[ WP ] A new creature/character with assimilation powers : something besides Vampires , Werewolves , Zombies or Agent Smiths .

The technological advances of the 21st Century dwarfed what we could have ever imagined. Now reaching the end, and breaching the 22nd Century, a whole new form of human has arisen. 
 
 It began with Moore's Law, stating that technology would double every two years. Then it was every eighteen months. Then it was every six months, where it plateaued. Around the first quarter of the 21st Century, humanity began DNA nanobot integration. We were all able to think faster, repair quicker, and function on lesser sleep. The DNA nanites would clear the neurotoxins from our brains while we functioned normally. 
 
 By the middle of the 21st Century, humanity required no sleep. The nanites could be activated wirelessly to perform a number of functions, such as: birth control, sleep, brain power, temporary gains in strength and speed, quicker muscle repair, and control advanced hormone releases. Depression was non existent. Fat loss was rampant. Productivity had reached an all time high. At any given moment someone could, quite literally, link a thought to a friend just by imagining it. 
 
 By the last quarter of the 21st Century, mankind was a well-oiled machine. We thought as one when we needed to, shared information on the fly, dreamed when we needed a release and were able to function at a rate nearly 600 % more effective than at the breach of the year 2000, when all feared that computers would crash. 
 
 But this time of peace and serenity would not last. In the waning years of the 21st Century, mankind rediscovered their more destructive tendencies. Called Malites, these people were created to do the bidding of one man, whose eventual goal was world domination. A dna nanite designer, programmer and advanced quantum mathematician, Daryl Seekings had never been a candidate for the nanites he designed and loved, they never would take to his body. 
 
 After twenty years of anger over his own shortcomings, he discovered a way to take over another hosts nanites and live through them vicariously. In the beginning it was using the current nanites to watch them to their daily tasks, and even things such as changing, sex, or masturbation. Then it became infecting their thoughts, forcing them to sleep and dream nightmares, and even one day, going as far as to cause an aneurysm. 
 
 Another five years would lead to his design of the Seekings Nanite; still unaware of his transgressions, he infected the first host with the replicating dna software when he controlled a young woman to come to his apartment for his own malicious needs. The infected host, controlled by a dna nanite ai, would suggestively go forward and intentionally infect someone else. That process would be repeated, one right after the other, until hundreds of thousands of people had become the mindless drones of a depraved man. 
 
 Malites are now half the worlds population. The world is at a constant state of war; one side fighting for the free minds of men, doing our best to protect our thoughts and our progeny from such a fate. The other side fights as the flesh-born robots of a deranged madman, bent on corrupting and controlling all of mankind by any means necessary. 
 
 Both sides are made up of soldiers who will not die from conventional warfare. Whatever advancement is made next, to stop a man who can not easily die, will likely kill us all. 
 
 Thank God.
