Having collected all the relevant information, the small spacecraft simple intelligence began to calculate its collected data. Based on centuries of observed experience it quickly calculated the perfect target and launched its cargo.
With the sole reason for its existence being completed, the drone overloaded its plasma reactor and vanished, completely vaporised in a small burst of heat and radiation that reduced 98% of its structural mass to vapor.
Below, its cargo continued to free fall, protected by a rudimentary pod and guided by simple orders given by its mothership moments prior to its self-destruction. The target was a vast ranch located almost 50 kilometers from the main settlement, populated by only a half-dozen cowboys and literally hundreds of Texas Longhorn Cattle, and located less than 15 kilometers from a played out mine. Large and isolated with perfectly located cover. In other words, completely perfect.
Landing in the midst of the herd with a gentle thud the pod opened its side panels and violently disgorged its cargo. Moments later it slammed on its thrusters and detonated them at a height of almost 40 kilometers, destroying every trace of what it had left behind.
Back on the ground, the bull of the herd started back towards the landing spot, and nudged one of the four, leathery objects the pod had left behind before it too had self-destructed above.
Spurred to activity by the physical contact, the pod opened. Sensing danger, the bull lowered its horns, but its defensive maneuver was for naught as the egg's ten-legged content struck with lighting speeds, grabbing onto its face and wrapping its tail around its neck. In a moment, the bull struck the ground unconscious, as the Facehugger's tube forced an embryo down its throat to gestate.
Spurred on by the pheromonal cues of the first, the other three eggs opened and their contents attacked, beginning the first stages of what would probably become a major infestation.
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