horror_npc (horror_npc) wrote in horror_story, @ 2013-10-24 21:19:00 |
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Entry tags: | cycle003, jenny, npc, rob, serena |
Incubation
Who: Sentinels, surgeons, and open to Jenny and Serena for reaction
When: After people were gassed.
Where: Incubation chamber.
What: While you were all gassed...
Warnings: None. Some explanation for certain disappearances and alien pov for ya.
Once the human enclosure was entirely gassed after the failure at integration, all of the humans were put under examination. Chemically enhanced nutrients were introduced into the systems of the ones that had not yet eaten in captivity. Sometimes things had to be force-fed to eat, and it was easier to do so while they were unconscious.
Anaphylaxis was entirely unexpected. A human had not previously been encountered who had such a violent reaction to tree nuts. It was the loss of another fertile male, but given that two females had been unfortunately dispatched during integration, it was deemed acceptable. Because the anaphylactic shock killed the human outright, the remains were useless for distilling and were sent to be processed, instead.
Two more were removed from the population due to infertility, and two others were removed after testing for fertilization. One of the females was in a delicate state, as the implantation had happened so recently that it was still very likely that the pregnancy wouldn’t take. Considering the unpredictable nature of the captives, it was taken into incubation prematurely, to improve the potential of successful fertilization. The male had done its job successfully, so it was repaired and replaced back in its cell. Certain minds were of the opinion that the humans needed to be artificially inseminated, but thus far that had proven to not be the case, largely due to that particular male's efforts. An alpha male, so very valuable.
If the early incubation of the dark-headed female didn’t successfully take, fertilization could be attempted again at a later time, via artificial insemination. After all, there were now an excess of fertile male donors to harvest genetic material from. The female itself might be disruptive, so it seemed prudent to keep it out of the general populace. She did leak an awful lot. Thus far, alteration was not recommended, and she was installed in the chamber completely intact, though temporarily immobilized.
The fair-headed female sent to the incubation chamber was undeniably pregnant, which caused a great deal of excitement with the examiners. Its mate must have been among the fertile males that had been collected, and hopefully wasn’t the one that had been destroyed by the security protocols… though that did make the most sense. Males who knew that their mates were pregnant often tried to get into the incubation chamber when there were holes in the system. Pity, if that were the case. Hopefully, she would take to one of the remaining males once reintroduced into the population, after extraction of its young in six to seven months.
Because reintroduction was the ideal, alteration was kept to a minimal. A three-by-three inch window of abdominal wall and skin was carefully removed and replaced with a transparent window made of the same material as the walls. It was thin, pliant, and would grow along with the abdomen to accommodate the fetus. The chamber itself was kept warm enough that heat was not lost through the window, so the body temperatures of mothers and infants weren’t compromised. Nutrients and hydration were both provided steadily to the system through thin, carefully placed tubes which were grafted directly into the digestive system, easily removed and replaced, though a build-up of internal scar tissue could result in later problems. Most females didn’t survive past five or six incubation periods, however, and human females were more fragile than some.
Stasis involved suspended animation, temporarily rendering the muscles incapable of voluntary movement by severing various tendons and keeping the form in a prone position. All of which was a simple matter to undo, and made it so that it was not necessary to keep the females unconscious. Merely immobile, so that fetal development could progress unhindered. Dispensation of lacrimal fluid was unavoidable, really, in most mammals, so hydration was truly key. All seepage from the animals themselves simply went towards feeding the structure. Waste not, want not.
Installation of the two females into the incubation chamber took a matter of mere hours, and if they roused enough during the process to witness their captors, it didn’t cause much of a reaction from the actual creatures. By that point, immobility was quite assured.