Thog

**Thog** is Vice Director of the Sigma Society, and Second Disciple of the Echelon.

**SS Ministry of Science Notice: It is empirical that any documents pertaining and detailing information of Thog also serve as** **documents pertaining to the study of Homo carnifexus, as Thog is the only living specimen of the species. When in the context of Homo carnifexus' biology, Thog shall be referred to as HCU01.**

## Physiology

HCU01 classifies a highly evolutionarily advanced, intelligent, and predatory subspecies of the genus *Homo* as the only specimen discovered and recorded of *Homo carnifexus*, a theoretical subspecies of archaic human hypothesized upon genetical analysis of a 2% difference in HCU01's DNA to *Homo sapien.* Homo carnifexus appears to exhibit a physiology embodying theoretical conceptions of an ultimate human or ultimate lifeform. Dissimilarities in physical appearance from Homo sapien include:

* Increased height (6'5 ft.)
* Dermal albinism
* Sharp canines utilized for tearing human flesh
* Increased amount of androgenic hair on the fingers, limbs, and torso
* Extremely robust musculature
* Fluctuating pupil shapes, from human-like spherical shapes to vertical serpentine slits
* Long, abnormally sharp nails

It is likely that all other formerly extant specimens of Homo carnifexus shared and embodied these physical traits. A majority consensus within the Ministry of Science has established that these traits are as a result of evolving either in further accustomation and adaptation to its status of nocturnality, or the necessity to be able to overpower and thus predate upon its prey of Homo sapien. Homo carnifexus is otherwise indistinguishable from Homo sapien, with the two species endowed with bipedalism, furlessness, high intelligence, and an identical body and facial structure. Identicality of appearance between Homo carnifexus and Homo sapien heavily indicate that Homo carnifexus evolved from Homo sapien, eventually becoming its predator. A hypothesis has suggested that Homo carnifexus would have been the evolutionary link between Homo sapien and a potential human species of predator appearing far less similar in appearance to either species if Homo carnifexus had not become nigh-extinct. The ability of Homo carnifexus to change its vertical slit pupils to spherical orbs is likely a vestigial feature derived from its predecessor of Homo sapien.

Significant evidence confirms Homo carnifexus as a nocturnal species of human, due to tertiarily its albino-like complexion, typical of humans that are deprived of sunlight exposure for extended periods of time, its possession of vertical slit pupils, a common attribute in nocturnal species of predators that provide an advantage in scotopic vision and depth perception, and an apparent photophobic physiology in HCU01 causing it to enter an involuntary state of dormancy and its skin to harden to a coarse texture upon, and reversing after, exposure to sunlight. Increased hair growth may also be another adaptive trait of nocturnality, but also in an adaptive response to the extreme cold of Homo carnifexus' presumed habitat of the Siberian tundra, the site of its discovery, assisting in maintaining a warm temperature. Sharp canines, increased height, claw-like nails, and a strong musculature require far less scientific speculation and evidence to accurately hypothesize the biological and evolutionary purpose of, as basic strength enhancers or methods of basic natural weaponry to be able to easily predate upon its prey of Homo sapien. The most successful method of predation in Homo carnifexus is its ability to emit keratinous pheromones secondarily used to subdue prey with mind-altering chemicals, with the afflicted human displaying various symptoms similar to toxoplasma gondii in rodents.

Although the escape of HCU01 from its containment cell in Unit 732 of SSF-3 after being awakened from a dormant state resulted in the loss of lives of several Sigma Task Force personnel and necessitated an extremely costly recovery operation following its escape, the physiological capabilities HCU01 exerted to escape containment provided valuable information in the study of its biology at the witness of several scientists and guards. Homo carnifexus exhibits a physiology that embodies conceptions of a theoretical ultimate human or ultimate lifeform. Attributes may include:

* **Superhuman Condition:** HCU01's physical strength, agility, durability, stamina, and endurance have been observed to far exceed that of humans both of average and peak athleticism and health. Recorded exertions include bending the steel of the walls of its containment cell with its hands and teeth, which requires upwards of 35,000 psi of force to contort. In comparison, the strongest bite force of an extant animal, the saltwater crocodile, ranges from 3,000-7,700 psi. HCU01 was also noted to have leapt several dozens of feet into the air, walked on walls, and crawled on roofs during its escape of SSF-3. When STF personnel were ordered to open fire upon it after it escaped its containment, very few bullet holes pierced its flesh despite the continuous fire of several automatic rifles, alongside displaying no visible or audible signs of pain, neither bothering to attempt to dodge or avoid fire.
* **Superhuman Senses:** After emergence from its cryogenically frozen and dormant state, HCU01 began sniffing around its area, assumedly as an attempt to detect any nearby life and make sense of its new surroundings. HCU01 was also observed speaking the name of Pyro after it awakened from dormancy despite being in a containment cell several dozens of feet below her and separated from her by thick glass and steel walls. Homo sapien's non-migratory and alert nature is presumed to be the evolutionary reason for Homo carnifexus to have developed its powerful senses.
	+ **Night Vision:** The scotopic vision of Homo carnifexus is vastly superior to that of Homo sapien. Homo carnifexus' ability to see with clarity in low-light conditions, made possible due to its vertical slit pupils, was presumably evolved due to its status as a nocturnal predator.
* **Superhuman Intelligence:** HCU01 immediately mastered and began speaking in English upon exposure to the language from its captors.
* **Body Manipulation:** HCU01 is able to modify the structure of its body on a cellular level due to its extremely complex nervous system. A primary recorded exertion displays HCU01 having crushed its body and obliterated its own skeleton to escape its containment cell through its 2-inch vents akin to an octopus compressing itself through a hole. Homo carnifexus is only able to modify the shape of its bodily structure and thus cannot increase its height, the size of its limbs, or generate new tissue unless regenerating damaged flesh. Limb extension or height increase may only occur if girth of a limb or weight is expended as equivalent exchange. Extreme level of bodily control allows Homo carnifexus to use its body as a weapon. Exertions include protruding its ribs from its torso to impale an STF guard, sending morsels of its flesh onto other guards to drain their blood from a distance akin to leeches and to infect them with pheromones, shooting its fingerbones out of its digits like bullets, and reforming the structure of its spine into several spikes to protrude them from its back and impale a guard behind it.
	+ **Organic Absorption:** Absorption is the primary method of consumption for Homo carnifexus, thus disproving hypotheses of its sharp canines being used as assistance for consuming flesh. The various types of cells that constitute HCU01's epidermis are able to release a potent digestive acid that begins to digest prey upon physical contact with its body. Psychoactive chemicals such as hyopscyamine, atropine, and scopolamine are also released alongside the digestive acids and cause a flood of dopamine in the victim's limbic system and mesolimbic dopamine system, with the narcotic intake and effect resulting in intense hallucinations and either numbing the victim to the pain or inducing a feeling of euphoria. The victim appears as if their entire body is gradually disappearing, phasing, or being sucked into Homo carnifexus due to their consumption. Pain may only occur if Homo carnifexus suddenly rejects physical contact of its feed in the middle of absorption, breaking its body free, though this leaves any body parts it had already taken into its flesh gone as a result of already having physically digested it. Victims are unable to break free unless they somehow sever the flesh that is being consumed from the rest of their body. The process of live absorptive consumption continues until the human victim is fully absorbed into Homo carnifexus' body.
	+ **Pheromone Emission:** The hypothesis of Homo carnifexus as a solitary predator due to its excessively powerful physiology enough for a single specimen to kill an entire tribe or family of Homo sapiens, presumably evolved in response to the vulnerability of hunting solitarily rather than socially, is further amplified in its plausibility by the observed ability of Homo carnifexus to be able to emit releaser pheromones from the keratinocytes of the keratinous structures of its body. Host structures include terminal hair, androgenic hair, the epidermis, and nails. Pheromones are particularly advantageous in the biology of solitary species for utilization of attracting mates from long distances during mating seasons or for an individual specimen to mark its territory against other specimens of its species and thus may provide further evidence for the hypothesis of Homo carnifexus as a solitary predator. However, Homo carnifexus' pheromones have been observed to have a secondary effect upon contact with Homo sapien and require only 30-60 seconds for mental and physical symptoms to reach completion. Keratinocytes of Homo carnifexus begin to proliferate at an extremely fast rate similar to a cancer or viral infection after moving from the epidermis of HCU01 to a human victim with physical contact. The keratinocytes quickly breach the human's epidermis and move to the nerves of their peripheral nervous system, where they secrete their hosted pheromones that travel from the peripheral nervous system to the central nervous system, eventually implanting and gathering inside the brain. The released pheromones both physically deteriorate and hijack the host's brain and utilize pheromonal chemical signals to immediately cause behavioral changes including delirium, hallucinations, insomnia, aggression, decreased cognitive ability, fearlessness, an abnormal attraction to the pheromone source (Homo carnifexus' body), and delusions of immortality. Physical changes may include sudden nail and hair growth, callouses, tumor-like keratinous growths throughout the body, and a heavily deteriorated brain structure. Human hosts appear to deify the pheromone source and will rigorously attack any non-affected humans who come within proximity to the source alongside transmitting pheromones further with violent physical contact to other humans. The effects of Homo carnifexus' pheromones on humans cause victims to become essentially subjects of a nonsupernatural mind control and defenseless against predation by Homo carnifexus through their symptoms and thus have likely evolved to become an effective method of predation or subjection for Homo carnifexus.
* **Regeneration:** HCU01 has been observed to regenerate and restore wounds at an anomalously high level in both speed and recovery due to its abundance of highly proliferative and evolutionarily advanced stem cells. It regenerated its wounds in seconds after several STF guards fired upon it with automatic rifles, and reattached its own arm after further bullet wounds caused it to fall off from damage. Dismembering the limbs of HCU01 rather than fully destroying them appears to only grant it another limb controlled separately from its body even after it generates an attached limb in place of it. Homo carnifexus' regenerative ability is comparable or perhaps even superior to that of salamanders, hydras, and planarians.
* **Voice Mimicry:** HCU01 is able to emit vocal signals to transmit commands to a pheromone-infected human, mimicking the voices of their relatives, friends, or superiors. HCU01 is able to learn the voices of the loved ones of its prey due to the pheromones invading the human's central nervous system, accessing memory of voices. An unintended consequence of this ability allows HCU01 the ability to vocalize to non-infected humans in previously copied voices without opening its mouth akin to a form of telepathic communication.
* **Torpor:** HCU01 went into a hibernative state of torpor within a large structure of ice for thousands of years presumably at its will and was discovered by the Society in its aforementioned state of dormancy. An experiment previous to its escape of containment involving injecting blood into the structure of ice to awaken HCU01 was conducted and resulted in a success. Its response of awakening upon coming into contact with blood thus implies that Homo carnifexus purposefully goes into a state of dormancy upon a lack of available prey; humans.
* **Biological Immortality:** HCU01 is purported to either have an extremely long lifespan alongside a lack of senescence or to be biologically immortal. Despite its age of tens of thousands of years, even beyond the duration of its state of torpor, it shows no physical signs of senescence. Although HCU01 can hypothetically still die by being killed, this may only be possible by completely destroying its brain. Full exposure to sunlight has been observed to immediately send HCU01 into an involuntary state of unconscious dormancy as a result of its photophobic physiology alongside immediately hardening its skin similarly to the texture of stone. HCU01 may only break from this state and return to movement and health if it is moved by an external force into a shadow or if night occurs.

A hypothesis has been reached pertaining Homo carnifexus to have been a solitary predator due to its excessively powerful physiology enough for a single specimen of Homo carnifexus to kill an entire tribe or family of Homo sapien, presumably evolved in response to the vulnerability of hunting solitarily rather than socially. The aforementioned claim is further aided in its plausibility due to the existence of emittable pheromones within the biology of Homo carnifexus. Pheromones are particularly advantageous in the biology of solitary species for utilization of attracting mates from long distances during mating seasons or for an individual specimen to mark its territory against other specimens of its species.

## Behavior

HCU01 appears to be highly dismissive, supercilious, and detached of humans when unprovoked. Attempts at conversation from STF agents are always ignored, and HCU01 has only been observed to speak in person to members of the Echelon. HCU01 appears to prefer to deliver messages through the victims of its pheromones by utilization of voice mimicry, though during an interrogation was able to vocalize a message in a multitude of different voices to its interrogator without opening its mouth while manipulating their fears to its advantage in its words. Upon provocation is one of the few signs of emotion beyond aloofness and superciliousness in HCU01, often resulting in the immediate murder of those who have angered it. However, states of anger are also limited in HCU01's emotional range, as HCU01 does not vocalize its anger in shouts or words but instead embodies it only in immediately killing aggressors as fast as possible while with little displayed negative emotion; facial expressions are essentially limited to only slightly furrowed eyebrows. Authorization and supervision from high command is thus required for any SS personnel to enter the chamber of HCU01.

## SS Ministry of Information Data

In December 22nd of 2021, a site of interest encompassing a system of caves that reached into a solid structure of ice near the Laptev Sea was discovered and recorded by Sigma Task Force Brigade-5 operatives scouting the premises of the contemporary construction site of SSF-3. A squad of twelve STF operatives equipped with FN SCAR-H rifles with attached flashlights, flares, heavy ballistic armor, handheld radio transceivers, and helmet-mounted live video recording devices were given authorization and command to enter the cavemouth entrance and diverted into six observed cave tunnels in pairs of two men each to chart the caves. Nine operatives initially reported a gradually increasing smell of rotten meat as traversion into the cave tunnels began. Quality of radio transmission became increasingly faint as movement continued with an estimated height distance from the cavemouth being 78 meters in 2 minutes of searching. Despite worsening quality of radio transmission, all twelve operatives also reported the continuous finding of several bone fragments and an inexplicably large amount of pristinely preserved human skulls in each tunnel. A fraction of the skulls were sitting atop stalagmites, indicating purposeful placement by an unknown entity. Rings and earrings of gold and chlorite were also discovered in various positions near or on observed bone fragments alongside steel speartips and arrowtips, implying former presence of civilization within the cave system; an addendum from the Ministry of Science placed both the bones and metals at an age of ~12,000 years through radiocarbon dating despite goldsmithing and steel respectively being invented in 4,000 BCE and 1,800 BCE. Brownish-red rust-like stains later dated to be the same age covered a significant amount of the cave floors in long trails and were confirmed to reach to the end of each tunnel as traversion of each pair of operatives concluded at the ends of the tunnels. Five tunnels held no other details of interest reported by operatives; however, the sixth tunnel was reported by SB52-Θ and SB52-Z to hold a massive structure of ice at its end which closed the tunnel and encased within itself an unconscious humanoid male specimen adorned in a long kilt, steel sabatons, and a steel facemask connected to a headdress of a bear's head. The ten remaining operatives were ordered to regroup at the cavemouth and conjoin in the sixth tunnel with SB52-Θ and SB52-Z. Orders were given afterward for the squad to hold on standby until an STF containment team reached the premises and succeeded in securing and containing the specimen to be transported to an SS facility. SB52-Ψ fractured the structure of ice with bullet fire to reach the specimen and attempted to touch it despite orders to remain on standby and was subsequently slowly absorbed by the specimen upon physical contact despite its unconsciousness. Attempts by operatives to break SB52-Ψ free from the specimen by usage of bullet fire were unsuccessful as SB52-Ψ continued to be digested and the specimen displayed minimal signs of damage. The specimen did not awaken from its observed state of unconsciousness despite being exposed to oxygen and disturbed with bullet fire. The charting mission and containment mission were both deemed a success despite the loss of life as each cave tunnel was fully charted and the observed specimen was successfully contained by a containment team approximately 4 hours after the death of SB52-Ψ. Extensive drilling into the cave system was required to both reach the structure of ice and minimize its size and weight to be able to be transported into a facility and contained. The ice structure was subsequently transported by a cargo-hooked helicopter to SSF-2 for temporary storage over a period of approximately 3 days.

The specimen (with its structure of ice) was placed within a observable laboratory testing chamber in SSF-3 upon 3-month completion of the construction of SSF-3 and was designated the codename Subject-22 by the Ministry of Science. Experimentation was immediately conducted under order and supervision by Pyro in effort to awaken Subject-22 from the structure of ice. Experimentation records are recorded below:

**3/21/22 12:31 MINISTRY OF SCIENCE EXPERIMENTATION RECORD #067 re: AWAKENING OF SUBJECT-22**

* **Input A:** Cold water (45°F) was poured from the chamber's sprinkler systems onto Subject-22.
* **Result A:** Subject-22 neither visibly reacted nor woke from dormancy.
* **Input B:** Hot water (128°F) was poured from the chamber's sprinkler systems onto Subject-22.
* **Result B**: Subject-22 neither visibly reacted nor woke from dormancy.
* **Input C:** Human blood was poured from the chamber's sprinkler systems onto Subject-22 after filling connected tanks with aforementioned blood; blood was chosen after and due to a hypothesis theorizing Subject-22 to be hematophagous due to its anthropophagic consumption of SB52-Ψ.
* **Result C:** Subject-22 immediately woke from dormancy upon contact with human blood and fell onto the floor of its chamber before standing on its legs.

A human test subject restrained in a chamber connected to the testing chamber of Subject-22 was subsequently freed of its restraints and ordered to enter the chamber of Subject-22 after its awakening to confirm the hypothetical nature of Subject-22 as a anthropophagic organism. The human was ordered to walk within proximity of Subject-22 after entrance and was immediately grabbed by Subject-22 upon close proximity and forcibly absorbed into its body within a time range of 15 seconds.

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