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Description: Scientifically called gartugis barsonoma, bloodrage is a virus that travels through the bloodstream, most commonly introduced through open wounds. Infections can appear as bloodshot eyes, bulging muscles, heavy breathing, screaming, and violence.

Habitat: Bloodrage is most often found on unsensitized metals, particularly those that form edges or points. This can include weapons, tools, medical equipment, and even silverware.

Biology: Bloodrage causes a rapid growth of muscle and vascular system, causing a noticeable increase in body mass in mature organisms, or cases of giantism in those who are infected while young. In addition to the physiological changes, bloodrage infection, as the name suggests, also causes extreme aggression, brutality, and even cannibalism. Bloodrage is easy enough to cure with blood transfusion, however the subject must often be restrained and rendered unconscious before treatment.

Behavior: While bloodrage is mostly characterized by aggression in the infected host, it is important to note that most people develop an immunity to their first infection, causing the virus to become dormant in the body. However upon infection of a new strain of bloodrage, or even medicinal substances, the dormant version will become hyperactive to fight off the invading organisms, causing sudden and unpredictable violence in the host.

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Habitat: Jimitus travels on surfaces, usually of shared objects or areas. These include hatches, railings, tools, beds, lavatories, and mess areas.

Biology: Jimitus is a bacteria that travels on surfaces and is difficult to track using ship's bioscan systems. Gnommish immune systems are highly vulnerable to jimitus infections, and so most are inoculated at birth and regularly throughout their life.

Behavior: Infects a host and causes mania, aggression, paranoia, and excessive talkativeness.

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Description: Often depicted as a glowing red gel in popular media, sangrianite actually appears as a pale pink liquid. Infection is most recognizable in an organism by a period of lethargy accompanied by a rapid regeneration of injured tissue.

Habitat: Sangrianite is mostly produced in laboratories, however it can be found naturally collecting on the banks of rivers, springs, wells, or other sources of fresh water.

Biology: Comprised of colonies of over 16 separate species of microorganisms, sangrianite is considered a miracle of exodian medicine. When introduced into a host organism, sangrianite will propagate throughout the body to accelerate its immune system, tissue regeneration, and even knitting bone tissue and repairing neurons. As a body's natural ability to heal declines with age or terminal illness, sangrianite too loses its ability to help.

Behavior: Sangrianite collaborates with a body's native immune system until it decides that it has committed sufficient work to heal it, at which point it self-terminates and is flushed from the body through urine, feces, and sweat. Aside from its benevolent healing properties, the greatest scientific mystery of sangrianite is that it appears to have little drive to infect new hosts, nor sustain infection. This lack of propogation or self-preservation is considered by many to be a flagrant contradiction of the biological imperative. However, it has been pointed out that since its discovery, the population of laboratory-grown Sangrianite has grown exponentially, leading scientists to call it a "domesticated microorganism".

Size: Microbial

Description: Smokies are colonies if microorganisms that are found in naturally-occuring pockets of engine fuel. They are highly resistant to extreme temperatures and communicate through small electrical charges. They appear as patches of crusty dark material on the surface of engine fuel.

Habitat: Smokies may appear in pools of engine fuel, normally ones open to a planet's surface. As a result, they can sometimes be found in poorly-sanitized barrels of engine fuel.

Biology: These microorganisms procreate in bodies of engine fuel which they gradually consume for energy, as their colonies become large to cover the entire surface of the pool, they ignite the pool and the explosion spreads the organism into the air where they have the chance of landing in nearby pools where they can continue to procreate.

Behavior: Smokies ignite engine fuel when they feel cramped and cannot comfortably procreate. This is particularly dangerous if they manage to infest a spaceship's fuel reservoirs as it may spontaneously destroy the ship.

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Description: Microscopic organisms that break apart mineral alloys for energy, while forming colony habitats out of the cavity

Habitat: Sometimes mistaken for oxydization, tectorides are found on asteroids or mineral-rich planet surfaces. They particularly thrive on artificial constructs such as space stations, installations, and spacecraft with refined and structured minerals

Biology: Tectorides require oxygen to spread, but will not die in vacuum.

Behavior: Not normally capable of airborn locomotion, tectorides are communicated normally through surface contact such as landing struts, docking rings, or cargo. However, concussive impact can kick up clouds of dust containing tectorides that will coat a surface and begin infestation.

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