I did give a thought to do a side campaign with all players as Coalition
Virus ships, probably Sandman variants (specifically a Sandman - Sexually
Reproducing sub strain) to explore some of these behaviors and set in the
1207 - 1208 timeframe after Solee but before the Black Curtain eruption.
- Sent from my SM-N900T
On Jun 2, 2014 7:27 AM, "'D. Stanley' [Traveller_TNE]" <
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> 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
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> *Subject:* RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Virus Communications Attempt
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> 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.
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Virus ships, probably Sandman variants (specifically a Sandman - Sexually
Reproducing sub strain) to explore some of these behaviors and set in the
1207 - 1208 timeframe after Solee but before the Black Curtain eruption.
- Sent from my SM-N900T
On Jun 2, 2014 7:27 AM, "'D. Stanley' [Traveller_TNE]" <
> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> *From:* [
> ]
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 31, 2014 7:33 PM
> *To:*
> *Subject:* RE: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Virus Communications Attempt
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> 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.
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