For the last four years, medical ? quipe led by doctor Antonio Merz has been working on spaceship SELVA to find the cure for the Bellavita's disease, a brain-degenerative illness that has been killing people on Earth by the millions. In the last few weeks research had begun showing positive results thorough the implantation of alien spores in the cerebral cortex of a selected number of guinea pigs. On the morning of the 26th of July chief medical attendant Fabrizio Miraggio was put in quarantine following an incident with one of the experimental animals: security personnel had to forcefully block him while he was trying to devour Bibsy-332, an experimental monkey carrying the spores. On the 28th of July all communication with spaceship SELVA ceased.
