Glossary

A feared member of the Macrophage Corps, known equally for his vicious persona and lack of discipline. This feral nature often puts him at odds with Blastor and Humron. Like all Macrophages, his body swells to greater size and strength when stimulated for battle, and strikes at his foes with chemical heat blasts. He uses his tentacles to pull pestilent microbes into an abdominal cavity filled with corrosive acids.

This U.S. Senator was a college friend of Marcus Hawking. When Hawking finds himself in The Combine’s crosshairs, he gives a USB drive containing their secrets to his son, Alex—and tells him to get it to Joel Ames, who is acclaimed for his honesty and social awareness. Ames is the only person in a position of power that Marcus trusts.

An effervescent messenger cell who traverses the neural super highway at the speed of thought, conveying vital information from the Council of the Mind to BioWarriors scattered throughout the BioCosmic Universe. The only thing she loves more than her role is the B-Cell Blastor, though he considers her only a friend and valuable comrade.

The practice of influencing the attitudes, behavior, and growth of society as a whole. The Combine is engaged in a long term effort to re-engineer society it its own image, utilizing bio-technology.

The healing Fibroblast who shares a special bond with the B-Cell Commander, Blastor. A gentle soul in a universe filled with violence, she believes she can heal all wounds using the fibrous webs she secretes, which also enable her to entangle enemies and seal off contaminated corridors.

A Natural Killer Cell who, along with Cid, is summoned to scenes of battle to annihilate infected tissue using cytotoxic blasts. Because she must destroy infected BioWarriors as often as she does bacteria and viruses, her appearance is greeted not with celebration by her allies, but fear and respect.

A twisting, dense forest-like cluster of nerve endings located at the base of The Great Spinal column of the BioCosmos. It is here that a rebellious messenger cell named Nero meets his tragic destiny.

The eternal conflict played out through evolution. As life-forms adapt to their surroundings, they compete against each other for limited resources and space. The strong survive; the weak fall to the wayside, to extinction. Charles Darwin called this cruel process the Survival of the Fittest.