MY FUCKING BATHROOM

[peridork]

THAT IS NOT EXACTLY SURPRISING. THE THEORY THAT SOME DINOSAURS POSSESSED FEATHERS HAS LONG BEEN A POPULAR AND WELL SUPPORTED ONE. WELL. "LONG" BY YOUR EARTH STANDARDS, I MEAN.

IT LEADS ME TO WONDER WHAT OTHER THEORIES COULD POSSIBLY BE PROVEN USING DATA GLEANED FROM THESE SPECIMENS. OR IF THEY ARE EVEN THE SAME SPECIES AS THOSE FOUND ON EARTH. THIS COULD EVEN BE A FASCINATING CASE OF CONVERGENT EVOLUTION ON A MULTIVERSAL SCALE.

[The scientific possibilities here... the tantalizing promise of new curiosities to be explored. Peridot has a million ideas running through her head at once, but they all come back to one thing:]

COMMANDER!!!!!!! I HAVE A PROPOSAL FOR YOU!!!!!!!!

[tearsinajar]

No. Jurassic PARK.

1/2

[squadgoals]

[what's with everyone and this park thing]

2/2

[squadgoals]

[anyway ANYWAY]

In your bathroom?

What floor? I'll come out now. How big was it?

1/2

[squadgoals]

[???]

2/2

[squadgoals]

But we don't have a park.

[squadgoals]

Is it to catch you a dinosaur.

[magneticfields]

WHEN YOU SAY "MICRO-DINOSAURS" ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE HAIRY LIZARDS

BECAUSE THERE'S ONE IN THE WORKSHOP THAT I'M GOING TO KILL

[peridork]

WHAT???????? NO.

IT'S TO CATCH ME MULTIPLE DINOSAURS. POSSESSING ONLY ONE WOULD BE INCREDIBLY INSUFFICIENT FOR MY NEEDS.

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[redshitlord]

[There's no real message. Just this playing.]

[squadgoals]

Right.

[NATURALLY]

Do they have to be alive?

[tearsinajar]

[ Sighs. ]

It was a movie. Back on Earth. It was about some doctor who wanted to bring the dinosaurs back through replicating DNA and all that fun stuff and keep them holed up in a large park like animals in a zoo and families were invited to ride through it and enjoy the wonders of the Jurassic period or era when dinosaurs really did exist

Things didn't go so well with the velociraptors and the t-rex though.