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[completelycrazy]

[Newt has definitely not been up all night building salamander-proof enclosures out of spare Null parts so the fact that he sounds both tired and revved up on way too much coffee is just your imagination.]

Two questions, Hadriel. One: Tell me about the cave monsters. What all has crashlanded here before I got here? Specifically, I'm looking for stuff that a person could feasibly, like, catch. Or at least put down and drag into town for some post-mortem studying. This includes stuff that might be a good food source, maybe? I don't know. Depends on what's out there.

[The food source thing is secondary in his mind, but the masses don't need to know that. He's already expecting to catch some flak for this.]

And two: Anyone got some time to help me wrangle some salamanders, at least? I'm thinkin' two should be good. I'd like to grab some other stuff too, but again, depends on what's out there. Gonna start with the salamanders for now.

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[completelycrazy]

It is, but I got the sense that their terraforming tech was relatively new. They took a swing at Earth toward the end of the Mezozoic Era, but the atmosphere wasn't quite right, so they had to shelve us and come back millions of years down the road. Terraforming takes serious resources, too, so the closer they start to their ideal atmosphere, the better... Not to mention terraforming can't account for things like gravity. [At least not that he knows of. Maybe the Precursors are capable of that sort of thing, but that level of technology would be insanity.]

That's the kicker about terraforming. They're doing it because they need the resources, but terraforming comes with a massive down payment. It's a risk. Once they commit to a planet, it's too costly to give it up.

[He's sort of speculating at this point--the Drift only showed him things from the Kaiju perspective, and even then only in bits and pieces--but he thinks his logic his sound.]

Hah, fair enough. I guess if thinks really get that desperate, I'll look into it, but... Eh. [That sounds boring and he has enough cheese puffs and coffee to last him a bit.]