Microbial Catalogue

= Alienus Siliciuma =
Alienus Siliciuma is a giant viral silicon based life form found, by the Vondunke during the eleventh "bloom", on a small terrestrial world towards the outer edge of it's star's goldilocks zone, that had migrated in from the frost line.
Samples were taken of the species before they put the world on a closer orbit to it's star to sterilize the planet before disassembly.
The Viroid has a massive gene size of 4.1 Megabases one of the hundred largest paired viral genomes known to the Vondunke. Making it one of the most complex ever found. 
The Virus is also special in that it is one of a very few viroids that meets the traditional criteria for life. It may be more accurately called a pseudo archaebacteria living a double life. To a limited extant it can reproduce via binary fission but still maintains many mechanics of the average virus, such as infecting a host and hijacking the cells life processes. 
In a laboratory setting the virus was able to naturally infect (though less effectively) a foreign DNA lifeform, despite its SNA (Silicon) genetics. In fact the virus edited its outer protein coat when put into the chemical settings needed for the survival of the other organism. It was able to appeal to the Amoeba like creature enough to be captured via a Phagocytic Vacuole. The vacuole however was unable to produce the necessary proteins and enzymes to digest the virus before allowing it to escape and transform into a viral factory.
The abilities of this virus stunned the foremost Xeno-biological experts on Glanorth and led to numerous medical and scientific breakthroughs. It has been rated as an L (Low) -S (Slow acting) Threat bioweapon if it were to be used against the Vondunke. 
Counterintuitively it is even now studied as an emergency immunity booster.
= Nakethalgen =
Nakethalgites are several taxonomically unrelated genus of algae originating on the planet Arçælo
= Exodrima Ognma =
Exodrima Ognma is a complex replicative pattern of enzymes. It most commonly exists around star systems, far outside the goldilocks zone, in temperatures of less than 100 Kelvin. The enzyme attracts and converts Ammonia, Carbondioxide, Methane, and Water molecules and and forms them into what is called a type-I proteins which manifest the first stage in the organisms reproduction. Type-I proteins attract various phosphates and sulfates, and after attracting a sufficient number becoming either a type-II or type-III protein also called a Proto-Exodrima Enzyme. Type-III enzymes are attracted to Type-III and vice versa, when the two merge they create a new mature Exodrima Ognma which begins the process all over again. Type-I proteins can survive the temperatures of Interstellar voids and have pollinated the replicative acid to hundreds of star systems around the Majestic Cluster. The two composite proteins of the enzyme can repair small breaks in the other allowing it some success in resisting damage to radiation.
Multiple lineages of the protein exist having been mutated in almost every chemically viable way due to continuous exposure to stellar and cosmic rays. While the vast majority of the proteins' mutations fail to function in any way, three distinct lineages of the enzyme persist. The Exodrima Ognma most commonly exists inside of various lifeforms within the void ecology. Exodrima Ognma sometimes acts as genetic material due to it's resistance to radiation and possible variants.
Category:Vondunke
Category:Alien Species
Category:Bardurwashome