[Normal] Toxicology

[Rhysand Sekker]

Venom extraction process - Cave Spider

Homework - Toxicology - Lesson 3

by acolyte Jen’kaar Nakits Vipion

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Subject species: Cave Spider

• Location: Ord Cestus (Outer Rim, D’astan sector)
  
• Description: Sparsely populated yet a dominant species on Ord Cestus, the Cave Spider nests in caves, as its name suggests, and their appearance resembles that of other arachnid species found throughout the Galaxy. It’s size varies from 10 cm to 160 cm (adult).
  

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Student note: The notable feature of this animal which made me choose it for this species as the subject of my study was not just the recent happenings during the last lesson, but more so the fact that it shoots its sticky webbing and venom at its prey. It is noted that these beasts hunt in packs, and that these packs use various means of taking down prey. This denotes several key features: there is a modicum of intelligence, thus making this creature use a form a communication in order to have such traits, most likely usage of pheromones. Also, it is implied that they are highly territorial, so isolating one specimen would be the first hurdle needed to be overcome in order to extract the desired toxic venom.

There is not much more information found regarding this species, thus leaving much of the biology of this species a subject of supposition as well as associating it with other arachnid creatures.

That being said, below is my proposed method which a Force sensitive with enough training and guidance can use in order to obtain venom from a Cave Spider which would be a young subject, though not an adult one, having a distinct size of approximately 50 cm, if isolated from its pack.

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Proposed method used for ‘milking’ the venom:

• No beast would ever allow itself to be captured and not react violently, and given the fact that Cave Spiders shoot web and venom, if the user would devise a way of capturing said shot venom (such as a container), they would only need to deal with the aspect of the webbing, which is not a difficult task if facing just 1 specimen;
  
• However, a calculated approach would be to immobilize the beast by the usage of either telekinesis to immobilize it (techniques such as Force Grip) or perhaps clouding its mind, by using a wide array of techniques such as Force Slow (albeit channeled constantly over a significant amount of time) or Tricking it’s Mind in order to keep it calmed;
  
• If such a feat is managed successfully, a simple process of placing a vial/container close to the fangs of the Cave Spider is all that is needed in order to ‘milk’ the venom, which also can be done by using Telekinesis, not holding directly onto the vial/container with one's hand.