“should have been calm and collected. Also, none of the normal intelligence channels have any talk of activity in this area. There are vague threats in the Beta region, but nothing out here,” was my lame attempt at an answer. “Dr. Rannor, what exactly was this colony there to do?” asked the captain. “Well, they were researching biological warfare,” began the doctor. “Are you telling me we may have experimental bugs to deal with on top of everything?” “If the attackers raided the bio-labs, then yes. If the labs were merely hit in an attack, the safety systems would automatically destroy the live cultures, eliminating any chance of contamination. However, since we do not know much about the attackers, we have to assume they could have taken control of the stockpile.”