NHX

Neoneic Helixid Xenostemicide, also known "Neohelix" or "Nix" is a highly complex biochemical protein serum made from neohuman stem cells, used by some fringe science groups as an integral base component for creating Altered Humans, notably and very likely first developed by Black Labs, and purposefully leaked to various fringe-science operatives as a worldwide genetic experiment. It is stabilised, enhanced and individualised using various other chemicals and bodily stimuli.

### **History**

It is likely that the first viable instances of NHX were created by Black Labs as far back as the late 60's, who also secretly pioneered early stem cell research long before it came to mainstream scientific and biological outlets, but it's true development was with Theodore Lind who found a way to stabilise the short-term viability of altered biology by using the highly-complex biochemical agents found in Aeon DNA (likely from Elliot). Since, he has used it to help groups such as Slava Rossii create their own superhumans in the 90's using Bora's stem cells.

In 1999 a batch of NHX was stolen by the rogue science group System-12 to try and create 'animalts', who then sold it to other fringe-science groups such as Midori, then shared it with Alistair Crowe, who was less than impressed with it's viability, but used it's chemical structure to enhance his Amadan Project, the artificial blood-substitute that later went on to bring Jake and Demi Whitborne back to life.

In 2005 the MLK drug was created by System-12 using various drug syndicates in Brazil and Cuba as fronts, and used a very simplified version of NHX known as NHX-Minus-Delta or "Nixmid" and combined it during the early development stages of cocaine, using petroleum.

### **Creating Alts**

NHX is used to essentially install a genetic facsimile of a neonic power in a normal human; as neones are highly complex and naturally 'tailored' to each neo's power, a degree of other chemical components are required to give the serum a 'kick-start', usually this involves pre-emptive genetic modifications to simulate a neohuman's early 'rewrite'; this can be dangerous and deadly for the potential alt, making them extremely sick.

Constant and sustained 'updates' are required for NHX to simulate and create a neone-like set of protein strands, this means the process of alteration is essentially weeks, if not months of gene therapy, tablets and other cocktails of drugs to enable a chance of creating a superpowered enhancement in addition to "external pressure stimuli"; in other words, torture, to shock the system into defending itself and use the altered genes provided to activate the enhanced protein network.

Alt powers are never normally stable or easy to predict or control; indeed sometimes an alt may not be immune to their power, or have a particularly weak endurance capacity.

However, even if NHX produces a successful alt, to have a hope at keeping their powers, stable or at all, along with their mental health, require regular doses of stabilising agents of pills; As is noted in most cases, eventually NHX will fade from an alt over time without continued intervention, and sometimes even with these, powers never return or worse go out of control to the point where they rupture cells and damage their bodies, with the ultimate scenario of course, being death.

### **Creating Splice-Alts**

NHX can be used in RMS to create alt-splicers, allowing them rapidly-produced cybrid-like mutations enhanced or stabilised by some kind of neohuman-like superpower, but the success rate at creating these is extremely low and almost always ends up in death. So far only once instance of a surviving Splice-alt exists in the form of Eva Bocaiúva, who after escaping Theodore Lind's Brazilian Argent shadow lab now works as part of Fuerza Latino.