The nanoparasite is a nanobot technology used by Dominatron and The Corrupted to infect any either biological or mechanical form and reprogram them into a cybernetic mutant that serves for them. They work the same way as the other pathogenic microorganisms that turn anything into a zombie.
The infection phase is different from biological or mechanical but the concept is the same:
- The bug drone spits the nanobots onto the host and the bots dig through their outer structure to get to their system.
- The bots then hijack the cells or logical codes like viri and begin the process of the infection.
- After cells or logical codes have been taken over, the bots then replicate to more bots or bots code in the computer system.
- The nanobots then infect more cells or logical codes until the host becomes completely paralyzed as their movement system is taken over.
- Before the nanobots transform the host's physical form, the bots find their way to the brain or the processor to reprogram the host. If there is no brain or core processor they skip to phase 6.
- And finally if possible, the bots can rebuild the host's physical form into a different form of themselves.
There are many differences between Dominatron and The Corrupted nanoparasite:
- Dominatron nanoparasite wouldn't work on the corpse and permanently damaged computer system while from The Corrupted could, making them can build a so-called undead army.
- Dominatron nanoparasite is less effective on biological forms and could be cured, making computer and cybernetic are the primary targets for Dominatron's infection. While dead bodies and computer systems are the main targets for The Corrupted because their internal system couldn't fight back anymore.
- Although this is just speculative, The Corrupted nanoparasite is enhanced with dark magic created from Plas Mar blessing. Plas Mar scholars still figure it out until today.
- Dominatron nanoparasite infection can spread via digital logical signal (network). The parasite could hijack the communication center and upload the infection code to anything that connects to its network system. This only works on computer systems, obviously.
Although the infection is relatively hard to stop, many cures have been developed by many factions throughout the verse. Not including NA-LD hacking procedure to temporarily or permanently stop the Dominatron infection. There are battles between them in cyberspace but still no report of The Corrupted activity in cyberspace.
(This is influenced by Nexus Intruder Program from Warzone 2100 where Nexus formed its own army out of the parasite)