"There is no happiness under the crimson sun...."
"Grand Admiral, what the Third Research Bureau has developed here will change our wars to come for a generation sir. Imagine it, if you will, an entire force capable of marching forward. No surrender. No fear. No pain. Just the glory of our Empire!"
Colonel Augusta Amund
Head of Project RUUSAN, Third Research Bureau
Head of Project RUUSAN, Third Research Bureau
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To provide Project RUUSAN an interesting new variant of the Badishahal’curazi.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
- Name: Project RUUSAN; PHASE III: Codenamed Impervious
- Designation: Non-Sentient
- Origins: Fortress Dosuun, Prefsbelt IV [x]
- Average Lifespan: About ten hours within a living organism before blood cell attacks cause decay.
- Estimated Population: Rare
- Description: Microscopic parasite would be the term to describe the Badishahahal’curazi. To the naked eye, they are invisible, but when under a microscope they are a very real presence, latching onto midichlorians in an observable manner, and colonising them. Feeding off of the midichlorians and other microbes found nominally within the body. The Impervious Strain however does not drift from place to place, but has specifically been evolved to latch onto key areas of the brain and from there, feed on the brain.
- Breathes: None required.
- Average Height of Adults: 0.01 micrometers
- Average Length of Adults: 0.25 Micrometers.
- Skin color: N/A
- Hair color: None.
- Distinctions: The Impervious are identified by the fact they are found feasting on midichlorians, and can be easily identified by their bulbous nature upon them. That, and once they begin duplicating they secrete gamma radiation. This however has drastic changes on the hosts physiology as the gamma radiation is only compounded as exposure continues.
- Races: None.
- Force Sensitivity: None.
- Host Boost: Those hosting the Impervious don’t feel pain or fatigue. They can keep on marching with half their jaw hanging off.
- Largely Benign: Other than the benefits provided to the hosts nervous system, and the occasional hurling, the Impervious are perhaps some of Prefsbelt IV’s proudest creations.
- Sterile: Outside of laboratory conditions, they don’t breed once inside. They latch on, but don’t spread, as the immune system attacks keeps reproduction down.
- Short Life Span: it takes about eight hours for an Impervious specimen to die, being attacked by the immune system.
Addition: While not as addictive as some stimulants, the knowledge that no physical pain or fatigue can be visited upon oneself has made the Impervious a rather desirable product. It is advised for officers to keep tabs on units using it. - Dirty Conditions: The Impervious can only really exist in dirty or organic conditions. So in the bloodstream or water. Sterile conditions kill it.
- Sickness: Around the last few hours of its life within the brain, the Impervious had been known to make some subjects vomit uncontrollably.
- Diet: Carnivorous, as they feast on other microbes and bacteria that nest on midichlorians.
- Communication: The Impervious do not communicate, except for when they are introduced to a body. Once there, the microbes will join forces, and seek out a diet of midichlorians found in the neural nerve endings of certain lobes in the brain.
- Religion/Beliefs: None.
- General behaviour: The Impervious nest themselves on the neural control centres of certain parts of the brain, and eat. Dragging in midichlorians, and other microbes while attempting to breed. Once attacked by white blood cells inevitably, they attempt to strike back, and hold them off. But are inevitably overwhelmed.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
With the successful proliferation of Project RUUSAN in the form of a weapon, Prefsbelt Command sought more medicinal uses. Enter the Impervious strain. The Project RUUSAN Research Bureau 3 found such a use by experimenting with brain chemistry. By breeding a special microbe that could only live in the brain tissue of a creature, they found that in simulated attacks on the microbe, it did a strange thing. It blocked out the neural receptors which sent pain messages to the other parts of the body. Of course this was simulated only in corpses, so a live subject was needed.
They chose one Petty Officer Dudley Marone, of the CNS Diadem to model the results. Marone was chosen due to his relative health, good constitution and several counts of insubordination against his wardens. To appropriate ensure testing conditions were good, the Third Research Bureau provided Marone with a dose small enough to be carried in a field syringe. Satisfied that the Impervious had settled, the Bureau tested his pain tolerance by amputating his left arm wi a reasonably sharp blade. While Dudley resisted, his heart rate never rose above 60. He was provided no sedatives, and he never once cried out in anguish when a hot iron was used to cauterise the wound.
Curious as to the extent they could go, the scientists restrained the subject and proceeded to perform heart surgery, with no anaesthesia. Dudley was fully conscious and protested this, but was nonetheless operated on with no complaints other than expletives and explanations that this was illegal, and protestations that would ‘Get theirs’. After the sixth hour of surgery however, it was noted the Impervious had decayed and been eradicated. Leading to a severe reaction from the Petty Officer, who writhed in unspeakable agony as wires were plucked from his open chest. Marone was subsequently killed when he chewed off his own tongue and choked to death on it. It was then the Research Bureau realised what they had on their hands. A new battlefield stimulant that would work better than most.
Immediately, a wave of arbitrary executions were performed on Prefsbelt’s prisoner populace, and dozens of corpses were sent to the labs. Taking their place beside the lobotomised Purgills. Their brains were used as breeding grounds for it. Further tests were performed on naval personnel, albeit far less gruesome. Surgery again pettiness with the Impervious used rare than anaesthesia. It was also discovered that the microbe could be used to aid not solely battlefield surgeries, but as a combat stimulant.
Tested against some small scale prisoner uprisings orchestrated by the Office of Labour and Industry, Prefsbelt Stossjaeger sent in, unarmoured sustained serious damage against the prisoners, but did not hinder or falter in the execution of their duties. It was miraculous. A production order was dispatched, further prisoners liquidated, and now the Impervious is sought to provide the cutting edge in battlefield technologies.
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