Talk:Aurora/@comment-36323746-20180727004918

So there's this dialogue between 'analyst' and 'controller' taking place 15 minutes before the Aurora impact on Planet 4546B. You may read the full text here, under the expandable "Crash" section.

My focus here is upon the Controller's last line and its very last bit.

"Listen up! Anyone who wants to tell me they've got it bad, stop and ask whether you'd rather have been on the Aurora. They're alone right now. They're scared. They're beset on all sides by alien nightmares - and it's only going to get worse. If you still think you should be resting rather than working on a way to keep those people safe, you bring it to me and you'll be reassigned. I'm sure the TSF could use some more bodies in the Kharaa conflict."

The Kharaa Conflict. Hmm... Up until this point I thought the game takes place before Natural Selection - at least the Marines vs. Aliens part. Maybe it still does.

Could it be? Other - maybe several - Kharaa infected planet(s) had already developed the strain you actively combat during NS & NS2, and it is at this time of galactic history, engaged in a dire conflict of interests or simple survival? This dialogue takes place mere minutes before impact - after which Ryley Robinson (player character) wakes up to "discover" the lethal yet mysterious Kharaa Bacterium -, yet there's talk of actual conflict. Doesn't sound like a bacterial infection no matter how severe but more like bloody, gruesome, teeth and claws fighting, of bodies being torn apart, people being eaten alive, alien creatures shredded by LMGs, turrets and heavy armour-clad soldiers. A war raging across isolated worlds between TSF forces - The Frontiersmen most likely - and the different hostile lifeforms of the Kharaa hivemind.

Anyway, just a thought... ...While you are being intercepted by reaper leviathans and building underwater habitats, in a federation-controlled system there's a more physical variant of Kharaa killing people, be they civilians or battle-hardened marines... ...might as well be a contradiction.