Medicant

Written by Pookas Kreations

Medicants are a techno-organic race of beings, some think from the Astral Plane. They are a sentient race similar to the ocean-going Medusa, with a multitude of tentacles. Various tools are built-in tools in the extremities.
After some research and testing, they were able to turn the pandemic around. It took longer because of the various races on Aquatica. The breakthrough came when they discovered the gene that triggered the Technophage. The Medicants created a spore that spread throughout the atmosphere, this altered everyone's physiology so that the phage couldn't affect them anymore.

Utility

Most Medicants are doctors, but any field that requires a high level of dexterity can be chosen. Other fields that are often chosen are engineers, geneticists, mechanics, cyberneticists, etc.

Manufacturing

Unknown

They appeared in the sky one day drifting down to the surface. Etherial, quiet, and efficient in movement and deed.

These skilled healers, are flesh shapers, can manipulate DNA at a cellular level, install cybernetics without pain, inject various types of medicine from their tentacle tip needles. The injectors can be filled with various medications, including paralytic, anesthetic, topical analgesic, etc. They can induce sleep, coma, and stasis, even regeneration when needed.

In serious cases, they can expand their "hood" to encompass their patient, induce a medical coma while they work. While in the coma, the patient is shunted into a virtual construct while they are being worked on. 

Gravity doesn't affect them. They communicate with telepathy, empathy, and with pulsing lights in their skin. Medicants are deaf, but make up for it by having ultravision. 

Inventor(s)

Unknown

Access & Availability

Twenty of them appeared in the skies above Aquatica, but they go where they are needed.

Complexity

No one knows about their technology, it is above anyone's current knowledge.

Discovery

No one knows for sure where the Medicants came from, if they were created or if they altered themselves. They appeared on Aquatica one day not long after the Technophage appeared.