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Data</a></span><span class="sectiontext">: <font color="#FF6600">What
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are the Kharaa?</font></span></td>
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<p>This question still plagues the scientific
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community. The Kharaa began appearing on
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ships and bases throughout the Ariadne Arm
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a decade ago, slaughtering everyone on board.
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In almost every case the ship then wandered
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off course, and either destroyed itself
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by slipping into some gravity well (usually
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a planet or sun), or was tracked down and
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destroyed by the owners of the craft. Life
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support on bases and ships usually fails
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soon after the Kharaa take over, so even
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without military response, they don't last
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very long. But without more detailed knowledge
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about them, we will never learn how to prevent
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them from appearing on our ships in the
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first place. Every successful team returns
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with valuable information. And our fragile
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economy cannot afford to loose all those
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ships and bases. There is also the danger
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that a fallen ship will automatically dock
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at a major city-base, or land on an Earth-compatible
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planet. Lord help us if this happens –
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we have seen what they do with the limited
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resources on ships … and can only imagine
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an entire planet of Kharaa. Thankfully,
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the Ariadne Arm is a frontier sector, and
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there are few large habitations. So far,
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there have been no incidents involving more
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than a crew of civilians. </p>
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<p>The terminology for the aliens is still
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being developed. At the moment, we refer
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to the aliens, and their whole system of
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bacteria, lifeforms and growths, as the
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"Kharaa"; and the pre hive-stage
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presence as the "bacterium". The
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first TSA encounter with the aliens occurred
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aboard the Mongol's Sanjii mining facility.
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The tattered voice comm logs they extracted
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from the command network had one word that
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stood out, used again and again – "Kharaa!"
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"Kharaa!" Later, it was understood
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that this means "Watch out!" in
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Mongolian. By then, it had stuck.</p>
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<p>The relatively obscure field of exo-biology
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has flourished since the beginning of the
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conflict, attracting many of the best and
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brightest from biology, chemistry and even
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paleontology and sociology. And while we
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have made huge strides (as you will read
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in the pages to follow), we are a long way
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off from a true understanding of these prolific
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and dangerous creatures. The information
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in this manual is that small amount we are
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confident enough in to tell you as you head
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in to combat. </p>
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<p><b>Reading Material<br>
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</b>For more detailed information on topics
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related to the history of the TSA and Frontiersmen,
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we recommend the Techtrope article "Gather
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Frontiersmen!" <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/world_marine_start.html"><br>
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Click here to read</a>.<br>
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For further insight into the war, and the
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Kharaa, your best bet is the eyewitness accounts
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and journals of the soldiers who have fought
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them. <a href="http://www.natural-selection.org/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3db0d16a1ad0ffff;act=ST;f=1;t=3406"><br>
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Click here to read</a>.<br>
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