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Gigantopulex Kishin

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In late 2007, a japanese oil rig discovered something extraordinary...then vanished off the face of the earth, torn apart by something huge. Weeks later, ships investigating the area disappeared amidst frantic, garbled calls.
Then a Japanese coastal town gave a frantic call for assistance against an unknown assailant. When investigators arrived, they found a town of corpses, where huge insectoid shapes skittered amongst the shadows. The wreckage of one of the missing craft lay just off shore, various remains strewn about it's decks.
Then they arrived, swarming from the ship, vicious dog sized crustations, all tearing claws and snapping mouth parts. The investigators barely escaped alive, and in the process revealed to the world the existance of the creature the japanese media would dub "Destroyah."
The name was apt. The creatures were revealed to be an unknown form of deep sea crustacean, characterized by powerful jaws and a strange oxygen destroying compound in their digestive fluids. Those bitten by the creatures found the oxygen molecules in their bodies slowly destroyed, leading to agonizing death. The creatures were scientifically described as Gigantopulex Kishin, or "Massive Fleas of Kishin" (a shinto ocean deity).
With strenuous efforts by the JDF, the outbreak was contained and the creatures killed. But with the immediate threat over, the Japanese scientists began to wonder where the creatures could have come from.
One scientist raised an unsettling possibility; that the creatures were a form of cutaneous living predator, perhaps of some deep sea creature. If so, then their sudden appearance now could only mean that something was rising from the depths....
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