The Disease

The Disease is a mutant of the Coronavirus, COVID-19, which wiped out the entire world (excluding a few thousand) in 2023. In the 2420s it proved to be more fatal, killing off a large percentage of the megalopolis the City, including characters Andromeda, Elodie, Arden, Beckett, Emilia's mum, Leo's parents and Cassian Nightingale. The first symptoms are the need to cough and coughing out blood. Your skin then turns a ghostly pale and your energy decreases. Then, when you're at your lowest point of energy, the virus strikes and eventually you cough out so much blood you die. The only known person to survive the Disease with a ninety nine percent fatality rate was Nova Morshower.