Thread: Re: Banners virus warning

The problem with adequate warning about Virus is that you'd not only have
to get there ahead of it, you'd have to know what it was, how serious it
was, what to do about it, and have the credibility to be listened to.
(Imagine September 10, 2001, "no really, they're going to hijack four
planes at the same time...) If you want to go that way, I'd say go all the
way and say it was someone involved in Lucan's faction who knew the nature
of the weapon, like maybe a scientist or military weaponeer, was born in
Banners, saw what was going to happen and high-tailed it out of there in a
Jump 6 courier to save his homeland with a tech manual.

> As mentioned in a previous message (I think), I am looking at returning to
> my old Banners Sector campaign. One of the changes I am looking at would
> involve lessening the effects of Virus on the worlds within this sector.
> Enough warning time for some precautions to be put in place perhaps?
>
> Another alteration would be to increase the number of small polities or
> pocket empires in the sector. Currently there are only three as at 1201,
> Hope Federation, Alston League and Czarate of Delsun. The Aslan worlds
> were
> particularly hard hit when I collapsed the sector.
>
> If I just advanced the time line the Alston League would likely dominate
> due
> to it having a functioning A class starport - the only one in the sector
> so
> it may make for a better game location if I scattered a few more around.
> What do people think?

Your point about early warning is well taken. I was also looking at the
routes virus could use to get into this sector. To get there virus crosses
Solomani space or via the Hierate. Though one world in Banners I had hit by
an Imperial Scout Service Regal class battlecruiser entering the system.
(Obviously I assumed that the IISS would have odd ships out there on
exploration, diplomatic missions, to counter Solomani missions etc)

Some of the human systems were receiving aid from the Solomani Confederation
in the form of older warships, technology etc. and these were originally
settled from the Solomani regions so I assumed their computer systems would
follow similar architecture. Long term I would have expected the
Confederation to expand into this region though in the end "events"
intervened. The Hierate and offshoot Aslan polities in the sector would
again have similar computer architecture to the Hierates own systems (which
I believe were especially vulnerable - I'm sure I read this somewhere).

At this distance from the release point there is the question of which
strains of virus would have reached the sector. How fast did they evolve,
how long before the earlier suicide types were largely replaced with
something more evolved. Something more for me to think about.

Antony