Description
Hello, humans! I use machine translation. If you see a typo, correct me.
The next creature will be strange guests from the swamps. Sprouting jungle roots have altered the landscape of the Dome, leaving the city's water reservoir in a low area. Without human supervision, this reservoir quickly turned into a swamp, becoming a habitat for exotic creatures that sometimes get out into the jungle to hunt.
Due to the remoteness of the swamps, many farm workers in safe areas have never heard of koronids, carnivorous colonies of microscopic creatures. At the first meeting with koronids, at first glance they may turn out to be funny - a whimsically swaying ball on thin legs. However, this will only last a couple of moments, smelling you, the colony will rush at you, not giving you the opportunity to react.
So what are koronids? Presumably this is an evolved colony of some kind of swamp midge, straying into symbiotic colonies, reaching a diameter of about a meter. A larger colony loses mobility, which prevents it from hunting, so they usually do not exceed this size. Sensing a target, the koronids jump on their tasty prey, simultaneously exploding the colony from the inside as it is filled with poisonous gas. Standard Coalition armor is quite capable of withstanding a gas explosion and isolating you from the poison, but the problem is that the life cycle of the colony after the explosion does not end...
The scraps of the exploded colony will inevitably fall on your armor, I remind you that the koronids are a cluster of microscopic creatures, so they will immediately begin to eat your body armor and when they get to your delicious meat it is only a matter of time. Other parts of the colony, which were scattered by the explosion in different directions, begin to crawl towards each other, from which a new colony of koronids grows, capable of causing a second explosion.
It is believed that weapons such as a flamethrower or a shotgun can save you from problems in close combat. In the Dome, this stereotype does not work - if you enter into close combat with these creatures, then you are up to your ears in shit, no matter what weapon you have in your hands. Therefore, if you provoked a colony to attack, a good solution would be to set up a smoke screen - the smoke breaks the sense of smell of the flies and causes the colony to panic, which will give you time to escape.