Alien: Earth (2025) season one
Blood-sucking ticks
Small elongated blood-sucking organisms. Their stealth allows the threat to penetrate into food and water.
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Role in history
They show that a large predator is not needed for a catastrophe: breaking the isolation of a small specimen is enough.
Place
EARTH / 2120
Where did it appear?
Samples at the Maginot, then the Neverland laboratory.
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Carrier
Malachite; isolated casualties among rescuers.
Denouement
During the operation, Malachite and the doctors nearby die.
Development
- They feed on blood and increase in volume.
- One specimen releases the juveniles into a water bottle.
- Malachite drinks contaminated water; organisms end up inside it.
- Removing the parasites causes a dangerous release of the substance. The full cycle of the species has not been established.
Dossier boundaries
The species is not a face-hugger. The dossier combines specimens of the same species rather than reporting one individual in all scenes.