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Malicious-Monkey — Humans of Ilion
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Published: 2016-08-08 02:45:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 2487; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 0
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color sketches"I'm an engineer. Animals aren't really my thing, least of all dead ones."
"The scientific value of a tagged animal can't be denied, but something tells me this baby starrus was abandoned for a reason."
"I wonder what they think I am. I wonder if they know."
"I built my life around this idea, that I would fly into space and travel six lightyears so I could shovel snow at the extraterrestrial trailer park."
"Got some holes in this one. Perfect specimen otherwise. Hope Alex doesn't mind."
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Are they equipped with spacesuits or simple hazmat?
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Simple hazmat. First wave wore simple oxygen tank (refillable at base), second wave wore oxygen tank with rebreather, subsequent waves wore filters.
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Is Illion's atmosphere have a lack of oxygen or doesn't support breathing at all?
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It's not actually that inhospitible. Just high CO2 levels and some poisonous gases (mostly nitrogenous compounds). They could have built filters as soon as they knew the composition but went for a self contained air supply as a biosafety precaution. After several exposure incidents that amounted to nothing they decided it was safe enough to filter the air.
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Not trying to be some kind of buzzkill or anything, but couldn't spectrometers on Earth tell the mission planners the composition of the air?
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They were more concerned about biological agents than chemical ones.
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