Plague Ships

[Timerover51]

This idea came up in another thread: Pondering Another "Traveller as a Setting" Concept.

Does Traveller have any official rules covering plague ships, either in the Imperium or one of the other polities in the official rules. I know that with respect to the Virus, there are ways of dealing with infected ships, but I am looking at more of the biological plagues.

 

[Grav_Moped]

This idea came up in another thread: Pondering Another "Traveller as a Setting" Concept.

Does Traveller have any official rules covering plague ships, either in the Imperium or one of the other polities in the official rules. I know that with respect to the Virus, there are ways of dealing with infected ships, but I am looking at more of the biological plagues.

The primary threat from Annic Nova hit a lot differently in 2020 (due to covid) than when it was first published...

Which is to say, typical player character actions (in the 1980s) would have likely resulted in mass casualties on multiple worlds. However, typical referees (also in the 1980s) would not have realized this, and as such those mass casualties "would not have happened".

 

[kilemall]

2300 had quite a bit on Orbital Quarantine Command, a shoot first policy to prevent biological threats to the earth.

 

[gchuck]

One of the early issues of JTAS I think had an Amber Zone about a plague. But it might have been planet bound.