The Pestilence

The Pestilence is an Angelic nano-virus that was unleashed on the Protohuman populace with the goal of forcing the Protohuman Society into forcing them to use GATE artifacts.

Composition And Mechanism
The nano-virus shares a similar anatomy with the Angels of the Holy Heavens Host, mainly being in nano-scale and utilizing cluster and hive intelligence as the mode of operation.

When entered to biological mediums such as their intended target, Protohumans, nano machines decomposes the surrounding tissue slowly and redepositing then processed body tissue as an unknown type of metal.

The processed waste may enter into blood stream and cause various types of metal poisoning leading to blindness, confusion, paranoia, and hallucinations.

Any medical intervention may lead to further infection of the respondents, since nano-virus can pass through biological barriers of protohuman, human and metahuman tissues effortlessly.

Nano-virus can infect trough any medium possible, but has a slow rate of decomposition and redeposition cycle, and takes around two weeks for hosts to experience life threatening symptoms.

Protohumans have tried to cure or combat the pestilence trough medical practices beyond both human and metahuman standards, but due to the nano scale of the virus and its cluster intelligence, the virus proactively defended itself via aggressive means such as increasing its decomposition cycle to kill the host, or change the type of metal that it is processing the living tissue into.

Last stage of infection is the nano-virus taking control of the host and attacking the vicinity with melee weaponry fashioned out of metal and repurposing the deposits as hardened armor.

Nano virus if in the aggressive mode will not only form a cluster intelligence inside the host but will coordinate with other hosts to form a hive mind to deal damage as much as possible to vicinity and infect the uninfected.

Attempts to use any kind of jamming or interference to disrupt the connection has been proven futile and is believed that the virus exists in multiple dimensions and communication is carried through there, as Angelic devices functions.