Not yet no, but it's a clue. If pulsefire is so dangerous, maybe they should stop mining ore altogether. I doubt that would be an option, though, or that they would listen to us if we suggested it.

Ah, shit. Brain parasites of a sort? Ten years is a long time, those poor people must have felt so lost afterward.

Sounds a bit like the movie Alien, ever watched it? It's great but a bit gory, the aliens always end up killing their host when they start growing inside the bodies and 'hatch'.