Sons of Plunder Mueratos:
Through studying the various medical databases included in the information stolen from the Aralangs by Hikaru Tyris, the Sons of Plunder have been able to revamp the original Mueratos project using Saraton and psionic techniques.
Cordis: A massively dangerous pathogen, Cordis affects the heart alone. It is a large pathogen, scarab-like in appearance. Any attempt at all to forcefully pull it from the organ will result in the detonation of docile Saraton cords laced into the walls of the heart, completely shredding it and cauterizing the edges of the wounds, preventing natural healing. Cordis first creates a membrane from a specialized compound similar to Curicite, which leeches energy from the blood in the heart to fuel itself through a psionic construct tied to the organism. Beyond the weakening affect of the membrane, Cordis is not inherently deadly in this stage. Should removal be attempted, it will promptly burrow itself into the heart or surrounding tissues. If location is attempted, it will pop out and induce over fifty tumors in a random path within moments by utilizing another psionic construct to reform the DNA within the cells. These tumors WILL be highly malignant if Cordis is removed before the tumors are. Finally, Cordis will issue a sort of EMP pulse, knocking out most surgical equipment and causing every tumor still present to explode, tearing apart the flesh and causing massive bleeding.
Obsidio: Looking like a four leaf clover with an eye in the center, Obsidio is one of the more insidious Mueratos strains, but by far not the most deadly. The 'leaves' release a saraton-laced gas that acts as a powerful anesthetic, very quickly knocking the victim unconscious. If not drained by the time the host is knocked out, the gas will start to corrode the living flesh, cauterizing it before disintegrating it. Obsidio will then eat the remnants of the living flesh. If removal is attempted, Obsidio will use the claws underneath the eye to slice open large lacerations in whatever is within five inches of the main body. If the eye is exposed, it will fire off a very small saraton laser-like beam in self-defense.
Mortua Deus: The final strain. The base organism was discovered outside the Dimensional Plane. It was named Mortua Deus due to it's visual likeness to a murdered deity in Relorian mythology. Starting as a subatomic living particle, it invades the victim through any means possible. Oral ingestion, through the skin, respiratory inhalation, absorption through mucus membranes such as the eyes or inner ears. Anything it can use to get inside the body. Once there, it buries itself into the heart. Leeching massive percentages of the energy carried by the blood in any nearby arteries or blood vessels, including the heart itself, Mortua Deus completely takes the heart over. It reforms the heart's surface to form a bulge holding a large eyeball. Once the eyeball is fully grown, it will start stealing nutrients from the surrounding tissue, making sure not to take so much that it kills the host. It uses these nutrients to produce every single strain of Mueratos pathogens, turning the host into a living, bioterrorism time bomb. Once no more nutrients can be gathered, it uses psionics to turn the body's fluids into volatile explosive chemicals. Finally, the subatomic core leaves the body, while the eyeball shields the produced Mueratos strains. These shields produce sparks for the first quarter second of their existence, which ignites the host's bodily fluids and detonates the body.
All of the new strains, and any of the older strains produced by Mortua Deus, benefit from the medical information regarding conventional Aralangs, allowing them to survive despite the Aralian immune system. Out of all of them, though this isn't actually known to the Relorians, only Mortua Deus can actually kill the more powerful of the Elites. The others will severely debilitate them, however, often rendering them completely useless in a battle or as pilots until the pathogen is dealt with.
