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Athetos is a human who was able to reach Sudra by passing through the Breach from Earth. He acts as the game's primary antagonist, having eventually used a pathogen to wipe out almost all of the Sudrans. Athetos was also able to team up with the rogue Katrahaska to disable and defeat the retaliating Rusalki, so that he could gain knowledge of scientific breakthroughs on worlds beyond the Breach and Sudra.
Upon his arrival on Sudra, Athetos used a Rebirth Chamber, one of the egg-shaped save points the player uses in the game. He would then discover that this left genetic imprints of himself in the chamber. Using these imprints, he was able to create clones of himself that he could genetically modify into "Variants" to act as his soldiers. Some of these Variants are bosses that Trace must battle throughout the game. Later, the Rusalki would also use the Rebirth chamber to create yet another copy of Athetos — Trace, who is the player character throughout the game.
Athetos is ultimately located and confronted by Trace in Mar-Uru, and after a lengthy battle is subsequently killed by Elsenova, despite Trace's pleas not to kill him. Athetos is seen afterwards in one of the game's endings, back on Earth with Trace, where he shoots Trace with a gun while stating, "It's time to wake up, Trace."
