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Interlude: A Waking Nightmare Walking alone through the corridors of $BASENAME2, you skim the securityreports on recent attacks by the horrific native "mind worms." Giantswarms, or "boils," of these mottled 10cm nightmares have wriggled out of thefungal beds of late, and now threaten to overwhelm baseperimeters in several sectors. Victims are paralyzed with psi-induced terror,and then experience an unimaginably excruciating death as the worms burrowinto the brain to implant their ravenous larvae. Only the most disciplined security squads can overcome their fearlong enough to trigger the flame guns which can keep the worms at bay.Clearly you will have to tend carefully to the morale of the troops. Furthermore, since terror and surprise increase human casualtiesdramatically in these encounters, it will be important to strikefirst when mind worm boils are detected. You consider ordering someFormer detachments to construct sensors near vulnerable bases to aidin such detection efforts