New TF Story

[Tinn]

Hmm... Things seem to be coming to a head. What with all the news reports and everything there's bound to be some CDC attention on the Body sooner or later.

I'm reckoning the CDC won't be able to do much but maintain a ceasefire, though, probably after enraging the body a few times. No, I believe the ultimate resolution of this story will be Mary's doing. The Body is not a pleasant debate partner, but given a few lucky breaks she seems to be able to run rings around it, intellectually.

On an unrelated note, I wonder how good the body is at photosynthesis? I suppose a fair few of the alien words it's visited would have had some life form or other that got its energy from a sun. Maybe that's how the body avoids starving to death once it's eaten a world?

I just thought of something. Given the body's highly adaptive nature and its method of spreading via extreme long range interplanetary seeding, there's a fair chance that Mary's Body would be quite different to other versions of the Body found elsewhere, depending on their individual migration paths. What would happen if two different branches of the evolutionary tree met? Fight-to-the-death? Mutual seed sharing? Some kind of slime merge? And how would the minds come into it?