The Meteor

==Background==
Meteor lore here
==The Infection==
The Meteor Infection is a phenomena that first started at the end of Season 3, when the meteor exploded and infected all plant life in the area. Au’rora, in her mission to spite Gykallis, somehow made contact with the Void Core, and made a deal to allow the Void Core to spread its world into Farcombe using the meteor as its gateway. The Void Core's reason to spread the infection is because it's magical body is decaying, and is desperately trying to stay alive by spreading itself to new vessels. The Void Core is capable of possessing hundreds of different infected vessels at once. 
Unlike your average disease, the meteor's infection spreads through one's soul and essence, rather than their body, however physical changes or mutations will most likely appear as a result of being infected. The infection is spread through direct contact with the meteor, meteor-related objects, or an infected individual. Once the infection has taken over a large enough portion of an organism, it can spread through the rest of their body on its own. Notably, the infection spreads extremely quickly through dead organisms, and is even able to reanimate dead bodies after taking enough control over them. As such, even though all denizens of The Oasis are able to be revived by Gykallis or the Moon Rabbit, the brief moment of death gives the infection ample opportunity to spread faster through their body. Do note that due to the newly generated Meteorite in the deepslate layer being far weaker, it is entirely unable to spread the infection. 
The spread of the meteor infection can potentially be stopped by Au'rora, however any physical mutations will remain. The chunk of the meteor in the center of Meteor Grove is entirely safe for this reason. Slimey's infection was successfully stopped, however Au'rora was unable to stop Prime's infection. The reason for this is unknown. 
The symptoms and signs of being infected by the meteor vary depending on what kind of life form they are, but usually manifest in the form of physical mutations. If the organism is plant based, the infection turns their surface a dull grey hue with a rough texture, essentially petrifying it. On animal based life forms however, the skin of the being turns a purplish black, and crystals begin to grow around their body. The infected victim slowly loses control of their soul and essence, leaving complete control to The Void Core.
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