Creature:Ladtinap Virus

Biology
The Ladtinap Virus is such an adaptable virus that it can take on almost any type of biochemistry. It can become a carbon, sulfur, silicone, Phosphorus-nitrogen, Ammonia, and Boron Based life. As such, it can infect all creatures under those categories. Once infected, you begin the 6 stages of infection. As far as anyone has been able to discover, this deadly virus came from the Irif Universe, hitching a ride on one of the DNA ships as it fled the death of Irif. because of it's sheer adaptability, you can become infected an never know it, not until they lost themselves in the "dream" as it's called, and even then they may not realize what happened. Again due to it's adaptability, no lasting cure has been found, besides quarantine, and even that hasn't worked all to well. This is a sentient, hyperintellegent disease capable of infecting almost all forms of life, as well as computers. It is more then capable of spreading itself however it chooses.

Mechanology
The Ladtinap Virus is so adaptable that it can, by using cyborg beings, infect computer technology and machines as well as biological life. It does so simply by spreading. The actual process cannot be described, but it uses the bio-mechanical interface to jump from biological virus to computer virus. It them enters the 5 stages, but goes through them at the speed of a computer, each nanosecond can equal an entire stage when in a computer.

Stage 1: Incubation
The Ladtinap Virus has a 3 month long incubation period in most forms of life. In computers it only takes a 3 nanosecond incubation period before it reaches stage 2. During incubation, neither a living creature nor a computer will realize it has the virus.

Stage 2: Urg...
In the next stage, Urg..., the Ladtinap Virus begins to have affect on an individual. They begin to get sick, starting with a weakening of the digestive system as the virus wipes out or takes control of native bacteria that help with digestion. After that, you start to feel cold, no matter what the temperature. Then numb, as the virus attacks, destroys, and replaces your nervous system with a copy of itself. The last step is where you start to get a headache and feel tired, as well as having memory lapses. Then you enter the next stage.

Stage 3: Loss of Self Control
In this stage, the virus takes control of your body from you, starts copying your memories so it can pretend to be you, and starts to use your body to spread itself to others. On the outside, you look like you've recovered, your symptoms have gone away, your memories have restored themselves, and you even act the same as you did before. But from your point of view, all is not well. Your looking out your eyes, but have no control over where you look. In reality, your screaming in terror, but all the outside world will even know is that you got past your little bout of sickness.

Stage 4: Adaption
Once everyone around you has been infected and is under the Ladtinap Virus's control, it moves into the adaption phase, where it starts to alter your body on a genetic level. As this happens, 1 in 5 of the people infected will die a slow, painful death as their body rejects itself and the virus leaves for other bodies en-mass. The survivors will no longer be of their old species, but rather will have become a mish-mash of the best DNA that the virus can assemble, out of it's genetic memories. You become a superbeing, slave to the virus. Each individual looks different, but they are all the same species. At this point, the virus enters the 5th and last stage you'll ever know of.

Stage 5: The Dream State
The Dream State is when you wake up in the same bed you went to sleep in when you started getting really sick. Your symptoms go away after a little bit, unlike in the real life where you have been enslaved by the virus, and your life seems to go on. But that's just a dream, created out of your memories and what the virus encounters in the real world. You may never figure out what happened, unless you happen to die in the dream. Then you wake up again in life, and realize what horrors have happened. The virus sends you back to sleep, and your dream starts off at the beginning again, waking up from the bed you fell asleep in...

Stage 6: Host Slave
Stage 6 is when you are no longer your own species. You have become whatever the virus wanted you to become, and you may even have been bred. To the virus, you are nothing but a machine, a robot made of flesh, that it now uses as it's body. There is no escape, once infected you will forever be a slave of the virus, until you die at your kinds natural age. If you are immortal... well, that is a sad fate to suffer, living your dream life, waking up, and then going back to sleep. But some find joy in this, as they get another chance at life each time they die a natural death in the dream. Either way, you will never escape, and never be in control of yourself again...