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The tale of how ASTRAL the Protogen became who he is now
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ASTRAL'S Origins
Protogen are, as many know, enhanced cybernetically for space travel. These enhancements make them vulnerable to both regular illness and computer viruses. For a virus that can infect both, this is a problem and has yet to be solved.
Before the incident, ASTRAL was a hardworking Protogen, with a love for science in particular. His fur was bright cyan with black and grey plating, and the markings on his shoulderplates resembled a green-blue crystal.
He was sent into deep space to investigate the sudden and mysterious disappearance of contact with a nearby star system. Upon arrival ASTRAL was shocked to see that the landscape was warped and contained veins of a strange red and blue metal, and every tree had been transformed into a grey monolith with the same metal in it. The life that once was here had succumbed to the thing that had caused this atrocity. Known as the Astral Infection, this stellar disease can infect both flesh and steel, bringing anything under its control. Even the fauna here had been twisted into abberations of organic biology, and across the caverns beneath the surface, gargantuan cyan crystals spiked up from the ground.
Even now, minutes after ASTRAL's arrival on the decimated planet, the virus had sensed his presence, causing countless monoliths to launch clouds of the virus into the air, preventing ASTRAL from breathing safely. He could feel the virus taking over his body, but something within him roared in blatant denial of his apparent demise. Not like this, he thought, willing his body to fight the Infection's control. For a lifeform so simple, the collective intelligence of the Astral Infection was staggering. But even the mind of the Infection had never encountered a Protogen before and was puzzled by the way flesh and technology were fused into one being. While it was able to take over the cybernetics, the flesh of ASTRAL's body was a challenge and would not submit. His appearance changed as his visor was mutated by the virus, taking on a red to blue coloration, and his eyes and jaw were inverted so on the red side of his visor his eye and jaw were blue and vice versa. The plates on his shoulders and legs now sported a different pattern, with half of the crystal now replaced by a red flame design. Finally his chest plating turned the same grey hue as the landscape and, unable to fight the virus any longer, lapsed into hibernation...
The Astral Infection itself could not dominate the Protogen's catatonic form and gave up, lying dormant in his body, still present and responsible for his altered appearance but powerless.
Two weeks later ASTRAL's distress beacon was located and a rescue party was sent out to retrieve him. The virus did not try to infect these Protogen as it now knew of the risks and difficulty in overcoming a Protogen's systems. So ASTRAL's hibernating body was recovered and brought back to his homeplanet, where he recovered from hibernation swiftly. Nearly all of the medical team were puzzled at what had caused his appearance to change and only found out after hours of testing.
ASTRAL was completely unhindered by the Infection and lives a full life, working in scientific research, trying to find a way to completely combat or even reverse the Astral Infection's effects.
Read it and like it? Leave a comment!
ASTRAL'S Origins
Protogen are, as many know, enhanced cybernetically for space travel. These enhancements make them vulnerable to both regular illness and computer viruses. For a virus that can infect both, this is a problem and has yet to be solved.
Before the incident, ASTRAL was a hardworking Protogen, with a love for science in particular. His fur was bright cyan with black and grey plating, and the markings on his shoulderplates resembled a green-blue crystal.
He was sent into deep space to investigate the sudden and mysterious disappearance of contact with a nearby star system. Upon arrival ASTRAL was shocked to see that the landscape was warped and contained veins of a strange red and blue metal, and every tree had been transformed into a grey monolith with the same metal in it. The life that once was here had succumbed to the thing that had caused this atrocity. Known as the Astral Infection, this stellar disease can infect both flesh and steel, bringing anything under its control. Even the fauna here had been twisted into abberations of organic biology, and across the caverns beneath the surface, gargantuan cyan crystals spiked up from the ground.
Even now, minutes after ASTRAL's arrival on the decimated planet, the virus had sensed his presence, causing countless monoliths to launch clouds of the virus into the air, preventing ASTRAL from breathing safely. He could feel the virus taking over his body, but something within him roared in blatant denial of his apparent demise. Not like this, he thought, willing his body to fight the Infection's control. For a lifeform so simple, the collective intelligence of the Astral Infection was staggering. But even the mind of the Infection had never encountered a Protogen before and was puzzled by the way flesh and technology were fused into one being. While it was able to take over the cybernetics, the flesh of ASTRAL's body was a challenge and would not submit. His appearance changed as his visor was mutated by the virus, taking on a red to blue coloration, and his eyes and jaw were inverted so on the red side of his visor his eye and jaw were blue and vice versa. The plates on his shoulders and legs now sported a different pattern, with half of the crystal now replaced by a red flame design. Finally his chest plating turned the same grey hue as the landscape and, unable to fight the virus any longer, lapsed into hibernation...
The Astral Infection itself could not dominate the Protogen's catatonic form and gave up, lying dormant in his body, still present and responsible for his altered appearance but powerless.
Two weeks later ASTRAL's distress beacon was located and a rescue party was sent out to retrieve him. The virus did not try to infect these Protogen as it now knew of the risks and difficulty in overcoming a Protogen's systems. So ASTRAL's hibernating body was recovered and brought back to his homeplanet, where he recovered from hibernation swiftly. Nearly all of the medical team were puzzled at what had caused his appearance to change and only found out after hours of testing.
ASTRAL was completely unhindered by the Infection and lives a full life, working in scientific research, trying to find a way to completely combat or even reverse the Astral Infection's effects.
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maybe you should put the story in the description it says can not open filetype
oops ok
Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
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