Sample Report

[Sergio Giovanni 0]

"Sample Report"

Log entry 10: 12 October, 2154

 

 

(Author's note: Character count: 22 627. Enjoy).

 

After helping Ensign Grey categorise the Science samples, Sergio grabbed a piece of pork from the fire and sat on a rock to compose his report on his findings. Sergio took a bite of the meat and started to type a composition on his PADD

 

To: Comdr Moose, Cdr Moore, Commanding Officers UES Challenger

CC: Dr. Willow Mc Daniels, CMO - UES Challenger, Lt. Neptune Rex, Communications, UES Challenger

From: Lt. Sergio Giovanni, CSCI UES Challenger

Subj: Sample Reports

 

Enclosed is the sample finding of the planet, into five (5) categories: Flora, Fauna, Hopefully Not Radioactive (HNR), Inanimate But Useful (IBU), and Undefined.

 

FLORA:

 

Flowers:

 

Amacran Daisy: White pedals with yellow centre, grows in abundence throughout the forests of the planet.

 

Amacran Fly Trap: Green in appearance, about 18-20 inches in height. This plant like it's counterpart the Venus Flytrip lures bugs by opening up it's mouth to pose as a flower. The mouth is a bright pink, and resembles a Pink Sparkle (see below for more info on Pink Sparkle), and when a bug lands on a hair, this plant quicklyclamps it's mouth shut and eats the bug alive. Care should be taken whilst handing this plant!

 

Amacran Rose - Comes in various colours, approx. 12-8 ins. in height. Gives off a pleasant odour, and looks very beautiful. Grows near vines.

 

Amacran Tulip: Yellow and/or Orange in colour, approximatlly the same size as Amacran Rose. This flower gives off a rather pleasant odour, and looks very beautiful.

 

Blue Belle: Dark Blue in colour, and resembles a bell. This flower has a sweet fragrence, and a beautiful appearance. In abumdence, this flower might have calming effects.

 

Crimson Death: Almost a blood red in colour, this flower emits a sweet smelling fragrence to attract bugs, when the bug triggers a hair inside, it tilts upwards and the doomed bug falls inside of the flower where an acidic solution inside digests the doomed bug. Care should be taken when handling this plant.

 

Fire eye: Bright orange with black spots in colour. Gives off a pleasant odour, and grows throughout the forest bed.

 

Green Lantern: Dark green in appearance, with pink highlights (not to be mistaken with Amacran Flytrap). 6-8 inches in appearance, this plant gives off a nice fruity odour. This plant is very beautiful.

 

Morning Star: Light purple in colour, gives off a rather pleasant odour, and extracts a sweet dew, 6-8 inches in height and looks very beautiful.

 

Pink Sparkle: Bright pink in colour, and excreets a dew that makes this plant appear to "smarkle" in the sunlight, hence it's name. This plant is about 10 inches in height.

 

Sunrise Surprise: Bright orange, gold and red in colour, and gives a beautiful odour, this plant isonly about 6 inches tall, with it's bud closed, but scans indicate that within the next few months, the bud should bloom open, revealing a more beautiful flower.

 

Lillies: Found in the pond near our camp area. Similiar to Terran lillies.

 

Amacran Aloe Vera like plant: Green in appearance, about 2-6 inches in height, when slit open is rich in a soothing and sticky dew inside. Have ascertained that this plant works well on sores, and burns and also has similiar medicinal values to aloe vera. Found in ambundence throught the forest.

 

Amacran Pepper: Three variants: Yellow with White Stripes, Green with white spots, and bright red. All about three inches in height. All have been deemed edible, but the red variant has been found to be extremely hot, like a jalepeno pepper, but with a spice factor 40 times worse. Yellow and green variants are not spicy, but yellow pepper has a tangy taste, and green is more sweet. Red pepper might be good in chilis.

 

Flora> Trees/Bushes:

 

Amacran Birch: About 20 metres in height, white bark with green leaves.

 

Amacran Cedar: About 40-50 metres in height, brown with green leaves.

 

Amacran Bushes: 50 cm in length x 1 metre in height, green/red leaves. Leaves can be used as a pain rellief, for sunburn, rich in vitamins.

 

Amacran Palm Trees: 70 metres in height. Bears a healthy supply of a coconut like nut. Nut is brown with back striping, with a white inside and a sweet water inside. Tastes like a pistachio.

 

Aloe Vera Bush: 30 centimetres in height, leaves are plump and bear a solution inside similiar to aloe vera. (see aloe vera plant)

 

Dark Tree: 10 metres in height, black with dark green leaves. Leaves contain an irritant that causes ithces and rashes to the bearer. Care should be taken when handling.

 

Lion Bush: 30 metres in height: Yellow leaves, branches has sharp throns.

 

Olde Oak: About 50 metres in heiht, white with green leaves

 

 

FAUNA:

 

Insectiod life> Beetles:

 

Amacran Bark Beetle: (3-10 mm long), black in colour. This beetle has small teeth that burrow into the bark of the nearby trees in the forest. Edible, high in protein.

 

Fruit Beetle: 5 millimetres long, brown or black in colour. Found in rotton Sunfruit and Amacran Apples.

 

Fireball: 2mm long, brown when landed, but bright orange or yellow when in flight at night. Unlike the firefly of Earth whose abdomen is only lit, this bug lights up it's entire body whilst in flight.

 

Amacran Landbeetle: Black, approx. 6 mm long. Usualy found hidden under rocks or rotted wood. Edible, high in protein.

 

Amacran Pincherbug: Black, approx. 10 mm in length. Aggressive species of beetle, with sharp pinchers in it's front. Usually found under rocks or piles of leaves. Care should be taken whilst handling. Bug is not found to be poisonous, but pinchers do appear to inflict a rather painful bite.

 

Water beetle: Approx. 7 mm in length. This beetle is found in the ponds and rivers of the forest. This beetle eats the dead fish or other dead organisms in the water and helps make the waters so cean, by helping eliminating contamination.

 

Insectoid life> Arachnids> NON-POISIONOUS:

 

Amacran tree spider: Approx. 4 mm in length, brown in colour. Non poisionous to humans. Predatory spider tthat builds webs in trees to catch prey.

 

Brook Trap door spider: 6mm in length, this spider lives in brooks and small streams. Lives under rocks, and ambushes small bugs wen they get too close to it's lair.

 

Cane scorpion: 12 mm in length, brown or burgundy in colour and resembles an old person's cane. Flat like in apearance, with 4mm long tail.

 

Frog Spider: 15mm in length, yellow/organish in colour. Lives near small bodies of water to eat small tadpoles and frogs. Has venom sacks, but not fatal to humans. Fangs are 1/2mm long. Care should be taken whilst handling.

 

Hooded Scorpion: 5mm inlength, brown in colour. Has a destinctive hood like armour on the front of it's body. Non-aggressive species.

 

Log scorpion: 6mm in length yellowish brown in colour. Lives in logs, and dines on beetles and crickets. Tail can extend upto 20mm.

 

Pop Spider: 8 mm in length. Black in colour. Emits a popping sound to stun insects before eating it.

 

Fauna>Insectoid life> Arachnids>POISIONOUS:

 

** EXTREME CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN WHILST HANLDING THESE ANIMALS **

 

Black Beauty (Spider): Approx. 3mm in length. Jet black in colour, with fat abdomen. Fangs are 1/8 mm long that excreet a highly venomous venom into it's prey.

 

Dark Scorpion: Approx. 8mm in length, black in appearance. Tail is 2mm long, venom is highly toxic, and just one drop is enough to kill two humans.

 

Fire Scorpion: Aprox. 6mm in length, orange in colour, similiar to that of fire. Has sharp stinger on tail.

 

Hissing Scorpion: Approx. 7mm in length black in colour, makes hissing sounds like snake when agitated.

 

Land Spider: Approx. 12 mm in length, brownish in colour. Fangs are 2mm long, highly aggressive species.

 

Marsh Spider: Approx. 5 mm in length, red in colour. Hides under rotton logs in marshes, and in the boggy marsh water.

 

Rock Scorpion: Approx. 8mm in length, black in colour, hides in rocks and ambushes it's prey.

 

Insectoid Life> Miscellaneous

 

Amacran Mantis: Approx. 1 inch, green with black spots, and red eyes. Has pinchers and small teeth.

 

Amacran Stinkbug: Approx. 20 mm in length, emits foul odour when threatened.

 

Amacran Ant: Approx. 15 mm. Black or red in colour.

 

Amacran Cricket: Appearance/size similiar to that of Terran cricket

 

Centipede: 20-55mm in length. Black, red, and brown in colour. Black and brown species harmless, but red species has a poisionous bute. Care should be taken whilst handling.

 

Diamond Butterfly: 45 mm in length, wingspan, 50 mm. Blue with red diamond motif. Beautiful species. Evolves form of Diamond Cattepillar.

 

Diamond Cattepillar: 40 mm in length, white with blue diamond motif on body. Eats leaves, turns into Diamond butterfly.

 

Terror Ant: 20 mm in length, red or orange in colour. Aggressive species, attacks in high numbers, like army ant of South America. Care should be taken whilst handling.

 

Fauna> Reptiles/Amphibians

 

Amacran Lizard: 25 cm in length, green in colour, found on trees and eats bugs.

 

Amacran Monitor: 1 metre in length, grey in colour with black striping tounge can extend upto 3 metres to snag prey.

 

Amacran Toad: 5 centimetres in length, land toad found under leabves and rocks.

 

Amacran Gecko: 15 centimetres in length, green and yellow in colour

 

Amacran Iguana: 1.2 metres in length, green with red striping, aggressive species of lizard. Care should be taken whilst handling.

 

Branch Snake: 4 metres in length, non-venoumous. Green with white stripes in appearance. KIlls prey by constricting it's circulation. Not aggressive to humans.

 

Bushwhacker: 3 metres in length, black or brown in colour. Found in bushes, and near water. Extremely venomous species.. Care should be taken whilst handling.

 

Brook Newt: Found in brooks and small bodies of water, 10 cm in length, blue in colour, likes to lie on top of rocks.

 

Calpyso Lizard: Blue, red, and green in colour, excretes a solution that is toxic to humans and animals that try to eat it. Care should be taken whilst handling this animal.

 

Fire frog: 15 cm in length, bright orange in colour.. excreets a toxic solution out of it's body, toxic to humans. Care should be taken whilst handling this animal. Toxin when exposed to bare skin, gives the attacker a hot, firey pain.

 

Freshwater Cayman: 1-2 metres in length, light green or grey in colour. Passive species, found near bodies of water.

 

Hooped turlte: 50 centimetres in length, green with brown shell, with sutble black hoop pattern on shell. Found primarily in lakes and rivers.

 

Jade Lizard: About 20 centimteres, colour similiar to that of jade.

 

Marsh Monitor: About 30 1/2 centimetres in length, green in colour. Lives in marshes, and eats eggs, and other small lizards.

 

Omni Constrictor: 6 metres in length, light brown white diamond motif in the scales. Constrictor species of snake, and non-poisonous.

 

Pond Lizard: 10 cm in length, black in colour. Lives in ponds, eats fish and tadpoles.

 

Quick Silver: 8 metres in length, silver in colour, poisonous species of snake, lives under rocks and feeds on rodents. Care should be taken whilst handling and when walking in forest. Has an extremely quick recoil and attack speed when attacjomg prey.

 

Red Turtle: 2 metres inlength, red in colour. Aggressive to humans, similiar to a Snapping Turtle. Care should be taken when handling this animals.

 

Salamander: Appearance/Size similiar to that of Terran salamander.

 

Tiger Lizard: 1 metre in length, orange w/black striping in appearance.

 

Vine Snake: 3-4metres in length, green in colour. Hides in vines or branches to ambush prey. Snake is poisonous, and rather aggressive, care should be taken whilst handling or when walking near trees, or overhead vines.

 

 

Fauna>Fish/Crustaceons:

 

Amacran Bass: 30 cm in length, grey in colour. Fish is deemed edible and high in protein

 

Amacran Crawfish: 15-40 centimetres in length, dark brown in colour. Edible meat, rich in proteins and vitamins.

 

Amacran Clam: 10 centimetres, grey in colour. Edible meat rich in vitamins.

 

Amacran Crab: Blue, and Green in colour, 30-55 cm in length. Edible meat, rich in protein and vitamins.

 

Barb Fish: 40 cm in length, gold/orange in colour, fish body is full of barbed throns. Lives in salt water environments.

 

Crescent Shrimp: 10 cm in length, orange in colour. Appearance resembles a crescent shape. Not edible.

 

Dusk fish: 50-60 centimetres in length, dark blue, or puple in colour. Lives in fresh water environments.

 

Feeder fish: 10-15 centimetres in length, feeds off algae on rocks, acts as a cleaner for water

 

Golden Scallop: 20 cm in length, gold in colour. Flesh is meaty and edible, and turns red when cook as with most crustaceons. Meat is rich in vitamins and protein.

 

Indigo Fish: About 40-45 centimetres in length, with indigo colouring. Lives in fresh water.

 

Jungle pirahna: About 30 cm in length, green with blackstriping. Has sharp teeth and inacciable appetite. Care should be taken whilst handling. Lives in murky waters.

 

Konk: About 30 cm in length, and light pink/white in colour.. body is full of spikes, and is round like a ball.

 

Lake Crab: 20-25 centimetres in length, bluish green in colour. Caws are about 30 cm long, and 20 cm wide. Meat is rich in prtein. Edible.

 

Mega Shrimp: 60 cm in length, brown in colour. Ediible species, turns red wihen cooked. Rich in meat, very good with butter.

 

Nightfish: 1.3 metres in length, black in colour. Nocturnal species of fish, flesh is edible, rich in protein.

 

Omega Crab: 50 cm in length, green in colour. Aggressive species, but meat is edible.

 

Pear Clam: 7 cm in length, greyish green in colour. Shell resembles a pear. Flesh is edible.

 

Red Yabbie: 25-40 centimetres in length, red in colour. Belongs to shrimp/prawn family. Meat is edible.

 

Striped Freshwater Maco Shark: 4 feet in length, brown with black striping. Lives in fresh water, and carniverous. Species not aggressive to humans. Docile species.

 

Spotted Lobster: 1- 1.2 metres in length, brown with black spots. Aggresive species of lobster, but edible. A lobster this big should make for good eating! Care should be taken whilst handling.

 

Toucan FIsh: 30 cm in length, blue, with green, orange, red and yellow stripe. Resembles a toucan bird of Earth.

 

Vampirre Fish:25 cm in length, black in colour with red stripe down mouth. Two small fangs in mouth.

 

Zeal Clam: 5 cm in length, grey i colour. Too small to eat.

 

Fauna> Mammals

 

Amacran aardvark: 30 cm in length, grey in colour. Eats ants.

 

Amacran bunny: 40 cm in length, 20 cm height. Grey in colour. Friendly species.

 

Amacran Chipmunk: Size and appearance similiar to Terran chipmunk.

 

Amacran Fruit Bat: 2cm in length, active at night. Eats fruits.

 

Amacran Field Rat: Size similiar to Terran rat. Brown with white spots. Has sharp teeth used to gnaw food.

 

Amacran Squirrel: Size and appearance similiar to Terran squirrel, comes in grey, black and red.

 

Amacran Tree Sloth: 1.6- 2.3 metres in length. Herbivore, lives on trees and is friendly to humans. Lieks to climb.

 

Amacran Pole Cat: 60 cm in length, brown in colour. Small aggressive catm,, with sharp powerful claws. Care should be taken whilst handling.

 

Amacran Racoon: Size and appearance similiar to Terran Racoon, except for black spots, more pronounced snout, and small antennae.

 

Anger Cat: 1.5 metres in length, beige with black stripes. Very sharp fangs and claws. Extreme care should be taken whilst handling. Lives in jungle. Aggressive cat.

 

Ash Fox: 1.2 metres in length, ash grey colour. Shy species of fox.

 

Bearded Rabbit: 20cm in length, 20 cm in height. Brown in colour, with small beard like fur under its jaws. Meat is rich in protein and vitamins. Edible.

 

Cappachino Monkey: 1 -1.4 metres in length, cappachino coloured fur. Black face. A curious, playful species of monket. Tail is 40 cm long. Uses tail to cling to tree.

 

Coot: About 80 cm in length, orange in colour. Lives in trees, and belongs to lemur family of primates. Gets around by hopping.

 

Droopy Eared Fox: 1.1 metres inlength, brown in colour. Has drooped ears.

 

Flat-footed Deer: 1.6 metres in height, by 1.3 metres in length. Antlers are 1.8 metres long, brown with black spots in colour. Has flat feet, as oppsoed to hooves.. Meat can be eaten, and fur can be useful as well.

 

Giovanni Mustang: 1.7 - 2.1 metres in height. Dark black in colour, wild aggressivee horse.

 

Goat-like boar: Size similiar to Terran boar, with horns and facial features to that of goats. Very aggressive, but meat is declared edible, but tastes gamey.

 

Grey Hog: About 1 metre in length, 30 cm in height. Grey in colour. Edible.

 

Lurking Tiger: 1.9 metres in length, red w/black stripes. Powerful hind feet, sharp claws and sharp fangs. Extreme care should be taken when near. Lurks in forest trees and ambushes trees.

 

Magentis Jaguar: Size similiar to South American Jaguar.. gold colour with magenta highlights.

 

Night Panther: Size similiar to Terran panther, black in colour.

 

Pantera: 1.1 metres, black or yellow w/black spots in colour Resembles a mini panther.

 

Quick Silver: 1.6 metres in length, silver in colour. Member of wolf family. Aggressive.

 

Red Dog: 1 metre in length, red in colour. Looks like Australian dingo.

 

Rouge Monkey: 70 cm in length, brown in colour. Very mischevious monkey, and is always seen alone.

 

Scimitar Lion: 2.4 metres in length, silver in colour. Lives in deep jungle.

 

Super Sloth: 3.3 metres in length, brown in colour, lives in high trees

 

Upright Chimp: 1.1.metres, black fur with brown face. Walks upright, much like ancient human pedecessors, how this primate is able to do so is unknown.

 

Fauna> Birds

 

Amacran Black Duck: 20 cm in length, black in colour, with white horizontal striipe on neck. Lives in marshes and brooks. Edible

 

Amacran White Goose: 40 cm in length, white in colour.

 

Amacran Chicken: 20-30 cms in length. Brown, with white tips on feathers, fast running bird, that is edible, meat and eggs similiar nutreient values to Terran chicken and eggs,

 

Bark Owl: 25 cm in length, brown in colour. Strips off bark with beak to get at bugs or animals inside.

 

Golden Goose: 50 cm in length, gold in colour. Edible.

 

Pewter Pheasant: 30 cm in height, pewter in colour. Edible meat.

 

Red Turkey: Size similiar to Terran turkey, red in colour. Edible.

 

Flora>Other:

 

Amacran Leech: 5mm when empty, 90 mm when full, brown or black in colour, one sharp fang. Can be used as medical leeches, due to fast rate of blood sucking.

 

Amacran Slug: 11mm in length, yello, green and red in colour. All excrete an acidic mocus trail.

 

Amacran snail: 15-35 mm in length, orange shell, with brown snail. Edible, can be eaten as escargot, mucous excrection noted to help with anti-aging.

 

Amacran Worm: 15mm - 1cm in length, brown w/red stripes. Useful in eliminating compost and waste.

 

Beetle Larvae: 5mm - 10 mm in length, white or yellow in colour. Edible, extremely high in protein.

 

HOPEFULLY NOT RADIOACTIVE:

 

Ancient Arrowheads: Sharp metal tips possibly used by planet natives. Carbon dated to 500 years in past.

 

Black Grass: Found near a swamp, about 20-40 mm in height.

 

Blackish-Brown Water: Found in a swamp.

 

Green dirt: Found in ground near a crater.

 

INANIMATE BUT USEFUL:

 

Amacran Aloe Vera: Found in the aloe vera bush. Large medicinal value.

 

Amacran Herbs: Various forms, and sizes, and colours. Possible large medicinal healing properties, detected. Will have to be ascertained by CMO.

 

Amacran Mushroooms: Various sizes and colours. Can be used as food, non-poisonous, and edible. Mushrooms with red spots may have high medicinal value.

 

Amacran Water: Extremely pure, cold and good to drink, found in rivers, brooks and streams . 6-8 litres procured. More should be collected.

 

Algae: Found in ponds. Opens up pores in skin. Can get rid of acne.

 

Amacran Mint: Useful as garnish.

 

Bark, from Amacran Cedar: Medicinal value

 

Beans: Can be crushed to make coffee (brown beans), and Cocoa (black beans)

 

Branches: From Amacran Bushes.. proterties of branches ascertain that it ma make a good cure for high fevers.

 

Eggs: From chicken and ducks.

 

Ginger like root: 15-20 cm in length, brown in colour. Can heal upset stomachs. Tastes like ginger.

 

Green root: May be able to cure vision loss.

 

Honey: Found in trees, yellow or clear in colour. Very sweet.

 

Leaves: Has medicinal value.

 

Molasses: Sap from trees, sweet and sticky; edible. Can be used as syrup.

 

Mud: Cleansing effect on skin, similiar to mud used in mud baths in Earth.

 

Pond Slime: Cleans up oil and dirt in skin, leaving it clean and soft.

 

Roots: Also has medicinal value.

 

Sap: Clear in colour, can be used as syrup.

 

Theysis: Underwater root, with medicinal value. May prolong lifespan, based on it's properties.

 

Truffles: 4-10 cm in length, brown, black and grey in colour. Edible and very delicious. Found throughout the forest.

 

Underwater Blue Herb: 15-30 centimetres in length, found under rivers and lakes. Large medicinal value.

 

UNDEFINED:

 

Blue Dirt:Unknown why dirt is of this colour. Found near a marsh.

 

Grey metal: Found in the centre of a crater, possibly from an old probe,or spacecraft? Scans prove iconclusive. Believed not to have originated fromthis oplanet. May be fallen space debris.

 

Unknown Object 1: Gold metal sphere on gold handle, about 25 centimetres long.. Sphere, and handle has weird hyrogliphics. Proved to be over 1000 years old, by age testing. Possibly an old artifact of the natives.

 

Unknown Object 2: Wooden shaft but broken at top. Different wood as Object 1. Age tests ascertain it is about 100 years old. Very fragile Wood is petrified.

 

Fossil: 50 cm wide, by 30 cm tall. Fossil of some kind of ancient shell fish. Estimated age is 50 million years old.

 

Black grass: Unknown why grass is black. Found in a deep forest.

 

Bone: 40 cm long. Age tested to 10,00 years ago. Belonged to some kind of ancient mammal.

 

END OF REPORT

 

Sergoio streches out on the rock and looks up at the stars. Up there somewhere is the Challenger. Sergio hopes they'll get good use of these materials.

Edited October 13, 2004 by Sergio Giovanni