AVP Rift War 7

As a result, they had to strategize for second and third orders of reaction, such as hostile fauna, or flora, or occasionally warlike creatures. Ar'Wen remembered one blooding party, when he had placed the Ovomorphs in the midst of a battle between hordes of eight-legged creatures. This had been done more as an experiment, and it hadn't been long before the facehuggers had overwhelmed the indigenous creatures. Then there were hundreds of drones waiting for the nine inexperienced unblooded whose mission it was to eliminate them.

When the senior hunt leader was provided the readouts prior to landing, he and the other two leaders agreed that sending the unblooded out would be nothing short of a suicide mission. Their only option was to nuke the planet and move on, postponing the blooding until they located a more suitable world. That had been something of a disappointment.-pg.76-77 interlude