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Cortical Borer
Cortical Borer	Difficulty: Hard Superior: None Duties: Infect a human or monkey, reproduce and keep the host alive, or kill if they try to remove you. Guides: No separate guides Quote: "Let me in, LET ME IIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN!!!!!"

Cortical Borer

You find yourself on a ship rich in fleshy hosts perfect for you to reproduce, but do know that the hosts can fight back and kill you with ease, so it is best to get one when it is alone. When the host is in maintenance will be a good time to strike, you can take a single host down with your psychic lance which will give you enough time to infect the host before they have a chance to react. Once you have a host you can either stay silent and keep yourself hidden, or speak with the host from within its own mind; maybe you can form a symbiotic relationship that both benefit from, but if the host is hostile and tries to remove you, you can attempt to take control and reproduce while you can. The overall best option is to stay hidden as to not get yourself killed, but if the host discovers you and tries to make a positive relationship then you have struck gold. Just know that you can appear on medical huds when in control of the host, so best not do that while in medical.

Abilities and Levels

You come with a wide range of abilities such as producing specialized chemicals you can give your host to help or harm them. There is an evolution system which lets you spend the chemicals you have earned from feasting upon the brain juices of the host. There are many more unique abilities other than the ones which involve chemical production, which will be listed in the table below.

Abilities

Abilities and their unlock levels

Name	Description	Level
Release Host	Slither out of the host's ear, letting you roam free to potentially find a new host.	0
Infest	Infest a suitable humanoid host.	0
Paralyze Victim	Freeze the limbs of a potential host and knock them out. This ability in particular uses a rather large amounts of chemicals.	0
Assume Control	Fully connects you to the brain of the host, which lets you control the host directly.	0
Write Mind	Write known skills and languages to host's brain. Causes confusion and brain damage.	0
Reproduce	Spawn several young.	0
Whisper as Host	Whisper something as host.	1
Say as Host	Say something as host.	1
Commune with humans	Send a telepathic message to an unlucky recipient.	1
Biograde Vision	Makes you see living beings through walls.	2
Invisibility	Become partially invisible in the eyes of living beings.	3
Revive Host	Send a powerful jolt of electricity through your host, reviving them.	5

Chemical List

Chemicals and their unlock levels

Chemicals	Level
alkysine,bicaridine, kelotane, dexalin, dylovene, hyperzine, tramadol and space-drugs	0
inaprovaline, tricordrazine, synaptizine, imidazoline and hyronalin.	1
spaceacillin, quickclot, detox, purger and arithrazine.	2
meralyne, dermaline, dexalin-plus, oxycodone and ryetalyn.	3
peridaxon, rezadone, ossisine, kyphotorin and aminazine.	4
violence, steady, bouncer, prosurgeon, cherry drops and machine binding ritual.	5

Detection

There are two ways to detect a borer, either get to a scanner at medbay or use a medhud when it is in control of the host.

Command	Ironhammer	Crew Sided	Moebius Sci	Moebius Med	Antagonist	Technomancers	Asters Guild	NeoTheology	Civilian
Captain	Ironhammer Commander	Ironhammer Marshal	Moebius Expedition Overseer	Moebius Biolab Officer	Contractor	Technomancer Exultant	Guild Merchant	Neotheology Preacher	Vagabond
First Officer	Ironhammer Gunnery Sergeant		Moebius Scientist	Moebius Doctor	Serbian Mercenary	Technomancer	Guild Technician	Neotheology Acolyte	Club Manager
	Ironhammer Inspector		Moebius Roboticist	Moebius Paramedic	Excelsior Infiltrator		Guild Miner	Neotheology Agrolyte	Club Worker
	Ironhammer Medical Specialist			Moebius Chemist	Neotheology Inquisitor			Neotheology Custodian	Club Artist
	Ironhammer Operative			Moebius Psychiatrist	Carrion
				Moebius Bio-Engineer	Blitzshell Assault Drone
					Cortical Borer