[ What an interesting sweater-pancho you're designing, Karen.

For his part, Iori shrugs, watching her pick out fabrics with... a kind of curious abandon. ]

They were incredibly dangerous. Their function was parasitic. Infect a host, multiply, then kill the host to help spread them further through the universe.

[ Standard parasite behavior for ones that attack and kill host bodies. ]

You had your own alien invasion to contend with?