> mirror microbes could make bioproduction facilities, which use bugs to churn out chemicals, more resistant to contamination That does sound like a good plot

> mirror microbes could make bioproduction facilities, which use bugs to churn out chemicals, more resistant to contamination That does sound like a good plot starter for the Alien franchise—first they were on a quest to synthesize smoked salmon without risking to have the batch get infested in the bioreactor, then the sludge somehow escaped and wiped out life on the planet.