Perpetual Immortality
"The fuck you mean I'm immortal?! You saying I can't die because of this fucking thing?"
"Oh you can most certainly die Khem, you just don't have the good fortune to stay dead even if you wanted to."
Khem Michaels and Abernathy Crawley, Upon the former's discovery of his immortality-
Immortality, though not common by any means in the galaxy, is a condition that can be attained by induviduals willing to go one of the various means to obtain it. However these means are only cappable of creating an induvidual with what is deamed as Durable Immortality. This limited level of immortality, combined with the extravagant costs both financially and morally, limits the amount of people with claim to this condition.
Causes
Unknown, theorized to be possible through the rarest of TL5 machinery.
Symptoms
Perpetual Immortality has several distinct differences from Durrable Immortality:
1. A Perpetual Immortal cannot cease to exist through any form of physical or metaphysical trauma, though they can still be damaged by such means and have full physical sensory awareness (they still feel pain).
2. A Perpetual Immortal can regenerate back to perfect health from any injury. The speed of the healing process is relatively inverse to the level of trauma suffered, with relatively minor injuries like limb removal taking half a minute to fix but a complete atomization taking roughly 5 minutes to recover from.
3. Regeneration occurs from the largest remaining piece of the body available. Any body parts severed quickly reduce to nothing as they are regenerated by the induvidual. In the case of complete atomization regeneration occurs by the constituent particles rapidly congregating back together instead of a single regeneration point.
4. A Perpetual Immortal can learn to "see" metaphysical effects around them and can "see" the physical universe in perfect detail when inside metaphysical space.
5. It is unknown if a Perpetual Immortal can sire or gestate any offspring but it is theorized that the shift in their genetic code may actually allow for them to reproduce with any sentient species, including those outside their genome.
History
Unknown, more of a theoretical concept based on the existence of Durable Immortality.
Cultural Reception
Generally derided as an impossibility by the scientific community.
Type
Physiological
Cycle
Chronic, Acquired
Rarity
Unique
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