Chapter 170 Inquiring

• "What the hell is that?"
• The medtechs stared at the analyzer screen in surprise. He was using a system unconnected to anything in Tycho Deep so far as he knew—and yet, the screen had just gone blank after a swirl of colors. There had been two confirmed genetic lines in the subject's genome, and he'd been attempting to identify a third with some hope of success until the technical glitch had occurred. A normal genetic profile combined two sets of DNA of course, one from each parent...so why was there an extra one in this sample?
• Being a citizen of Luna, and a geneticist, he knew all about the creation of the Neanderthals from reconstructed remains, but even there only two sets had been used after the first generation had mated. He wasn't told whose sample he was working on, just that it was important...but he'd seen that it was a human profile given the strains he'd identified—the fact that both were male shouldn't account for that extra result so far as he knew. His mind had wandered when the results began appearing because it too was human...then a series of pings told him of some anomalies. His eyes had focused on the table of markers being displayed just before the screen went dark. Those last entries just coming in weren't human.