The one that got me was the Virus that infected the Reference network which
had at least one mainframe dedicated to every world in the Imperium, talk
about a super god complex.
Antony
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From: Todd Kes
Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2012 6:05 PM
Subject: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Traveller Virus (Puppeteer)
As to the first, the Traveller wiki has this Virus page:
http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/Virus/TNE
For the Puppeteer virus, it looks like the progress was roughly
Strain 1 (Suicider) -> Strain 1A (Suicide Inducer) -> Strain 2A (Destroyer)
-> Strain 2B (Reproducer) -> Empire Builder (many platforms, one mind) ->
Alliance Builder (works with other Virus) -> Puppeteer (infects other Virus
with their own code)
Oh, for specialist strains, I'm scared to imagine what a Virus that grew up
in a massive government bureaucracy mainframe would be like. The DMV from
Hell would probably be R&R compared to what it does.
Todd Kes
--- On Fri, 6/15/12, wrote:
> Peacekeepers, I can't say right off. I think I published my "family
> tree of Virus" somewhere. Where did Peacekeepers evolve from?
> A couple things to consider about Virus evolution is a) Virus was
> released in Lucan's space, so the populations there are the oldest, so
> new strains have had the most time to develop there. However, was that
> the most hospitable place for that strain to survive? So maybe it had
> to evolve elsewhere so it could live, and b) mutations were influenced
> by the type of data processing hardware it evolved on, so wherever
> that stuff might have been more common, was a good place for it to
> evolve.
> But I can't say what that would have been.
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