[A-NSEH] Asher Biology (Zeta - Theta)

Isolated at Zeta

Once a man, Asher Foster served as the head of Zeta on LABIAL-III. On August 14, ____, fearing the growing threat of the corruption and the site's general state of deterioration, the rest of the site's crew relocated to Theta. Asher willingly stayed behind.

Sometime during the period of isolation that followed he began ingesting large amounts of corrupted mass, undergoing a brief period of reconstruction and plummeting into insanity. In one intense psychotic episode, Asher heard a voice telling him that he did not need his eyes to see; this voice, coupled with mass-induced light sensitivity, convinced him to remove his own eyes.

Returning to Theta

On January 15, ____, he called Theta claiming that he wanted to relocate as his crew did months prior. Theta dispatch technician Ewan Masami, pleasantly surprised at this request, informed Asher of a team of visitors (Bethany Ream, Cerise Grzech and Kamil Astrophel among others) who were in the area, and directed the team to the site to retrieve him. Asher ambushed them upon arrival, overpowering the entire party and cutting off their communications before they could warn Theta. He injected the fatally-wounded colleagues with corrupted mass and escaped using the Zeppelin they'd arrived in.

Theta's crew later spotted the Zeppelin near their complex. Finding Asher disfigured and comatose within the vessel, they unwittingly brought him to the site's medical ward. The on-site doctor (Audrey Février) took several scans and performed an examination, and started writing a report on her office terminal declaring that, due to the heavy mutation and mass infestation ravaging his body, he was unlikely to ever awaken. Asher rose from the examination table and bashed in her skull before she finished.

The details of the ensuing battle between Asher and the remaining life forms on Theta are unclear, but it appears to have been fairly one-sided. Several Proxies teamed up with Asher, created either by the corrupted mass or by Asher himself (or both). Eventually one of the crew members (Adam Schneider) deliberately trapped himself in the laboratory level with Asher by sabotaging the elevator, allowing the other survivors to escape to the basement. He was later forced to commit a suicide due to Asher breaking inside and honor-preservation.