Green Virus

Just a quick thought, don't think anyone's mentioned this before...

If you don't like the TNE computer virus, why not just replace it with a
'green' virus, i.e. one that kills off plants or living creatures. Give it a
long enough incubation period and assume it can be carried as spores or
bacteria or something in starship air or on crew boots or in crew people,
etc. and make it attack livestock or food crops (or even people) and you
have quite enough reason for complete collapse of planets plus paranoia
about infection from outside (i.e. the Regency 'blockade'; or is it the
Coalition - I don't have TNE).

It might be more believable that after a few years someone would come up
with a means of neutralising this (innoculation?) than the strange lengths
required to fight a computer virus. It also explains the spread of the virus
more easily and doesn't require suspension of belief with regard to the
(computer) virus' infection methods.

Anyone working in germ warfare care to elaborate? :)

I'm sure someone must have thought this one up before?

Andy
Commander Lilly, PITS (Political Intelligence Team, Scout)
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