Black oil (X-Files)

The black oil is a species major Extraterrestre of the television series X-Files.

Description and origin

Black oil can also be named " Purity" , " virus extraterrestre" or " cancer noir" and can hibernate during million years (especially in oil). It acts like a parasite by infesting people for the to handle, and can also kill by releasing a massive amount of radiation. Its final goal is to colonize the Planet.

Its origin on ground merges with mists of time: in the film X-files, to fight the future , one sees contaminated prehistoric men. This " huile" came while contaminating extraterrestrial, come on ground in spaceship.

It is implied that this voyage of oil on ground is voluntary, that oil sought to come on our planet.

It is presented in two forms:

outside in the shape of a viscous liquid not Dampener, which can slip towards a prey. This liquid tent to be introduced while passing by all the openings of the skin.
inside in a nearly invisible form, betraying its presence only by briefly blackening the eyes of its prey.

It handles people in their transforming the emotion S, by limiting to them reflection, and makes them capable of slaughters (while being protected from radiations).

Black oil and the Trade union

The Trade union (conspirators or government of the shade of the series), in co-operation with the extraterrestrial colonists, developed a secret way to introduce the virus into the population with the assistance of bees. Colonistes would be then able to use human beings to make a race slave of it. The Trade union, on the other hand, secretly tried to create a vaccine named " Purity Control " (in the French version of the series, there is no really name to define it), to protect themselves, and not the remainder of planet. Whereas the American project Purity Control failed in its mission, the group similar, but rival, of Russia succeeded in developing a vaccine against the black oil, which possibly fell between the hand from the Trade union.

Later (in film), it is discovered that black oil is able also to use the human body as incubating for the gestation (which results from it with dead from the host) of an extraterrestrial being. The Trade union was disconcerted to learn it, but the members thereafter continued to claim their work with Colonistes, while trying to reinforce the vaccine of the Russians, which proved poor all the same.

According to the Man well manicurist, the entity was first has to walk on the Earth, well before the dinosaurs. Then, according to the Man with the cigarette, oil influenced the human evolution for then entering in phase of hibernation the Ice Age. Cassandra Spender with addition that Colonistes planned to make use of oil for repopuler the Earth, which they did before with other ages of the universe.

The hybrids human-extraterrestrial have an innate immunity of the virus. Therefore, the voluntary removal of the members of the families of the conspirators was only one means of facilitating their future.

The plan of conspiracy to cooperate with extraterrestrial colonization had for another reason the access to black oil, to develop the vaccine. But this temptation was with half a success since at the time managed with the Scully agent in the Antarctic, it caused the departure of the spaceship of its residence under-terraine. The plan was then repeated on Marita Covarrubias.

Variety of the Arctic Project (" Ice")

Introduced for the first time into the episode " Piper Maru" third season, it is possible that the idea was taken in an episode of the first season, " Ice" , which contained a similar extraterrestrial substance.

Another use

It seems, according to Mulder, that black oil was used in Iraq at the time of the War of the Gulf.

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