A spacefaring traveller, The Survivor is the only known living being to have been infected by the Plague and survive a Containment Protocol. Since then he has had only one desire: to retrieve a piece of a Plague Artefact and try to synthesise a cure for himself. For The Survivor it is simply a race against time before the Alien Virus overcomes his biological defences and he succumbs to the infection - a race he cannot afford to lose.
Biography
Few humans survive an encounter with the Plague - even fewer make it out of a GCPS Containment Protocol alive. Slobodan Chovyek has done both. Infected by the Plague, and yet somehow not completely taken over by it, the Survivor left the Usiah Deadzone sealed in a biocontainment suit and looking for answers. The search for a cure led him halfway across the galaxy before running cold on the barren world of Caramid III. But a chance encounter on Nexus Psi presented a new avenue of inquiry. Working for Blaine gives the Survivor access to information and resources that would be otherwise out of his reach. It also gets him on missions that will either get him closer to finding what he needs to beat the Plague forever, or kill him before it can turn him fully into a monster.
Now that Blaine is going to war it's time to pay his dues and thus he follows Blaine as part of his entourage.
The Infection
In his former life, The Survivor was Slobodan Chovyek, a genetic technician working for the Spiczak Corporation who was drafted to join an expedition to Usiah, where an Artefact had been discovered by a group of miners.
Not every victim of the Plague reacts to the virus in the same manner. As Chovyek’s colleagues succumbed to the ravages of infection, dying in seconds or mutating into horrifying beasts, he alone was untouched. He expected them to turn on him, tear him limb-from-limb, but the nightmarish creatures simply ignored him.
What came next were the worst days of his life. He followed in the wake of the Plague, hoping to find anyone left alive in the charnel house that had once been Ginzu City. He was about to give up hope when he spotted a fellow survivor and followed him to a hidden safe-house in the basement of an Almar Interplanetary holding station. They were wary at first, refusing to let him in as they couldn’t be sure that he wasn’t infected. He gradually convinced them that he was clear, and that a scientist with his expertise would be a very useful person to add to their number, and they finally threw open the door.
After a shaky start, he was welcomed with open arms. Almost half of the survivors were gravely wounded, lying in a makeshift triage station manned by a small team of medical workers. It turned out that the survivor Chovyek had initially seen had been trying to make a run to a nearby Mazon Labs med-station, hoping to pick up bloodpacks, but had been unsuccessful. Every healthy candidate from among the group had already donated as much as they could, but it was not enough. Chovyek didn’t wait for them to ask; he rolled back his sleeve and asked them where he needed to be.
What followed was utter carnage.
Although he was somehow immune to the Plague’s effects, it still thrived in his bloodstream, waiting for a chance to be transferred to a new host. Three men had been infected before the first began to writhe and convulse, mutating before their eyes. The medical team were the first to die, but at the end, Chovyek was once again the sole survivor. As the creatures he had created fled the confines of the basement to join their kin, he realised the true horror of his condition. He took up a scalpel, meaning to end his life there and then, but he was interrupted by a soothing voice that seemed to come from nowhere. He listened to its words, the razor-sharp blade in his hand trembling.
The voice faded away. After a moment’s silence, he nodded slowly and carefully placed the scalpel back on the instrument tray. He understood. He had so much to do.
From that day, Slobodan Chovyek was no more. He is now The Survivor, a mysterious stranger who has never been seen outside of a fully enclosed Hazardous Environment Suit. What his new-found purpose actually is has never been fully clear; only he knows, but he has been strangely silent since he escaped Usiah. In any case, he seems to have made it his business to follow tales of Artefact discoveries. Whether he’s trying to find a cure – or simply further the cause of the Plague – remains to be seen…
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