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Nanogene Droid

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this highly experimental form of automaton was designed to affect the cells of living organisms. A number of nanogene droids are injected into the target's system and attack the genetic material of the target at the molecular level. They are programmed to rewrite the target's genetic code, causing strange and unusual reactions. Developed during the later years of the New Order, nanogene droids were deemed too costly to use on a widespread basis, and the project was supposedly abandonded. An unscrupulous scientist named Uris ressuracted the project with his own funding, and very nearly released a batch of the droids on the population of Voorsbain before he was stopped by a group of Alliance agents. Uris' droids manipulated their targets' genetic structure in such a way that they would be turned into a mindless zombie within 3 weeks.