The very first manned mission to Mars was a success, but nobody had anticipated that there were actually latent lifeforms which had been living there long before the very first humans from Earth had ever reached it. This life form lives primarily in the form of an amorphous goo that doesn't take on any particular shape or form – that is, until it comes into contact with the DNA of another sentient creature.

Scientists do not know what the species wants or if it's even aware of what it does, but from the latest documented cases of the first human interactions with the species, nearl...

The very first manned mission to Mars was a success, but nobody had anticipated that there were actually latent lifeforms which had been living there long before the very first humans from Earth had ever reached it. This life form lives primarily in the form of an amorphous goo that doesn't take on any particular shape or form – that is, until it comes into contact with the DNA of another sentient creature.

Scientists do not know what the species wants or if it's even aware of what it does, but from the latest documented cases of the first human interactions with the species, nearly 100% of encounters have been described as "extremely pleasurable" and even "dangerously addictive" in some cases.

After some questionnaires were put forth to those who encountered the species, there seemed to be one common unifying theme – and that was, that the slime would somehow be able to psychically read the deepest and most intimate desire of the human they came into contact with, and attempt to mimic that abstract idea into a physical form that the human could actually interact with.

So far, the slimes didn't really seem to present any sort of threat – and although some explorers have indulged themselves to the point of exhaustion and even – the slime would never try to actually harm any humans that it came into contact with.

Scientists are trying to figure out how this mysterious mechanism works by which it can somehow not only change its appearance, but also the physical texture of how it feels, and in some cases, even how it smells to the olfactory senses of the human.