When the Neo Mega scientist Lysander arrived on Venus, he took command of a project that dealt with the Neosapian condition known as Auto-mutation Syndrome. That project created a mutant Neo-Sapian with shape shifting abilities, unknown to Lysander however. During an attack on the Mount Artemis laboratory fortress, the Neo-Mutate escaped, killed Lysander and then assumed his identity. Marsala and Nara Burns captured the Mutate thinking it was Lysander. Believing they had a another Neo-mega to study, Exo-fleet sent Hallas in the Pirate ship Scavenger to take the Neo-mega to Chaos to be questioned. In rout, the Neo-Mutate awoke and escaped from it's cell. After killing the guard, it assumed the form of Hallas and then attacked the captain. When Weston and DeLeon began to investigate, the Mut