The Descolada

Item from enders-game by Orson Scott Card

A superintelligent virus that rips DNA apart — it killed Lusitania's original ecosystem, enabled the Pequenino life cycle, and posed the moral question: can you cure a disease that another species depends on to survive?

Also known as: Descolada, The Un-Gluer

What They Know

• Superintelligent virus that rips DNA apart — Portuguese for 'un-gluer'
• Pervades Lusitania's ecosystem — all native species adapted to incorporate it
• Enables the Pequenino life cycle — curing it would kill them
• Lethal to humans without medication — Novinha's parents died developing the partial cure
• Actually a damaged Recorder virus — created by aliens to catalog life, broken by radiation
• Replaced by the Recolada — created by Ela Ribeira Outside the universe

Connections

• affects — lusitania
• enables — human_pequenino

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