Post by K500 on Jan 30, 2022 14:35:50 GMT -5
ANTISENSE ACTIVE
PL: 10,000 (Wound Damage)
Saibamen were a pest! A plague, even, that had devastated Plant as deeply as destron. Alas, the sentients of the planet had mistaken this odd creation of theirs for another lab-spawned anomaly that would die off in the wilds after a couple generations... Not so! K4 estimated that there were five combat-worthy saibaman specimens for every combat-worthy saiyan and tuffle! And as for their alien allies and friends? Too few remained to matter. Most had blasted off in their ships and pods, in search of other planets and wars... Did K4 envy them? Undoubtedly! But to admit it would be admitting that he, weakened and dulled, depended on others! It was best, it was optimal, to contrive instead that there was still zeni to be made on Plant.
And there were.
Just not on the scale he was used to.
Averaging five zeni a head, an extremely dedicated hunter could almost make ends meet by hunting saibamen. It was great for those patriotic types that, having found themselves short of a war, needed some outlet for their neuroses. K4 noticed that they didn't last long. He also noticed that his original plan — breeding saibamen with multiple heads — could take up to a year to break even. So he had to follow the organic masses, and actually risk steel and limb for pay.
Too weak to barge into a nest and tactically let the saibas explode in his face, K4 was thinking up plans to take on his first breeding pit. How could he deal with the whole bunch and not losing a single head? Five zeni were still zeni! And enough of those could buy him upgrades.
"I could use a new brain..." he lamented, between psychic convulsions. He knelt before a map scrawled on dirt, moving with his mind eighty-two teeth (representing the saibamen) and a screw (representing himself). He worried slightly that some other hunter would come, of a specie he couldn't as easily convey.