Clinical Immortal

Clinical Immortals are humans that, through some unknown process, have become unable to die. They can recover from total annihilation within minutes through an unexplained interaction with Otherspace. There are at least six known clinical immortals.

## Mechanism

Clinical immortality seems to entail becoming immune to death. When a clinical immortal dies, they are somehow reborn. In the case of Daxin Freeborn he reemerges from a Hellspace rift within minutes with all memories up to death intact, similar to a SUDS transmission. His FIDO is reborn with him if the FIDO has been destroyed or reborn on its own.

Dee Taynee is suspected to be an early prototype or experiment researcher who used mat-trans systems to recreate herself after each death.

It has become obvious through a highly classified Black Box project that the Immortals do not use the SUDS system, instead each has their own dedicated "Rebirthing System" that seems to have some ties to the different dimensions that the pre-diaspora Terrans managed to access and categorize. It is known that some of the Immortals are considered to be destroyed or imprisoned, but the Sixth Invasion of TerraSol System released/revealed three that were considered to be destroyed so that data is considered to be in error.

## Creation

At some point before the Terran Diaspora, the process to create clinical immortals was developed and used. It was apparently used up through the Terran Combine before the method and technologies were lost to time.[*citation needed*] It is unknown how many clinical immortals were created before the method was lost, as records from before the establishment of the Terran Confederacy are rare and disjointed.

It is suspected that it was created during the early years of the Combine/Mantid War, although some historians and conspiracy theorists believe it was created by the Imperium. It is widely accepted that Terran Descent Humans felt a sense of imminent destruction by the attack by the Mantid and thus there is a high chance that they would have reactivated old programs and R&D from the periods that other races refer to as "The Age of Paranoia" when referring to human history.

Unlike other races, who establish cooperative governments once they reach the Age of Agriculture, Terrans have still not established an all-encompassing government based on cooperation. During an era referred to as "The Cold War" (Suspected to be a conflict caused due to planetary cooling) as well as the "Second Information Age" paranoia gripped the entire Terran Descent Humanity culture on pre-Glassing TerraSol, resulting in many projects that have still not been exposed.

It is believed that the method for creating Clinical Immortals was established during the "Cold War" and then refined during the Second Information Age.

It is theorized that whatever method was used to create the Clinical Immortals would be lethal or unworkable on other species.

After the Glassing, the Digital Omnimessiah gathered a group of disciples. Through unknown means, these disciples, along with others the Omnimessiah altered, were given the ability to reform after death. This is distinct from the clinical immortality developed by Pre-diaspora Earth, as that method only prevented death through age related issues and not returning from total annihilation.

It is the current theory of archivists and researchers that the Immortals project may have occurred after the assassination of the Digital Omnimessiah, as one member went from Daxin to Enraged Phillip to Osiris and back to Daxin Freeborn.

It is also known that the Immortals are not using obsolete technology but instead usually have state of the art military equipment. This was most easily notable and provable by Legion's defense of the TerraSol System as the Admiral and crew of the Fleet of One, as the Fleet of One possessed modern military equipment and ship designs despite having vanished at the end of the Terran/Mantid War.

## Notable Immortals

* Daxin Freeborn
* Legion
* Dee Taynee (Suspected Patient Zero or Researcher)
* Kibuka the Defiant
* Kalki the Omnicidal
* Verethragna
* Guanya
* Bellona

## Trivia

* It is possible that Cool'thul'lu is a clinical immortal, but it is likely that he is simply a modified Combine scientist.