The Sleep Key is a biological parasite found on 51 Golgotha.
Biology[]
The Sleep Key is a biological entity, a bacteria more precise, that was discovered and created by the Jedik-ikik scientist Kittrik-ikik with fatal results. It is a biological entity, a parasite that causes whoever it touches to fall asleep forever. It creates a stasis that keeps the host alive while it reproduces and moves along to find other creatures to touch.
The parasite can only live for up to three days in 51 Golgotha's atmosphere, approximately 108 hours. After the parasite has finished its life cycle, then in the presence of a second biological entity, the effects of the Sleep Key dissipate.
The Sleep Key was the fourth an final weapon used by the Jedik-ikik of Ximortikrim in their war against the Kroern invaders that their Rentok. A trap was laid in the city of Ximortikrim, where the parasite was planted in a statue of its discoverer in the center of the city. After the Rentok had been lured into Ximortikrim, surrounded by high outer walls, which would contain the Sleep Key's dispersion as it could not climb more than 30 meters.
the Jedik-ikik would evacuate the city into bunkers and release the parasite, to cause the Rentok and their pilots trapped in the city to fall into slumber. Robots would then be sent to extract the aliens from their Rentok, and eliminate them.
The plan failed, as a warring faction of the Jedik-ikik released the Sleep Key prematurely, as they wanted to launch a coup against the current regime and cull the weak. The Sleep Key thus affected the entire city, putting both inhabitant and invader in stasis for four thousand years.
The Sleep Key eventually died out, and the Jedik-ikik and Kroern were awoken by human explorers who came to explore 51 Golgotha intent on plundering it artifacts and mineral riches, causing the war for the planet to resume anew.
Source[]
- Kaijunaut by Doug Goodman