Talk:Nidus/@comment-24839811-20190514191941/@comment-91.152.20.136-20190609111615

Early prototype without all the safeguard refinements implemented later, experimental research branch, something going derp with the Infestation strain used... any number of possibilities, really. Given how the Sents were running roughshod over them (Hell, one apparently went Godzilla on most of Earth's urban centers) the Oro R&D folks presumably weren't about to leave many things untried either.