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Once they have successfully captured their prey, they will force some of their strings through the cellular pores, destroy the central nucleus, hijack the cell to make all the necessary macromolecules it needs for survival and produce more copies of their genome, before draining the preys and repeating the process.

That work?

My impression had been that it was all with one string.

...is this going to be approved?

I'm still waiting on MNIDJM to respond.

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Once they have successfully captured their prey, they will force the majority of the length of their string through the cellular pores, destroy the central nucleus, hijack the cell to make all the necessary macromolecules it needs for survival and produce more copies of their genome, before draining the preys and repeating the process.

That work?

Yes. I'm still not so sure about the term "endopredator", though. It's not a commonly known word.

Would you be more comfortable if i put a slight elaboration on the term in the description? I feel like it's a more accurate term to explain how it works than just predator.

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As a endopredator that hunts by inserting part of itself inside its prey and absorbing from the inside out, they have greatly simplified their cellular structures, allowing them to exist at a size small enough to fit into their prey.

Yes, that works.

We good to go?

Yeah, all looks good now.