The Flood
The Flood was a viral species that originated inside a glacier on the planet Mars. It needed physical form so they infected a number of crew members from Bowie Base One.
Biology
The Flood’s natural state was in liquid water. it was capable of controlling water. It was also capable of infecting other life forms by coming into contact with them, making them spasm and convulse as they were taken over, mainly because it was a viral life-form.
Infected individuals constantly exuded water, pouring from the body, hands and mouth. The infected could no longer draw oxygen from the air, but from water. They became walking corpses since the infection greatly weakened their hearbeat. Victims would also develop cracked skin, blackened teeth and faded blue eyes.
The infection would cause a lot of electrical activity in the host’s brain. This caused the infected victims to be able to deactivate cameras.
Hosts could survive on the surface of Mars and could also run extremely fast.
Being made up mostly of water, the Flood creatures could be destroyed by intensive heat. This weakness was shared with the race that most likely imprisoned them, the Ice Warriors.
Appearances
The Waters of Mars (TV)