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Osedax Mortuus, colloquially referred to as "Zed," defies classification¹.

How does one negotiate with someone only capable of guttural barks and snarfles? How does one combat a species impossible to understand?

We do it the same way we've done it thousands of years: heavy artillery. Or, in our modern age: orbital kinetic bombardment. Rods from God.

Nuevos Aires Dept. of Games & Theory
1961

¹ While myth claim Zed origins from the jungles of Nuevos Aires, the earliest recorded sighting places Zed in the Los Gatos plains in 1926. Trainyard computer crashes baffled engineers across the country, until it was discovered a radiation burp was randomly flipping bits. The radiation source was then linked to Zed, possibly patient zero.  See Ryder, K. "Nuevos Aires: A Country Study." Nuevos Yanqui: Aphone, 1929.
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