We've been calling it the protomolecule. It's this... glowing blue slime, at its most basic. Feeds off of energy—electricity, I guess, but mostly radiation. One of my friends found it wrapped around the reactor core of a ship, once. It infects anything organic it touches, but it acts differently every time. It took over the entire station on Eros, infected thousands of people, but it...

[She sighs. She knows this is going to sound nuts.]

I don't know how the hell it did it, but it's like it turned the entire station into some sort of fucked up hivemind, and then moved the asteroid like a god damn ship. It almost took out Earth. There's a company using it to create supersoldiers—human protomolecule hybrids. One of them took out seven UN marines and my entire fire team without breaking a sweat.