Fiction:PAX-744

"ASSIMILATE"

- An infection drake

The PAX-755 virus, dubbed "deathlight", is a mutated, deadly, shapeshifting virus let loose upon the galaxy on accident. Deathlight is responsible for the majority of the Nathierm deaths during the closing years of the Drovarian Movement. It is also responsible for the numerous terror attacks upon the Reclamation.

History
Deathlight is a mutated virus meant to bring about the fall of the Nathierm by mass murdering them all. While it worked, testing on board a reclamation scientific space-station caused the virus to mutate rapidly and replicate rapidly, eventually a strain forming that would mutate infected forms and possess them. The virus escaped and infected its first victim, turning it into a walker form. The infected proceeded to massacre the same people in the room, who had no weapons to kill the walker. The walkers then marched out of the room and murdered everyone they could. The virus eventually took over the station and forced the now deceased pilots to crash the station on the orbiting planet. The virus survived in some forms and quickly destroyed the planet after a few months of infection. However, this planets star was emitting huge amounts of gamma radiation at the time, effectively making an apocalypse. The resulting radiation started killing the plant life and whatever uninfected animals left. The only ones to survive was the infected, since they had no use for any organs, blood, whatever. The viral DNA mutated again and allowed the virus to infect non-organic surfaces as, so the virus can literally take over a planet. The virus can spread along the ground in tiny mutated tendrils, and can infect buildings. Infected buildings constantly churn out infector forms for further infection, thus increasing lethality even more.

The planet was rendered lifeless in a matter of months. Since the reclamation had no use for that planet, they didn't mind it. That was their mistake. If they cared, they could've glassed the planet and killed the virus, but since they didn't, the virus was free to wander the planet.