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Charnauk has a minion!

Chinook the Black Huskers

Charnauk
Legacy Name: Charnauk

The

Common Experiment #56192
Owner: Byrus

Age: 10 years, 1 month, 1 week

Born: February 5th, 2016

Adopted: 10 years, 1 month, 1 week ago

Adopted: February 5th, 2016

Statistics

Level: 6
Strength: 15
Defense: 15
Speed: 10
Health: 12
HP: 12/12
Intelligence: 2
Books Read: 2
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Unemployed

“Only in this creature, the cell-nuclei can control those cells at will. It digested Charnauk, and as it digested, studied every cell of his tissue, and shaped its own cells to imitate them exactly. Parts of it – parts that had time to finish changing – are dog-cells. But they don’t have dog-cell nuclei.” Blair lifted a fraction of the tarpaulin. A torn dog’s leg with stiff gray fur protruded. “That, for instance, isn’t dog at all; it’s imitation. Some parts I’m certain about; the nucleus was hiding itself, covering up with dog-cell imitation nucleus. In time, not even a microscope would have shown the difference.”

“Suppose,” asked Norris bitterly, “it had had lots of time?”

“Then it would have been a dog. The other dogs would have accepted it. We would have accepted it. I don’t think anything would have distinguished it, not microscope, nor X-ray, nor any other means. This is a member of a supremely intelligent race, a race that has learned the deepest secrets of biology, and turned them to its use.”

“What was it planning to do?” Barclay looked at the humped tarpaulin.

Blair grinned unpleasantly. The wavering halo of thin hair round his bald pate wavered in the stir of air. “Take over the world, I imagine.”

- John W. Campbell, Who Goes There?, 1938