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> From: [email removed] (Richard Johnson)
>
> If *The Virus* (tm) can infect any com puter ever made then it can
> infect a player's (or NPC's) brain, right? What is so special about the
> biocomputer that the virus can't spread itself there?
The life form the virus was derived from was semiconductor based, I
think carbon is just a conductor (though a poor one).
> If it CAN however, consider the idea of whole areas of the empire dying
> off...
Yikes! Think about the ramifications! Whole societies becoming in
a group mind bent on the destruction of everything. Shiver.
> If it CAN't, consider a TNE universe that is forced to look sort of like
> Herbert's DUNE universe, where some people become mentats - super
> thinkers.
Maybe that is how to counter the unusability of computers in the TNE
universe due to the virus (in my eyes, any computer with synaptics -
and synaptic types would be required for anything more than J1)!
Find a bunch of borderline PSIs, and train them to be mentat types
to allow higher jump levels and other important operations!
Kind of a cool thought...