![]() ![]() ![]() They had found SIVA, and to the machine-worshipping eliksni, it came as a near-divine benediction. Something glowing red that pulsed and swarmed as if alive. So they traced the nanites from that facility back to the Cosmodrome on Earth and hunted through it till they found something…different. They immediately recognized what the nanites were doing and how powerful they could be. Now, the eliksni might be larceny-minded bastards who make everything out of stuff stolen or salvaged from someone else, but that also means they’re extremely good at understanding and adapting foreign technology. Thus SIVA was confined.Ĭenturies later eliksni scavengers from the House of Devils poking around the old CB Corp facilities on Mars accidentally released the prototype SIVA enhancement strains. Eight sealed the chamber and destroyed the forge, leaving Lord Saladin as the lone survivor. Of the hundred Iron Lords who took to the field to contain what they called the Plaguelands, only nine reached the replication chamber they recognized as SIVA’s source. Its nanites tore into and corrupted Ghosts. The Iron Lords fought to keep it contained, but it animated their own weapons, their own vehicles, their own dead against them. It had been told the Lightbearers were invaders and swarmed relentlessly to defeat them. When the band of Lightbearers called the Iron Lords quelled the warlords and sought to raise humanity back to some semblance of the civilization it had had before, they went to the Cosmodrome searching for tools of the Golden Age to help.Īnd SIVA spilled out in response. Humans had long since abandoned Mars, but they still held Earth and remembered through the centuries that a great power dwelled in the Cosmodrome. The largest was on Mars in Hellas Basin, and the next largest was on Earth, seated in the old Russian Cosmodrome from which he had once flung the Exodus ships into the night in a last desperate gamble. He survived in fragments hiding in a dozen facilities scattered through the solar system. But Rasputin bears an old name and it cannot be killed. So Darkness came, and Rasputin fought, and Rasputin lost. Because that never causes problems or anything. Anyway, point is, these prototype strains were left dormant at a CB facility on Mars. Look no further than Worldline Zero for proof. Surprise surprise, they died again, and Willa Bray…handled…the other researcher. Willa Bray had also been experimenting with using prototype specialized SIVA strains to “enhance” humans (“to make better colonists”), and when several of them died she suppressed the data, made some changes, and gave the project to a different researcher to try again. Unbeknownst to Rasputin (or maybe beknownst but he didn’t care) Dr. SIVA was picked up for use by the Warmind Rasputin in his Exodus colony program, a fleet of human ships meant to settle extrasolar planets the nanites could theoretically consume whatever resources the colonists found in-situ to build anything they would need. Willa Bray, granddaughter of Clovis Bray I, chief scientist at Clovis Bray corporation, and inventor of the encrypted-matter engram. SIVA is a self-replicating programmable nanite swarm originally developed by Dr. Yet another of those Golden Age ideas that seemed great at the time. Ornaments: Pandemic, Patient Zero, Mercurial Affliction, Matterscourge Enemies that die with nanites attached to them generate additional nanites. Masterworked Trait: Disease Vector - Increases nanite damage. Trait: Parasitism - This weapon does more damage to enemies based on the number of SIVA nanites that attach to them. Perk: The Corruption Spreads - This weapon creates SIVA nanite swarms on rapid hits and precision kills. ![]() ~directive = KILL while enemies = PRESENT: execute(directive)~ ![]()
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