SENJO<br/><br/>Two sectors on the room, one in particular monitoring the new arrival, the remainder crunching data.<br/><br/>I continued crunching.<br/><br/>I concentrated on the colonists' embedded digital ID tags. These microprocessors served many functions, their final function was to record the time of death and to remain running on minimal battery life for many weeks after death. The system pinpointed their locations but more than that the database of family names and the times of death and transponders that performed similar functions within the cabs of each family crawler allowed me to begin assembling a graphic of the location of each colonist and more importantly how individual family units had been attacked and dispersed and then... gathered together again.<br/><br/>The locations of some ID tags near the crawlers with times and dates of death of occupants with the distances back to a certain location with the different dates of death there eventually caused me to halt my work and run, quite spontaneously an CSPC; a circular spike path conclusion. A human might equate this to a hunch or a best guess, or a gut feeling but with my brain functions it was more akin to hurling out a wide net covering numerous possibilities and arguments and then analysing the logical mathematical probability of each supposition. I worked the program in a circular sweep, running by every option in the first sweep then discarding each logic point that failed to match the second sweep of known facts and then narrowing further on a third pass to eliminate the remaining logic points that again failed to mesh beyond a chosen probability threshold.<br/><br/>The human brain does not calculate in this manner, nor does that of an electronic computer, mine does and it can run such sweeps rapidly using discontinuous gap information where a patchy picture of events is known.<br/><br/>After a few seconds I had a good grasp of the most likely sequence of events. That sequence created, by the very order of its existence and incorporating pieces of information from sources as widely separated as Security Technician Jane and the suppositions of Corporal Reaper, a possible - even probable life cycle and behavioural pattern of the xenomorphs. Jane's analogy that they were like bees was accurate, with one important exception. These creatures performed one function that bees did not. What they did was more akin to African Smoke Wasps, in that they brought their victims, most probably paralysed or sedated back to a hive where it was most likely they were impregnated with larvae which consumed the food in the living host bodies and burst out of them resulting in the internal ruptured rib cages Carthag Vankatov had noted.<br/><br/><strong>"Leftenant. I have a hypothesis of how these creatures behave and why they took the first twenty-eight victims on day F227. My theory covers the broken bones of the dead Constables noted at the Company Facility and the strange spider-like creature that Doctor Groves attempted to remove from Dan Whittaker's face. Also... I believe my theory covers the missing pet dogs."</strong>