Talk:Boiler/@comment-24.130.83.182-20190102033308/@comment-69.181.169.184-20191226021443

Real talk answer: The infested are a tech virus. The nanites "infect" a host. The boiler is a mutation in which the corpus or grineer host becomes an infected to spawn new infected without needing to "infect" new hosts.

It draws the spawns off the host's core DNA. So corpus or grineer. The nanites fill in the rest that's missing.

There is no real "dna" that the technocyte (infested) use besides some generic stuff to infect. The tiny seed/egg is the nanites building a new "copy". Again this is a robot virus that uses cybernetic stuff to spread and grow. It broke out of containment and helped contribute to Orokin's downfall since they wanted to use it against the Sentients.

It's airborne, you can see the technocytes swarming around in infested maps. The sticky stuff is basically its dormant phase where it can incubate for a long time via the heat it produces in large clusters.