[Terminus] Presence of Unknown Pathogen Confirmed

Presence of Unknown Pathogen Confirmed

By Casos Tigia, Tayseri Times

Samhaus, MEGALOS BREACH- Earlier today the Robath Freehold’s Ministry of Health released reports confirming suspicions that the steadily growing epidemic of Yisis Influenza on the capital world is, in fact, not an aggressive strain of the relatively common dextro-specific ailment as previously thought, but an entirely new virus altogether.

“This is no reason to panic or riot in the streets,” stated Division for Disease Research and Control Director Mokar in a press conference today. He further reiterated that current symptoms indicate little difference between this new pathogen and Yisis.

“Fever, aches, congestion, coughing, and fatigue, this is largely a disease that’s a danger to the very young and very old, if any at all,” Mokar said. “We strongly encourage all citizens to stay up to date on their vaccinations and, if infected, to stay home and refrain from exertion.”

Despite reassurances from on high, concerns remain, particularly among the turian military forces of the Freehold. Founded some five hundred years ago after the destruction of the Greystorm Fleet in the Battle of Keening Edge, the Freehold is a batarian-dominated nation with turians and asari forming significant minorities. Both races have largely congregated to a handful of cities and districts, and both maintain separate military forces under the jurisdiction of the Robath Department of Defense, with the turian dwarfing both the state’s standing armies and asari bands.

Updates will be forthcoming as the situation develops.

An as of yet unfounded accusation by a Terminus power in an unrelated field of work has...what, exactly, to do with the current discussion?


Edit: Interesting, probably introduced to the world via cargo ship or the like would be my guess.

UPDATE

Concerns over the “Robath Blue” pathogen continue to rise as the virus shows no signs of slowing. Best estimates currently place the Bacus district, an almost exclusively turian neighborhood of the capital city Naraklor, at approximately 22% infected. The Ministry of Health urges caution and care, as turian military bases on Samhaus have imposed stringent decontamination measures. As an official statement from the Ministry reads, “While it is perfectly appropriate to take precautions to minimize exposure to the disease, we urge the people of Samhaus to keep calm and carry on.”

I WARNED YOU FOLKS

The Volanti is showing their hidden hand! Soon we will ALL be at their tender mercies!

HEY

WHAT'S DA VOLANTI

kickball keeps goin' all SHHHH when I ask 'im

You don't know about the Volanti? Wow, damn. I'd have thought you'd know everything about that.

Anyway, the Volanti are a secret organization of volus bankers and tech-producers who have gained immeasurable power in the galaxy by manipulating the various races' currencies to their advantage. You know how we have the credit, right? Well, not all places use the credit alone. There are hundreds of thousands of currencies in use these days, from the U.S. dollar to the Greater Tavrian echre to the E.S.S. illiot, and all of them with different conversion rates, proportional debt balances, intrinsic worth based on trade, worth based on stock prices in the sector, etc, etc, etc - essentially, it's a labyrinth of calculations. Why do you think the turians keep the volus around? They run the economic shit the turians don't want to do, right? I mean, that's what the volus do.

Now, imagine a cadre of volus who are exceptionally gifted not only at manipulating numbers, but making numbers disappear. Whole hidden economies buried under reams of data. Transactions worth billions hidden in the ledgers of every major corporation known to intelligent life, all of them going through the various volus banks as they convert local currency to credits and back. Every dollar you lose in a currency transaction, every credit you think you overpaid, every decimal rounded to the hundredth place in the bank's favor - all of that feeds the gluttonous coffers of the Volanti, who ensure that they keep the machine running to their benefit. Ever wonder why the volus don't truly become a Council race? It's not because they lack an army or military might. It's because they prefer where they are, behind the turian's coattails, keeping us all in the dark while their servants slowly manipulate things as they see fit.

Humorous: Races believed to be in the process of taking over the galaxy:

Geth (bluntly: ask the quarian exile)
Batarian (with tones of casual finality: Khar'shan Network News is all we need to go on there)
Krogan (blandly: a history of doing so, and now no genophage)
Salarian (faux-merrily: ask a human)
Turian (faux-merrily: ask a krogan)
Asari (Exaggerated merriment: ask an old employer of mine)
Human (Merriment tinged with self-annoyance: ask a batarian. Also, Cerberus)
Vorcha (airily: so the pundits tell me)
Volus (conclusively: as Job has informed us)

Wryly, with distracted air: Just us elcor and the hanar left to trust.

Embarrassment: I may be slightly intoxicated.

VEEEEEEEEEENTS

ARE YOU A VOLANNIS

Ahem.

Getting back to the news article, okay, yeah. Infecting over a fifth of a capital city like Naraklor is nothing to sneeze at...no pun intended. That's definitely at least "outbreak"-level.

You know they're going to be saying it's an attack. Cripple the turian class. That's what they'll say.

UPDATE

An unidentified turian female with a confirmed infection has been admitted to Spirits of Mercy Hospital in Naraklor. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the woman was displaying symptoms of hallucinations, paranoia, and overt aggression at time of admission.

Welp, that sounds notoriously bad flu right there. Just as long as there's no triangles involved it shouldn't get out of hand.

Zombies, calling it.

Icarus, did you get my zombie plan?

That's...

hrm.


So is mindless indignation and equally mindless repetition your only two settings or are there secret depths to your psyche that hold even more vacuous inanity?

Yeah, we--


oh come on I didn't even get a chance to crack wise

(also that is so not like yisis flu)

Oh this's gonna be good.

UPDATE

Internal hemorrhaging has been confirmed in the Spirits of Mercy Hospital case.

Dammit, Bitterskin.

UPDATE

Unidentified turian female confirmed deceased after three hours. Cause of death attributed to systemic organ failure.

Oh good, no zombies then.

Bad news: Everyone on that planet's fucked.