Bookworm
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To develop a new version of the techno-virus
- Image Source: http://terminator.wi...-hand-re011.png
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Nanogene Spore Technobeast
- Name: Talos Seeds
- Manufacturer: Taeli Raaf, Order of Shadows
- Homeworld (optional): Nar Shaddaa
Production: Semi-Unique
- Affiliation: Taeli Raaf, The Sith Empire (limited to individuals that have Taeli's IC permission)
- Modularity: None
- Legal Status: It is likely extremely illegal in places outside of the Sith Empire
- Ingredients: Nanogene Seeds, Sith Alchemy
- Classification: Alchemical Mutagen
- Method of Consumption: Orally, Injection, Inhalation
- Average Life: Indefinite
- Nutritional Value/Allergies/Side Effects/ Purpose: The seeds have no nutritional value, as their purpose is to mutate a victim's cells into a metal-resin of sorts. Side effects are extreme bodily aches, fatigue, and skin discoloration
- Transforms the victim's body, down to the very last cell, into a durable metal-resin type substance. Major organs are converted into metallic facsimiles of the original organs, with the brain becoming almost like a highly advanced droid brain
- The Talos Seeds mutate a subject's body into a metal-resin type substance, held together by an electromagnetic field emitted from each "cell"
- Time from infection to transformation is relatively swift, taking only a maximum of thirty minutes or so until the change is irreversible
- Force users can counter the effects of the Talos Seeds if they are trained in the art of mechu-deru or have another ability, such as Art of the Small, that can manipulate the infectious seeds.
- A powerful source of heat can burn away the seeds while they are still infecting an individual, rendering them completely inert and saving the subject. However, if the transformation goes too far, the heat source will only slow the infection.
Birthed from inquisitive minds from the Lady of Secrets' Order of Shadows, the Talos Seeds are an attempt at a next-generation technovirus for the creation of a new type of technobeast. Born in partnership with the Anomid Doctor Votoc and several alchemists in the service of Taeli Raaf, the project was begun at a hidden research lab on Nar Shaddaa.
Votoc was fascinated by tales of the technovirus, a creation of Sith alchemy and droid technology, that could mutate a subject's body into metal. In his mind, the creation of a new technovirus would create the next-generation of his Masquerade droids, but he found several flaws with the original nanogene spores. They would lobotomize a subject and the transformation was haphazard at best. Votoc and the alchemists working with him began working on perfecting the new spores or seeds, Votoc designing the coding and material the subjects would be transformed into while the alchemists worked to perfect the alchemical transformation process.
Poor denizens of the world were secreted away by the Order of Shadows to their lab, where they were subjected to experimentation by the doctor and the alchemists. Votoc was intrigued as he watched many subjects die from the various samples they had been developing, their bodies failing partway through transformation. But, as Hysen Whita, the chief alchemist working on the project said, discovery required experimentation.
Eventually, they were able to create what they dubbed Talos Seeds, a successful upgrade to the technovirus. When they presented their results to the Lady of Secrets, they were given her approval to begin producing more of the seeds for the Doctor's project and for potential use by trusted individuals within the Sith Empire.
