The story opens up with a lady being chased by an alien, only to find out that the alien is under the command of Doctor Stan Mayakovsky. Doctor Mayakovsky is a scientist that is renowned for his invention of Ari, the robotic ant, which he used to infiltrate the ant hive to study ants in their natural habitat. Similar, his research has made him believe that the Xenomorphs are similar to the ant, and has created a robotic Xenomorph in hopes it can be expected into the hive. The problem: Doctor Mayakovsky suffers from cancer. There still is no cure. But there is a way to escape, the Royal Jelly from the Queen in its pure form (XenoZip is modified) is a consciousness-altering drug used to escape the pain. Julian Lish finds Doctor Mayakovsky and offers him a way to collect as much Royal Jelly as he desires, use the robotic alien to sneak into the alien hive. During their research and planning of the expedition to set the alien into a real hive, the two fall in love, sharing the same love for science and robotics. Finally, a crew is assembled to embark to the alien home world. The crew is introduced to Norbert, the robotic alien, that is at the will and command of Doctor Mayakovsky. Everything goes without a hitch, the crew land and another team explores some debris in space, an empty ship. Doctor Mayakovsky and Julian, still on the mothership, load Norbert into an escape pod and send him down the the surface. Accompany Norbert is Mac, the dog. On Mac's collar is a special device that releases pheromones that mask the dogs presences from the aliens, or so the hope for the experiment is before people enter. On the surface, Norbert has a chance encounter with another mission group collection Royal jelly. Norbert is ordered to kill the all and claim the jelly for himself. The mission crew is quickly defeated as they were stranding waiting for the backup of the Lancelot., a military ship. After the ship is cleared out, the collar on Mac is turned off. Mac is quickly found by the aliens and dragged to the hive, allowing Norbert to follow. Norbert went all the way to the Queen but the Queen did not recognize the scent. Thus Norbert was attack on command by the elite guards, which earlier paid no attention to him. Doctor Mayakovsky is sadden by the lost and prepares to go down to the surface to get the remains of Norbert back and pilot the other mission ship back to the mothership. Then suddenly the mothership is attacked by the Lancelot, and escaping to the surface is a priority one. Before they know it, Julian and Stan are trapped on the surface with the syth, Gill.
Analysis:
This story brings to mind the idea the old saying of understanding ants. I've heard that God sees us like we see ants. We are so much larger than the ants that in order to understand them, we would have to be an ant. Likewise, to understand God, we must be him. In this story, they want to understand the aliens by becoming the aliens. Yet even then, with the artificial alien, they still do not completely understand. The Queen recognized the scent was incorrect. Likewise, we cannot understand God. No matter what way we try to read him, we can never fully understand. When we read the Book of Revelations, we see the apocalyptic world of the coming of Jesus. The Book has puzzled scholars for a long time, because of its vivid tales. Perhaps it is literal events that might happen, or figurative. Or maybe yet, it does not talk about a second coming like we think at all. Perhaps it is a telling of what already happened, the birth and death of Jesus bring the word to the word was the great battle that Revelations shows, and that the New Jerusalem is already here, not something that is to come. But we could never know, for we are not God. Instead we must but faith into what we believe best. Science can never open the door all the way, for even in aliens, science was still limited.
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