>>5677505the AWOL team is...gone. your search party follows up on the angry bug message, finding the first ice-elevator you were sent to hacked into with a distinctly human green and red push button, wired directly into the bugs electrical, crippling its normal remote control utility. no wonder they were so angry, but they presumably have more. hard to locate them though
below in the shaft, you find water, already trying and failing to freeze up again into a sheet of hard ice, held at bay merely by safety mechanisms inside the walls.
they went below.
you will have to hunt for them, unless you can ask them nicely and have them show up themselves. that is unlikely, they are caught in the science wanderlust
the egg eating aliens, though, those ones are concerning. the specimen you collect is squished a little, dead, and...not a true earth insect as we understand it...or rather as we currently did here. the eggeater bug you just collected, instead, is identified by scientists both here and on the ship as a parasite insect (or something like it).
and it's not the only one, too. apparently the food bugs the crew sent up to xenobiology (who is furious at them for eating some without permission), are also parasite species, if hyper-developed. in fact you get messaged by xenobiology directly recommending that the crew stop eating local species willy-nilly, please and thank you
the bogey in the storm keeps circling, and now has gotten close enough to be visible by the entrance and visible on camera feeds. it looks like its waiting
