The Butcher
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
SYMPTOMS & EFFECTS
Initial Stages is an improved healing factor. Noticiable under observation but hard to discern.
Secondary Stages after Infection increase paranoid and psychotic impulses with bursts of adrenal hormones being pumped through the body to create violent outbursts with various means as it reinforces obsessions within the person themselves.
Final Stage infection is post mortality as once the body is considered nonfunctional the necrotic animation properties of the orchid bring back the body to continue what it has been doing. No longer feeling pain, tiredness and while initially losing intelligence the mind will slowly rebuild itself. The virus itself is also fullblown and no longer able to enter a domant stage as it is controlling the body itself.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
Strengths:
Designed by the bioweapons engineers of the academy of the dead with their experiments on sithspawn and new ways to make biological weapons. The Black Ambrosia is an avenue of what was originally the goal of using the orchid... a viable way to preserve ones life after death.... albiet not the way many think about. The Ambrosia itself still causes them to die and become craving the flesh of warm blooded and living beings... but it also can mess with their minds as it not won't just slowly kill their bodies but make themselve seem more like asymtematic carriers who can spread it without showing signs of infection for years with any dangers being written off as personality and behavioral differences. Seras has developed it to be a bioweapon without the luster and big fanfare... it will be much more suibtle and can destroy over time many other population centers... can destabilize a place in the future for the ones who make careful plans.... plus it would lead to a rise of considered killers in the galaxy as the virus slowly alters and drives many to acts of violence and harm to others. With the right people infected this could be used to create viral timebombs in jedi temples or even a senate meeting that would see the virus be spread to thousands of worlds making them ripe for the picking.
- Intent: Continue to make the basis for weapons
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- Scientific Name: Ebony Ambrosia
- Abbreviation: EA
- Common Name: Ambrosia
- Virus Family: Murakama
- Origins: Al-Khālī: The Academy of the Dead
- Other Locations: Various
- Description: Viscous tar like sludge that necrotizes the blood into a goop inside of the body. Outside of the body it looks like microspores under enough magnification.
- Morphology: Spherical
- Size: 1,000nm
- Color: Black
- Distinctions:
- Rapid Infection Rate
- Domancy Period
- Personality Alterations
- Cellular Regeneration
- Source: Hybrid
- Host Species: Plant bacteria
- Host Range: Broad
- Viability: Host Body
- Lethality: Fatal
- Severity: Extreme
- Infectivity: Extreme
- Modes of Transmission: Various methods of transmissions, spittle, blood and other fluids in open wounds or ducts such as tears and glands.
- Incubation Period: Time can vary as the virus initially goes dormant within the body for several years even decades or just days.
- Re-Infection: No, the virus itself is permanent within the body and can reactivate at seemingly random times.
- Vaccine/Cure:
- There is no cure developed, the hibernation and dormancy period of the virus allows for some to never know that they were infected until it is too late.
- As it is force based and specifically engineered with darkside energies and alchemy. Force light can be used if focused and concentrated enough.
SYMPTOMS & EFFECTS
Initial Stages is an improved healing factor. Noticiable under observation but hard to discern.
Secondary Stages after Infection increase paranoid and psychotic impulses with bursts of adrenal hormones being pumped through the body to create violent outbursts with various means as it reinforces obsessions within the person themselves.
Final Stage infection is post mortality as once the body is considered nonfunctional the necrotic animation properties of the orchid bring back the body to continue what it has been doing. No longer feeling pain, tiredness and while initially losing intelligence the mind will slowly rebuild itself. The virus itself is also fullblown and no longer able to enter a domant stage as it is controlling the body itself.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
Strengths:
- Hibernation: Like many sithspawn the virus and by extension the infected can enter aa state of almost suspended animation. Allowing it to preserve itself until there is a catalyst that reawakens it and pushes it towards its goal of spreading more through infection.
- Cellular Regeneration: The black ambrosia can seem viable in a pinch, allowing one to be healthy... it can help repair the body quickly and most will not know what the price is until much later. Offered as a healing salve and alternative to bacta or more expensive healing methods.
- Force Light: In the early stages before the final stage of infection it is possible to destroy the infection. If it can be detected. Being darkside produced its signature in the force while faint is there seeped in the darkside and that makes it vulnerable to force light.
- Force Nullification: Being based in force alchemy the bodies that have reached the final stage of infection when cut off from the force can begin to rapidly decay and fall apart.
Designed by the bioweapons engineers of the academy of the dead with their experiments on sithspawn and new ways to make biological weapons. The Black Ambrosia is an avenue of what was originally the goal of using the orchid... a viable way to preserve ones life after death.... albiet not the way many think about. The Ambrosia itself still causes them to die and become craving the flesh of warm blooded and living beings... but it also can mess with their minds as it not won't just slowly kill their bodies but make themselve seem more like asymtematic carriers who can spread it without showing signs of infection for years with any dangers being written off as personality and behavioral differences. Seras has developed it to be a bioweapon without the luster and big fanfare... it will be much more suibtle and can destroy over time many other population centers... can destabilize a place in the future for the ones who make careful plans.... plus it would lead to a rise of considered killers in the galaxy as the virus slowly alters and drives many to acts of violence and harm to others. With the right people infected this could be used to create viral timebombs in jedi temples or even a senate meeting that would see the virus be spread to thousands of worlds making them ripe for the picking.
