Even as the expedition group re-entered the artificial environment inside the large storage units, the initials results of their sampling were already being made known among those who had remained inside. The data was sent back to the labs for analysis and while many showed no useful compounds, some showed potential. One in particular was the subject of great interest. Most notably, the thick sap that had fallen from the tree fronds.
Maribel, though not a scientist herself, was actively involved in categorizing and sorting the samples into categories for further examination, immediate usefulness, no obvious use, or harmful to human life. Sometimes a particular sample fit more than one category such as the first product they had licensed – a compound that induced painful blistering rashes in humans, but which alien races with a different biochemistry found as a pleasant sensory-stimulating additive to foods.
