Jake is panicking never in his life has he been fac with something more terrifying than this never has his heart beat so fast so hard so fiercely as it does In This Moment he'd always thought of himself as a calm man he thought that whatever this assignment brought he could handle it he was a fool he did not know just how bad things could get it is impossible to describe just how utterly hopeless he felt at this moment there was absolutely no edible meat on this ship of course he knew going into this exchange assignment
that the food would be far from five-star Fair hell he even expected that it would be the same freeze-dried soy based garbage The unn's Vessel pass off his food and practically jams down the throats of its crewmen but this is far far worse this is Beyond imagining there is only one way to express just how utterly terrifying this is and that is to list the menu options at the cafeteria herbivore and carnivore that's it those are the options no big deal you might think just pick carnivore even if it's uncooked you can just nope no
open Flames allowed nor heating appliances of any kind heat management is one of the single most important things on any and all spaceborn vessels it has to be managed extremely carefully and as a result cooking anything on a spaceship is entirely out of the question but even if it were that's not what carnivore means to these aliens apparently Jake wants to kill whatever idiot liased for this exchange he wondered if they even bothered asking about food no he shuttered to himself stupider than that I bet they asked about food and surely the galactic unions liaison
said something vague like we support both herbivorous and carnivorous diets and the United Nations Navy liaison just took that at face value and asked no further Jake ruminated about whether or not to use a spork or an actual weapon but that won't help him now his only options for food are grass leaves insects and raw something he honestly wasn't sure what kind of meat that was but it was certainly raw and uncooked and there was no way in hell his stomach was going to accept it he tried asking but the only answer he got was
something called a thrum and honestly he didn't even want to imagine what that was his intrusive thoughts immediately conjured the image of a human thumb with eyes the size of a cow or maybe a pig and that alone almost cost him what was likely the last breakfast he'd ever enjoy Jesus he never thought he'd legitimately look back on freeze drri jerky and miss it he's going to die on this ship as soon as the emergency rations he brought run out they were supposed to be for emergencies of course but as far as Jake was concerned
this very much counted their first stop is a relatively new Colony world at the edge of the galactic Union space relatively nearby to Earth after that it's the great unknown he'll have to take every opportunity he can to repair as many rations as possible he quietly thanks his grandfather for teaching him how to cut and clean game for smoking when he was 15 he is startled out of his silent prayer is something the matter human Jake by one of his now crew mates he doesn't know their names just yet but it was a relatively shortl
looking one they heavily resembled an owl but underneath the wings they had a second set of Limbs that more closely resembled human arms except thin and rigid looking like chicken legs and with Talons that look straight out of Jurassic Park the only thing that looked like clothes on them was a hooded cloak blue colored with a galactic Union symbol on it but no clear marker of rank some kind of casual wear he imagined in any case Jake thought that perhaps there might be some way to convince these people to let him cook something some kind
of special alien Tech that stores or sinks heat or anything really he was desper uh Yes actually he began which suddenly hushed the entire room every head and set of eyes turning to face him holy hell were they all listening some things are Universal I guess he thought to himself new eyy always has the attention the ooking alien turned their eyes focused very sternly on Jakes he got a bad feeling was this some kind of officer and he'd failed to notice a more marker was he supposed to be saluting right now did he break a
taboo what is it they asked breaking him out of his brief sequence of panicked musings he wanted badly to try and find some polite way to avoid answering but he knew better than to play games with a sergeant and he just had this very distinct feeling that this is the kind of individual he was speaking to at this moment something about the way they looked at him and spoke just oozed Authority he answered well um it's just that the uh menu is sparse uh sir they CED like an owl like just straight up owl noise
Jake supposed it made sense they did look very much like an owl but at the same time it was almost uncanny really he did his best to hide his surprise and prayed that they hadn't done anything like preliminary research on human body your facial expression please they chided here my rank does not currently matter as long as I am not in uniform or on the bridge you need not refer to me as such just call me by my name saitta they're the captain aren't they eating the same cafeteria well he supposed it isn't technically sop
it's just all raw uncooked plant and animal matter and none of it the kind a human could eat raw or uncooked without serious issues on the one hand it's admirable and respectable for the captain to rub elbows with the Line crew on the other hand he just complained about the ship's menu to the captain directly he braced himself for whatever chewing out was coming his way may I ask you to Define sparse it is my understanding that humans are considered omnivorous she requested and clarified at at least he thought it's a she the voice is
high-pitched and very sing songy but he can only really guess he regrets sleeping during the crash course on Union species well dog damn it there it is that's what happened some wacko decided that the aliens would understand what omnivorous meant in the context of human diet and failed to elaborate just how Omni we Voris which is to say not at all actually hell the crew probably thinks he could could eat rocks honestly if he could he'd prefer that over what looks and smells like a cockroach made of sulfur now he has to sit here and
explain that and it's going to make him look like some kind of special snowflake to the entire crew and that's going to single him out for special consideration from the others he went through that once at basic already he was not going to go through it again uh yes Sita CA sorry technically yes humans are both carnivorous and herbivorous to a degree I just meant to say that I am more accustomed to a different kind of fair and was having a hard time deciding what to eat would uh you happen to have a recommendation he
tried desperately to save face ah I see well I suppose it would make sense that you would be unaccustomed to the standard supplies giving you are a new species to the union my people and I usually prefer the flurm mites not nearly as good as a decent egg but the smell at least is somewhat reminiscent most of the more actively carnivorous species prefer the thrum and it is more nutritionally complete so I do occasionally have to eat it myself I'm told by my herbivorous crew that the vine leaf has a sweet tone to it that
is considered delectable but that the mixed grasses are more filling she answered with a very distinct satisfaction in her voice she practiced that recommendation she actually considered the possibility of running into Jake and having to give him food advice damn it why did the captain have to be so nice and considerate if she were the same kind of jaded as his normal cosos it would be easy to be a little combative and just accept whatever punishment got thrown at him but now if he complains about the food he's going to feel bad and that's so
much worse than a few hundred push-ups or a couple kilomet of treadmill or cleaning the water re pipes whatever I uh I see I'll uh go with the uh vine leaf then beats the hell out of a roach that literally smells like rotten egg Ceda nodded and left with her plate full of that and Jake was left with one that had a bunch of leaves on it hopefully she wasn't kidding when she said sweet maybe it's a kind of lettuce it was not a kind of lettuce it tastes tasted exactly like you'd think a leaf
would taste bitter and somehow simultaneously mushy and chewy like a soggy paper towel emergency rations it is Jake spent the better part of a month like this quietly retrieving a plate of vine leaf than retreating into his room to secretly dump it in the recycler and then Chow Down on some rehydrated something or other it was all mush anyways once it got freeze dried and turned to powder fancy labels tried to convince him that that they were such wondrous things as mashed potato or fresh peas or even applesauce for his part he got very good
at lying to himself thankfully there were some actual normal Foods in the rations like peanuts and walnuts and granola bars and other long lasting grains if not for these he'd have truly gone insane though he suspects some of the crew already think he is he's been preparing for the first stop in every spare moment whenever he isn't on shift doing routine checks and maintenance he's in his room sharpening his knives creating makeshift tools out of the cafeteria sporks and tying together the metal trays from the cafeteria with tightly wound napkins and bent sporks to create
crates to store his future rations in thank God they gave him a private room instead of bunking him with someone apparently it's protocol for the first few years to give new species private rooms gives them time to adjust and ease into close social interaction for Jake it meant he had a ton of space to work with it also meant that most of what the rest of the crew knows of Jake is that he's a reclusive engineer doing something with all the cafeteria trays he's been taking and never returning in hindsight it's shocking that none of
them reported it maybe they just passed it off as a cultural difference and decided against it all Jake cares about is that today is the day they're finally here LTR Prime though until contest had been made with the Union it was known to humanity as Alpha centuri Prime we'd only just discovered that this planet was habitable when days later we detected Advanced signals coming off it with a longrange probe the boys at Nasa had sent one thing led to another and Bam first Contact it didn't take long for our Communications equipment to get upgraded to
FTL speeds once the colony scientists realized what the probe was they immediately requested the union send a diplomatic vessel to Earth entire process took about 5 years and four of that was the probe waiting for a command from Earth to send a one-way message to a suspected Alien Planet it turned out we'd been on the Union's metaphorical radar for quite some time you don't pump out as many signals as we do and not get noticed but our signals are slow as and their non-interference policy required them to pull back any and all observation vessels and
Facilities once a species became advanced enough to detect them so once we started really looking out to space it ended up being on us to technically make first Contact it's been about 2 months since then and humanity is still mostly isolated Earth is way out at the edge of Union space and while that has driven a bit of traffic our way Humanity has yet to really make a name for itself in much of anything Earth doesn't have any special resources Beyond grotesque amounts of raw usable mass in the form of our gas giant science and
asteroid belt but pretty much all of that has been preemptively cordoned off as Earth use only a way for the union to ensure that we have what we need to get on our own two feet Mars is terraformable as is Venus between those two things and our raw resources the union decided that Humanity didn't need to be given any extra star systems meaning that anything beyond Soul we had to get ourselves either by being the first to start developing or acquiring them economically from whoever else did the Union has FTL internet of sorts but new
species policy also forbids us from connecting to it for a short period ostensibly to protect us from possible malactor or hackers but if you ask Jake it's to give them time to wipe it clean of any unsavory political discussions they might not want Humanity seeing cleaning up their browser history removing potentially offensive memes that kind of stuff but what does Jake know he's just an engineer but he was able to gather basic information about LTR Prime just by asking one of the ship's data scientists they prepared a nice big pamphlet of pages upon pages of
data and information so Jake ended up spending a great deal of time sifting through that too all in preparation for his first hunt on an alien planet he liked what he saw elor has an earthlike atmospheric composition fairly typical osphere the whole nine yards microbes plants animals scavengers predators and even a bit extra on top a super predator species that dominated the planet before it was colonized from what Jay could gather they're basically like a cross between a bear a lion and a hippopotamus big psychotically aggressive and capable of eating just about anything they can
kill which happened to be just about every other species on the planet but that's just on Tor if his napkin math is correct the Lor kill Beast as the union named it is actually a fair bit weaker than any of the three animals it looks like across between but is way larger due to the planet's lower gravity puffed up like a balloon carrying more mass with less actual strength that plus the fact that it's at the top of the planet's food energy pyramid means it's probably packing a ridiculous number of calories per pound and has
a ton of pounds to give just one of those things properly prepared could give him months worth of food he also dug into the data to identify edible plants too some dried fruits and extra nuts and Grains will go a long way and most of that he can probably NAB from the colonist local farms as long as he's careful about it the only issue is time this stop isn't going to last but a handful of days Earth days which is about a week on elor that means if he wants to properly smoke and dry this
thing into nice jerky sized rations he has to find and catch one on the first day morning of the second at the absolute latest that's not a whole ton of time to hunt down a new type of animal you've never even seen before speaking of the only information he found on the kill Beast is all about how dangerous it is the areas they tend to live in hunting how fast they are how strong they are that kind of stuff thankfully it seems to just be a fairly generic Predator the kind that boils down to a
wall of meat on four legs with a bunch of organs inside it granted Jake didn't think there was much in the way of information on Earth about how to cut and clean tiger meat but at the same time it's oddly sparse for how meticulously detailed the entire rest of this report is the colonists went to incredible lengths detailing exactly how to hunt and prepare most of the smaller animals and plants and while Jake would love to just go with that the time sensitivity means he has to go big or go home home it's finally time
as the ship was pulling into orbit he readied himself in the shower he's pretty sure he scrubbed away a few layers of skin just to try and make sure his scent was well and truly gone he put together a makeshift hunting outfit with a combination of fatigues and towels he can't stop himself sweating but he can't try and lock it inside his clothes for his long as possible the data sheets also mentioned a few local plants with strong smells his first goal is going to be to find some of those to mask with and then
head deeper in he stood near the loading ramp as the ship made touchdown several others among the crew were also there all of them ready to enjoy the last shore leave any of them were getting for the next year or so Jake definitely got some looks one of them even bumped him slightly and said hey humid the atmosphere is fine you don't need a space suit he wasn't sure if they were mocking him or just joking but he didn't care he can rub shoulders with the rest of the crew when he isn't spending his days
trying to ignore how hungry he is there were some murmurs as well of course why is it carrying so much equipment where did it even get that what is it doing is that where all the trays went I think it's going to war just before the ramp began opening saitta whom Jake had Learned was in fact the captain approached him she was dressed informally this time as well so he didn't salute engineer Jake may I ask what you plan to do with half of the ship's food trays it was brought to my attention only a
few minutes ago that you've been hoing them she asked clear concern in her voice Jake replied doing his best to act as nonchalant as possible while also covering up his desperation for decent food human tradition got to hunt something something in every new environment shouldn't take long I'll be back before due date at a boy Jake if you're going to pay Humanity in any light Kick-Ass Hunter species seems as good way as any next thing you know there will be movies of humans with fancy shoulder-mounted plasma cannons and wrist blades going toe-to-toe with alien bioh
Horrors and all the hot new flicks and shows Ceda seemed to accept it if a bit worriedly just nodding and reminding him make sure to take a communicator with you and leave your health monitor on if something were to happen that would be bad Jake simply nodded and set off as soon as the ramp touched down klex was concerned to say the least he'd been watching the human the entire Journey from its home world he was the only one who noticed that it wasn't eating the vine leaf it took to its room he wondered what
it was eating at first he thought it was the trade after all they never left its chamber once it took them in but that theory was dispelled when the albon arrived at elor and it arrived at the unloading ramp covered in what looked like a military uniform stuffed with dry cloths and carrying what seemed to be small crates made of the trays it bent several of the utensils and tied them together with makeshift roped formed of the cleaning cloths to bind the corners of the trays together it was carrying the weapon it brought aboard from
its previous vessel as well as several seemingly improved tools of some kind though klex could not discern what purpose any of them served this was too much he decided and informed the captain of his findings however she seemed trepidacious about confronting it is the human so fearful that even the captain is concerned about engaging with it or perhaps there is something here CLX is unaware of he decided he had to get to the bottom of it when all the captain did was tell the human to leave its monitor on there must be something and klex
was going to figure out what it was he followed the human to the best of his abilities without notice his people evolved as herbivores on his home world and possessed a very acute sense of smell by keeping his flat nose close to the ground he could smell each of the human footsteps and accurately identify its path without ever needing to enter its line of sight though usually his nose was far better suited at finding buried funguses in Roots he'd taken pride in the training that landed him his assignment about the albon he'd spent years honing
his nose to detect far more than simple Edibles everything had a scent unique in Endless possible ways there are billions of unique organic molecules and countless billions more ways to proportion them within any given volume klex could identify anyone in the Galaxy by scent provided he got a chance to memorize it and he'd well memorize the human scent it was moving towards the colony's Hydroponics food that's right it wasn't eating the vine leaf and it obviously didn't eat the trays so perhaps it is searching for food but if the cafeteria was insufficient Why didn't it
inform the captain what could it be searching for that it warranted keeping its diet secret klex did not like where this was going but the nature of how he was following the human meant he was several minutes behind it by the time he'd arrived at Hydroponics it would be done with whatever it was planning he decided to hurry and forent sniffing out its Trail when he arrived he heard the human speaking with one of the colonists yes that's acceptable they are here to be eaten after all I would be remiss to deny them their purpose
we have a great deal of long-term storage and with your home world so nearby I imagine it won't be difficult to requisition supplies if it really comes down to it thank you so much you have no idea how much this means to me is it all right if I take some now for the road it speaks it requested food from elor what is so special about Lor's food that it warrants making special accommodation klex chanc a peak through the doorway and realized immediately this entire section of the Hydroponics is dedicated to fruiting bodies both of
high and low moisture content is this it is the information on human diet incorrect are they not just not omnivores but in fact highly specific herbivores which require only specific types of plant matter but why hide this why label themselves as omnivores if they cannot truly eat anything Perhaps it is unique to this human an allergy a mutation a disease Perhaps it is embarrassed of its dietary needs and feared it may be mocked for them does its own kind take such pride in their omnivory that lacking such capacity is a cultural taboo klex makes a
mental note of this this must be brought to the captain's attention but first the human seems to have another destination in mind there is more to this and klex will not go to the captain with an incomplete report something is following him Jake isn't sure what it is yet every time he tries to double back to catch his pursuer they vanish as if they were never there whoever or whatever they are they're good at hiding and no amount of covering his has thrown them off the only reason he even knows they're here is because he
catches rare glimpses or occasionally hears a crack of a branch or thrush of leaves that he didn't create he'd love to catch them but there is little time the fruits and nuts he requested from the colony's Hydroponics manager will last him a while but they're not nutritionally complete he'd end up hospitalized at some point and that would be a hell of a way to force the entire ship back to Union space early he's just going to have to hope that they're content with simply watching and given how good they are at evading him he can't
imagine they'd get caught by what he's hunting it didn't take long to find a trail these things are massive and highly aggressive and highly territorial once you get anywhere within several miles the signs start appearing crushed rocks broken trees or at least what seemed like trees the bark was purple instead of brown which really threw Jake off but what can you do and huge marks in the ground from its footsteps shallow surprisingly but wide and distinct definitely a bite your head off type rather than a claw your face off type just as the data suggested
which also means that the other suggestions of the data are likely correct as well it should be asleep or close to it during this point in LTR seasonal cycle most of the markings are relatively old too which supports the the even so you never know when a hibernation cycle might get interrupted or broken best to be careful and take things slow that was exactly when everything went to ah stay away stay away shouting from directly behind him Jake turned to see the spitting image of the images from the data sheets looming over what looked like
one of the other crew members is that who was following him the pig-l looking one with the massive nose that took up half its face in any case this is bad real bad turns out the kill Beast was getting to jump on Jake instead and only it spotting that other alien saved Jake from getting clever girl by a Zeno super Predator nevertheless there was no time to waste he immediately leveled his rifle and started pumping shots into the thing's flank massive nearly the size of a small elephant with four trunks for legs and purple fur
like Barney but unlike an elephant or the friendly dinosaur it had a massive head with jaws that opened like a hippos except instead of a small number of thick poles for teeth had had something like eight rows of shark teeth each the size of a small dagger all of them had independently controlled muscle groups meaning its entire mouth was basically a wood chipper he could only imagine what happened to him if any part of it got caught in that so much as a graze could probably drag the rest of him into it like a chainsaw
caught on a sleeve thankfully Evolution gave Jake a winning hand it may be huge but that's only because the low gravity lets it carry more mass with less strength which means the thing weighs surprisingly little for how big it is and that means his rifle sent it into a nearby tree not quite flying or anything but it stumbled hard like it got slammed by a log or a boulder the impact wounds were way Larger Than Jake was expecting too must have have some incredibly high blood pressure to burst like that for a brief moment he
regretted firing so many shots that's a ton of meat that got lost but at the same time he wasn't going to just sit and watch a walking wood Cher mulch a crew mate Jake quickly reloaded the small magazine he dumped and prepared for a second Salvo but the thing never stood back up the tree it crashed into crumpled like tinf foil and the dirt beneath it was staining a very very dark color from the frankly copious amount of blood Jake approached it carefully and confirmed that it wasn't breathing and didn't have a pulse guess it
bled out from the wound Jake was a bit surprised by that slightly disappointed in fact it was supposed to be a super Predator even got called a kill beast and yet here it was dying to barely five shots of 308 guess the Predators back home are just made of Sterner stuff he turned to check on the one that followed him but they vanished again idiot went and got himself caught by a local Predator only to avoid Jake like he was the one menacing him whatever as long as he doesn't interfere kx's heart is racing pounding
out of his chest so hard he thought he might die of it he was wrong wrong Beyond imagining he began to suspect when the human started wandering into kill Beast territory klex had read the reports the Lor kill Beast is one of the deadliest Predators ever discovered within its environment one of of a very small number of animals classified as a super predator for its diet of literally every other animal on the planet he considered warning Jake a few times but every time klex began to approach closer something within him warned him to stay away
he could feel something was wrong at one point Jake looked directly at him but didn't seem to notice but the look in his eyes was cold menacing terrifying it chilled klex blood blew to his very bone he'd never been looked at that way before even indirectly it was like the human wasn't searching for a pursuer but for prey when the kill Beast discovered him he thought that would be his end but then Jake turned and bore his weapon with such speed and precision that klex thought it might have been cybernetically enhanced five ringing discharges of
that primitive weapon and the kill Beast died just like that it stumbled into a tree the tree collapsed from the impact and fell over dead klex had learned that the humans primitive projectile weapons were the most powerful in terms of sheer force ever discovered for a new species but he had hardly believed it for a weapon to deliver a solid metal projectile at those speeds The Recoil would be fatal for any normal individual yet Jake bore it as though it were a light tap on his shoulder he fired it five times in Rapid succession placing
every shot in a tight cluster despite the recoil klex think the stars above that Jake seemed focused on the kill Beast who knows what he might have done had he discovered klex following him in secret he was right to stay away this human all humans are dangerous beyond measure the weapons they could wield with that strength the speed and precision with which they wield them that terrifyingly cold gaze which spoke a thousand words all of them descriptions of bloodthirst klex has only now realized what the humans mean by omnivore super predators are classified as predators
that can and do eat all other animals in their environment including and especially other Predators he watched in horror from his hiding spot several meters away as the human prayed upon the dead kill Beast he watched it lift its kill with shocking ease utilizing the makeshift tools to hoist it on to a rack it erected out of more of those tools and Fallen branches watched it gut the thing open and drain its blood and inerts onto the ground watched it carefully pick through and preserve most of those inerts it spent three entire days simply preparing
this entire kill Beast slowly draining it slowly drying it out bathing it in the disgusting smell of smoke and stuffing its own intestines with its own sloughed pulped flesh and tying them up into small packages cutting its legs and body into strips and chunks slowly packaging all of it into the crates coating it in downright lethal amounts of sodium chloride klex doesn't even know where it got that much of such a toxic substance eventually klex could bear no more he'd run out of the snacks he'd brought and could no longer find funguses and Roots nearby
to eat he'd seen enough he began turning back to deliver his report to the captain about this most dangerous addition to the crew when it called out to him going somewhere kx's blood ran cold he froze in place promoting instincts took over and all of his muscles locked like a wild animal caught in the search lights of an automotive vehicle he simply could no longer move forced to wait in abject horror and his death approached him slowly one step at a time crunch crunch crunch each footfall crushing bark twig leaf and soil beneath it each
is as loud in the night of this Forest as one of its weapons discharges each accompanied by the sound of kx's own heart growing louder and louder in his ears pounding into a headache born of pure fear though he could not see it klex felt its hand approach him he silently prayed to the stars that his ancestors might forgive his foolishness that his family be treated well in his absence its hand now grips his shoulder he prepares himself for the end hey buddy you hear me you look like you just saw a ghost come come
on it's cold out warm up by the fire you're freezing it spoke its words Sweet like fungal sap but klex knew better it just wanted an excuse to get klex over its accursed flame to roast him like it roasted the kill Beast he resigned himself to his fate his muscles unlocked and allowed the human to guide him to his inevitable demise yet it never came the human sat him down near the fire but not so near as to be dangerous then it just returned to its work while chewing on a strip of the kill BEAST's
flesh it had practically incinerated over the flame kx's eyes could not depart from it as its teeth mercilessly crushed the kill BEAST's flesh like hammers upon forg metal it noticed his gaze oh uh sorry you want some it's surprisingly good didn't think something so huge could be so tender unimaginably juicy too though that's making it a bit hard to turn it to jerky going to need some help to get this done before the ship leaves it spoke offering klex a portion of its kill klex was well shocked and could only meekly answer no kx's people
are herbivore we eat fungus roots and grass not not he could not even choke out the word but it spoke it for him meat yeah okay that makes sense I have some nuts I got from the Hydroponics those work klex nodded quietly and weakly accepted the small low moisture Fring bodies it called nuts after several Quiet Moments the human turned to klex and said like I said I'm going to need some help thing is not drying out as fast as I'd like and it's huge and starting to go bad I don't need much just someone
to package things up as I cut off strips think you could do that for me klex felt he had little choice but to accept his fate if he refused the human might see fit to use klex to make up the difference he wasn't sure what to do but the human instructed him by the next morning the human declared that he had all he needed and klex silently followed him out of the forest and back to the ship carrying half of the now full crates on his own back he tried not to think about what was
in them it was finally time to go back to the ship Jake wasn't sure about klex at first but at least he helped out without the extra set of hands there's no way Jake would have been able to fill up that last crate between the kindly colonists and the several crates of killed Beast jerky and smoked sausage Jake was set for nearly 2 years though he did still feel bad about using so much salt but without any other way to preserve the meat it was the only choice he had he have to wash off the
disgusting amounts of it just to make the stuff edible it wasn't like he could just ask the captain to let him use the ship's Cold Storage the duo definitely got some weird looks from the crew as they returned but Jake didn't care he was full from the pieces of kill Beast he cooked up while he was smoking the rest and boy was it Heavenly every single strip was as tender as fet Minon but as rich and sweet as pork if he'd had some honey he'd bet it make the best ham in human history even dried
into jerky the stuff was soft and chewy rather than stringy like normal jerky too bad klex was an herbivore he'd have loved to share it with someone maybe he'll have some takers among the crew but none of them did in fact for the entire Year's duration of the albon's maiden voyage the crew avoided Jake like the plague he asked the captain at some point which didn't fact lead to him getting used to the ship's Cold Storage but she wasn't entirely certain either however once the albon returned to Union space he managed to catch one of
them saying something as he stepped off the ship to return to his original post at the unn International Space Station thank the Stars the super Predator is gone
