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.