<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/aXuNCVP.jpg)</div><br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">NAME:</span></strong>Samantha Adams (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=329085.msg15726713#msg15726713)<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">RACE:</span></strong>Human<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">OCCUPATION:</span></strong>Doctor<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">WEARING:</span></strong>Typical doctor shiek. (https://imgur.com/SZyvDUP)<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">LOCATION:</span></strong>Council chambers<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">CONTENT:</span></strong>SCIENCE!<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">TAG:</span></strong>All<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"> ___________________________________________________________</div><div align="center"> ___________________________________________________________</div><br/><br/><br/>This time, Samantha didn’t wait for instruction. She answered the Asari first with a nod of her head, then climbed to her feet and returned to the display. “The human skin -which we call the epidermis- is designed to keep out foreign matter. It's more resilient than one might expect, even if it’s fragile in other ways. Compare us to a turian. For example; their metallic carapace has evolved over time to contain trace amounts of<em>thulium</em>in order to defend against solar radiation. While our skin doesn’t protect against radiation, something like direct contact against a fungus would only cause inflammation and irritate the skin.”<br/><br/>The victims were back on screen, but in a better state than in the last photo. This was clearly taken in the first stages of the infection. “Note the discoloration around the mouth, this is where the first signs of distress appear. Then follow the branching network of the circulatory system; this is where the fungus has taken root and thrives. Just before the boils surface you can see the mottling across the skin. No puncture wounds were ever found, so this has led us to believe that the fungus was somehow consumed.”<br/><br/>With her palm open and fingers splayed, Samantha quickly flicked through the images until she found something less gruesome. It was a simple anatomy chart, breaking down a human to all of their inner workings. Bone structure, internal organs, circulatory and nervous systems, and the various glands that supported these networks.<br/><br/>“Once consumed, the body can begin to fight off this foreign matter like a virus, but not at the rate that this fungus is able to take root. Each victim started off with complaints of a sore throat and inflammation of their lymph nodes. The body<em>was</em>treating it as a virus.” Back to the photos with the discoloration around the mouths. She looked at the others patiently, wondering if they made the same connection now.<br/><br/>“These people arrived on a turian ship. Humans have Levo-protein DNA markers. We cannot eat the same foods. There were Asari on the ship as well, and they were the ones who experienced mild headaches with no other symptoms. Blood tests showed trace amounts of this foreign matter, but it appears that the Asari’s natural talents with biotics burn it out long before it can get take root. I think it’s a little too sloppy and convenient for this to be sabotage from any of the council races, and upon examining one of the samples, we’ve found alterations to the cell structure of the fungus. It was genetically tampered with, but poorly.”<br/>