Interspatial parasite

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Clusters of interspatial parasites seen on a Human brain scan

Interspatial parasites are non-sentient microorganisms which come from the trans-dimensional realm of the Sphere Builders.

They exist in a state of temporal and spatial flux, and are capable of causing amnesia in humanoids.


Physiology

The interspatial parasite is microscopic, and is therefore too small to be seen by the naked humanoid eye. Magnifying technology is needed to view them. They are irregular in shape, generally composed of a thick, globular mass in the center, with between two and five 'arms' branching off from the edges. Able to thrive within the Human brain, they can also be airborne, capable of surviving transportation through spatial anomalies.


Existing outside normal space-time, they are never fully in phase with the space they occupy, instead are in perpetual flux. There are only two known means of damaging or destroying them: shooting them with a focused antiproton beam powered by the warp core of a starship, or trapping them within a subspace implosion. However, since they never fully inhabit their environment and timeline, affecting an interspatial parasite in the present will affect it in the same way in all other places and time periods in which it exists. Therefore, destroying one means that it effectively never existed in the first place.


They are also able to enter humanoid bodies and affect their brains. They cause an extreme form of amnesia, allowing the victim to remember events before the point of infection, but prevents remembering new experiences. Parasites that infected a humanoid brain are able to remain there seemingly indefinitely. Their effect on the host's functions never lessens and only stops if the interspatial parasites are removed or destroyed.


Interspatial parasites originate from another plane of existence, the transdimensional realm of the Sphere Builders, a species who created the Delphic Expanse.


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