Let's not forget that any virus that has survived this long in the wilds
likely operates under its own "Wilds Rules". I imagine that most of them
have long since given up the data handshake bit a long time ago to prevent
reinfection. Nothing worse than having to burn out half your brain just to
keep yourself alive. Only the recently awakened Viri are likely to continue
trying to handshake with anything. I imagine vampire fleets communicate
digitally among themselves but don't with strange ships, or if they do they
have smaller ships that do the talking, nothing worse than having your
Starburst infected by something antisocial, but having a ships boat
infected, well that's just a minor annoyance.
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Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 7:33 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Virus Communications Attempt
All virus would have similar "DNA", meaning common bits of code in its
makeup, no matter how evolved it was, and it would be recognized as such,
causing a flag to be raised. Ideally, Virus doesn't infect your commo
system, else you would end up having to replace it (or at least the
hardware/software components) periodically--and that could potentially get
expensive for ships that go outside the AO with any frequency.
likely operates under its own "Wilds Rules". I imagine that most of them
have long since given up the data handshake bit a long time ago to prevent
reinfection. Nothing worse than having to burn out half your brain just to
keep yourself alive. Only the recently awakened Viri are likely to continue
trying to handshake with anything. I imagine vampire fleets communicate
digitally among themselves but don't with strange ships, or if they do they
have smaller ships that do the talking, nothing worse than having your
Starburst infected by something antisocial, but having a ships boat
infected, well that's just a minor annoyance.
From: []
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 7:33 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Virus Communications Attempt
All virus would have similar "DNA", meaning common bits of code in its
makeup, no matter how evolved it was, and it would be recognized as such,
causing a flag to be raised. Ideally, Virus doesn't infect your commo
system, else you would end up having to replace it (or at least the
hardware/software components) periodically--and that could potentially get
expensive for ships that go outside the AO with any frequency.