ALIVE! in the Frontier

I was thinking about the story Alive where the plain for those soccer players crashed in the Andes and they ate the dead to survive. Never did understand why they just didn't hike down the mountain but I was thinking this might work as a story in the Frontier- ship misjumps and suffers other engineering difficutlies and survivors are forced to eat the dead.<br /><br />Immediately after thinking of that a movie I watched from the roof of a van at a drive in theater suddenly came to ming: The Thing. So the story is that the survivors were eaten but by some life form like the Thing that then doppleganged them. Sole survivor gets taken back to the Frontier and naturally chaos ensues.<br /><br />or the ship crashes and there is a sathar listening post and the handful of sathar are as per some recent discussion the types that like to suck bodily fluids out of victims and use their hypnotism ability to compel willing victims. <br /><br />As I type this I'm remined of the Original Star Trek episode where the creature sucked all the salt out of victims- not half as gruesome as the above but in the same vein.