Muskl Prime (Post-Defeat Evolution)

When Muskl finally suffers defeat at Aiko's hands, he does not die. His shattered body is carried back into the void by the Nexarch swarm. There, among the twisted forges of the Hivemantle, he is rebuilt. Now emerges Muskl Prime, a darker evolution of the warlord. His wounds are replaced with pulsating cybernetics, his arms sheathed in alien machinery, his spines wired with conduits that feed him endless energy. His face is masked, his voice no longer his own — an artificial snarl amplified through Nexarch war-tech. Where Muskl was raw savagery, Muskl Prime is precision death. Faster, stronger, enhanced beyond mortal scale, his strategies sharpened by Nexarch intelligence systems grafted into his mind. He remembers his failures against Aiko — and he will not repeat them. This Muskl is not driven by memory or fragments of Mos'Kul. He has become something else entirely: a weapon perfected for war, stripped of weakness, forged only to kill.