Her thoughts are interrupted by Scott, one of The Lector's pilots, who drunkenly propositions her. These feelings are compounded when she discovers a report Kesar has written about the dead creatures Roth found, and realizes that the doctor must have gone looking for them. Miriam Revna, the colony's human doctor, she becomes concerned. However, when she learns of Revna's disappearance from his wife, Dr. A large party is organized in celebration of the harvest, and even the usually uptight Machiko joins in the festivities. To this end, the group assaults one of the outlying ranch houses and slaughters its occupants, the Sheldons, although their young son Bobby escapes.Īt the main colony complex, The Lector arrives and loading of the rhynth begins. One of their member, Tichinde, assumes command of the group, killing his peer 'Aseigan when he protests, and elects that the inexperienced Yautja will attack the humans they now realize are on Ryushi, relishing the challenge. With Dachande incapacitated by the explosion and his lieutenants killed, the young Yautja find themselves leaderless. When he is discovered, Revna panics, and in attempting to flee on his speeder he accidentally crashes into the ship, destroying it and killing himself.

Instead of more examples, he instead discovers the Ne'dtessi and its Yaujta crew, who have set down for their Hunt.

Intrigued by the biologically unique specimens, Renva heads out to where Roth claims to have found the dead creatures to investigate. Kesar Revna about where she found the dead creatures. Not wanting to risk the harvest, Ackland keeps the incident quiet, while he has Roth lie to the colony veterinarian Dr. However, one of the ranchers, named Ackland, finds several of his rhynth are apparently suffering from a mystery illness, while his employee Roth discovers several dead crab-like creatures near where the animals were pastured. The settlement's new administrator, Machiko Noguchi, is preparing for the much-anticipated harvest, when the rhynth reared by the ranchers over the last few years will be collected by The Lector and taken off-world for slaughter. Unknown to the band of Yautja, the human rhynth-farming colony Prosperity Wells has been established on Rysuhi since they last visited. Arriving in orbit around Ryushi, the crew use Eggs from a captive Xenomorph Queen held prisoner in the ship's hold to 'seed' the planet with Xenomorph prey. The Yautja ship, the Ne'dtessi, is also headed for Ryushi, where its commander Dachande intends to lead several inexperienced un-Blooded hunters in their first Hunt. The Lector, a transport ship headed for the planet Ryushi, is passed by a Yautja vessel in deep space, but the crew pass the object off as a comet.

For the entire human settlement lies smack between the two varieties of monster - who will simply never stop. And their prospects are suddenly very bleak. The colonists are unarmed and vulnerable. The other - upright and smart like humans, but infinitely stronger - are the Predators. One kind - beetle black with shells as hard as steel - have been spawned as the prey in a deadly hunt. It soon becomes clear that two strains of alien life have landed near the settlement of Prosperity Wells. Finally a creature unlike any ever seen is found, itself near death. Little did she know that soon she would defend it with her life.įirst the carcass of a spider-like alien is discovered. Machiko Noguchi accepted the supervision of the ranching colony of Ryushi ranching colony as a challenge. ON A WORLD OF HUNTERS - WHO BECOMES THE HUNTED?

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