Rogue

Time has passed and now Royal Jelly is commercially available. Even though great fear towards the aliens remains, a new economy strives on them. But in this act, the people have forgotten that the aliens were once the predators and not the prey. The story picks up with a routine alien harvest quest. A team goes into a hive and collects a life sample for a buyer to study. Weapons have improved to allow and protect against the acid blood, so the collect goes without a hitch. Pilot Joyce takes the task of delivering the captured alien to a research facility in space.Upon arriving, a brief stay is required to repair the ship. At the station she meets Mr. John Kray who is an up and coming scientist. He warns her to get out of this space in so far in deep space. After turmoil begins, the two go into hiding. The director of the facility, Kleist, has been up to some dark secrets and played a role in the ship delay after delivering the alien. He planed to use the marines escorting the alien as lab rats and host. Through tricks and commands he gets a party killed by the aliens on board to advance his "construction" of an alpha male alien. Note that before the alien hives are controlled by a single Queen, and the drones have no "gender" but can become a queen to fill the role. Kleist dreamed of making a alpha male that could control the queen and the other aliens, but at the same time have more reason so that it will obey humans. He succeeded in making this alien king and finds, much to the the joy of one of the marines, that the king alien does not kill on instinct. In fact, the king spared the life of the frightened marine. Kleist attempts to introduce the king to the hive, but instead they start fighting and the king kill all the normal aliens. On their death the Queen alien issues a challenge (the queen can sense the loss of her own, and thus made a piercing cry from deep within the research facility). The king broke out of his holding cell and began searching for the queen, laying waste to all in his path. During this time, Joyce and Kray attempt to seek past the guards now taking the remaining marines into custody. Before their escape, Joyce rescues her friend Jason from from the path of the king alien now on the loose. Finally the king alien reaches the queen, with Kleist following behind to see the king dominate over the queen. Yet the queen is stronger and begins to win. Kleist runs up as if he could do any damage only to be mutilated by the queen after her victory. With his dying move he activates a sound bomb. This is a device made at emits at such a high frequency to cripple the aliens, yet people cannot hear.  Luckily, the sound bomb gives Joyce and company just enough time to escape to an escape pod and survive, while the rest of the station turns into yet another alien hive.

Analysis:
This story shows the acts of a mad scientist who believed he could be god. Kleist sacrificed people to make his ends but in the end sought his own demise. In modern times today people fear these types of scientist, which explains the fear and debates surrounding stem cell research and cloning. Some see this type of research as dangerous to mankind if used the wrong way while other might see it ethically wrong to attempt to be God by creating life. Kleist found out the hard way that nature finds a way to overcome any created limits upon it. This is the same as modern day virus and bacteria that have modified over time to withstand current medicines. But i believe the main question this story poses to the reader is how much is too much scientific research? When is it needed?
The author might have seen that anything that tried to take Gods role (or simply the natural order of the universe) away was too far. This involved all the problems that went wrong. Robotic humans once again turned on humans due to programs from an evil mastermind. The created king alien could not remain bound yet lost in the end to the natural order of things. All through the facility, technology failed at critical times resulting in loss of life (events planed by Kleist to collect his victims).
Yet there is another idea that comes through this story. Perhaps it not the research that is bad. The attempt to be God is not evil, but it is the pride and human shortcomings that is. Kleist was the man that turned machines and research to bite man in the rear, and end the end cost him his life. But if a good man was to use the knowledge much different results might have transpired. Kleist main reason for his death was he ran to fight a queen alien with the believe that his created alien could not lose. This is pride. This pride brought him to ruin. Joyce and Kray were not prideful of their acts as people and thus in the end survived the dooms day events.
Note that is story is not saying that humans are all bad. Yes Kleist fail to human desires,  but Joyce, Kray, and Jason have redeem qualities of trust. Even though humans might naturally fall, with the help of others they can be lifted up and be good. Humans are best when together, not alone.