Corruption Virus
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Corruption Virus is a term that refers to the nanites and digital virus responsible for spreading the Corruption's grasp. Corruption nanites were capable of promulgating through living tissue, integrating the organism into the Corruption's digital hivemind. Artificial intelligences were not immune; constructs could be infected with traditional nanites, and matrices could be reprogrammed through the digitized Corruption virus that was capable of spreading through communications networks.
While the Corruption nanites and its associated digital virus were assumed extinct in 976 PRE, the Qualdron Alignment managed to engineer a new strain of the Corruption Virus through unknown means in 981 PRE for use as a biosynthetic-weapon in the Empire-Alignment War. This new Corruption strain was eventually wiped out by the Empire of Namine two years later. In 986 PRE, the Kraniir created a short-lived third strain for use in the Battle of the Boundary; this strain was unable to self-replicate and was wiped out over the course of the conflict, returning the Corruption Virus to extinction.