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Public Blackwatch Documentation

Date Created: 23/04/2014
Document creator: Gen-Styx
Document ID: #57748
Experiments conducted: 17/04/2014

The Blacklight virus, dubbed now as the Mercer Virus by the general public, is an evolutionary chimeric mutation-causing infectious agent that can reproduce only inside the living cells of other biological organisms. It was extracted and synthesized by Gentek, using a sample of Elizabeth Greene's blood, which had been infected with the Redlight virus years previously.

Effects

After infection, the virus "plugs in" and activates the 'junk' DNA in its victim, resulting in several biological changes that create (and recreate) sentience within the infected creature's cellular makeup. It acts by affecting the protein encoding regions of the promoter introns in each cell. As a retrovirus, it contains both RNA and the reverse transcriptase enzyme, allowing it to insert its own genetic codes into the host's cells. It enters, re-purposes and changes the cell, replicating previously dormant non-coding segments of the organism's DNA.

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A Blacklight bacterial organism entering a host's cells.
More often than not, these changes are too drastic and 99.99% of all infected organisms die from massive organ failure and cell saturation. However, few variants have yielded other beneficial results, endowing the infected organisms with incredible superhuman genetic prowess that greatly increase their natural abilities to levels far exceeding human capability; these variants include DX-1120 and DX-1118 C

Known infection methods

• Physical Contact: If a non-infected person is bitten or scratched by an Infected person, the virus can spread directly to the victim resulting in their infection.
  
  
• Exposure: Coming into contact with an Infected are, could result in airborne contamination. Scientists have been found to become infected, once exposed to it un-protected in the labs.
  
  
• Bodily Fluid Contact: Infectious bodily fluids and materials are capable of infection through open wounds.
  
  
• Injection: As demonstrated by the Project ORION soldiers, the virus can be spread through direct application via injection.
  

Variants

The Blacklight virus' effects are variable and far more infectious than the Redlight strain. The Blacklight virus outbreak does not follow the pattern of the Hope outbreak: it causes too many infections, spreads over too wide an area, and leaves very few 'clean' entities. The mortality rate of the Blacklight virus is lower than that of the Redlight virus, and the incubation period of it is much longer. The full capabilities of the Blacklight virus were unknown, even to the scientists who synthesized it.