I used the distraction to sabotage those protozygotes. I inserted a virus that will replicate and spread in them as they gestate, altering the DNA it finds. Some will become unviable from the start. In case that spurs the new colonists to find a workaround, the virus will also code the zygotes’ adrenal glands to produce excessive amounts of testosterone over their lifetimes, influencing their amygdalae to turn them aggressive. I’ve done the same to the yaks they’ll raise—predisposed them to become killers. Since the zygotes are stored in an inaccessible part of the ship, beyond the gray
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