Perfectly Imperfect
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To further flesh out the particular mutational properties inflicted upon and gained by Credius Nargath after the Atrisian Campaign with the CIS, the consequential contact with the Blackwing Virus and the impact of utilizing untested anti-viral suppressants and their side effects. Also further delving into the effects upon his physical form due to decades of inactivity in stasis and the virulence of both the blackwing strain within himself and the properties some of his physical attributes now possess or lack.
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- GENERAL INFORMATION
- Name: Blackwing Afflicted - Plaguelord
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: Atrisia Primary (first contact with Blackwing) | N&Z labs Secondary
As the origin is the result of both the infection with the blackwing virus and the unexpected results coming from a most likely overdose on untested proprietary drugs made by the N&Z, both will be listed as being the point of origin for this particular species/individual. - Average Lifespan: While this has yet to be verified due to the only current "living" specimen still being "alive", given their current age having surpassed 100 years of age, it can be assumed they would be capable of reaching lifespans of at least 100y.
- Estimated Population: [ Unique For now this species is relegated to a single individual due to the unique circumstances of their creation.
- Description: The Blackwing Afflicted - Plaguelord is a unique specimen, a one of a kind occurance within the science of bio-engineering and virology, where the outcome is completely different from the expected result. In the case of the Plaguelord, it is neither a mindless, predatory undead like most, if not all Blackwing afflicted end up being, yet it can also no longer be counted among the living persay. A Plaguelord fluctuates between death and life, a precarious line manifested within them in the form of a strange mutation occuring for a strangely, highly specific reason which is detailed below, alongside the boons, quirks and drawbacks within the mutation on both a physical and mental level.
Unique to the Plaguelord, is the presence of an underlying, semi-sentient mutation caused by a coinsidential side effect of the utilized anti-viral suppressants and the Plaguelord's own connection to the force. This semi-sentient mutation resides within the Plaguelord's very own blood and is classified as Blackwing Strain 71, the very basis of several deadly viruses and species linked above in the accompanying links to this dissertation. This mutation as it were is the true carrier of the Blackwing virus afflicting the Plaguelord and both utilizes the Plaguelord to propagate itself, but as it is bound to the plaguelord for sustenance and growth it has formed a rather unique, symbiotic relationship with its host. Through the ingestion of biological material or the direct draining of lifeforce, the Plaguelord can thus satiate the semi-sentient mutation, which in turn will heal the Plaguelord's body to a certain degree, meaning that most healing is only temporary and mainly in order to maintain proper function of the host's circulatory and locomotive functions. Meaning that it will speed up the body's process of healing broken bones, internal wounds and such as long as this process does not outweigh the incoming lifeforce. The lower the incoming lifeforce, the lower the active healing provided to the host.
In reality there are already three documented stages in which the Plaguelord can be noticed, the first stage simply reveals the fact they have constantly vibrant crimson and golden eyes, similar to some sith, but with the added inhuman element of having a slit pupil and sometimes even blackened sclera, with the latter mainly indicative of the internal mutation's activity. In the second stage, where the body is under heavy stress, decay settles in and skin becomes pallid, dry and may crack, hairloss can occur and the Plaguelord will have a rather emaciated look. The third stage makes the Plaguelord look more like a flayed corpse rather than a living being and is a severe case in which the mutation is burning up the body's reserves to maintain its own integrity at the cost of the host despite their somewhat symbiotic existence.
- PHYSICAL INFORMATION
- Breathes: Technically doesn't, but the human host does operate at optimal capacity in atmosphere types which are capable of sustaining human life.
- Average Height of Adults: 210 cm
- Average Length of Adults: N/A
- Skin color: somewhere between alabaster and pallid/transluscent depending on the stage of the mutation
- Hair color: Blond, silver gray, none depending on the mutation and the effect on the host
- Distinctions: Besides the aforementioned Eyes' irises being a vibrant crimson and gold color surrounding a snake-like slit pupil, there's also the fact that the mutation within the Plaguelord can manifest itself as wriggles underneath the skin, the black color of their "blood" which is in fact the mutational virus within them as well. Depending on the stages in which they find themselves as explained earlier, their appearance may range from only slightly different than usual to wholly grotesque and horrifying.
- Races: There is only one member of the species, thus no races have been formed or created yet. However, by the nature of the afflicted, through the recreation of the way this being came to be, the chance of a second Plaguelord being created is never zero and there is no information on whether or not the individual's original race has any impact on the creation of a Plaguelord so far.
- Force Sensitivity: All As this form is the result of the side effects of the use of an untested substance on a force sensitive person, it has been speculated that should there ever be more like this one, these would almost certainly also have a high degree of force power and potential to reach a similar state of being.
- Strengths:
- Rapid Regeneration of even the most severe non-lethal wounds, such as torn limbs, stabs through the body, etc, as long as these do not affect the brain, though at the cost of activated midichlorian's stored energy, thus lowering the strength and connection to the force whenever healing.
- Strongly increased physical strength, agility and reaction speed [stage 1-2]
- Insanely high pain treshold
- Massively increased sensitivity to the presence of concentrations of midichlorians, capable of sensing force sensitivity in people even when force cloaking is active [stage 3]
- Increased sensory capacities, such as sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch
- A much more powerful presence, with practically passive air of unease and an unnatural pressure about them.
- Hightened mental properties, allowing for a strange sort of hivemind, overriding control [NPC only/PC only if agreed upon] and telepathic communication with those who have been touched/afflicted by the Plaguelord in question and thus carry part of the mutation.
- The ability to allow the mutational blood to manifest itself outside of the body in the form of strong, sticky tendrils which can be utilized to hold items or as an attempt to potentially infect others with it. [stage 1-2]
- Practically unaffected by the majority of hostile atmospheres, surroundings and the likes.
- Highly resistant up to near immunity to most common toxins, poisons, mutagens, anti-viral drugs, etc... though this does not stop these products from working when they have been tailormade and even the ones where a near immunity is present will still need to be filtered out by the body.
- "Technically" and "Theoretical" limitless force potential [within limits of accepted rp]
- Weaknesses:
- Strengths diminish when going through the phases, with Stage three mainly having the sensory advantages, yet with great physical deterioration and lowered force potential as a result, regular intake of the living force and biological lifeforce is mandatory.
- Fluctuating force potential/strength within the force due to the internal activities of the mutation [any player utilizing this race will be bound to cycle through the stages of the mutation, thus avoiding abuse of the strongest form at all times]
- Insatiable hunger, a drive to consume and drain both the living force and lifeforce from others.
- Passive force drain, resulting in a noticeable presence whether the individual wants it or not, making stealth rather impossible in the presence of force sensitive individuals [stage 3]
- Physical contact or social interactions are limited depending on the stage in which the individual finds itself, especially in the vicinity of those who have great force potential.
- Very succeptible to intensely bright light, which feels uncomfortable and may even hurt the individual through the lack of properly UV filtering skin. In stage 3 bright light may even actively burn the individual.
- CULTURE
- Diet: Omnivore, the individual retains their ability of consuming foods at their leisure, though they are no longer bound to normal caloric intake and have a much higher resistance to foreign substances such as poisons and inedibles due to their rearranged biology.
- Communication: While they ostensively use the standard communication patterns of their original race, which in this case would be vocal communication. Any who have been infected or have been altered with the use of the mutation afflicting the Plaguelord are in essence capable of conversing through a strange link, a hivemind of sorts, allowing for talks from great distances, but also overriding control and telepathic linking.
- Technology level: Galactic Standard with a twist, as The Lord of Hunger, as the Plaguelord calls himself, was a gifted engineer and scientist, flush with large amounts of credits to be used for his own purposes, one could state that he is beyond the limitations of Galactic Standard, as he is one of those who push the galactic technology standard to new hights with each invention.
- Religion/Beliefs: The individual believes in the strength of progress through evolution, seeing the mutation as a necessary act to evolve beyond his own humanity. In a sense, this individual is highly anti-religion, finding dogmas and tennets constricting and restraining towards the true purpose of those who have seen the weakness of the galaxy: to evolve, to transcend and to go beyond the limitations of each evolution time and time again. Even death itself is thus viewed as but a mere step in the neverending quest for progress.
- General behavior: The general behavior remains somewhat in line with the human behaviors the individual had prior, though they may display a much less humane, ruthless and cold nature (something which they already had) with an obsessive tendency to present one as strongly as possible. All standard behavioral patterns and individual behavioral patterns essentially remain the same, though are either heightened to the extreme and may have the added odd behaviors such as avoiding too bright light, violent tendencies and a predatory streak.
- HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The strain didn't seem to randomly multiply, but meticulously changed the subject's DNA and genetic structure through a slow and methodical process never seen before in viruses, as if it had grown a will of its own. While he continued his study of the man who he'd come to know as Credius Nargath, former Marquis of Valkan and at the time Chairman of one of the galaxy's most powerful corporate entities, the Doctor had to acknowledge that further studies would require better insight in the virus and the host's effect onto this strange virus which he dubbed BW-71.
When the Zweihander Union was at the zenith of its power in 763 ABY, Doctor Raskowitz was leading a team of researchers and scientists, having discovered that the All Purpose Anti Viral Suppressant which Credius Nargath had injected himself with rather frequently after the initial infection by a blackwing afflicted subject, had caused the initial mutation of the Blackwing Virus, coupled with the Chancellor's rather powerful will within the force, it almost looked as if the man had managed to mentally form a link with the mutated virus, creating a sort of mutually beneficial arrangement on both a physical and mental level.
Over the years though, Credius' situation worsened and not much investigation had been done on the limits of this mutation and the link between the man and the virus, thus in the final days of the Zweihander Union, the Chancellor of the Left had moved all operations to The Tomb of C located on The Redoubt, where Credius was placed in stasis within his false gravemonument, allowing the loyal researchers to survive the collapse of the Zweihander Union and even the decline of the N&Z Umbrella Corporation in the hands of Credius' family. They simply continued their studies and their experiments, all the while completely ignoring the Second Great Hyperspace War, the absorbtion of the former Zweihander Union into the Eternal Empire or even the entire galactic collapse afterwards. The Tomb and its inhabitants continued to research the now officially denoted Plaguelord; Credius Nargath.
After decades of stasis, with only a few moments of lucidity outside of the stasis tanks, Credius' most loyal subject finally decided to awaken her master in full. Having grown beyond the limits of his body, beyond even the limits of his mutated powers, the man now selfproclaimed as
The Lord of Hunger
arose from his Tomb of C and began to reestablish himself within the Galactic darkside. However, the long years of stasis and the long term stays of the man's soul within the Nether and the void had further changed his mutation and his physical self, which due to a strange complication had begun to deteriorate faster and needed more energy and lifeforce to sustain itself. As such, the sole being considered as a Plaguelord, is now a much more dangerous predator, its mutated virus stronger and more controlling than ever, the hunger bestowed upon its host more insatiable than ever before and in turn the sheer power within the force of this monstrocity has reached new heights.
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