The test had been simple. He'd selected a frozen wasteland populated by what he saw a species of yeti then dropped a meteor containing retrodigitised xenomorph pods onto the glacial moon. Protected from the entry by a hull of chitinous ceramic, the pods had hatched and released thousands of scuttlebugs. Most of these had prompty froze to death - though adapted to survive in the radiative cold of space, they were still vulnerable to the convective cold of the glacial moon.
However, just one had survived long enough to implant a laval worm into a currious native but that was all it took. The native's stomach had provided the perfect incubation site for the next stage of the xenomorph's parasitic life cycle. The unwitting host had also provided acquired traits to enabled the developing queen to survive in Glacia's harsh environment.
The host had also unknowingly taken it's passenger to a nesting site with plenty of food and incubators for the next generation. The population had simply exploded from there.
There is a fable about a king who attempted to rid his castle of mice by bringing in cats, then dogs to chase out the cats, lions to move the dogs, elephants to chase out the lions and finally mice to scare away the elephants. This ammusing tale was meant to illistrate that the solution can sometimes be worse than the problem and that escalation never solved anything. Obviously a certain someone hadn't paid attention to such things as a child.
Yo eliminate the perfect biological weapon, the junior mad scientist chose to send in the perfect cybernetic weapon.
Though the DARLEK's bodies had attropied to near uselessness, they were encased in a life support system that doubled as a killing machine. They were basically brains in tanks.
They had one thing in common with the xenomorphs; both were implacably hostile to life forms not of their own kind. The DARLEKs response to encountering a xenomorph was predicatbly. With a battle cry of "Exterminate! Exterminate!" they began doing so with the energy weapon mounted in their armored shell. The xenomorphs responded by soundlessly ripping apart those shells to get at the tasty meat inside whenever their stealth and speed could get passed the DARLEKs advantage of range and firepower.
This battle of Mutual Assured Destruction did not go unnoticed. While the Yamato had withdrawn from close orbit to avoid further contamination, drone satelites continued their tireless serveilance and dutifully reported the detection of faint energy signatures from beneath the icy surface.
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