Kansas
May 20, 1997 / 7pm: Our new recruit seems to be blending in here just fine. This case, on the other hand, seems to get more bizzare at every bit of information. The insects were in small groups to start with. They seem to be banding together and expanding their scope. It's almost like a hive. I've never heard about anything like it before. I'm going to contact a friend who deals with these insects and see what he can give me.
May 22, 1997 / 9pm: What a day this has been! I spoke with a friend about these insects. From the characteristics these things have displayed, it seems they are not one particular breed, but a mutation - an amalgamation - of severl different species. I told him what Sidney found out about the plague 1847. He told me about some expariments that were being done with recombinant insect DNA and I have got to admit that it is pretty scary stuff. He was privy to some classified government information that talked about a man who was designing the perfect weapon. Insects capable of being used, even programmed, as weapons. We would probably have laughed at this concept even up to a few years ago, but now, anything seems possible.
May 24, 1997 / 10pm: The journal Sidney found reads like a horror novel. It seems that the plague that hit the midwest in1847 never completely disappeared. There is evidence, catalogued in the journal, that the plague "leaders" were actually periodical cicadas and the timing of the event in 1847 was a culmination of the hatching of several different types of periodicals. Reese is looking in to the LeMarque/weapon connection and I've sent Sidney on a yellowstone fact finding hunt to follow up on an iffy lead that reported a mass-grave for locusts under a glacial morass that coincided with the info she found in the journal.
May 26, 1997 / 9pm: Unbelievable. Reese found out about a grant given to LeMarque to develop a totally undetectable weapon of mass destruction. It appeared at first as if he had succeeded. But, somewhere along the way, he said, the insects got smart. They took on a life, a consciousness, all their own and separate from that of their creator. A few of the mutations escaped during transport; Reese is still trying to determine how many.
May 28, 1997 / 11pm: The insects captured from the swarms were all normal, none showed any signs of genetic tampering. Unfortunately, the three that escaped seem to be playing a game of 'follow the leader' with the others. Time is growing short; the solution may come down to destroying the entire locust population. I'm not sure it is possible in any case, or what the ramifications of such an action would be. I don't understand enough about their place in the eco-system to make a guess. I do fear what will become of the small agricultural base we still have in this country if the locusts are allowed to swarm out of control again. Maybe if I talk this out with Bastien, we might be able to determine a non-genocide approach to this problem.
Case Reference Number: 1115
Case Status: Closed
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