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                              <p><b>Summary:</b> alien rebuilds its body, constantly 
                                healing damage</p>
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                              <p><b>Observation:</b> &quot;We pumped four grenades 
                                up onto the catwalk &#150; no direct hits, but the 
                                Fade was slammed over the railing. The thing was 
                                on fire, for chrissakes. It goes down behind the 
                                generator, into a big pile of spent fuel canisters. 
                                Made a hell of a racket. We figure &#150; grenade blast, 
                                on fire, fell a couple of stories onto cast-metal 
                                tubes &#133; let's kick back, get some medkits, 
                                and set up a forward base. A minute later, we 
                                hear a canister roll across the floor. We all 
                                stand up like, 'Nah &#133; couldn't be &#133;'. 
                                Next thing we know we're dodging acid and screaming 
                                for ammo.&quot; </p>
                              <p><b>Thesis</b>: the Kharaa can harvest our resources, 
                                and use them to build various organic structures. 
                                It looks like some aliens evolve the ability to 
                                re-build themselves, probably creating an organ 
                                that teaches the local bacteria to regard it as 
                                a structure that requires construction. So it 
                                is not actually healing itself, but literally 
                                being built anew (the Gorge's <a href="alien_gorge_primary.html">healing 
                                spray</a> likely operates on the same principle). 
                                Absorbing raw material from the surrounding bacteria 
                                requires subdermal conduits that interfere with 
                                carapace evolution, and as near as we can tell, 
                                the redemption evolution as well.</p>
                              <p>The following chart shows how many points per 
                                second are regained by an alien with the regeneration 
                                evolution: <br>
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                                  <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#450A0A" class="sectiontext">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Regeneration 
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                                    <p>Level 1</p>
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                                    <p align="center">1pt</p>
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                                    <p>Level 2</p>
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                                    <p align="center">2pts</p>
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                                    <p>Level 3</p>
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                                    <p align="center">3pts</p>
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