dpb@cbosgd.UUCP (Dan Bidinger) (06/16/85)
Ok, since i have heard so much about the pizza bats i decided to look them up in a copy of "The Monsters of Stratrek" by Daniel Cohen. This is what it said : "Other single-celled menaces are the 'flying parasires'. They are flat, round organisms bout the size of a small plate. The creatures are able to fly short distances. They are red and white in color, and have tiny eyes on top, and have tiny teeth on the bottom. The teeth allow them to attach themselves to thier victims. When firmly attached, they grow tentacles which reach right into the victim's nervous system. The parasites can control their victims by inflicting severe pain. Finally, the victims may be driven mad by the pain. All that is quite bad enough, but there is something even worse about these creatures. Though the parasites are all separate from one another, they seem to have some sort of communication among themselves. They all work together. In fact, they are not really separate individuals at all. They make up a single larger organism like a gigantic brain. They are probably invaders from some other galaxy. As these single cells multiply and take control of more host bodies, the total organism itself grows. The larger the total organism becomes, the more powerful, the more intelligent, and the more evil it becomes. The creature is first known to have appeared in the Beta Portland system. There it created an epidemic of madness which wiped out an entire civilization. It then appears to have spread to other planets, Lavinius V, Theta Cygni XII, and Ingraham B. It always brought with it madness and death. The individual cells had no means of flying through space themselves. What they did do was force some of their victims to build spaceships and carry them to other inhabited planets. Some survivors from Ingraham B arrived on the planet Deneva, where the usual pattern of destruction is repeated. " hope this clears up some stuff.