Mechu-Deru vitae     Master Power (Dark Side Power)
        "Maggot of metal, rust, and rot. Sith life draws breath, old life does not."
        - Sith Mechu-deru vitae incantation
        A specific variant of mechu-deru, mechu-deru vitae was a Sith arcane art created by Belia Darzu. Using a mix of alchemics and arcane Sith rituals, Belia Darzu developed a technovirus that immediately began to turn any organic creature it was loosed upon into a cybernetic droid hybrid. Victims of the technovirus were colloquially known as 'Technobeasts'; mindless cybernetic automatons who were most often enraged with bloodlust. The mechu-deru vitae technovirus attacked the frontal lobes of the victims' brain, ultimately lobotimizing it and making them incapable of higher thought. At this point, the process of mechu-deru vitae was irreversable.
        Victims of mechu-deru vitae were never affected in the same way as one another, though many traits remained consistent. Nearly every victim affected sprouted sharp protrusions from their arms which were infected with the mechu-deru vitae technovirus, in order to infect others. It's thought that the Junk Golems of Kazdan Paratus were victims of mechu-deru vitae. Alter Difficulty: Heroic