A journey into the Blacklight Virus Mindset:
Jane Green never knew what hit her. She was a young woman, who had just immigrated to the Empire. She was walking to the nearby CybusBook shop when, a crowd of screaming people came barreling at her, running from something down the street. She decided to investigate. After a moment of walking, she saw the disturbance, and saw that it was not a disturbance at all, but one of the members of the Rule of Two, the two leaders of the Empire. In this case it was Alexander Mercer, a living virus. He glanced at her, and said “I thought I commanded all civilians to leave me be. This is what you get for not following orders.” What happened next was a blur of red and black tendrils enveloping Jane, consuming her. Jane saw herself in a black fog, blind. A light flicked on suddenly, and she ran to it. She peered down a hole, from where the light was emitting, and found herself peering into a warzone, full of black-clad soldiers using primitive ballistics weapons, gunning down shambling, bloody, creatures, which were swinging their arms in vain trying to hit them. A young lady, looking very similar to herself, ran down an alleyway, at the troopers, screaming “help me”. Her dress was ripped, stained, and blood-soaked. Her hair and skin were covered in various debris, and soot. She landed in a troopers arms, who stared at her for a moment. A unearthly scream emitted from the alleyway, and 5 more creatures stumbled forward, and were promptly shot. A gruff voice said “Her too” and the woman, who was now crying with joy, looked up at her savior, only to be shot in the forehead. She saw Alex leap down from a roof, and kill a trooper with single punch. The others were impaled by black tendrils and consumed, as Jane was. Hundreds of similar scenes flickered by, and Jane realized, that it was not in the Empire. A memory of a blue and green planet in space appeared, but was enveloped in red and black tendrils, as Alex smirked in the background. She had seen that on a propaganda holo-poster somewhere, with Alexander holding the planet in his palm, it was enveloped, absorbed and crushed. Jane realized with a start that Alex was not the holy merciful, god he was depicted as in propaganda, but a evil, wicked being. Jane awoke from her nightmare with a scream. Later that year, Jane Green was executed for attempting to kill Alexander Mercer.