Genocide - 04 by David Bischoff

Author:David Bischoff [BISCHOFF, DAVID]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

And if it could do what Doc Z. claimed—well, all the better!

ALIENS: GENOCIDE 137

"Efforts to produce an armor resistant to the intense acidity of the alien blood have proved imprac-tical."

EUis waved his hand, got called upon. "Yeah. I always wondered about that, Ws've got the chemical composition of the alien's exoskeleton down cold.

That isn't eaten up by alien blood, clearly And it's light enough. How come its elements aren't used for armor?"

"Well, that would be all very good. Private, if you'd care to be encased in a toxic suit."

"You can't make an alloy ... or have that stuff as the uppermost layer?" insisted Ellis.

"Incompatible. What we have here in the aliens is a different kind of chemistry Part carbon-based, part silicon-based—and maybe something eke."

"But we're starting to learn to use their DNA."

"Fooling around with genes and chromosomes doesn't necessarily mean we've got everything solved, Private. These things are still mysteries wrapped in enigmas. Believe me, your suggestions have been tried." He shook his head patronizingly "Just doesn't work."

"So there was some land of armor that wasn*t affected by the alien blood?" said Mahone.

"That's right. But it was too heavy Now if we were working in low-gee environments, maybe. Such is not the case on the Hiveworld. These suits were already in the works when this mission was established. We tailored the batch we brought along just for this occasion—with all your specific measurements in mind."

"No chance to return these, huh?" said Jastrow.

"That won't be necessary, I assure you. What 138 OAVID BISCHOFf

we've got here is a new process, but we've been testing it for years, and we've got it down exactly"

He went over to the suit and poked the side of the arm.

The surface gave.

"What we have here is a light, effective armor, covered with a permeable membrane controlled by a mechanism in the back of the suit. It's kind of like having the whole suit engulfed by a friendly jellyfish that will grow back immediately if hit. Its function is quite useful.

"Before, the suits that worked were too heavy.

Therefore what we have here is a self-contained os-motic demi-atmospheric suit that does not resist, but extirpates.M

He poked the suit again.

"The moment alien blood touches this wardrobe, the threat is eliminated altogether;"

He took a vial marked ACID from his pants pocket, twirled it open, and poured drops onto the shoulder of the suit.

The top layer frizzled, bubbling.

Kozlowsld had to make herself watch.

The bubbling was only for a moment, though.

Fluid welled, swallowing the add.

The membrane closed up the hole within moments, and it was as though the acid had never been.

"Yeah, but how tough is that stuff?"

"It's a form of plastic, and it can be cut.. . but it's even better than skin ... it naturally re-forms into its previous mode within seconds, and chemically nebonds itself A healing process, if you will."

"What about inside. I mean, we haven't exactly ALIENS: GENOCIDE 13S

been trained in those sort of suits," said another man.

That's one of the beauties of the things. In all details,

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