On 11/14/2021 6:44 PM, Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via
tml list) wrote:
> I think the main problem w/ this is that *someone* would've thought of
> & attempted this long, long ago.
> And not just wrt to the Aslan. It could be used for, literally, any &
> every living being.
> Turning something loose like this w/i the TU will, IMO, make Virus
> look like a minor problem.
> The Aslan were never that big of a prob anyway, until the loonies who
> wrecked the 3I came up with the idea that there were hordes upon
> hordes of ihatei just sitting around, for only god knows how long, in
> obsolescent fleets, waiting to be turned loose.
> Funny how they never ever seemed to want to grab some SolConfed territory.
>
> Still, it is an intriguing concept.
>
> However, I fear, that just like Virus, it'll twist & distort the TU
> into a barely recognizable caricature of itself.
>
> Now, to answer one of the big questions;
> When the aslan find out they will retaliate in kind, triggering a
> genocidal biowar across all of Known Space & probably beyond.
>
> p.s. the ihatei can be more easily dealt w/ by just storing them in
> long-term cryo, but I prefer to think that most of them just take off
> to spinward of aslan territory, in search of their own land.
> Eventually, barring some blockage, they'll spread all the way around
> the galaxy & crash into the Hivers & Centaurs.

I think you're right, Phil.  If someone did this, when the Aslan
realized who it was they'd probably go all out to destroy the
perpetrator.  It would make the Black War look like a playground fight
between two 3 year olds in balloon suits.

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