It had six legs, three eyes (closed), and skin that shimmered like an oil spill. But the strangest part: embedded in its dorsal ridge was a port. A USB-C port, organic at the edges, sprouting tiny bioluminescent tendrils.
She’d been a xenobiocontainment officer for twelve years and had never seen that code. Openemu wasn't a standard taxonomy. Biopack suggested living cargo. But the "open" prefix… that meant the specimen was meant to be released. openemubiospack
It opened itself.
The crate clicked.