Stuff That’s Canon – page 10
Actually, Trigger’s got a LOT of fears of varying levels of rationality, he just doesn’t show most of them
Actually, Trigger’s got a LOT of fears of varying levels of rationality, he just doesn’t show most of them
This is totally true!! I read it on the Space Internet urban legends site: it seems Xal-Gox were originally bioengineered thousands of years ago from an extremely dangerous killer predatory species, something like a cross between La Faulx and the creatures from Alien – they just shut off the genes that allowed it to move (because it was way cheaper than completely removing those genes), tweaked it for tastiness and texture and all sorts of other things, and voila! The Delicious Xal-Gox we all know and love.
Thing is, every so often, once in every billion or trillion or so Xal-Gox, there’s a random mutation and some of those tweaked genes turn themselves back on! 😮
Naturally, the Big Xal-Gox Industry spends a LOT of money to cover it up so we never see the tragic results on the news.
The point being, it’s super unlikely, but you just can’t be sure, you just don’t know if if that movement you saw out of the corner of your eye was just your imagination, or you ended up with one of those Xal-Gox.