CT Apocalypse

[tbeard1999]

And statistically, the number of people who leave an infected world and travel to another in the timeframe describes is so small in proportion to a world's population that I think there would be a significant chance that none of them happened to be infected. Again, I can't be sure about that, it's just a vague notion I get from the faint echoes of my one-time knowledge of propability calculation. Hans

Well, it doesn't have to be probable, only plausible. After all, the purpose of the exercise is to unleash a lethal, incredibly contagious plague on an interstellar society. Besides, history is filled with important, improbable occurences...

To better explain the initial spread of the plague, I'll probably have it start at one of the two downports on the planet that we start the campaign on. This will explain how it spreads to other systems. Haven't figured out how it started there. Any of a dozen explanations are plausible (and none of them really matter; what's important for the campaign is that Captain Trips got loose).

 

[coliver988]

And last year or so - that lawyer who had a contagious disease managed to get through several airports & caused quite a stir even though he was supposed to be quarantined.

here was the 1st link I found on that: http://everything2.com/e2node/TB%20...uestion%20That%20Foiled%20Homeland%20Security

"It's ironic that despite the myriad security measures implemented to protect air passengers from injury or death at the hands of terrorists, an ostensibly law-abiding U.S. citizen put dozens, if not hundreds of people in harm's way by proceeding with his own personal agenda and ignoring warnings from officials not to carry out his plans to fly."