Impact of Interstellar travel on Ecology

[King Midas]

Ooooh that brings up another possibility of interstellar ecology- weaponized life forms.

Chthorr War creatures are the premium example, but an anti SDB superkraken could be handy. Alien xenomorphs, chamax hordes, the little horror from the movie Life, all very destructive especially if intentionally deployed.

Something more mundane as a crop disease or annoyance species could be a tool in an arsenal of dirty tricks.

At extremes, this sort of weapon might be considered a WMD on the level of nukes per the Imperial Rules of War, or cause an agent to sterilize a planet.

A few years back, I toyed with an expansive Pern campaign. The Pernese were wondering why nobody in centuries had ever contacted them, so went looking for the rest of humanity. On a side note, I realized they had devastating bioweapons in the form of Thread. "Just drop a few pods of this stuff on a planet, and it's over."

 

[Timerover51]

I just that I that would add this to the mix.

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[chipla]

Ooooh that brings up another possibility of interstellar ecology- weaponized life forms.

Chthorr War creatures are the premium example, but an anti SDB superkraken could be handy. Alien xenomorphs, chamax hordes, the little horror from the movie Life, all very destructive especially if intentionally deployed.

Something more mundane as a crop disease or annoyance species could be a tool in an arsenal of dirty tricks.

At extremes, this sort of weapon might be considered a WMD on the level of nukes per the Imperial Rules of War, or cause an agent to sterilize a planet.

IIRC one of the side-plots in Starfield was about weaponised alien lifeforms from the "backstory war(TM)" and cleaning up/covering up/exposing one of the faction's involvements in various warcrimes related to the aforementioned weaponised alien lifeforms.