Zed Imperium?

[FourthWarden]

A while ago, I was in a session in which many people had had cybernetic implants that allowed people to act like normal until the implants were activated. When the implants were activated, all conscious thought ceased, and they started acting like zombies.

 

[WistfulD]

A while ago, I was in a session in which many people had had cybernetic implants that allowed people to act like normal until the implants were activated. When the implants were activated, all conscious thought ceased, and they started acting like zombies.

Schlock Mercenary right now is experiencing a coup on Earth via sleeper agents that are much like this.

 

[tucker2]

I've settled on the menace finally. I perused my GURPS library and hit upon some critters in a book called Creatures of the Night--- had some with a more SF leaning than horror.

The primary threat is a crystalline thing that lives in vaccuum, and some others that will fill in the Zed angle.

 

[Barsanuphius]

Talk about beating dead flesh!

How would you do a Zombie Apocalypse in the Third Imperium?

I wouldn't honestly. I must admit, I am so sick of Zombies, Vampyres, and Werewolves. I especially dislike Zombies...too far fetched for me. However, with certain alien tech or diseases...may be, or not true zombies but, living beings affected into zombie state by certain radiation...curable but ultimately deadly at a certain level or time period. :nonono:

 

[Barsanuphius]

I think that if a world was so infected (or by any other unknown disease) the IN would have standing orders to blockade it.

And most likely study or sterilize it! :CoW: I vote Sterilization of the whole populace!

 

[tucker2]

It's not like post-apoc eras aren't in canon. We're powering the the game with Megatraveller, but I do not cotton to the Rebellion period( or Virus for that matter).

The players aren't going to see it as a bait&switch-- which would be the deal breaker.

 

[salochin999]

It's not like post-apoc eras aren't in canon. We're powering the the game with Megatraveller, but I do not cotton to the Rebellion period( or Virus for that matter).

The players aren't going to see it as a bait&switch-- which would be the deal breaker.

I think sci fi is one of the few places where zombies make sense (i'd probably make it some kind of alien brain virus critter).

 

[Ulsyus]

I've just had a Futurama inspired thought!
Brain Slugs!!!
...Anyway the sci-fi trope of the parasite or alien that takes over the host turning it into a zombie-like character might be a way of explaining how it spreads and how the zombies retain technical knowledge.

The brain-slug's been done a bit. They devoted some episodes to it in one of the later seasons of Star Treck DS9.

Other options include:

• In the TNE setting the Virus uses suicide scouts to seed human worlds with a virus, doing the spreading for us
• A reaver-style virus takes hold a-la Firefly/Serenity, creating a wider and wider area of space dominated by dudes who make Vagr corsairs look like the height of diplomacy and reason
• A virus is spread by the remnant of the Ine Givar as an act of revenge after the conclusion of the FFW, again obviating the need to explain how the infection initially spead over several worlds
• Some Aslan females involved in a dirty internal conflict have their bio-agent mutate on a world in the Spinward Marches, infect humaniti turning them into the walking dead, and the whole thing slowly spirals out of control
• A seemingly benign virus from a world in the X-sector is mutated when the carrier is in J-space, whether exposed or not. Thus the first people know about it is when a vessel hurtles insystem attempting automatically to dock...

Is that enough to start off with?