Biomatrix 117

Biomass 117 aka "Cancer"

Background

The Biomass was sent to earth as a judge by the alien Invaders' Union. It's purpose was to find, capture, judge and execute the individual known as Zee Captein, for several crimes against their union members (causing death of two alien crewmembers, destruction of a spaceship and theft of a pair of pants).

During the Biomass' arrival on Earth, one of it's strings has mutated in the radioactive environment of the wasteland and was lost to the Biomass. The lost string has taken on the purpose of terraforming the wasteland, by projecting chlorophyllic life on it and became the shapeshifting creature known as the Lifealope.

Due to a misunderstanding including a 'bag of cancer summoning' Captain has renamed the Biomass to 'Cancer'.

Appearance

The Biomass is not a single individual but composed of hundreds of absorbed and assimilated organic bodies, humans and animals alike. The assimilated bodies show different stages of decay from blood and tissue covered skeletons to completely conserved bodies. The Biomass can form it's body freely, and is seen as a formless blob, a giant spider and a snake. It's current form is a rather fashionable scarf, though. It's main form of communication is using blood red-tissue covered skeleton avatars connected to it's main body to talk with it's opponents.

Role in Story

The Biomass first appeared in the hideout of a group of hostile wastelanders, who had recently captured Mr. Snippy. The Biomass assimilated the wastelanders and tried to capture and interrogate Snippy about the whereabouts of the Captain. When Snippy escaped it's grasp, he indeed accidentally led the Biomass to Captains location.

To find surrogate evidence against Captain, Biomass then integrated first Snippy and then Pilot, to search for their memories of him.

The memory scan revealed some background information about the time before the apocalypse, Snippy's and Pilot's everyday life in the wasteland and even more questions about the Captain.

Captain used the time to slip away and search for new members. Him trying to hire the Engineer plus the massive amount of organic matter located in a small area, finally somehow drew the ANNET's attention to the scene. ANNET sending a hunter drone first destroyed some of the skeleton Avatars and later fired an orbital ion cannon at it's main body.

Only a small fracture of the biomass survived the ion cannon attack. In a last attempt to kill the Captain it turned into a snake. Captain though grabbed it and knotted it as a scarf around his neck. The Biomass has stayed inactive ever since - it is unknown whether it is still alive.