Daodan Virus

The Daodan Virus (Influenza Daodanum Hasegawai) is a an artificial virus produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of META. It was invented as a less dangerous and less painful alternative for Daodan Chrysalis implantation than surgery and was subsequently used in a wide variety of pharmaceuticals developed by Mitsubishi, often with gruesome side effects. The Daodan Virus usually acts as a "carrier" for genetic material extracted from an individual and subjected to an hyperevolutionary process. Instead of using the DNA for growing a clone cell cluster of the host body, which is later implanted, the virus injects the hyperevolved DNA into the cells of the subject, gruadually turning the whole host body into a Daodan Chrysalis. To speed up the process and reduce the amount of virii required to be injected in order to avhieve total conversion of the host body, a certain string can be inserted into the virus DNA telling infected cells to produce more virii. If no limit is posed on the number of virus generations, the virus production continues, even if the host body is matured into the final stage of Daodan Chrysalis evolution. If a Daodan virus is injected into a person and is containing the DNA of another person, the results are catastrophic side effects. Though the body will, if it survives, eventually reach transformation, the process leads, due to the alien DNA presented to the body's immune system, to cancer-like symptomes, as the immune system vainly attempts to combat the alien hyperevolved DNA and the virus. Immune repressants can be taken, but even then, problems with the internal consistency of the body functions will arise. Originally, the virus was produced in the form of a thick, black liquid which would be absorbed by skin contact, but was later refined to pill form for easier storage and administration. The plural form of the single Daodan virus organism is always given as viri.