!!SCIENCE!!

[Vanagandr]

On the subject of playing X-Com with alium corpses: cats and lizards are completely identical to humans in terms of internal organs. Don't know about Skrell, but probably them too.

Alium-aliums and Diona are the only ones that have actual differences, and it's kind of tricky to get either in a dissectable state. The former because ogod and the latter because *bwoink* Why Are You Vivisecting That Dude.

I mean, I'm all for vivisecting an Alien Hunter or three, but first you have to capture one and if memory serves they're immune to stuns or something like that, or the ones you can get without admin help are mobs and can't be surgery'd, or something.

[TishinaStalker]

If I remember Xenomorph lore, then their internal organs under rapid liquidation (or whatever the term was) once they die because their blood starts to react even more violently; leaving nothing but their shell. because. you know. Xenomorphs are actually biological weapons.

Edit: I'm referring to actual Alien lore. I don't think we have any lore on xenomorphs really aside from the fact that nobody knows what they are.

[Vanagandr]

If I remember Xenomorph lore, then their internal organs under rapid liquidation (or whatever the term was) once they die because their blood starts to react even more violently; leaving nothing but their shell. because. you know. Xenomorphs are actually biological weapons.

Hence the vivisecting.

[TishinaStalker]

Youuuuu would have to be really careful, and require glass tools then, lol. One wrong slip, and everything's gone; possibly your hands too.

[Vanagandr]

Youuuuu would have to be really careful, and require glass tools then, lol. One wrong slip, and everything's gone; possibly your hands too.

It wouldn't be Aliens unless the aliums escaped from a lab and the spess muhreens had someone insisting that the specimens Must Be Retrieved Alive.

[Crescentise]

X-Post from the Dionaea thread. Xenobio antag kidnaps Diona to study. Actually makes breakthrough while being hunted by sec. Ethical debate on whether or not to use findings. Fun!