PRAETOR cells

PRAETOR Cells are a unique kind of cell created using nano-machinery, existing with the Future Earth timeline. They are central to the plotline of Mobile Suit Gundam: PRAETOR.

History
PRAETOR Cells were discovered by Gage H. Lanran prior to the events of Mobile Suit Gundam: PRAETOR. When the cells were (accidentally) released from containment, it infested the entirety of the space colony Neo-Pompeii. Every citizen died from the resultant outbreak, along with the military forces sent to assist in the evacuation. With the exception of Gage.

Instead of dying, Gage's body was warped. He gained inhuman strength and an enhanced healing capability. It also transformed his CMS-12 Cero into the far more powerful LMSX-01 Dis. Just as he gained regenerative capabilities, so too did his machine. Upon further examination, he discovered that he had merged with the Dis. As long the mobile suit existed, he could reform his body.

Attempting to recreate the effects of his exposure, Gage created a new variety of PRAETOR cells that later warped the older, less powerful cells. Raiding various colonies, using his Dis and new unmanned mobile suits created using PRAETOR Cells, Gage seized Alfimi Campbell, Peter Benson and Joshua Williams, placing them into the LMSX-02 Berah Gundam, LMSX-03 Beil Gundam and LMSX-04 Varis Gundam which in turn exposed them to the newer PRAETOR Cells. The results were not as intended as while the physical goal was achieved, the infected pilots were all driven to some degree of insanity.

Realising that he needed to refine the PRAETOR Cells further, he sent his three new elite pilots out to find both a suitable location for his plan to dominate the earth and test subjects for his constant refining of the PRAETOR Cells.

At some point, Alfimi returned having met Connor Renard. Gage, having completed another version of the PRAETOR Cells encouraged her fantasy based romance, and thus her insanity, and ordered her to retrieve Connor. When Connor sacrificed himself for his comrades, Gage immediately used him as the latest subject of his experimentation, infecting Connor (who later had no memory of the incident) and transforming the BCX-101 Shiro Gundam into the much more powerful BCX-101-U Neue Shiro Gundam. When Connor had a stable infection, very similar to Gage's, the research of newer PRAETOR Cells was finished and the current version was put into mass-production.

Eventually, Gage's plan to use PRAETOR Cells to dominate the Earth fails, him dying in the process as his Mobile Suit is destroyed. However, Connor remained infected (Without his knowledge) meaning that PRAETOR Cells still existed.

Effects of the PRAETOR Cells

 * Enhanced Physical Strength, Speed and Reflexes
 * Regeneration
 * Infected individuals (with the exception of Connor and Gage) can be controlled by Gage.
 * Mobile Suits are prone to transform, gaining additional power and Regenerative ability.
 * Infection of earlier version, with the exception of Gage, resulted in mental and emotional instability.