Intergalactic Summit

What do you imply, Ms. Jenneth?

While the Torchwood Institute's research facilities have been placed on standby and our resources offered to our freinds in the CEP, I truly hope the only people studying this pathogen is Empire response teams.

While many capsuleers such as Doctor Valate, and my Director of Operations may have medical and scientific research training, there are many among us who would be careless, abuse the pathogen for their own gain, or are just outright fedo-**** insane.

Reviewing all the information available about this particular outbreak, a single, glaring piece of information jumped out at me.

"The report apparently indicates that while the pathogen has been positively identified as the Kyonoke virus, it would appear that the current outbreak is of a newly identified strain which attacks its host in a different manner, and has been described by sources within Zainou's security division as "in most cases slower acting, but far more voracious and destructive" than the original strain located in Taisy."

This would seem to indicate to me that this version of the Kyonoke prion is an engineered or altered version. This would lend to the credence that this is a Sansha created situation. It would also account for the time lapse between their raid and it's deployment in addition to creating an antigen of some sort.

Admittedly, this is all still merely conjecture and speculation at this point. Regardless, Torchwood's assets and resources are standing by to launch any assistance required, be it scientific or security. As always, we will do whatever is required to safeguard the State without hesitation.

Maybe it is 105% reliably lethal? Or not just kills you, but also flips tables in your quarters? Explodes corpses? Makes your pets lose hairs (fur, scales, tentacles)? Hijacks vehicles?...

Quite so Ms Jenneth. This particular fact is what leads me to believe it has been altered by an intelligent hand so to speak.



That is entirely possible. As much as I hate to admit it, we cannot rule out a large-scale cover-up or conspiracy regarding these events.



Well as stated previously, a longer incubation time creates a higher infectivity index. How it could be more voracious and destructive is indeed questionable; perhaps it is merely poor wording and the above mentioned variable is what makes it so much more 'voracious'.

Regardless, it seems we are left with even more questions than answers at present.

All this excitement about Kyonoke puts me in such a dis-ease.

The fear is almost infectious.

Life it was written so you could be prepared.