"It all started late last year when Traveller players across the net heard an ugly rumor. The Imperium, GDW’s extraordinarily comprehensive set-ting for the Traveller RPG, was going to fold because of a computer killing virus so that the gaming company could launch it’s new product, tentatively called Star Viking, in a future, lower-tech extrapolation of the current and well-loved setting. Players, referees, and computer scientists alike were amazed, astonished, dumbfounded, and otherwise cranky about the news, not doubting GDW’s willingness to smash it all (ala the assassination of Strephon) just in order to stir things up. Despite the injury, however,players seemed angrier over the affront to their intellect.

“If they want to destroy the Imperium, why use a computer virus?”"