Nethropods


 * A nethropod is a kind of symbiotic organism rather than a singular organism.
 * Nethropods are of unknown origin though most believe that they were genetically engineered in a lab as some sort of biological weapon.
 * Nethropods by themselves resemble silvery wads of nasal mucus.
 * Nethropods are capable of hi-jacking anything with a highly developed nervous system.
 * Their favorite targets are higher order organisms mainly human beings.
 * Their primary means of entry into a host's body through their nasal passages where they enter into the blood stream and then pass through the blood-brain barrier and take up residence in the host's cranial cavities.
 * Nethropods are vulnerable to ultra-violet light.  Outside of a host they have a reaction to exposure to ultra-violet light similar to a slugs reaction to exposure to salt.
 * Inside a host a nethropod continues to have a psycho-somatic reaction to exposure to high levels of purely ultra-violet light.  But do not react violently in any chemical fashion.
 * There are only two known method of telling if someone is 'infected' with a nethropod:
 * the use of a telepath to detect the presence of two seperate mental patterns coming from the same person, but this sign could also mean several other things as well and so is not conclusive evidence of a nethropod infection.
 * measuring the neuro-electrical pulses given off by the host's brain.
 * Someone who has been infected with a nethropod will have a higher than baseline reading.  This of course requires the baseline level of neurological activity to be known.
 * Nethropods outside of a host have been shown to perceive their surrounding in much the same way a shark does through the detection of the impulses of an organism's nervous system.
 * A nethropod that is inside a host has been shown to be able to use the host's own sensory perception to interpret the world around them.  They have also been shown to display signs of retaining their ability to see things based upon neuro-static impulses.
 * The intelligence of a nethropod outside of a human host is unknown but they have been shown to be able to navigate and learn the proper path through a maze as well as solve somewhat complex equality problems.  So their intelligence is believe to be at least on par with a human child.
 * Inside a host, a nethropod has access to all of it's host's memories and mental abilities.
 * Introduction of a nethropod has been shown to be capable of elevating the mental facilities of those with mental impairments.
 * When a host is taken over by a nethropod they enter into a waking dream like state where they are still aware of all that goes on around them.
 * Nethropods seem to possess some sort of non-verbal form of communication through which information can be relayed between two or more infected people.