Amicus

The Control Node of the Amicus

The Amicus were a race of glass-like humanoids from an unknown part of the solar system, their main goal was to seemingly travel the universe to feed off people's emotions and to make their victims artificially happy using their advanced technology on their spaceships in a bid to balance the universe in their own image - The Amicus' physical forms were transparent, humanoid bodies.

## Characteristics

Amicus' hardly every show emotion themselves, due to them being made of glass, however are intelligent and very quick thinking (eg: if a plan of theirs doesn't go to plan they will make another one using the systems on their spaceships), they are also very manipulative and almost always try to abduct people who they deem aren't "happy" enough to be a part of the world they crave to make for themselves and everyone else, of course this vision is warped and their methods don't always work and are in fact extremely flawed as shown in the episode "The Empty Planet"

## Powers and Abilities

* Advanced technology - Amicus' technology systems are far superior to human technology as they can research almost anything about certain individuals and can even go through historic records in very quick time.
* Shapeshifting - Any given Amicus could take the shape of a human that has any form of connection (be it as friends or family) to the human they have researched.
* Teleportation - Amicus can teleport from their ship to a place in its proximity easily.

## Weaknesses

* Conventional weapons - Given they are beings made of glass and have no known defences or weapons, conventional weapons are believed to be quite useful against them, however this has never been confirmed.
* Disguise recognition - If an Amicus's chosen target can "see through the disguise" the being will retreat back to its ship in fear of being found out.
* Malware Computer viruses - If an individual or group of individuals can hack into the Amicus' ship systems, any Earth made malware virus can cause severe technological damage to the ship and, in extreme cases, can cause harm to the Amicus themselves - this is due to the Amicus having no cyber defences.
* Rejection - If an Amicus' request to its target is rejected, slight cracks can be sometimes seen as a result.

## Episodes

### 2.01: The Empty Planet

The Amicus are looking to expand their mission to Earth and proceed to station their ship above it to monitor the planet, the control node that is present on the ship picks out Shane, who is still trying to emotionally recover from Torchwood's implosion in Series 1, and begins to make a plan using the ship's advanced computers to try and find out about him with great interest, they do eventually find some information about him and also learn of the events of the first series which causes the control node to open the hibernation chambers where more Amicus lay prone waiting to be used, one is selected remotely by the control node and takes the form of Shane's former Torchwood colleague Lewis.

The Amicus posing as Lewis and eventually tracks down Shane and tries to make friends with him however, clearly not forgiving Lewis for turning his back on the team and Torchwood as a whole, Shane rants at him passionately about how Torchwood changed his life whilst to Lewis it was just a way of getting paid, the Amicus then requests for Shane to tell it how he truly feels however Shane declines saying he doesn't want to upset anyone, Shane's rejection to say anything causes slight cracks to appear on the alien's Lewis disguise and it retreats back to the ship where the control node rants at the copy for being too artificial and is tasked to bring Shane up to the ship, this task is a success and Shane is teleported up just as the Amicus copy of Lewis cracks into pieces - Shane confronts the control node about the Amicus' plans and, naturally, disapproves of them saying that humans are too complex for their plans and during the confrontation, Shane uses his tablet to hack into the systems of the Amicus and install a malware virus on it causing the ship to shake and for all of the Amicus to crack and shatter suddenly, the control node calls him a "Clever boy" sarcastically before also shattering, Shane teleports back down to Earth in time as the ship disappears.

## Controversies

* The episode, "The Empty Planet", was released during a period of poor mental health for Shane (the writer and creator of this universe) and when he first showed the episode off to his online friends, one of them called it out for "taking the mick of out depression" however this was never the case and whilst, looking back on it, it isn't a story that Shane is proud of writing but it, to him, acts as a "time capsule" to a much more different time in his life.