The Right Hand Job
Until like Chapter 5, most of everything is going to be information.
Chapter 2 : The Immune, the Infected and the Mutated
Clicking out of the somewhat disturbing ‘Journal’, Alison opened another folder that read Reports from Facility 69: Research of the Above Ground (10,351 unread).
With the talent she was born with, being able to read 10 lines at a time, then being trained to be able to 50 lines at the same time, she quickly took in the reports.
Danger Level
Calculated in time but mostly years, danger levels indicate the amount of years an Infected has left. This could also be interpreted as their overall strength. Immune and Mutated danger levels are only in comparison to an Infected’s danger level and have nothing to do with their life-span
Immune
As their name states, they are people who are immune to the wide spread virus. These subjects were observed and experimented on and were proven that they are able use the virus to strengthen themselves. They have a calculated average life-span of 700 to 1200 years. However, they still need normal sustenance from food and water. In their years of living, they are always at their prime, except for the similar to human life of before of 24 years of growth.
Every time an Immune is “infected” by an Infected, their immune system starts fighting and overtaking the virus. Based on how strong the virus is, the longer it takes for the immune system to fight and overtake the virus, the immune system has been studied that it survives 100 percent of time.
Studies indicate that Immunes can raise their danger levels to normally around 60 to 70 in the course of their growth period without the help of being “infected”, but after that, physical training has no noticeable effects to their danger levels.
A long-term study of a danger level of 1 Immune being “infected” with a danger level of a 100 Infected showed that after 50 years in a coma, woke up into a danger level of 20. This coma state starts after 5 to 10 days after being “infected” and hardens the Immune to the point of only a danger level of at least 5 more can break through (The Immune’s danger level grows over time in the coma period, their skin hardening with it).
It has been shown that a person after being “infected” by an Infected, is unable to grow stronger after being “infected” again by the same Infected.
When a stronger Immune is “infected” by a weaker Infected., there is no amount of strength gained by the Immune. If the Immune is “infected” by a similar danger level, but stronger by a few days of danger levels, the Immune does not enter a coma state either but gains a minuscule amount of strength.
If the Infected is only higher by a danger level of few months or at most a year, when the Immune is “infected”, they also do not have a coma period, but the amount of sleep needed is increased depending on the danger level of the Infected. It has also been shown that there is a period of absolute inability to awaken for half an hour to two hours in this prolonged sleep, this also depending on the danger level of the Infected.
The current highest danger level Immune is a second generation Immune, known as the “Crusher” with a last-known danger level of 1065 and is at the current age of 160 years.
The calculated population of Immunes is around 15 million.
Infected
The Infected are people who are unable to completely fight off the wide spread virus, but are still able to survive it. The first generation Infected were slowly changed over a course of around 1 year into a hybrid of Homo Sapiens and a different organism. Scouts have shown that the hybrid could be part anything, as long as it is a living organism, some examples are half bacteria half human, half insect half human, half mammal half human. Rarer Infected have been shown to have more hybrids in them.
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The Infected live off the Immune, without feeding, the Infected will slowly die according to its danger level. For example, an Infected at the danger level of 60 will die off in 60 years’ time without feeding on Immune. Similar to the Immune, the Infected are able to get stronger after feeding on a stronger Immune, but unlike the Immune, they don’t have a coma period and are slowly able to increase their danger levels over time depending on the danger level of the Immune.
When Infected feed on similar danger level Immunes, they are able to still raise their danger level. The weaker the Immune is compared to the Infected, the less amount of time is given to the Infected.
When an Infected feeds off another Infected or a Mutated, there is no noticeable advantages to their danger levels.
Later generations of Infected are born from eggs with danger levels normally around 60 to 70 years, every year that they don’t feed is a year off their danger level. There also seems to be no correlation of hybrid between parent and child. Unlike Immunes, they don’t have any growth period and are fully born in their prime state, but this does not mean that they have the intelligence of an adult, which means they still have to grow their intelligence over the years.
The current highest danger level Infected is known as the “Lord” with a last known danger level of 1063, is a second generation 6-way hybrid of Homo Sapiens, Peregrine Falcon, Blue Whale, Maricopa Harvester Ant, Inland Taipan and Blue-Ringed Octopus. The “Lord” is also the only known 6-way hybrid and is currently at the age of 173 years.
The calculated population of Infected is around 20 million.
Mutated
After the virus went out of controls, governments started bombing the quarantine zones with nuclear warheads. This resulted into the virus mutating to be able to infect Immunes in the quarantine zones. These Mutated turned into an Infected like organism, but are unable to reproduce, turn stronger nor “infect” other creatures.
Mutated still require Immune to continue living, but they also have a second source of living, which is from a constant radiation source. With radiation, they do not require any other source of sustenance, but feeding on an Immune allows them to take longer treks around the Earth without radiation. (The amount of time they can survive without another Immune or a radiation source depends on the Immune danger level, when feeding off an Immune of a danger level of 500, a Mutated can survive 5 years without any sustenance)
Mutated usually have a danger level of 700 – 1000 years, and has a calculated life-span of 10000 years. Mutated slowly decay over the course of 100 years if they are not provided with sustenance from a constant radiation source nor an Immune. This decayed state results in lower intelligence and causes them to turn into a berserk like state after approximately 60 years where they start to attack any living organism, their danger level rapidly decreasing within the 100 years.
The current highest danger level Mutated is known as the “STD” with an abnormal danger level of 1231 years and is a hybrid between Homo-Saipan and Gonorrhea Bacterium. The age of this Mutated is the same as all other Mutated, which is currently 210 years old.
The calculated population of Mutated is around 5 million.