Beast Bomb
From SOTS
The contents of this page were introduced in the original Sword of the Stars. |
Description: | (Random) A tailored virus that destroys the awareness centers of a creature's brain and reduces them to the level of animals. This causes chaos and massive destruction for a planetary society. |
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Research Category: | BioTechnology |
Research Cost: | 40,000 (Retro Plague) or 60,000 (Plague) Research Points |
Required Technology: | Retro Plague OR Plague |
Races Allowed: | Hiver, Human, Liir, Tarka, Morrigi |
Effect: | Virus delivered from orbit via Bio Missiles. Reduces target colony infrastructure to 0.0. Prevents any construction or planetary improvements work on the colony while the plague is in effect. Kills large segments of population each turn. The AI tends to start overharvesting to attempt to rebuild the colony, not realizing the overharvesting has no effect. As a consequence, the Resources of the planet will start going down if the AI controls the colony. |
Notes: | The Zuul are immune to biological warfare, and do not utilize bioweapons or their vaccines |
Version: | This information valid for Version 1.7.1 |
New Technologies Available | |||||||||||
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Technology | Research Cost |
Chance of Availability | |||||||||
Hiver | Human | Liir | Morrigi | Tarka
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Assimilation Plague | 80,000 | 30 | 30 | 60 | 30 | 25
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Beast Bomb Vaccine | 30,000 | 70 | 70 | 90 | 70 | 70
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