Type: insectoid-like artificial symbiote, 100% genetically neutral Living conditions: can inhabit every material lifeform Life expectancy: unknown, very long Homeworld: unknown

The Vindrizi are a hundred percent genetically neutral species which can exist in any material lifeform.  In order to merge with the host, the Vindrizi is mostly applicated to the back of a person where it can be completly absorbed by the body.  After the fusion the health of the host improves (to a certain grade) and the body shows only one neural anomaly: the Vindrizi - freed of its exoskeleton - wrapped around the spinal column.  The merging can fail because of the evidence of drugs in the body, which often causes the death of both host and symbiote.  A certain body can only be used once for the merging, a second time - after the removal of the first symbiote - will cause extreme damage in the host's neural system.

After the fusion both partners (host and symbiote) remain individuals, but with all their memories and experiences merged.  The "new person" mainly acts on the will of the symbiote which can generate a kind of collective consciousness while living in a community.  As potentual hosts the Vindrizi choose only people near death or who's life is cheerless so that they can give them new life and a purpose, which they may not have had before.

Vindrizi can live quite long, but with their hosts' death they are forced to leave the body and must quickly search for a new volunteer to merge with.  This is due to the fact that in their primary form (insectoid-like) they can only exist a short period of time.  In their secondary form (wrapped as neural cords around the spinal column) their symbiotic lifetime is determined by the life expectation of the host.

 
History:

The Vindrizi have been created half a million years ago as living recorders by an unknown species (maybe by the First Ones).  Their mission was to observe events, places and civilisations all over the galaxy and to keep these memories secret until the time where all other records will be destroyed and the Vindrizi will be needed to teach the other survivors about the past.

In 2260, a group of Vindrizi - travelling on the EA ship Dyson under the leadership of a "human" called Matthew Duffin - came to Babylon 5.  Shortly after their arrival they were detected by Stephen Franklin and Marcus Cole but were allowed to stay in downbelow and search under the supervision of doctor Franklin for new volunteers.