A Challenge To You All |-}

Bertil's idea of the planet of left shoes and egg spoons gave me an idea...

I am issuing a challenge...

I hereby challenge all members of the TML to come up with a scenario more
likely to lead to the collapse of the Imperium than the junk GDW has been
coming out with...

Below are a few ideas...

Here's one I stole from The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Shoe Event Horizon...
Everyone in the Imerium is so depressed they are all looking down.  They
notice their shoes.  To cheer themselves up they buy new pairs.  Now, with
everybody buying more shoes, the shoe makers reinvest their money into more
production.  More shoes:  More shoe shops.  But if everyone has new shoes,
no one will buy more, thus the shoe shops have to regain their money by
introducing fashions where shoes are made badly so that they fall apart.
With shoes lasting only a short time and fashions changing constatnly, everyone
buys more shoes.  More shoes:  More Shoe shops.
	The cycle goes round and round until you reach the Shoe Event Horizon.
The whole economy overbalances.  It becomes economically impossible to open any
kind of store other than a shoe store.  These existing shoe stores sell shoes
that no one can wear.  The result:  Collapse, Famine, Ruin.
	Survivors (if any) eventually evolve into birds and never put their
feet on the ground again.


Ok, here's my original contribution:

Dulinor releases his secret weapon on Core...

A million ton cargo ship sneaks through Cores defences and comes in on a
Kamikazie run headed straight at the planet.

Valiantly, Lucan's SDB's swarm over the ship and destroy it, but not before it
releases it's deadly cargo.  On the surface of Core laser batteries act as
point defence weapons attacking the incoming projectiles, but unbeknownst to
them, they are playing right into Dulinor's hands...

For the projectiles are hundreds of millions of tons of aerosol deoderant cans!
The lasers hit the cans breaking them open releasing the cloroflorocarbons into
space.  But the cloud still has the momentum of the ship, and some cans still
get through and burn up in the outer atmosphere!

Core's ozone layer is GONE!  Sun tan lotion prices skyrocket!  Panic ensues as
crowds fight over the last few drops of Sun block 50 million!  Within a few
days every one on Core has a leathal case of skin cancer.  Dermatologists
are overwhelmed!  Riots ensue, and every one dies horribly just a few meters
from the last dermotology clinic still accepting outpatients.

Meanwhile, Dulinor's sector is in ruins.  It took the entire sector's supply of
deoderant to supply that assault.  Dulinor's worlds die of environmental
damage caused by excessive body oder.

Scott Kellogg

Hey!  Say what you like, but it's more plausible than a killer virus :-)