The Beginning and the End

[Chrysalis]

Research Outpost 45XR Log Files pertaining to “Subject Omega”

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12.1.823, Subject Omega: Log Entry One

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The subject was hauled in today, after being seized by our agents on Solarius station. He was quickly neutralized by a stun baton and transported to his holding cell onboard our transport vessel in a mostly intact condition. However, upon our departure from Solarius, the subject awoke in an agitated condition, clawing at any loose parts inside his sealed compartment, looking for a way out, forcing us to saturate his holding cell with a moderate dose of neural gas. This kept the subject in a comatose state throughout the trip and the subsequent transport to his more permanent quarters planetside.

His permanent holding cell has been deemed safe by our personnel, based on the most up-to-date specifications for the containment of infested humans that our agents painstakingly procured from credit-receptive sources inside the Order. The long range examinations are already under way, the scanners will be running around the clock. We intend to learn as much as we can about the subject this way before any interrogation can begin.


-Doctor T.


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14.1.823, Subject Omega: Log Entry Two

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The scans are mostly complete. The subject was intent on making the process difficult with his incessant pacing, and we were forced to once again saturate his holding cell with a powerful anesthetic gas several times to complete the process.

What we’ve gleaned from these scans is nothing short of amazing. The level of incubus-host integration is greater than any of our previous subjects, indeed, we’ve seen some amazing adaptations during our many forays into the alien nature of the infested, but nothing quite like this. It is almost impossible to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

The incubus’ original tissue is almost unrecognizable. The part of it that is, has displaced and consumed the cerebellum entirely, now having taken its place and presumably - function. The rest has grown and morphed to encompass the subject’s entire brain, modifying the cerebral cortex to such an extent that most lobes split, their functions rearranged, and are displaying either higher than normal activity or simply, no activity. Most notable of these is the frontal lobe, modified heavily in form and function with exotic tissue. The mammalian brain no longer looks very mammalian at all.

However, deeper in, all similarity to the human brain simply ceases to exist, as the interior of the brain now mostly consists of a cavity filled with a sort of highly viscous fluid and the modified remnants of the basal nuclei, amygdalae and an oversized pair of glands, now sharing heavily altered form and connections to the rest of the brain. Christ, it would take decades to categorize and understand the brain alone, and I intend to do so, but for now - moving on to the rest.

The nervous system, both central and peripheral, has been replaced with exotic tissue growing from the cerebellum down the spinal cord. The changes that this entails are at this point unknown to us.

The internal organs have likewise been changed, and some new ones have been grown, their function at this point mostly speculation. The one new organ whose function we could determine appears to be a second heart, though it remains mostly inactive while the main heart still performs the majority of the function.

The ribcage appears to have mostly fused, creating a sort of protective chest plate to increase the protection of the vital organs beneath.

And last but not least, a subdermal layer of protective tissue and muscle encompasses the entire body, which appears to be heavily integrated with the new nervous system, or - perhaps - as my assistant has theorized - is a part of it.

This is too much, I initially intended to test, compare and dispose of the subject as was the case with the rest - but this one warrants a much longer investigation. We’ll be increasing the containment time to indefinite, even though my peers protest - out of blind fear no doubt - but I won’t be shaken so easily.


-Doctor T.

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