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Preliminary Autopsy Report – Kra Combatant

• Subject is bipedal, carbon based life form, warm blooded, mammalian.
  
• Age estimated at 25-35 years old.
  
• Gender ascertainable, male.
  
• Height 5 feet, 2 inches.
  
• Weight 106 pounds.
  
• Two eyes, with retinal/corneal macro and microscopic structures, almost entirely rod cells, indicating heightened near-darkness vision. Substantial capillary damage from acute violent decompression. Irises pale to off-white.
  
• Two respiratory orifices.
  
• Two ears, one at each side of subject’s head, auricle and external structures present, but minute. Each ear consists of conical structure, about 1cm in total diameter.
  
• Epidermis is almost entirely without pigment, translucent, hairless. Dermis is especially thin.
  
• Musculature is heavily atrophied across all muscle groups. Subject has a highly elongated spinal column, with abnormally long gaps between vertebrae. Similar extension can be seen at all other joints. Suggestive of generational exposure to low gravity environment. Based on body morphology, subject would not be able to support weight at even 1/2 of Earth’s gravity.
  

• Stomach cavity full of partially digested vegetative matter – likely nutritional blue green algae. Suggests vegetarian diet and shipboard food supply.

• Signs of radioactive cell damage, but substantially less than would be expected for an exclusively space faring race, indicating possible mutation in favor of radiation resistance.
  
• Ritual markings on abdomen and torso, as well as along both arms. They appear to be raised off the skin – likely healed decorative scarring.
  
• Kidneys, Stomach, Bladder, Liver, Spleen, Pancreas, Small And Large Intestines all normal.
  
• Heart and Lungs under weight for height and body-type – presumably a result of low gravity environment and sustained higher shipboard oxygen levels.
  
• Appendix present, but abnormally large and filled with fluid. It does not appear inflamed or ruptured, and fluid is clear.
  
• Testes present and apparently normal. Microscopic analysis of epididymis reveals abundant spermatozoa remnants.
  
• Lungs bear substantial internal hemorrhaging. Similar capillary damage observed in nasal cavity, larynx and trachea.
  

Preliminary Findings

• Subject is a male, 25-35 years old, with no observable pathology, but substantial non-pathological morphological abnormalities likely resultant from extended exposure to a low gravity, high oxygen, high radiation environment. These morphological changes include widespread muscular atrophy, to such an extent that subject would have been unable to thrive in even moderate gravity environments. Furthermore, an increase in rod cells in the retina indicate evolutionary progress prizing low light vision, as well as a substantial decrease in ear size and truncation of ear shape indicating a reduced need for acute hearing. Finally the subject bears an appendix of abnormally large size, filled with a clear liquid, indicating a potential reversal of vestigiality. Subject appears to maintain a vegetarian diet. Multiple indications subject suffered an acute violent depressurization event followed soon thereafter by oxygen deprivation, vacuum exposure and asphyxiation.

Cause of Death

• Violent Environmental Asphyxia

Coroner’s Notes

• Genetic samples have been taken and I am awaiting results, but based on my post mortem examination, I am forced to conclude the Kra subject does not belong to a unique species. Although genetics will clarify the extent to which cladogenesis has occurred, based on our strikingly similar morphological structures, I am forced to draw the conclusion that the Kra subject is a species variant of Homo Sapien. Obviously this strongly contraindicates extra-galactic origins, and raises substantial questions beyond my purview to address. A more complete autopsy is recommended ASAP.

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