Odon

Odon was a Mondite technician on Daedalus.

While handling the specimens of alien carrion beetles, he was stung. The microscopic and undetectable eggs grew but then it was too late. Odon had come down with what is dubbed as 'Hatching Fever'. His body attempted to kill off the eggs like it was fighting an infection only to make their host body more accommodating. Dr. Amet Mastaba stayed with Odon through a series of his convulsions. He pleaded to help him in such a desperate manner that Mastaba found it somewhat difficult to assure him there was nothing he could do. He became loudly vocal in his agony shouting about how he wanted to live, about some woman from his past, about all the things he wanted to do with his life. Many of the others could hear him and Mastaba was afraid that it might begin to affect the morale of the team.

To stop him, Mastaba opened up the back of his skull and attempted to perform the mindwipe procedure. As he was certain to die Mastaba thought it better to learn on Odon instead of potentially damaging one of his AFA candidates. At first he was afraid that his agitated immune system might reject the RNA-Doppler chip but that did not occur.

When Odon awoke, his panic was gone. With virtually no past memories left to relate his experiences to he had no apparent negative reactions to being devoured from the inside out by the carrion beetles. Mastaba stayed with him until the end watching and experiencing together the creatures burrowing their way out of his body.

Odon died playing the flute with knowledge implanted to him by the mindwipe chip, a stirring sonata often played by Mastaba's mother. Hearing it again after so many years brought tears to his eyes.

This experience made Mastaba discover that performing AFA Stage Two first, would be the solution for the metamorphosis induced schizophrenia his subjects suffer.

The roster mistakenly says that he managed to evacuate the base.