[Science] Bioengineered Fungus Discovered Growing in Noveria Wildernes

Bioengineered Fungus Discovered Growing in Noveria Wilderness

Palindrus Mok, Noveria Inquisitor

Port Hanshan, Noveria – Pickal Topographics reports that AT-CCAEF-0143, a genetically altered fungus colloquially called “AzuMold,” has established a colony 43 kilometers north of Port Hanshan. AzuMold was developed by the AzuTech Corporation as a levo-amino food source that could grow in the harsh climate of Noveria. The fungus was initially used to supplement the planet’s food supplies during the Year of Isolation, but was found to be lethal to non-krogan and asari upon consumption. Its use has since been discontinued.

“Our satellites noticed a large blue patch of ground we hadn’t seen before,” said Vor Malu, a geological administrator at Pickal. “We sent a team in to investigate, and found the ‘Mold. Our biologists aren’t sure how it got out there yet, but based on its current size and growth rate, it’s at least two months old.” Large portions of the fungal patch are currently covered with snow, but Pickal scientists estimate a coverage of 750 hectares. In an official statement, the NDC reassured Noverian investors that the fungus is completely harmless if left uneaten, and should pose no threat to Port Hanshan corporations or their employees. AzuTech declined to comment upon this story.

SON OF A BITCH

kill it with fire!

Oh, calm down.

It's blue, not yellow.

Almost three square miles in two months. on Noveria.

Please tell me this stuff doesn't grow faster out of the cold.

Fucking hell.

Has Noveria even heard of safety testing?

That's what it WANTS you to think.

I'm with the guy that said kill it with fire. Time to glass the planet. Losing some corporate suits would be a small price to pay. We didn't beat the Reapers just to be done in by fungus.

I love how there seems to be an entire kingdom of life that's determined to yell "FUCK YOU" to everything else.

New theory: Reapers were fungi.

Well if it is faking, we can always kill it again.


Last I checked Asari were also non-krogan, along with everybody else that isn't krogan. Unless they meant to say that only krogan and asari can eat the stuff.

It's just a fungus you stupid fuck. Not a godsquid. Fucking void, man.

Bunch of pussies ITT

Even if it's not the evil mind-controlling type of fungus, if it can grow the fast in a place like Noveria just think of what it might do on an agriworld.

So it's fungus. So what? Throw some weedkiller or some... fungus-eating wasps at it or something. Clear it up in a week.

Naw, dude. We gotta glass the entire fucking planet.

Because you know: blue fungus. oooh scary.

Man, reading up on some of the stuff that happened on Noveria during the prior year. Never thought I would see fungus as a tool of assassination.

they just being paranoid.

evil fungus that turn into space dragon was yellow.

Well, at least it's supposed to be harmless if uneaten. It's interesting when I think back to the various levels of protocol which Noveria claims to have in order to prevent such events from happening. At least, that's how it was made out to be.

I guess someone forgot to file their reports one night.

Well, maybe it has some kind of fucked up blue cousin or some shit. I just say nuke that sector of the planet and then go in and torch it with a special-ops team armed with heavy plasma-flamethrowers or something.

Fuck mushrooms.

It's AzuMold. You'd need high grade acid or teams with flamethrowers to eradicate this patch and even then, you're unlikely to get it all.

This is something of a situation.

Why is it that every single bizarre biological hazard to sapient life is a fungus these days?

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER