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          <td valign="top" background="images/design/surround_title_s.gif"><span class="sectionlink"><a href="general.html">General 
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                                    <p>This question still plagues the scientific 
                                      community. The Kharaa began appearing on 
                                      ships and bases throughout the Ariadne Arm 
                                      a decade ago, slaughtering everyone on board. 
                                      In almost every case the ship then wandered 
                                      off course, and either destroyed itself 
                                      by slipping into some gravity well (usually 
                                      a planet or sun), or was tracked down and 
                                      destroyed by the owners of the craft. Life 
                                      support on bases and ships usually fails 
                                      soon after the Kharaa take over, so even 
                                      without military response, they don't last 
                                      very long. But without more detailed knowledge 
                                      about them, we will never learn how to prevent 
                                      them from appearing on our ships in the 
                                      first place. Every successful team returns 
                                      with valuable information. And our fragile 
                                      economy cannot afford to loose all those 
                                      ships and bases. There is also the danger 
                                      that a fallen ship will automatically dock 
                                      at a major city-base, or land on an Earth-compatible 
                                      planet. Lord help us if this happens &#150; 
                                      we have seen what they do with the limited 
                                      resources on ships &#133; and can only imagine 
                                      an entire planet of Kharaa. Thankfully, 
                                      the Ariadne Arm is a frontier sector, and 
                                      there are few large habitations. So far, 
                                      there have been no incidents involving more 
                                      than a crew of civilians. </p>
                                    <p>The terminology for the aliens is still 
                                      being developed. At the moment, we refer 
                                      to the aliens, and their whole system of 
                                      bacteria, lifeforms and growths, as the 
                                      &quot;Kharaa&quot;; and the pre hive-stage 
                                      presence as the &quot;bacterium&quot;. The 
                                      first TSA encounter with the aliens occurred 
                                      aboard the Mongol's Sanjii mining facility. 
                                      The tattered voice comm logs they extracted 
                                      from the command network had one word that 
                                      stood out, used again and again &#150; &quot;Kharaa!&quot; 
                                      &quot;Kharaa!&quot; Later, it was understood 
                                      that this means &quot;Watch out!&quot; in 
                                      Mongolian. By then, it had stuck.</p>
                                    <p>The relatively obscure field of exo-biology 
                                      has flourished since the beginning of the 
                                      conflict, attracting many of the best and 
                                      brightest from biology, chemistry and even 
                                      paleontology and sociology. And while we 
                                      have made huge strides (as you will read 
                                      in the pages to follow), we are a long way 
                                      off from a true understanding of these prolific 
                                      and dangerous creatures. The information 
                                      in this manual is that small amount we are 
                                      confident enough in to tell you as you head 
                                      in to combat. </p>
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                                  <p><b>Reading Material<br>
                                    </b>For more detailed information on topics 
                                    related to the history of the TSA and Frontiersmen, 
                                    we recommend the Techtrope article &quot;Gather 
                                    Frontiersmen!&quot; <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/world_marine_start.html"><br>
                                    Click here to read</a>.<br>
                                    For further insight into the war, and the 
                                    Kharaa, your best bet is the eyewitness accounts 
                                    and journals of the soldiers who have fought 
                                    them. <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3db0d16a1ad0ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=3406"><br>
                                    Click here to read</a>.<br>
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