Silica

Silica began life as a liquid computer, an invention of the Coluan Vril Dox. He invented it as a symbiotic technological interface. It allowed Dox to interface with remote computer systems, and it was also designed as a force field that could be extended out from Dox's body.

When Dox went to Earth to capture the Omega Men, he learned that their mission was to acquire a mysterious Heartstone. Left with too many avenues to pursue, Dox commanded Silica to leave him and search among the Spider Guild for the Heartstone itself.

The Omega Men also pursued the Spiders who stole the Heartstone, but when they finally caught up with the ship, they found it surrounded by a strange colony of small lifeforms. This was the Silica, which had since found the Heartstone and assumed it's power. Silica now had sentience but found itself confused as to name and purpose.

Sensing a kindred spirit of another Heartstone in the Omega Men's Ryand'r, Silica reached out to him, asking "What am I?"

He allowed it to interface with his mind and told Ryand'r of its origins. With the wisdom of the Heartsone, Silica quickly knew intuitively the power and possessors of the four Heartsones. It claimed that all that remained was a force to unite them. When this happened, the Lady Styx hoped to attain godhood and recreate the universe.