Atavus (Earth: Final Conflict)

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The Atavus are a vampiric race of beings that feature in the final season of Earth: Final Conflict.

History

Early history

The history of the Atavus remains unclear though they were the precusors of the Taelon and Jaridians who developed from them after the Kimera interfered in their evolution. (Episode: The Joining) These events that were the genesis of the Taelon and Jaridian species occured around eight million years ago. At the time, there existed an Atavus known as Ramaz who was the head of an immortality cult that learnt how to manipulate as well as isolate core energy. Through this technique, he and his followers extended their lifespan by a factor of 200 whilst and became the proto-Taelon race. However, those Atavus that did not follow him suffered as their lifespan was reduced to two third at the expense of Ramaz's group. It would be these events that sparked a terrible ancient feud between the Taelons and the Jaridians. (Episode: Summit) At some unknown point, a group of Atavus travelled to the planet Earth where they left behind several technological devices such as the regeneration chambers. (Episode: The Point of No Return) This colony of Atavus were the masters of Earth and had conquered it millions of years ago. During that time, they altered the lifeforms in the ecosystem and even introduced a few of their own such as bio-engineering mankind. They were present during the emergence of humanity in the distant past. (Episode: Unearthed) In fact, they contributed some DNA to the developing humans which allowed their biologies to recognise one another even if their minds did not. (Episode: Pariah)

However, the dominance of the Atavus came to an end when an asteroid shower engulfed the planet which forced the Atavus underground in order to preserve their race. This act also allowed humanity to develop unchallenged and they forgot about the tyrannical Atavus that once ruled the planet. (Episode: Unearthed)

A faction of the Atavus colonized the prehistoric planet Earth where they ruled for thousands of years and fed upon the life energy of early Humanity. A time travelling Renee Palmer attracted the attention of the Atavan leader Howlyn who began to breed more intelligent Human's in order to ensure Mankind's evolution as well as the birth of Palmer. (Episode: Legacy) However, an asteroid storm spelt the end of their civilization and they entered into a protective hibernative state in stasis chambers spread around the world. (Episode: Unearthed)

Despite this being the case, some lone Atavus survived over the centuries with one becoming the advisor to an Egyptian Pharoah. This Atavus retained a guard of Atavan hybrids who guarded his tomb when he entered into stasis. (Episode: Entombed)

The fate of the original Atavus homeworld is not known. Its possible that the planet was the one the Kimera visited which meant that none of its inhabitants exist since they were transformed into the proto-Taelon and proto-Jaridian races.

Atavism

Over the course of millions of years, it was believed that the Atavus were extinct and instead their genetic descendants the Taelons and the Jaridians prospered. Despite this being the case, the Taelons still possessed the genetic legacy of the Atavus which was present in their very DNA. (Episode: Summit) Furthermore, their inheritance from the Kimera led to the creation of the shaqarava organ which the Taelons could not control and instead they crafted the Commonality to control their violent impulses. As such, any act of severance from the Commonality led to a devolution of a Taelon into a proto-Atavus specimen. (Episode: Atavus) In contrast, the Jaridians decided to retain the use of the shaqarava as well as their emotions. (Episode: Gauntlet)

On the planet Earth, the Taelons arrived in order to find a means of escaping their genetic extinction. (Episode: Limbo) During his search to find a means to save his people, the scientist Ma'el uncovered an Atavan regeneration chamber buried deep in South Asia. Learning of this, he put into place a plan to return his race to their Atavus roots in order to allow them to survive their energy depletion. Thus, he put into motion events that would occur in the next two million years. (Episode: Point of No Return) One of their noted members of the Taelons was Da'an who was once cut off from the Commonality by accident due to the actions of Auger. This led to him turning into a violent Atavus lifeform that stole the life energy from a number of human beings. It was only the action of Liam Kincaid was Da'an restored and returned to his position within the Commonality. (Episode: Atavus) This was not humanitys only encounter with the Atavus as an opponent of Da'an known as Bel'li intended to destroy his rival. As the Commonality and Taelon law prohibited their kind from killing each other, Bel'li thus used circumstances to sever his contact with the Commonality by aid of the human resistance. This allowed him to devolve into an Atavus and thus provide not only the means but the killer instincts to kill Da'an. He was only stopped by the actions of Major Kincaid though this came at the cost of Bel'li's life. (Episode: Defector)

As events proceeded, extinction seemed more apparent for the Taelon race. In an effort to end his own life yet provide a means of salvation for his kind, Da'an entered into secret negotiations with a Jaridian called Balvak who was the head of a peace movement within his peoples empire. Both intended to find a means of restoring their race and Da'an looked to the past and the creation of his people by the actions of Ramaz. Da'an and Balvak believed that the salvation of their races was a joining and returning to their Atavus roots. Thus, they met in secret in order to accomplish this act or die trying. Meeting aboard the Freedom space station, they merged their energy and became an Atavus lifeform. However, the strain and an attack by Taelon shock troopers led to Balvak's disintegrating and leaving only Da'an alive. Da'an was imparted with a portion of Balvak's lifeforce as the elderly Jaridian energy was lower than Da'an's. (Episode: Summit) The experiment proved to be a failure and highlighted the fact that humanity was a missing link between the Taelon's and the Jaridians. (Episode: Abduction)

During the final days of the Taelon and Jaridian races, Liam Kincaid along with Juliet Street managed to decipher Ma'el's Relic. Once decoded, the ancient regeneration chamber in Southern Asia activated and revealed Ma'els plan for the rescue of six Taelons along with six Jaridians which would be restored as Atavus. (Episode: The Point of No Return)

Restoration

Whilst seen as an attempt at saving both races, the plan ultimately failed and instead brought about the complete resurrection of the original vampiric Atavus race. Led by Howlyn, these Atavus sought to reconquer the planet Earth once more. (Episode: Unearthed) The Atavan regeneration chambers were saved from isolation and possibly destruction when Ronald Sandoval used the Taelon Mothership to transport tractor the structure into the vessel. There, he formed an alliance with Howlyn and the Atavus in order for the parastic species to use the 5.5 billion human inhabitants as a food source. (Episode: Pariah) As they were few in number, it was Sandoval who suggested the use of the joining process to create a race of Atavan-Human hybrids that would serve as infiltrators and subvert human governments in order to keep their presence hidden from the world. This action saw several high ranking individuals ranging from the FBI to other governments being converted into hybrids without anyone knowing of the existence of the Atavus. (Episode: The Seduction) This included the media which meant that no organized force was formed to combat the Atavan threat except for Renee Palmer. (Episode: Subterra) She was successful in waging a covert war against the Atavus and even managed to destroy several of their hybrid chambers in the process thus impeding their plans. (Episode: Boones Awakening) Due to the limited number of hybrid chambers, the Atavus desired to mass produce this technology and thus used the financial resources of Ronald Sandoval to buy the Human company Tenzer Dynamics. They intended to use its head Dr. Charles Tenzer to replicate the chambers and a rising bio-engineer called Zachary Winslow to create a formula that would allow the transfer of genetic material in such technology in a secret project called Domino. The attempt was to create a hybrid chamber factory by human technology. (Episode: Guilty Conscience)

Background

The Atavus were a humanoid race with a similar skeletal structure that were noted for being carbon based whlst possessing an abnormal levels of quantum energy. (Episode: The Seduction) They seemingly had the capacity to climb over the surface of walls without having to worry about falling. This allowed them to move about sideways as well as to drop from ceilings and better ambush prey. Atavus proved to be highly resilient against damage as they were able to survive numerous gunshots and still continue fighting without any degradation in their activities. This was attributed to their enhanced regenerative abilities allowing them to heal their wounds in a matter of moments. (Episode: Unearthed) These traits even allowed severed limbs to still be alive but with limited functionality. (Episode: The Seduction) They also proved to be significantly stronger compared to humans and were able to overpower them. Unlike the Taelons and more similar to the Jaridians, the Atavus were divided into males and females. The visual perceptions of an Atavus were very vivid and their senses were highly sharp. (Episode: Unearthed) It was stated that an Atavus was many times more sensitive compared to humans in the realm of senses. This easily allowed them to determine the emotional state of others such as humans and were able to capable of uncovering feelings such as arousal. (Episode: Pariah) They possessed several unique organs when compared to the anatomy of humans. The Atavan nervous system was twice as conductive compared to mankind. (Episode: Termination)

The species were described as a scourge; being sentient parasites that fed on the lifeforce of living intelligent beings. They did this through a unique aspect of their biology where they retracted energy claws from their hands. These extended claws were capable of piercing the skin of a living being and absorbing their lifeforce in the process. This left the prey dead and their energy used as nourishment for the Atavus. The practice was requirement as it sustained their longevity with humans proving to be a rare delicacy to the Atavus. When feeding, Atavus seemingly felt feelings of pleasure and ectasy in the process which they deeply enjoyed. (Episode: Unearthed) A unique aspect of this feeding ability meant that the Atavus were equally capable of sharing their stored energy which had the capacity of healing grievous injuries to a human being. (Episode: Pariah) Earlier proto-Atavus seemingly possessed the shaqarava organ which they were capable of using to drain the life energy from living beings at a distance. (Episode: Atavus) Furthermore, they could redirect this energy into powerful blasts that had the potential of disintegrating enemies. (Episode: Summit)

A unique ability of the Atavus was the power to probe the minds of others of their kinds or even hybrids of information. This was accomplished by use of their energy cleave claws. Extending one of the claws and drilling it through the temples of the a hybrid, an Atavus was able to probe the subjects mind of information even if they were recently killed. (Episode: Guilty Conscience)

Core energy proved to be a repellant effect to the Atavus; either for feeding or for joining. (Episode: The Seduction)

Similar to both the Taelons and the Jaridians, the Atavus possessed the means to bring about a joining. This was partly a technological process as it made use of the regeneration sarcophagus devices. Inside these chambers, both an Atavus and a Human entered whereupon the device sealed together. This led to a process where Atavan genetic material was transferred into the Human by way of a fusion process. When complete, the Human was transformed into a hybrid who was completely dedicated to the Atavus goal. Unlike true born Atavus, the hybrids appeared Human though they retained the use of the energy cleave claws, enhanced healing and their eyes glowed when they intended to reveal their true nature. (Episode: The Seduction) Its been stated that whilst initially the hybrids were half human and half Atavus, the dominant Atavan DNA eventually transformed a hybrid into a full breed Atavus. (Episode: Termination)

The species was noted for both its feral and aggressive nature. This meant that they regularly made screeches, hisses and animal-style screams in order to intimidate both their foes and prey. (Episode: Unearthed) Female Atavus proved to be highly alluring and seductive in their actions. Both to their own kind and to humanity even which meant that they were capable of attraction and even sexual interaction with them. A number of Atavus highly believed in the concept of only the strong surviving. (Episode: Pariah) It was said in one case that the Atavus had violent mating rituals. (Episode: The Seduction)

Certain Atavus believed in the concept of survival of the fittest and thus felt that they were a superior race compared to others. (Episode: Atavus) As such, they often felt other species were little more then vermin which were only fit to be fed upon. (Episode: The Seduction) Whilst they were cruel and brutal, they respected those that showed the heart of a warrior and felt that such traits were almost non-existent in humanity. (Episode: Guilty Conscience)

It should be noted that the season 5 Atavus differ greatly from those seen in the previous seasons. Out of Universe, this was because of the need to reduce costs for special effects but in-universe its possible that previously seen Atavus did not possess all the components that made up of the season 5 versions namely a fusion of both Taelon and Jaridians mixed with Atavan lifeforce.

Technology

The technology of the Atavus was different compared to that of the Taelon's and infact seemed somewhat closer to that of the Jaridians.

Atavan materials were seemingly constructed from a ceramic with magnetic properties that did not exist with the human periodic table. (Episode: Unearthed) These chambers were made of unusual metals in the construction process that were made of a revolutionary alloy that was dubbed by Charles Tenzer as Balivium. This compound had the unique ability to transfer genetic material such as DNA. (Episode: Guilty Conscience) They furthermore possessed techniques capable of bio-engineering other races as they had introduced some of their own on the planet Earth's ecosystem as well as altered elements of it. This even allowed them to transform Neantherthal into modern humanity. (Episode: Unearthed) Atavus made use of a bio-replicable material similar to the one used by Taelon technology which meant that they had the means of controlling such bio-technology. (Episode: Pariah)

Their was noted similarity between the modules of an Atavus regeneration chamber to that of stasis technology employed by the Taelons. (Episode: The Point of No Return) They resembled large sarcophagus-like bio-stasis pods that were able to keep their occupants alive indefinately. (Episode: Unearthed) This use of stasis chambers allowed them to hold sleeping population around the world. Furthermore, they were capable of producing joining chambers where an Atavus and a Human entered two coffin shaped devices where genetic material of the Atavus is filtered into the Human thus creating an Atavan-Human hybrid. (Episode: Seduction) These hybrid chambers were noted for being indespensible to the Atavus. (Episode: Subterra)

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