Virus Alien

"Life form is noxious, harmful to the whole

What Life form?

''Man!.. You are Virus" :- ''Failed communication with the lifeform

The Virus Lifeform is the alien creature encountered in the 1999 film Virus.

Anatomy
The Virus alien is a non organic lifeform and made of living electricity. Has such it can not in interact with the physical world easily or saftly. It its natural form is looks like a collection of blue lighning bolts and is capapable of space travel is this form. It can also travel through earth electrical systems in this form with relative ease.

The Alien is very intelligent and absorbed al thel knowledge on the research ship it was trapped on in a matter of hours. This allowed it to use the gear on the ship has well as the ships peronel to create servents, slaves and a physical body.

It can occupy machines as a form of host host body and requires the most complex Earth based machinery as an ideal host.

Weaknesses
In its electrical form it could be trapped inside of a computer it was inhabitting by disconecting it from the rest of the system and cutting the power; putting it into a form of stasis. Despite the strength of its physical body heavy explosives and water was enough to destroy the body and ground and kill the creature.

Forms
Aside from the primary forms the creatre is apable of extending its consious through its servents and slaves giving it many forms that include:

Gatherers
Scouts and supply hunters created by the creature. They resemble various insects and and were created to gather more material. They have built in weapons such as small saws and nail guns for defence.

Cyborgs
Creaturers similar to the borg of Star Trek, these creaturers are a combination of machine and the corpses of the crew.

Golems
Massive cyborg creaturers that protect the samller servents. They can rip a human in two with little effort.

Goliath
The body the alien utimetly creates for it self. This 9ft monstrosity is a combinations of machine and flesh, and is heavily armmed and armored. Its lower half is made up of eight mechanical spider legs while its top half is more humanoid.

In the Film
The creature is first seen traveling in space in its electrical form where it colides with the space station Mere; killing the crew and be transmitted to a Russian research vessel through the station and ship satalite link. The creature takes over the ship; locking the humans ouit of the computers and machine shops while it learns about its new enviroment. Coming to the conclussion that humanity is dangerous and a threat to its survival the creature begins mudering the crew and converting the dead into its servents