Thread:Battlestation/@comment-29360781-20191219222405

I have identified the species that causes Potassium Artigo. According to my research, the microorganism that causes this disease is a bacteriophage, or rather just a phage. It is clear that this phage is not like other bacteriophages, because bacteriophages target bacteria. They do not attack animal or plant cells. Of course, one could argue that perhaps the entities in the universe are actually made up of bacteria, which would explain why this phage can kill intelligent life. However, this is obviously unlikely. I have come up with 2 theories as to how this phage can harm us.

What most likely happened is evolution. There was probably a group of phages that were forced into a specific environment in which bacteria were non-existent, forcing them to adapt. We now have ourselves a phage that, while no longer harmful to bacteria, is harmful to carbon-based lifeform cells.

The second theory is a bit more speculative, and suggests that these phages are still bacteriophages, but that they behave differently. Real science has shown that bacteria in our gut can affect how our brain works. For example, rats fed the gut bacteria of depressed people became depressed themselves. One of the symptoms of Potassium Artigo is depression. Perhaps these viruses can change and influence gut bacteria and the signals they send.

I will be conducting more research and will be studying a better cure.

- Germ 