This last page concerns special cases that could, to some extent, be
considered hybrids, or, because the Syndicate aimed to produce a hybrid
in order to make a human immune to the Black Oil, cases where that
immunity has manifested itself.
The Huichol Indians, a group of Indians in Mexico that historically
mixed little with other groups of people, have developed a natural
immunity to the Black Oil. Thanks to a particular gene strain found in
them, their immune system promptly responds to a Black Oil virus
infection and makes it impossible for the Black Oil to use them as
hosts.
It is possible that the Anasazi Indians were also related to this
people, and that their natural immunity was the reason why they were
abducted and exterminated by the alien Colonists centuries ago.
It is also possible that this naturally-occurring genetic immunity was
passed on to the Huichol and the Anasazi from their ancestors, before
they crossed the Bering Strait and colonized the Americas some 40,000
years ago: a people that originated from the Siberian plains, in the
region of Tunguska. Possibly through violent exposure to the Black Oil
and/or magnetite that arrived in that area in meteor crashes, the folk
that lived there built up a resistance to the Black Oil -- in the same
way one builds up a resistance to the flu virus, through repeated
exposure -- and naturally mutated and incorporated this immunity in
their genome. It is thus likely that their descendants in Siberia also
kept this immunity, and that they were the source of the vaccine
against the Black Oil developed by the Russians in the Tunguska region
in the 1990s.
The
chimeras
The chimeras are an artificial life form created by the US Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in secret, based on DNA from
humans, the Black Oil and other unknown species; as a mixture of these
different genomes, the chimeras can be described as hybrids.
They
present a somewhat alien appearance, with some human characteristics,
and they were not designed to be living organisms, they probably died
as soon as their bodies were (artificially) fully grown.
DARPA, and the Pentagon in general, was not aware the Black Oil DNA
really was of alien origin. Nevertheless, the deceased chimera bodies
would serve as biological evidence of alien life, as a lure to
believers to cover for the true illegal research conducted by the
Pentagon, such as experimentation on humans. Only the Syndicate, whose
members included officials working in the Pentagon, were aware of the
true alien origin of the material used to create these chimeras. The
production of such bodies must continue to the present date,
independently of the happenings in the Syndicate and the Supersoldiers.
Gibson
Praise
Gibson Praise is a boy that can naturally read minds, an attribute that
is also found in the alien Colonists. Since humans were originally
created from terrestrial and alien genetic material, it seems that the
genes necessary for mind reading, of alien origin, were included in the
human genome, but were shut down -- for evolutionary reasons, or
because the Colonists considered the idea of having their own creations
read their minds disturbing. In Gibson Praise, the parts of his genome
that coded for proteins, organs and activity necessary for mind reading
were turned on. As a result, Gibson can also identify who is human, who
is alien and who is a Supersoldier.
It is possible that this "turning on of genes" in Gibson has the same
origins as the Huichol genetic immunity (see above); indeed, Gibson
being of Filipino descent, his ancestors might have been the same
people in Siberia whose genome was modified due to exposure to Black
Oil and/or magnetite thousands of years ago.
Fox Mulder
For a time, FBI Agent Fox Mulder was an alien/human hybrid immune to
the Black Oil. In 1996, Mulder was exposed to a weakened form of the
Black Oil in Tunguska, Russia, and injected with an incomplete version
of the anti-Black Oil vaccine. This killed the Black Oil in him,
however some of it remained, even more weakened, incapable of taking
control of Mulder and using him as a host: inactive.
In 1999, Mulder was exposed to Galactic Cosmic Radiation, which
reactivated to some extent the dormant Black Oil: it was still weak
enough and incapable of controlling Mulder, but it began behaving like
a true living organism, using its genome to code for proteins and other
functions as if Mulder's body was the body of a grey Colonist: a Black
Oil that was genetically active, but dormant. Mulder's own genome was
not modified, however in his body two concurrent genomes were being
expressed: human and alien, thus making him a hybrid. But how can
someone who carries the Black Oil inside him be called immune to that
same Black Oil? Because of the fact that Mulder's body carried Black
Oil, any other Black Oil that would enter his body would recognize the
already present Black Oil and consider this body infected. Mulder was
saved from being taken over by the fact that his Tunguskan Black Oil
was weakened and inactive.
C.G.B. Spender (commonly known as the "Cigarette Smoking Man")
perceived what had happened to Mulder and attempted to transfer this
artificially-occurring hybridization/immunity on himself. This he
intended to achieve by brain surgery that would physically remove the
Black Oil from Mulder's pineal gland and placing it on his own. The
surgery succeeded on Mulder's side: he was no longer a carrier of the
Black Oil and he safely recovered from the surgery. However, the
immunity was not passed down to Spender; he got terminally ill as a
result of the surgery. Mulder's immunity was a one-of-a-kind event.
William
William is the son of (ex-) FBI Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. He
was conceived in 2000 and born in 2001, simultaneously to several
experiments by Zeus Genetics and to the chloramines-influenced 'organic
Supersoldiers' generation of babies (see page 5). However, William's
conception was not tampered with by Zeus Genetics or the modified Black
Oil in chloramines: his conception was entirely natural and the fruit
of love.
After his natural conception though, William was indeed influenced by
the modified chloramines since he was targeted through the implants in
his mother's neck. This influence continued after his birth and William
exhibited all the signs showing that he was on the path to being
changed into an 'organic Supersoldier': telekinesis, and an iron
buildup in his blood stream that would eventually result in a metallic
vertebra. All these extra-human capabilities were not due to his
parents' history: despite the fact that both Scully and Mulder had been
exposed to the Black Oil and otherwise experimented on during their
lives, by the time William's conception came they were both cleansed of
any alien biological material in them (either from a vaccine injection
or by brain surgery). William's abilities were given to him through the
Supersoldier-led chloramine project.
His development into a Supersoldier was cut short though, by an
injection of a magnetite solution by Jeffrey Spender, who knew what
William was turning into. Ever since, William was rid of any alien
biological influence and continued to grow as a normal human child.
Nevertheless, his conception was deemed miraculous because Willam's
mother, the victim of experimentation by the Syndicate and the alien
Colonists, was left barren. Scully's fertility was given back to her,
inadvertently, by her coming into contact with one of the original
Ships of the Colonists in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa, in 1999; this
Ship was capable of healing or even resurrecting all life forms and
healed Scully of her ailment.
Thus William was also the result of the Ship's will to conceive him,
for William is the subject of an ancient prophecy of the alien
Colonists (or so it would appear to us humans): that William is the
prophesized leader of the colonization that will happen in 2012. His
status as a leader is unquestioned and is not dependent on his biology,
William is simply the chosen one. Once the prophecized leader was
identified, still an unborn fetus, the Colonists, or their
representatives the Supersoldiers decided to make him also biologically
alien and controlled by an alien conscience: that is why it was
attempted to convert him into a Supersoldier. This was deemed necessary
because it is also prophesized that William could become, quite
contrarily, the leader of the resistance to the colonization and be the
cause of the Colonists' demise.
In 2002, after he was got rid of the alien influence on him, and in an
attempt to have the Supersoldiers lose track of him, William was given
up by his mother, anonymously, and was adopted by the Van de Kamps, a
rural couple in Wyoming. It is important to note that these last
paragraphs are based on scarce information and, particularly given our
human, and thus incomplete, understanding of alien-related lore and
science, the information provided herein may be misleading. The nature
of William's role in the coming colonization remains unclear, but it is
certain that it will be an important one. On December 22, 2012, he will
nearly be 12 years old.
Wildcards in the fateful events surrounding mankind's future and its
colonization by Purity are the alien Rebels -- last seen in 1999 and
who might have been utterly destroyed -- and the Walk-ins -- immaterial
spiritual beings for whom 2012 is also an important date.
Key episodes: 4X24: Gethsemane, 5X03: Redux,
5X20:
The End,
6X01: The
Beginning,
7X03: The Sixth Extinction, 7X04:
Amor Fati,
, 8X15: DeadAlive, 8X16: Vienen, 8X20:
Essence, 8X21:
Existence, 9X01/02: Nothing Important Happened Today,
9X08:
Trust No 1, 9X10:
Provenance, 9X11: Providence,
9X17:
William, 9X19/20: The
Truth
See also: Primer 6