A/N: Chapter 6 is up! Yay! In this chapter, I decided to explain the presence of an extraterrestrial rock in the Solar System. I hope it is up to your standards, I'm no scientist!


6: Origins

There existed far away a peaceful, science-oriented species of intellectual beings whose only purpose and passion was further advancement of their powerful technology. They called themselves the Akyron.

Harkor Rolono Meypa D'Mana was the lead scientist in a controversial project to make an elixir of life. However, though many supported it, there were those who believed it wrong for any being to have immortality. Thus, when at a stage where the elixir was near completion, disaster struck. Rolono was killed in his laboratory.

However, before he died, he managed to hide the potion in a rocket, which he fired into space to coordinates only his trusted colleague Harkor Neemaso Kermo D'Mana knew. Unfortunately, the panicked scientist accidentally reversed the coordinates, sending the potion off to an unknown location.

The elixir was lost


A century later a colony scouting party chanced upon the most unlikely discovery:

A supposedly dead but hospitable planet was completely devoid of life except in a one square mile area. It was an Akryon crash site.

The surrounding area was teeming with a strange moss-like flora, while among them were complex microorganisms and small warring colonies of cells. A society on the microscopic scale.

The discovery was unprecedented. The entire media was abuzz with it. That was, until a bright spark pointed out the incident at Hakkor Rolono's laboratory a century ago.

Immediately, the Science Council locked the area down and sent a team of highly respected scientists to investigate.

The results astounded the public. The liquid, despite being unable to prolong the life of one being, was itself capable of emitting a sort of frequency which seemed to increase the pace of evolution itself. It also seemed to be able to effectively cultivate life from nothing.

A test involving a rock suspended in a vacuum with a drop of the elixir yielded complex amino acids within a month.

Immediately, a sort of philosophy emerged: their race was responsible for seeding the galaxy with life. Rebels stole a sample and found an anti-elixir: capable of countering the effects of the original elixir without affecting anything around it.

They began launching large vials of the liquid in rocket propelled meteoroids to all known and unoccupied systems able to sustain life, in hopes of creating new races and perhaps enabling them to understand the origins of their own race…


However, Fate had different ideas. One meteoroid misfired a rocket in FTL space while en route to its destination. The resulting explosion tore off the rear of the asteroid, destroying the propulsion system, FTL drive, communications array, trackers and sensors in one blow.

Thus the elixir was lost for a second time.

Without the drive, the meteoroid tumbled out of FTL space and continued on its course, its cargo miraculously undamaged. And, just by chance, it passed through the Sol System where it underwent the sensors and scanners of the USSN Into the Night.

It traded hands between two warring factions several times. Finally, the actions and experimentations of one side so corrupted the elixir that it became a force of its own, the Zombie Plague, bringing death and destruction to the other faction.


A/N: This pretty much sums up the origins of the Zombie Virus. I kinda based the alien race on the Kryptonians of the DC Universe.

Also, the names:

The first part is a title, job, or rank. In this case, 'Hakkor' means 'scientist'.

The next is the given name and is mostly three syllables long (Ro-lo-mo).

The next is the name of the house or clan, usually two syllables (Mey-pa).

Lastly, is the name of the colony they originated from, with a D' (translated as 'of') in front ('D'Mana' would then be 'from/child of the planet Mana).

Again, I took inspiration from the names of the Mgalekgolo of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.