Knowledge Power Wealth are exactly what an evil cabal, the Fidelis, lust for. They want nothing more than to bring the world to its knees. They have infiltrated the United States, National Defense sector of the military and have bioengineer a chemical weapon called NXY-314, meant to make an ordinary soldier into a super-human, killing machine. But instead, it has mutated into a virus, changing the normal cell structures of the brain, and eventually, the body, to become a deadly virus, capable of spreading from one person to another. This virus, the Polyploidic Virus, has ultimately forced the evolution of some humans into unthinkable beings they call Changers.