Alpha Centauri Reached

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Alpha Centauri Reached

Fox News has received conformation that Space Station 27 has reached Alpha Centauri. The Delta Foxtrot research team landed earlier this month, but the faster-than-light-transfer communications device installation took longer than expected. Now that it is installed, we can have an interview in realtime without even a millisecond of delay. That's exactly what we did, and in the interview (which we have been forbidden from releasing in full), we found out some interesting information.

Some of the main biotic factors are the Betanites, the Detrites, the Feline Detrivite, the Phinates, the Lambatra, the Atrovites, Ark-light, and the Arkanauts.

Betanites are flagellates that use absorb energy from excess chemicals from plants via osmosis. They are eaten by Arkanauts, creatures resembling the average earthworm, save for the mouth and the teeth in said mouth. The main decomposer is the Detrite. There are small, acorn-like plants called Atrovites, which are the primary food source of the Lambatra. A Lambatra looks like a source between a squirrel and a chipmunk, and acts like one, too. There is also the Phinate, which looks like a slug with fangs. It's venom is powerful enough to kill an elephant in 2 minutes flat. Finally, there is the feline Detrivite, a breed cat which was slightly mutated after exposure to the substance tiber. The successful breeding experiment shows that the atmosphere can safely support Earth's lifeforms.

Alpha Centauri has large amounts of water on the surface. The air is almost pure oxygen, which would usually be good, but in such an uncontrolled and unexplored area, this can be extremely dangerous. The surface temperature of the planet is about 69*F.

There appeared to be, at first, a large amount of grass. It was later discovered that the "grass" was really something now called "Ark-Light" (so named because of it's apparent glow), which uses chemosynthesis to transform the chemical tiber trioxide into energy. A Phinate alternates between releasing tiber monoxide with each breath. The Lambatra requires tiber monoxide to breath and it exhales tiber dioxide, which the Phinate needs to breath. This cycle is called the tiber cycle.

Everyone in America is excited about these developments, and we'll update you as soon we receive any more information.