Odessa III - what the hell happened?

[marauder648]

I know the Blakists dropped some kind of bio weapon on the world but what has it done? I'd have thought that it would kill the population off pretty quickly, not make folks enforce a quarenteen so no one can get off. 

[phoenixalpha]

Could be one of those lovely diseases which kill 50% and infect the other 50% turning them into carriers.

[Alexander Knight]

Strategic engineered bioweapon.  Give it a long incubation time, let it use animal life as carriers....you've rendered the world uninhabitable.

[Colt Ward]

Talking about the Lyran world, old Fisk family holdings?

[ColBosch]

I know the Blakists dropped some kind of bio weapon on the world but what has it done? I'd have thought that it would kill the population off pretty quickly, not make folks enforce a quarenteen so no one can get off.

Almost every time the Blakists used a bioweapon, the world ended up being quarantined. Why would Odessa be any different?

[ANS Kamas P81]

Almost every time the Blakists used a bioweapon, the world ended up being quarantined. Why would Odessa be any different?

I imagine the reason behind that is "Are you sure that's ALL the bioweapon does?"

[ColBosch]

I imagine the reason behind that is "Are you sure that's ALL the bioweapon does?"

Oh right, Odessa III survived, didn't it?

[ANS Kamas P81]

I don't remember, I was just thinking "okay, the bioweapon killed half the population of the planet, but these guys are the technological peak, who knows what ELSE it's going to do - quarantine the planet and kill anything that tries to get off it"

[truetanker]

I'll bet you it's Devin Stones's homeworld and all traces of it are to be contained... that or it's a Wolverine site.

TT

[RunandFindOut]

Or that bioweapons are really, really scary.  And you can never be sure that they were either entirely eradicated or that their effects are entirely known.  So you don't know if that bioweapon you thought you contained didn't actually spread spores and worm its way into the entire ecosystem to respread.  Nor do you know if the ones it didn't kill aren't just spreading some more subtle long term effect.  Such as say altering demographics, or making their offspring predisposed to a mental illness, or making them vulnerable to some other bioweapon that hasn't even been released yet.  Etc, Etc. 

Hell if the WoB has been truly serious about hating the Clans they would have released a long incubation virus that wormed it's way into the ecosystem and targeted gene complexes present only in Clan Trueborn phenotypes.  That could have literally turned the entire Inner Sphere into poison for Clanners given a while to spread unnoticed. 

[truetanker]

Who says that they didn't, yet... or that the Society hasn't already...

TT

[Maelwys]

A better question might be why bother with hitting Odessa?

[truetanker]

It's the SYSTEM that's Quarantined, not the Planet! Remember Odessa IV is the Ruins of Gabriel, a SLDF shipyard and hidden repair base...

So saying the planet is infected... and providing it really is... what's it hiding? ( Gabriel! )

TT

[Maelwys]

Sure, the system is quarantined, even though its probably just the planet, but the infection happens AFTER Gabriel is revealed. Its not like the Lyrans are going to stop watching over the system and the Ruins because the WoB poisoned one of the planets.

They're not going to suddenly forget about the Ruins in the system.

Maybe if the WoB had poisoned the planet before the Ruins had been discovered, I could see it as an attempt at hiding the traffic in the system, but it didn't happen that way.

[phoenixalpha]

Also the system might be quarantined because they cant be sure what crazy way sick people will try and get off a planet....

[Nightlord01]

Also the system might be quarantined because they cant be sure what crazy way sick people will try and get off a planet....

This. You can't really effectively blockade a planet without a lot of resources, blockading a system is easier and tamper evident. If a dropship leaves the planet, you know it's not a good thing, you detect a unidentified dropship in space, you know it's not yours, you destroy it, and trace its trajectory to whatever pirate point it's heading for, so you can capture its jumpship.

If you let people in system, some are going to slip away in the confusion, if you maintain an exclusion zone, anything entering that zone becomes eligible for capture or destruction. Makes things easier and more secure in the long run.