Talk:Carar/@comment-142.177.220.63-20161211123003/@comment-68.238.222.254-20161211202000

It could be that the fabricator just doesn't (or can't) identify Carar as a hazard. A masquerading microbe. Looks harmless until it's in a suitable environment (an appropriate host) before it becomes a horror. It's one of the expected hazards of encountering alien life - we might not recognize something as dangerous until it's way too late.

Kind of like War of the Worlds but flipped backwards. In War, the aliens were killed off by diseases we pretty much ignore as nuisances. While it would be pretty embarrassing, Carar could just be the Precursor version of the common cold or maybe avian flu (more dangerous but a known disease). An alien could easily overlook flu, any of the common cold viruses, or even pet diseases, but those microbes could be insanely lethal simply because they've never encountered anything like it before. Same for humans. We've never encountered anything like Carar elsewhere in the universe, so the fabricator - being only as smart as we are on the subject - just didn't know it was a hostile organism rather than, say, nontoxic peeper poop.