By deeanndmathews on Skatehive
The law of unintended consequences in space is as inexorable as it is on Earth, as are the strange outcomes. But, at least we all got to enjoy Wilhelm Allemande laughing uproariously instead of ending someone's entire ego and career with that agelessly mighty voice of his. This was an emergency call that never came because a peer to 95-year-old Commodore Allemande had discovered both the creature above and something about it that it had in common with its analog on Earth. Noticing the slight smile on the alien and the outcome of the human encounter with it would make you think this was a friendly creature … but that's just the bias of humanity to determine so much by whatever we think of as a face. The Stitral Mosquito will serve you up to eternity with a smile – those six compound mouths and all the knockout venom they can quickly administer before liquefying you and enjoying you with their hunting partners are not to be played with. Human settlement would have been delayed indefinite