Ext. Mars like topography. Pan left to right until the camera comes to rest on a pod of "grazers" scratching at what passes for dirt. A small group of what are obviously predators paces in the foreground.
Voiceover: It's like nature in slow motion
The camera reverse cuts to two exosuited figures. One is gesturing towards the predators while the other wields a handheld tri-d recorder. The voiceover seems to originate from the gesturing figure.
Voiceover: Whether it's the extreme temperature or the nature of this planet's unique biochemistry, this entire ecosystem seems to run on one quarter time or less. It's actually quite, well, precious."
The camera operator shifts focus to the group of predators, which slowly turn their "heads" and began to pad very slowly toward the two.
Voiceover: Under normal circumstances, attracting the attention of such obvious predators would be very dangerous, but even though these bulky exosuits limit us to about half speed, we're still twice as fast as the fastest of the local wildlife.
The image shifts focus slightly to what is apparently footage from the handheld camera.
Voiceover: This is Llorta Krow for the Interstellar Expedition Network, reporting fro-
One of the predators slams into the space suited figure, smashing it violently to the ground.
Voiceover: Incoherent screaming
The scene continues through the lens of the handheld recorder. It jumps back to the rest of the pack, still several hundred meters distant.
New Voice Over: What the-
The camera cuts back to other suited figure, now silent. The predator slowly, almost languidly, finishes the disembowelment.
New Voice Over: That's not poss-
The camera swings back to the distant pack. One of the creatures takes a few slow steps forward.
New Voice Over: No....
The image cuts back to the "cinematic" point of view. A slightly cooler looking version of the predator lowers it's head toward the ground in a distinctly wolf-like manner. The POV "dives" into the creature's snarling mouth. A simplified version of multiple hearts and glands appears. So does a small, stylized land speeder. Little NO molecules began flying about the screen.
Cut to: Closeup of predator leaping forward at unbelievable speed. The POV shifts quickly back and forth between the "cinematic" POV and the POV of the handheld camera. They merge seamlessly to show the strange looking beast accelerate to cheetah like speeds over the course of a few steps. It moves so fast that it seems to grow, rather than move closer, a trick of perspective.
New Voice Over (Slowly, then much faster): No. No. No. Nonononononono-
The image slows to a stop just as the beast pounces, catching it in midair, it's multilayered, alien maw stretched to the fullest. The image shifts slightly to a static 3-D image. At the bottom, a caption is visible.
Caption: Last recorded image of IE news team, and first contact with native lifeform, nicknamed, Grendel.
Fade to: Infantry Bay. Several tough looking...
Excerpt from unproduced holoprogram script, "Ramen II: Land of the Grendel", author unknown.
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