CREIGHTON
Creighton: Created by scientists to infiltrate enemy civilizations and ingest entire populations, Creighton was the progenitor of the Porphyrian race. The Creighton being was placed on the prison world of Itasca to test its appetite on expendable prisoners. Creighton's design was flawed. Its viperous incisors penetrated the spinal columns of its victims and caused mutations in their blood cells and spinal fluids. The victim was then transmutated into a savage creature of the same genetic code as Creighton. High Admiral Skryton abandoned Creighton, and classified the project to avoid his own court marshal at the hands of Arbiters and Divine Proctors. He had illegally engineered a creature that reproduced a dangerous species instead of destroying an enemy race. Legend: Creighton roamed Itasca in a coat made of flesh from the victims he chose to devour. Religious convicts linked their own lives on Itasca to that of lost souls in purgatory. In accordance with interpretations of prophecies written in Kramgassel's Decree, Creighton and the Porphyrians were believed to be the physical embodiments of Ahga Khia. Personal: Creighton came to believe in the religious superstitions and lore created about him by the vagabond population of Itasca. Believing Itasca was purgatory, Creighton declared himself its evil ruler. Creighton procreated his species by morphing the criminal civilization at his disposal. He yearned for planetary escape, to seize the galaxy, and sought to destroy his laboratory father, High Admiral Skryton, but escape eluded him. Mystere beheaded Creighton. In death, he left behind a species in disarray, and a secretly impregnated concubine, Sha'leste. (Appears on Page 43 of Book 1)