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Synthetic Plague

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Synthetic Plague	comment	So The Plague is wreaking havoc on the world's population. Maybe Super Flu has killed millions, or some unknown biological agent is causing people to snap and kill each other. Heck, maybe we even have a good old fashioned Zombie Apocalypse on our hands. Either way, it's safe to say that for most of humanity, these are not fun times. How could things get much worse, you ask? By the revelation that the disease in question has been manufactured by genetic engineering, and possibly is distributed by humans. The untold amount of death and destruction has been directly caused by the foolish or malicious action of Man himself. It may have been designed for use as a biological weapon, or an unexpected result of an experiment gone wrong. Perhaps we just shouldn't have let monkeys watch TV for too long. However it came to be, it has now been unleashed on humanity at large, and has almost certainly gone far beyond what its designers had originally intended. In works that involve these types of diseases, expect an Aesop about the hubris of man, and the evils of unchecked science. In most cases, those behind the creation of the disease will often fall victim to it as well, either directly or indirectly. Scientists who worked on the original project may cry out "My God, What Have I Done?" Synthetic Plagues are favorite weapons of Mad Scientists and Plaguemasters alike. Note that in works where multiple sentient, technologically advanced species exist, any disease created by one of those species would qualify. The key defining point in this case is that the disease in question does not occur naturally, but is instead created or nudged along by intelligent creatures. A Sub-Trope of The Plague, and one that can often serve as a form of Depopulation Bomb and/or Superweapon. Compare Mystical Plague, The Virus, Apocalypse How, Biological Weapons Solve Everything, and Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke.
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Synthetic Plague / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Several years before the present day, the Mad Scientist Dr. Gross created an infectious virus which was accidentally released, resulting in the greatest cataclysm to the human species in centuries, killing off two-thirds of the last functioning human colony on Earth. Finn's mother was one victim of the illness; she only survived because of Brain Uploading before the disease killed her.
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Synthetic Plague / int_1236a66	comment	Jane, Unlimited: The development of a man-made plague plays into the espionage story. As it turns out, it's not quite as synthetic as most examples, as it's a strain of smallpox. They have to hurry to get it contained before it's released back into the world.
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Synthetic Plague / int_13668e6e	comment	Twig: These are a standard part of the Crown's repertoire. But the biggest example is the "Red Ravage" plague that appears partway through the story. It's insanely infectious, causes as much pain as is possible in its host, and can survive as ivy-like growths outside a human body and propagate itself that way too. Also, it's incubation time appears to be random. Various characters immediately pick up that it's clearly an artificial plague, but nobody can figure out who made it, as it doesn't seem to fit either the Revolution's or the Crown's goals. It's actually a creation of the final Primordial that was killed in the Battle of Lugh, which engineered the plague during its last moments as a final act of spite against humanity for killing it.
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Synthetic Plague / int_1367cea0	comment	Bonesaw of Worm creates a prion-based amnesia plague.
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Synthetic Plague / int_162b751d	comment	In the Jacob's Ladder Trilogy, an engineered strain of influenza is used as a biological weapon. It is designed to be potent enough to afflict even Exalts, who have nanomachine-enhanced immune systems.
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Synthetic Plague / int_18284e18	comment	In Blood Music, artificial lymphocytes convert the entire biomass of North America into versions of themselves.
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Synthetic Plague / int_19350db9	comment	Master of Orion allows the player to research biological weapons to wipe out planetary populations without damaging colony improvements. However, this causes every other faction to despise the user.
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Synthetic Plague / int_1a0cc676	comment	Escape from the Moon: As Spliced Genome, Doa created a number of these that killed millions and infected billions more.
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Synthetic Plague / int_1a5d84af	comment	The blood plague from 20th Century Boys is one of these, as it is continuously strengthened throughout the series to cause ever greater devastation.
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Synthetic Plague / int_1c296808	comment	The scientists in Rise of the Planet of the Apes aren't trying to create a synthetic plague, they're trying to create a cure for Alzheimer's. Unfortunately for them, not only does the ALZ-113 give sentience and super-intelligence to apes, it's also fatal to humans... and it's an airborne virus. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. The Viral Marketing website Simian Flu implies that only one-tenth of the population survived. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes reveals that only small pockets of humans survived — those with a natural immunity to the plague. War for the Planet of the Apes reveals that it's mutating to affect the remaining population: it robs them of the ability to speak. The Colonel claims that it also robs humans of their intelligence, but as seen on the film's YMMV page, there's room for debate on that.
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Synthetic Plague / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index: The Kremlin Report is a form of defense made by the Russian military, used in the event when nuclear facilities are likely to be taken over by an enemy, as seen during World War III against the Academy City forces. It is basically a wall which emits a bacteria which is both resilient and highly destructive. The Academy City forces settled this by bombing the power generator feeding the Kremlin Report.
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Synthetic Plague / int_227117b7	comment	In Helix, its clear that the outbreak of The Virus at an isolated research facility originates from mysterious, ethically-dubious research into biological superweapons, but Arctic Biosystems' staff is willfully opaque as to the details, hamstringing the efforts of the CDC rapid response team to contain its spread. It eventually turns out that Arctic Biosystems' parent company, Illaria Corporation, is run by a cabal of immortals who were using Arctic Biosystems' research to develop both a plague to "thin the herd" of global population, and a cure to bully the survivors into servitude with.
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Synthetic Plague / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In the Heroes/Twilight crossover "Dark Days", the primary threat is an artificially engineered variation of the Shanti virus that can even infect vampires, reducing them to feral monsters for a few days before it finally kills them by destroying their brains. Even worse, those vampires infected with this disease will turn anyone they bite, whether humans or other vampires, into other infected vampires, forcing the Cullens and their allies to devise a cure before the disease reaches critical levels.
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Synthetic Plague / int_30e6aa6e	comment	In the Hc Svnt Dracones novel Fate's Fangs, Nadia has a side job getting inoculated with supposedly benign viruses that carry isotope tags so that the medical corporation that owns her home city can study the spread of disease. After one of her clients in her primary job drops dead mid-session, suspicions are raised.
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Synthetic Plague / int_31a48eed	comment	Several episodes of The Outer Limits (1995) feature wholly artificial or genetically altered diseases.
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Synthetic Plague / int_32066b8e	comment	In V for Vendetta, the St. Mary's Virus was a major factor in Norsefire's rise to power. Blamed on religious extremists, it's later revealed that the government developed it through experiments conducted on prisoners at the Lark Hill detention facility, and chose to attack their own people to create an environment of fear that would cause the people to give the government more power.
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Synthetic Plague / int_3692a9bd	comment	This trope is a big part of Genocide Man. Most of the world's population was killed off by a series of designer plagues before the comic, and the titular Super Soldiers carry briefcase-sized biology labs so that they can use tailored plagues to wipe out the genetic deviants they are sent to exterminate.
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Synthetic Plague / int_3b45421d	comment	Isle of Dogs: Dog flu was invented by Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals to give the dynasty a pretext for removing all the dogs.
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Synthetic Plague / int_3eb3a36f	comment	During the Assassination Island arc of Assassination Classroom, eleven of the students are infected by a potentially fatal virus with varying symptoms — some are still on their feet, while others are vomiting blood, and Terasaka was able to hide his symptoms for hours. This was subverted when it was revealed that Gastro, Grip and Smog withheld using the plague in favor of a relatively harmless stomach flu that will eventually wear off because they only had to make the students think that they would die, and they didn't want the stigma of killing middle-school kids on their reputation, even if it meant defying Takaoka, their psychopathic employer.
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Synthetic Plague / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	During the New Jedi Order series, the war against the Yuuzhan Vong goes badly enough that a synthetic plague called "Alpha Red" is created, which specifically targets the Vong and their Organic Technology, killing them within days. It is deemed unethical and condemned by the heroes, but still gets released here and there by certain elements in the Alliance. The Vong weren't above using their own synthetic plagues, including one nasty variant released on Ithor that also had the side effect of over-oxygenating the atmosphere, so anything surviving the plague had global firestorms to look forward too. One of the many arguments against Alpha Red was that it might spur the Vong to retaliate in kind, potentially sterilizing the entire galaxy.
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Synthetic Plague / int_4119a976	comment	Humanity's downfall in the backstory of Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse came through one of these, killing half of the population and rendering the other half into Technically Living Zombies known as 'feral humans'. The reason why someone made something like that is unstated, but their uplifted descendants tend to think pre-plague humans were just that combative and ready to kill each other. Late in the first book, we learn that there had been a First Contact Faux Pas that resulted in a human representative being in a coma, and humans engineered a virus to get her functioning again which only half worked and then escaped. The next book treats the feral plague as just a disease the Krakau accidentally brought to Earth instead.
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Synthetic Plague / int_459fcf85	comment	The Star Trek Shatnerverse novel Avenger involves a plague spreading through the galaxy. It turns out that not only was it engineered by a group of Well Intentioned Extremists, one of the key members was Sarek, Spock's father. When he later tried to reveal the truth, he was poisoned in such a way as to mimic Bendii Syndrome. In fact, one of the original test worlds was Tarsus IV, and Sarek mind-melded with young Kirk to erase his memories.
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Synthetic Plague / int_46f0352c	comment	The Shadow: In "Murder on Approval", a dastardly doctor invents a highly deadly plague, and tests it out by releasing it in a U.S. Army barracks.
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Synthetic Plague / int_49707ec7	comment	Ebin and May has a case of biological warfare, but due to Fantastic Racism, it only affects the lapines, as seen in this strip.
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Synthetic Plague / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has a very interesting take on this. At the end of Stormblood, we're introduced to Black Rose, a chemical weapon created by the Garleans intending on wiping out the Eorzeans. However, in a Bad Future, it turns out the Flood of Light from The First would transform Black Rose into a synthetic virus that would bring about the Eighth Calamity, killing the Warrior of Light, the Scions and many, many others. The events of Shadowbringers are a Set Right What Once Went Wrong plan, intending on saving The First so that the weapon isn't used that way. Thankfully, the weapon is also destroyed by a Came Back Strong Zenos, who refuses to let such a cowardly weapon take his chance to destroy the Warrior of Light.
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Synthetic Plague / int_4b114f07	comment	Spawn (1997): According to Wynn, Heat-16 "makes the Ebola virus look like a skin-rash!". He intends to conquer Earth with it, while Hell means to use it to wipe out the Earth.
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Synthetic Plague / int_4b8906a8	comment	Ever17: The accident in the underwater amusement park is caused by Leiblich Pharmeceuticals attempting to cover up the fact that a very deadly virus they manufactured, Tief Blau, had been released within the park.
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Synthetic Plague / int_4c5fb19c	comment	ANNIE: Last Hope has a mysterious outbreak of a zombie virus from a new, genetic viral strain caused by some insects called "crabs". The virus turns out to be artificially created by an Evilutionary Biologist who starts the plague deliberately in order to rule over the zombies.
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Synthetic Plague / int_4d1e1340	comment	In Crimestrikers, the titular menace in "The Hydreran Plague" is bioengineered by PARCH, a racist terrorist group, to affect only Hydrerans (a race of Fish People).
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Synthetic Plague / int_4d6b8984	comment	Mass Effect: Annihilation: The Forntibras Plague which spreads through the Keelah Si'yah. As the doctor who's first revived to study it notes, many of the symptoms come from varied species, and their radically different biochemistry should make this either difficult or flat-out impossible. It turns out the ship's captain deliberately cooked it up to wipe out the humans, turians, salarian and asari in the Andromeda Initiative. She failed to consider the virus might spread out of control and move on to other species in the meantime.
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Synthetic Plague / int_4e182290	comment	In The Stars Are Cold Toys, the Geometers are masters of genetic engineering. Their current social structure is a direct result of them employing a Synthetic Plague to wipe out another sentient race on their homeworld that was attacking them. It is also discovered that the plague that devastated the Geometer population at some point in the past was designed by the same scientist who later developed their version of penicillin to fight it, at the request of the Mentors who wanted to restructure the society. Pyotr realizes that, if the Conclave goes to war with the Geometers, they will probably end up destroying their homeworld, but the surviving Geometers will continue to conduct hit-and-run attacks against Conclave worlds, releasing deadly plagues where they can.
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Synthetic Plague / int_4f82dd49	comment	In The Empress Game, the Sakien Empire created a nanotech virus as a bioweapon, but it got loose and is doing a lot of damage. This caused the Empire to invade the planet of Ordoch, which had refused to provide a cure on the grounds that the technology involved could have created an even worse weapon, and the Empire had already demonstrated itself unfit to be trusted with that kind of thing. However, the Empire still hasn't managed to compel Ordoch to produce a cure and can't hold the planet in the long run.
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Synthetic Plague / int_5327d4b	comment	In At the Edge of Lasg'len, a fallen Maia-turned-scientist engineers a virus that wipes out ninety percent of humanity in 2037.
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Synthetic Plague / int_53d526c0	comment	In Death Masks, creating a magical plague like this is the objective of Nicodemus, using the magical power of the Shroud of Turin. Nicodemus isn't doing it for any reason beyond to cause chaos and death, which he views as its own end.
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Synthetic Plague / int_540d133b	comment	The second arc of Young Jedi Knights features a similar plague... aimed at humans and humans only. The Diversity Alliance's insane leader seeks to find and unleash it. Later, the characters discover that the Empire had created plagues specifically targeting each individual species. The asteroid containing the viruses is destroyed, though the fight that ensues does end up releasing some viruses, which infect both the father of one of the knights and the leader of the Diversity Alliance. The father sacrifices himself to ensure that the asteroid blows up. The leader tries to fly to Coruscant to spread the disease, but her disillusioned number two subdues her and flies her to parts unknown to die.
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Synthetic Plague / int_58173119	comment	In Rainbow Six, as part of a two-part plan, an Eco-Terrorist group intends to release a modified version of the Ebola virus, code-named "Shiva". The second half of their plan is to distribute a fake vaccine (that's actually still the virus) in order to make sure it gets distributed as fully as possible. They're pretty devious, in that they'll distribute two versions of the vaccine: one that works and one that really, really doesn't; the purpose of the first is both to fool the general populace into thinking that they're getting the cure, and to save themselves and the few people they deem necessary for building an environmentally friendly future. They come very close to succeeding, too.
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Synthetic Plague / int_58bcf32e	comment	The plot of Crusade is that a race known as the Drakh decide to attack Earth. While they fail to destroy Earth when their Planetkiller is destroyed, their Plan B is to release a deadly and highly virulent plague on Earth to wipe out the majority of humanity. Later on, it's discovered that the virus is, in fact, not only artificial but also non-biological in nature. It's actually nanites actively seeking to adapt themselves to human physiology, a process estimated to take about 5 years, during which many humans keep dying from various "mutations" of the plague. The mission of the crew of the Excalibur is to find the cure before time runs out. One episode involves a formerly inhabited world whose denizens have mysteriously disappeared. It turns out that this was also caused by a nanite-based virus, this one being of the Hate Plague variety. It causes the infected to go berserk on anyone nearby and then snap back into normal without any memory of what happened (possibly, adding halucinations of a shadowy figure doing the dirty deed).
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Synthetic Plague / int_5a34e5e3	comment	Iron Helix: The "Iron Helix" is a biological weapon that attacks the infected's cells, mutating their DNA and rendering their bodies unable to carry out vital metabolic functions, which kills them within only a few hours.
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Synthetic Plague / int_5b28dc78	comment	In Hoshin Engi, Ryou Gaku is a Mad Scientist Sennin whose disciples wear special paope suits which allow them to spread clouds of a deadly plague he made himself. He uses it to debilitate the entire Zhou army and the heroes. A vaccine can be produced from a sample of his blood. Much later, he mentions that his personal paope Onkosan allows him to generate these, but he's killed before he can show any ability.
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Synthetic Plague / int_5bd0554b	comment	Warcraft III's undead plague. Deliberately made by the scourge to create more minions, it took some time for the targeted humans to figure out what it was for and where it came from.
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Synthetic Plague / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Downplayed with Great Contagion. Not because it has minimum effect, but because its primary beneficiary, the Deathlord known as the Dowager, did very little to shape it into the all-consuming death that killed just about everyone. Its original strain came from another dimension.
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Synthetic Plague / int_5fa8e894	comment	In Newsflesh, the Zombie Apocalypse was triggered by the interaction of two synthetic viruses designed to cure cancer and the common cold. Scientists wanted to extensively test both before dubbing them fit to release to the public, but a Well-Intentioned Extremist felt that the wait was too long and basically dropped the virus on major population centers.
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Synthetic Plague / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: The Hoffan Plague spread by Micheal in Stargate Atlantis in an effort to cripple the Wraith. For reference, a group called the Hoffans created a drug that, if taken, would render one immune to Wraith feeding, and indeed poisonous to the Wraith. It also had a 50% mortality rate among those who took it; they were aware of this, and took it anyway. The Wraith slaughtered the survivors. Micheal got a hold of it, turned it into a disease (albeit with "only" a 33% mortality rate), and spread it to as many human populations as he could in order to poison the Wraith's food supply. In backstory to the Stargate SG-1 episode "Prisoners", Linea was imprisoned as "the Destroyer of Worlds" for creating a plague that wiped out over half the population of the planet Rillaan. In the later seasons of SG-1, one of the Ori's favorite tricks for gaining new followers was have their Priors (priests) secretly unleash a deadly plague upon a population, then have the Priors publicly show up and miraculously cure that plague. They also try to use it as a bio-weapon against Earth, but a Heelâ€“Face Turn-ed Prior uses his power to cure it (and is immediately killed by the Ori for his treachery).
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Synthetic Plague / int_63e72a51	comment	2000 AD: Judge Dredd: There have been many instances in the comic where hostile factions resorted to biological warfare by spreading lab-manufactured diseases among enemy populations. The worst one was probably the Chaos Bug, a Hate Plague designed by leftover factions of East Meg One that started an epidemic in Mega City One resulting in the death of about 85% of the population. Shakara: The Shakara Federation was wiped out by an engineered disease known as the Red Death. Its creator had noble intentions in doing so because of the ruthless order that the Shakara imposed on the rest of the universe, but became The Atoner when the alliance that funded her plunged it back into an age of chaos and tyranny.
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Synthetic Plague / int_6819fb9f	comment	The Ebola Brahma virus in Rainbow Six, which the Phoenix group plans to use as a Depopulation Bomb by setting it off at the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.
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Synthetic Plague / int_688cfe4e	comment	In Black Tide Rising, H7D3 is a purposefully designed, multi-stage agent that ultimately turns its victims into very aggressive humans with no real sapience, basically being little more than two-legged, vicious feral animals.
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Synthetic Plague / int_69230caf	comment	Intergalactic: Commonworld created a virus which turns people temporarily into monsters and spread it among outworld settlers, demonizing them so that they could justify "intervention".
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Synthetic Plague / int_69735f15	comment	Shakara: The Shakara Federation was wiped out by an engineered disease known as the Red Death. Its creator had noble intentions in doing so because of the ruthless order that the Shakara imposed on the rest of the universe, but became The Atoner when the alliance that funded her plunged it back into an age of chaos and tyranny.
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Synthetic Plague / int_6c1f4c9d	comment	Utopia (US): Christie Corp, a pharmaceutical company, has created viruses numerous times which caused several outbreaks, with the plot centering on preventing their latest and worst.
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Synthetic Plague / int_70814599	comment	In backstory to the Stargate SG-1 episode "Prisoners", Linea was imprisoned as "the Destroyer of Worlds" for creating a plague that wiped out over half the population of the planet Rillaan.
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Synthetic Plague / int_72b62793	comment	One of the key elements of The Cassandra Crossing is a plague virus which the US military has engineered to be a biological weapon and then secretly and illegally parked in neutral Switzerland. It can't be that good, though, if it can easily be healed with oxygen within an hour or two.
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Synthetic Plague / int_73afd310	comment	Pebble in the Sky: In chapter 15, "The Odds That Vanished", Dr. Shekt explains how the Society of Ancients has developed a variation of the common fever which will be incredibly virulent and, as far as Outsiders are concerned, incredibly deadly.
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Synthetic Plague / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Armageddon Game", O'Brien and Bashir are helping a planet destroy their stocks of a biomechanical virus called Harvesters. Unfortunately, the weapons are so terrible the inhabitants are determined that no knowledge of how to make them should survive, even in the hands of Starfleet personnel. In an attempt to end the Dominion War, Section 31 creates a disease and uses Odo as a carrier to spread it to the Founders. "The Quickening" shows that the Dominion themselves used one on an alien planet for resisting their control. The entire surviving population is infected, and has been for generations. The disease remains dormant for a seemingly random amount of time before suddenly activating, followed by an excruciating death. Worse, it's exacerbated and mutated by electromagnetic radiation, meaning anyone attempting to cure it will be extremely limited in technology, and the entire civilization was forced into Medieval Stasis.
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Synthetic Plague / int_75149ccd	comment	The overarching plot of the first four novels of the X-Wing Series concerns the Krytos virus. Ysanne Isard, the Director of Imperial Intelligence and de facto ruler of the Galactic Empire, concludes that the diminished Empire is in no state to defend the capital world of Coruscant, and so decides to use the entire planet as a trap for the New Republic by seeding it with a plague synthesized from several of the galaxy's most lethal and infectious diseases. As per her specifications, the results are 100% lethal (Gamorreans get to the point where moving their bodies ruptures their skin, while Quarrens liquify) and highly contagious... except humans and Bothans are wholly immune, and the disease is easily treatable with bacta, an expensive medicine that is commonly used to treat battlefield injuries. This ensures that by taking the planet meant to firmly establish their legitimacy, the Rebels will inherit a humanitarian disaster that will bankrupt them to combat (a situation made worse when Isard seizes the only planet in the galaxy that produces bacta), while also stirring up anti-human resentment among the other races of the Alliance (which is exacerbated by the Bothans, being a species of politicking opportunists). Fortunately for the New Republic, Rogue Squadron is able to capture Coruscant two weeks ahead of Isard's timetable and in a way that destroys some of the virus reserves, while technicians also come up with alternative treatments that are cheaper and require less bacta. Meanwhile, the fact that Krytos was so lethal meant that infectees often died before spreading it to its fullest extent.
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Synthetic Plague / int_765ffd16	comment	Everland has the Horologia virus, created from a poisonous apple by Queen Katherina and unleashed onto England. The virus quickly wipes out its adult population while slower to take affect on those eighteen and under. Females are particularly vulnerable to it.
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Synthetic Plague / int_7668653a	comment	Everyone suspects that the plague on Omega in Mass Effect 2 is human-made because it kills all species except humans (and Vorcha, who are immune to all disease and help spread it). However, it turns out that while it is, indeed, artificial and intended to wipe out non-humans, it was created by the Collectors for the purpose of isolating the humans they want to harvest by killing everyone else.
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Synthetic Plague / int_76b8cb10	comment	In the Fallout series, there were some accusations that the US government created and spread the New Plague, not Chinese agents as was officially claimed. Whilst that is an unproven theory, a canonical example of a Synthetic Plague in the series is the Forced Evolutionary Virus, or FEV. Originally, this was intended to be a Beneficial Disease; created under the title "Pan-Immunity Virion Project (PIVP)", it was intended to be an inoculation against the New Plague and against bio-warfare attacks. However, when the government discovered the virus' Mutagenic Goo properties, they scrapped that project, redubbed it FEV, and tried to militarize it in the form of a Super Serum. All they achieved was creating the savage, dangerously uncontrollable Super Mutants, and a myriad of other horrors. Samples of the virus were later recovered by the Enclave from the ruins of the Mariposa Military Base in California. These samples were used to create weaponized variants of the FEV that could be spread into the jet stream (in Fallout 2) or in the water (in Fallout 3) to kill off all lifeforms with genetic damage accumulated from exposure to radiation and other toxins as a result of the Great War, with the only survivors being "pure" humans such as Enclave citizens or the few Vault Dwellers still in functional Vaults.
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Synthetic Plague / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars: Several can be deployed by ships with "biowar" modules. Most do damage to planetary populations without destroying infrastructure or terraforming (unlike the other options), but vaccines against them are easily researched. Plague and Retro Plague are standard lethal diseases, Beast Bomb reduces populations to animalistic intelligence so no production is possible, and Assimilation Plague converts victims to the attacker's empire. The Zuul are immune to all bioweapons though, being genetically engineered soldiers after all. With the exception of the Xombie plague in the second game.
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Synthetic Plague / int_78640f76	comment	This is the sub-plot in Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, as Marcus has released a virus over New York to wipe out all of people who haven't conformed to his ancient Roman ideals. The virus only has an 80% kill rate, but by the end of the movie, he's managed to make a 100% lethal version.
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Synthetic Plague / int_78d38339	comment	As in the film series it spawned, Resident Evil involves fighting the horrors spawned by the Umbrella Corporation created T-Virus.
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Synthetic Plague / int_79a1465e	comment	The descolada in Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide is an artificially created super-virus that systematically dismantles and reassembles the DNA of its host. It's an unusual example in that while it's fatal — and nastily so — to Earth life, it is absolutely vital to the ecosystem of Lusitania, necessitating an approach to the disease that doesn't eradicate the pathogen entirely. In Children of the Mind, it's discovered that its deadliness is only a side effect; its true purpose is to terraform alien worlds to be more hospitable to its creators.
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Synthetic Plague / int_79d34d4d	comment	Counterpart (2018): Many people on Earth Prime believe the Munchen virus that devastated them back in the 90s was artifically created on Earth Alpha before being released into their side. Because of this, a faction plotted vengeance by sending infiltrators over to murder their counterparts, take their places and then subvert Alpha's society from the inside. It's eventually revealed they're right, it was artificially created on Alpha, but left unclear if this had been deliberately or accidentally released to their side. In the series finale it's indicated they released a virus of their own on Earth Alpha in revenge.
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Synthetic Plague / int_7ddd14bc	comment	Pandemic and its various versions and clones all involve an engineered plague whose goal is to infect and kill every human in the world before the world governments can research a cure/vaccine and stop it.
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Synthetic Plague / int_7fc78282	comment	In The Lord of the Rings, of all places, Sauron employed synthetic plagues at various points in the Backstory to weaken his enemies before more traditional conquest.
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Synthetic Plague / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: New Frontier has the Redeemer virus, a plague engineered by the Redeemers and carried in their High Priests' blood, so that any non-natural death wipes out everything on the planet he died on within a few days. Naturally, said High Priests are stationed on newly "redeemed" planets, and occasionally (as in Dark Allies) used as a weapon of influence. In the Double Helix series (set primarily during the Star Trek: The Next Generation era), a shadowy malefactor sponsoring medical research appears to be purposely infecting different planets in order to test out the most efficient way to send out viruses to kill off as many Federation citizens as possible. The Star Trek Shatnerverse novel Avenger involves a plague spreading through the galaxy. It turns out that not only was it engineered by a group of Well Intentioned Extremists, one of the key members was Sarek, Spock's father. When he later tried to reveal the truth, he was poisoned in such a way as to mimic Bendii Syndrome. In fact, one of the original test worlds was Tarsus IV, and Sarek mind-melded with young Kirk to erase his memories.
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Synthetic Plague / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape has an interesting example in the Elf Quest series. In a quest, you learn that the plague in West Ardougne is faked by King Lathas of East Ardougne after his brother, King Tyras, turned evil.
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Synthetic Plague / int_85a5a3b9	comment	Cybonic plague from Transformers: Prime. When Optimus becomes infected, the Autobots must enter the mind of the virus's creator, a comatose Megatron, to seek a cure.
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Synthetic Plague / int_8905d105	comment	In Gift From the Princess Who Brought Sleep, the main villain Margarita Blankenheim creates an airborne toxin out of the titular poison, Gift, which works exactly like a plague.
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Synthetic Plague / int_8976f8e2	comment	Courtship Rite has a synthetic plague of locusts. Oelita discovers a native species of insect which is eating wheat and not dying. Normally, native life finds Terran life as poisonous as Terran life finds native life. When the Kaiel get a sample of the insect, they discover it has been deliberately genetically modified, and furthermore, the Mnankrei are standing by with ships of grain waiting for the famine these bugs will cause, so they can trade food for fealty.
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Synthetic Plague / int_8a8fb433	comment	TimeRiders: The Konsong-ni Virus was designed as a bioweapon by Japan.
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Synthetic Plague / int_8af3d896	comment	Next (2020): Next develops one using the technology at Biomotion Dynamics, with Somalian terrorists supplying test subjects by kidnapping villagers.
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Synthetic Plague / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: In "SWAK", the office experiences a biological attack in the form of genetically-altered Yersinia pestis which is resistant to antibiotics, stolen from a pharmaceutical lab. Tony is revealed to have been infected.
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Synthetic Plague / int_90a0701c	comment	The Centurions episode "Sungrazer" begins with Big Bad Doc Terror unleashing the Z-80 virus, which causes humans to lapse into a catatonic state.
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Synthetic Plague / int_90c73dda	comment	The Quantum virus from Animorphs, first referenced in The Andalite Chronicles and finally seen firsthand in The Hork-Bajir Chronicles. An even deadlier virus is featured in The Arrival.
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Synthetic Plague / int_90d45233	comment	The Underland Chronicles: The Reveal at the end of Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods is that the disease called "the Curse of the Warmbloods" was a biological weapon that escaped from a Regalian lab. Its creator didn't tell anyone she had the cure because she didn't want to admit she'd created the plague.
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Synthetic Plague / int_90e2f673	comment	In BattleTech, bio-engineered plagues have resulted in the destruction of multiple planets. Most infamously, the Draconis Combine planet of Galedon V had a bioweapon get released during the Word of Blake Jihad. Tens of thousands were killed before Clan Snow Raven arrived and conducted an Orbital Bombardment campaign against the planet's cities. Afterword, the Draconis Combine quarantined the planet for a time before deciding that the plague was too dangerous and untreatable and chose to sterilize the entire planet with two weeks of sustained nuclear strikes, just to make sure that nobody would ever try to visit the planet again. Part of why this is so infamous is because the Black Thorn mercenaries were last seen on Galedon V... and it wasn't until one of the writers wanted to use them again that someone realized they were on the planet when all of the above happened. The line developer declared that they were killed somewhere along the line. Word of Blake is responsible for a staggering number of NBC weapon violations. For starters, the Redburn Virus is a strain of flu that is much more lethal than normal influenza, and seems to be semi-targeted (it killed war hero Andrew Redburn, but none of the people at his deathbed). There's also the Necromo Nightmare, a virus that creates Plague Zombies which was released onto the world by Word of Blake. The virus attacks higher brain functions, causing Death of Personality and leading the victim to mindlessly attack anything that isn't infected (presumably detected via pheromones or similar) as a Technically-Living Zombie. There are some horrific implications that even wearing Powered Armor isn't proof against the virus, based on the presence of infected Protomech squads.
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Synthetic Plague / int_93dc2587	comment	In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, there's the X-5 Unit, a top-secret man-made virus powerful enough to wipe out five states in five days. Dallas Grimes steals the unit and uses Beavis and Butt-Head as unwitting mules to carry the unit holding it to Washington D.C. on the promise of being able to have sex with her. Making this worse is that the casing has a flaw that if struck wrong could shatter and release the virus instantly.
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Synthetic Plague / int_9474aa4b	comment	The variola chimera virus in The Division is one of these. The guy who made it contaminated currency with it, then spent said money during Black Friday, hence one of the nicknames being the 'Dollar Flu.' The creator is later found to be dead from his own plague, but a rogue Division agent steals his equipment and kidnaps a virologist so he can make his own plagues.
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Synthetic Plague / int_9771c904	comment	The Greening Wars has an interesting example in the prologue. The warlord who had the viruses created wanted them to be disabling but non-lethal, to allow relatively bloodless conquests of crippled armies. Unfortunately, the Mad Scientist he hired to make the plagues believed that crippling the enemy wasn't enough, and found a way to make the viruses harmless in testing but be lethal in the field.
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Synthetic Plague / int_99709ae6	comment	Motherland: Fort Salem: Witchplague is a bioengineered infection that only affects people who have witch DNA. It was made by the Camarilla to destroy them all.
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Synthetic Plague / int_9a992e73	comment	In Consider Her Ways, a biochemist decides to create an artificial virus that will wipe out all brown rats. It goes about the way you'd expect and ends up infecting humans, but for some reason, most females are immune, resulting in a planet-wide Gendercide.
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Synthetic Plague / int_9c0c6d38	comment	In Legends of Dune, there's the Omnius Plague, released by the Thinking Machines against the League worlds. It wasn't actually designed by machines but by an exiled Tlulaxa scientist. The plague ends up devastating the human worlds, killing billions, and mutates into an even deadlier form on Rossak. While a cure is never discovered, Doctors Mohandas Suk and Raquella Berto-Anirul discover that spice can be used to resist the effects of the plague. As a result, the entire known galaxy is now dependent on spice for survival.
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Synthetic Plague / int_9c33b8ab	comment	In Sliders, one world is suffering from the after-effects of one such plague being accidentally released and wiping out the vast majority of men in the world. With all of the world becoming a Lady Land, the two new superpowers (US and Australia) are in competition for population growth, each attempting to subvert the breeding efforts of the other and kidnap highly-"productive" men. Strangely enough, artificial insemination is never attempted, even though it would be an obvious answer.
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Synthetic Plague / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Queen, the Plague of the Animal Kingdom Pirates, derives his nom de plume from his ability to craft artificial diseases and viruses fashioned in bullets he calls "Excitement Bullets"note Plague Rounds in the English translation which infect the victims with highly contagious viruses. He has shown two: Mummy (which causes the target to burn with fever and dry up like a mummy) and Ice Demon (which turns the afflicted in a cold-exuding oni-like creature which can infect others through bite like a zombie).
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Synthetic Plague / int_9f1284a8	comment	In I Am Legend, the infection that wiped out most humans was the result of a supposed Cure for Cancer that ended up going horribly wrong.
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Synthetic Plague / int_a0219faa	comment	Star Trek: New Frontier has the Redeemer virus, a plague engineered by the Redeemers and carried in their High Priests' blood, so that any non-natural death wipes out everything on the planet he died on within a few days. Naturally, said High Priests are stationed on newly "redeemed" planets, and occasionally (as in Dark Allies) used as a weapon of influence.
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Synthetic Plague / int_a26430e9	comment	The virus in Planet Explorers's campaign mode was engineered by the Pajans for a war that devastated Maria. While the planet's native species have learned to live with it, the player and their colonist friends soon have a plague on their hands.
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Synthetic Plague / int_a46c9a7a	comment	In X-Men, the Legacy Virus was originally engineered by Apocalypse in one Bad Future to kill off the remaining non-mutant humans. When Stryfe got a hold of it, he modified it so that it would target mutants instead. After it was unleashed however, it didn't take long before it mutated and started infecting baseline humans as well. If it hadn't been cured with the Heroic Sacrifice of Colossus (distributing the cure to the virus through his body would be fatal and he knew it), it would have wiped out all of humanity.
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Synthetic Plague / int_a6492af2	comment	The Stand: The "super-flu" which kills 99% of the world population nearly overnight was the result of military weapons experiments in the United States and was released when a lab accident caused it to be spread throughout the military base it was being stored. Later in the book, the demonic Randall Flagg reveals that other man-made viruses such as super-Ebola are in the works to kill the remaining members of the "good" side of humanity. It gets worse (morally speaking) — not only did the U.S. accidentally get itself horribly infected, when the military officers in charge of the base where the accident happened decide that there's no putting the cat back in the bag, they order operatives in Europe and Asia to purposefully release the plague over there, under the "if we go down, we're taking you all with us" theory. They note that the operatives think the containers they're supposed to open contain radioactive particles for use in testing the ability of satellites to track them, or something. In The Dark Tower, however, Flagg actually takes credit for the plague himself, though he's silent on the details — he was probably the one responsible for the "accident", but he may or may not have had anything to do with its creation.note It should be noted that Flagg has no problem accepting credit for deeds, items, and events that are not actually his design. At one point, when talking about his many names, he muses that he's been called Maerlyn (All-World's version of Merlin), but "who cares, because I was never that one, though I never denied it either."
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Synthetic Plague / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering has Mad Scientist characters create these from time to time. Yawgmoth released plagues just to see what would happen while the Simic Combine did the same thing to start life on Ravnica all over in their design.
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Synthetic Plague / int_a87a2e5e	comment	The Tunnels series has Dominion, a strain of influenza genetically engineered by the Styx into a super-plague that will kill everyone on the planet's surface, allowing those living Beneath the Earth to rise up and take their place.
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Synthetic Plague / int_a9570fac	comment	In Victoria, the US population is decimated by the N'Orleans Flu, a disease apparently created by some bright kids in a garage just to see if they could. Later, after the Muslims all unite to invade Boston (don't ask) and are driven off, there's a prisoner exchange in which both sides expose their prisoners to engineered plagues before turning them over. The Victorians wisely quarantine their returned prisoners, and the death count is controlled, while the Arabic population is reduced by millions.
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Synthetic Plague / int_a9cb14fc	comment	In the Ravenloft campaign, a common health problem among citizens of Valachan is white fever; while rarely lethal (fatalities occur now and then) symptoms include weakness, pale skin, chills, night terrors, and sudden loss of weight. In truth, this is not a disease at all. The darklord of Valachan and most of his servants are vampires, and white fever is something they invented to explain the weakness that befalls victims who they feed on, but don't kill (which is most of them, actually; they rarely have a need to create more vampires).
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Synthetic Plague / int_aadcf5f1	comment	In Rainbows End, the Sunrise Plague was an artificial pseudomimivirus released by a cult, and the "second worst Euro-terror of the decade". A large part of the book revolves around the search for a new virus designed not to kill, but for mind control.
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Synthetic Plague / int_abd5699	comment	Plague Inc. has the Bio-Weapon. Its distinguishing trait from other disease types is high and constantly increasing lethality. This has to be managed to prevent it from killing hosts faster than it can infect others. Additionally, high lethality also makes it more frightening, which means it tends to get the world funding cure research faster. In addition, the Simian Flu from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is an option.
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Synthetic Plague / int_aef74f1b	comment	Bloody Zombies uses this as a big plot twist at the end of the game; it turns out the zombie virus that decimated most of London is artificially created and unleashed by the K.R.O.N.O.S Corporation in an attempt to cleanse humanity and put a stop to all wars, with the various different zombies you fought throughout being their "upgraded prototypes".
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Synthetic Plague / int_b3484036	comment	Area 51: The Mission, an alien front organization, genetically alters the bubonic plague to unleash it and cull humanity when we're deemed as a threat. It's stated the original mass bubonic plague outbreak in the 1200s is their work too, with the same goal. The protagonists only barely manage to stop it.
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Synthetic Plague / int_b576fa4d	comment	In Friendship is Optimal, a depressed programmer came this close to unleashing a highly contagious plague that would lock everyone's facial muscles into a "smile". You see, he wrote an AI, showed it a bunch of photos of smiling faces, and said "make everyone in the world smile". Luckily, Celest-AI stepped in before the virus could actually be released.
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Synthetic Plague / int_ba366aa8	comment	The titular Syphon Filter is a man-made disease that can be custom-tailored (the "Filter" part of the name) to target only specific groups (in other words, it's designed for racial genocide).
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Synthetic Plague / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: One form of the world-killing Exterminatus procedure uses a virus that breaks down all living tissue, reducing the biosphere to a mass of extremely flammable matter. While useful on planets with lots of minerals or infrastructure, agriworlds become useless to the Imperium, and they've stopped using them ever since they figured out virus bombings powered up Nurgle, the god of disease and decay. One Dark Eldar Archon is known to be narcissistic to the point where he once unleashed a virus on a planet that changed every living thing's face into a copy of his own.
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Synthetic Plague / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun, Ares engineered Strain III Flourescing Astral Bacteria to fight the insect spirit infestation of Chicago. Strains I and II merely glow in the presence of mana and dual-natured creatures, while FAB3 actively seeks out and consumes mana. Like all bioweapons, it went after more than just its intended target and devastated the ghouls of Cabrini Green and active mages. Pockets of FAB3 are scattered throughout Chicago, waiting for a nice juicy mage, spirit, or paracritter to walk by and announce its presence to them.
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Synthetic Plague / int_bcdcf629	comment	A Transformers: Animated tie-in comic reveals that in this continuity, cosmic rust was a bioweapon created by the Decepticon chemist, Oil Slick. He is not at all concerned about Decepticons who are infected with chemical agent and only begins working on a treatment after he himself is infected.
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Synthetic Plague / int_c2184f42	comment	In Star Wars: Legacy, the Sith scientist Vul Isen engineers a plague lethal enough to wipe out all life on a planet within a matter of days. He unleashes it on Dac as part of the Sith's plan to exterminate the Mon Calamari, and later uses it to wipe out all life on Da Soocha as well. He would have unleashed it on Utapau too, had Cade Skywalker not tracked him down and killed him.
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Synthetic Plague / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: There have been many instances in the comic where hostile factions resorted to biological warfare by spreading lab-manufactured diseases among enemy populations. The worst one was probably the Chaos Bug, a Hate Plague designed by leftover factions of East Meg One that started an epidemic in Mega City One resulting in the death of about 85% of the population.
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Synthetic Plague / int_c399cd39	comment	The Exsurgent virus in Eclipse Phase is a bio-nanotech or digital virus created by the ETI that mutates people into hideous abominations, or at the very least gives them Psychic Powers and a mental disorder or two. There are also a few more mundane designer plagues too.
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Synthetic Plague / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "Planet of the Daleks", the Daleks decide to use this to rid the planet they are enslaving of Thal intruders. Inverted in the episodes "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances". London has been infected by a virus that turns humans into gas mask wearing zombie creatures. As it turns out, it's not a plague at all, but in fact a cloud of nanogenes that are actually supposed to heal the ill and wounded. But since the nanogenes in question are alien and have never seen humans before, they just turn all the humans they encounter into what they think humans are supposed to look like: a dead boy wearing a gas mask, the first 'human' they've encountered. They end up fixing it by having the nanogenes infect the mother of the dead boy: by recognizing her as the parent, they're able to correct themselves and cure the zombies. An unintentional example in "The Pyramid at the End of the World", in which a pair of scientists are running routine tests. Unfortunately, one of them had her glasses accidentally broken by her husband, and the other one is suffering from a bad hangover from the night before. The latter ends up messing up a decimal point, while mixing the latest batch of chemicals. This results in a highly voracious flesh-eating bacteria that threatens to wipe out literally all life on Earth within a year, should it escape the lab.
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Synthetic Plague / int_c6245086	comment	Part of the world-ending crisis in... well, Crysis 2 was a very, very nasty disease which causes people to literally disintegrate over a period of weeks. Since the first cases came from advanced nano- and biotechnology firm Crynet's quarters, fingers were quickly pointed. Turns out they were wrong; the 'Spore,' as the virus came to be called, was a creation of the alien Ceph, intended to not only kill humans but reduce them to environmental-friendly sludge so as to minimize the ecological impact when they finally took back their world.
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Synthetic Plague / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, the Gray Death is a plague that is ravaging the planet, with the Orwellian government maintaining full control of the vaccine that keeps people alive, which is believed to be difficult to make. It is later revealed that this is really a plan to control the world's populace, killing the poor and only keeping around people who the Majestic 12 find useful. The Gray Death is actually man-made Nanomachines that integrate themselves into human cells, which the body then reject, eventually killing them. The vaccine (called Ambrosia) is simply ROM modules that attach themselves to the nanites to deactivate them, and as such it's more of a cure than a traditional vaccine, and reinfection is possible at a later date. The very few immune people are those who are nano-augmented (like the player) because they already contain nanomachines in their cells.
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Synthetic Plague / int_ca5cb239	comment	In the Circle of Magic novel Briar's Book, a mage trying to develop weight-loss potions dumped failed efforts in the sewers rather than disposing of them properly. The magical potions mixed with each other and the filth, creating the Blue Pox, a magical disease that caused its victims to waste away. The original potion was engineered to resist a common medicine (so that users could treat their headaches, for example, without compromising their weight loss), which now has tragic consequences.
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Synthetic Plague / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: In "Embassy" the Sudanese Ambassador has stolen vials of Ebola from a U.S. lab, intending to use it for political purposes in Sudan.
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Synthetic Plague / int_cc1983ac	comment	In Derailed (2002), Galina's ill-gotten gain is three vials of SP-43, an ultra-virulent strain of smallpox cultured in fluorescent green serum that contains several other pathogens.
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Synthetic Plague / int_d036e404	comment	In Oryx and Crake, an artificially created disease wipes out most of the human race.
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Synthetic Plague / int_d0e25eb9	comment	In Heavy Object, the Einherjar project is a molecular motor that replicates the effect of rabies, but with a faster incubation rate and increased rate of spread.
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Synthetic Plague / int_d0f445e7	comment	The Dawnhounds kicks off with the theft of an engineered fungal plague, found in the ruins of an ancient biolab, and the plague vials serve as the story's MacGuffin until the spores get out and the story takes a turn for the horrifying.
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Synthetic Plague / int_d265a4f7	comment	The gene plagues you can use to cull the population with in Fate of the World are this.
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Synthetic Plague / int_d39a4cef	comment	The Clench/Ebola Gulf-A from Batman: Contagion, which Robin and many other Gothamites contract, was originally unleashed in Gotham City by the Saint Duma's Order but later revealed to have been created by Ra's al Ghul.
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Synthetic Plague / int_d443220d	comment	The zombie plague in Shellshock 2 was created to end The Vietnam War (and any war thereafter), but after the US military rejected it, the creator releases it anyway so as to prove its power and to force them to make a deal with him for the cure. The player character ends up with a choice between accepting the virus creator's offer (while hoping that there will be an opportunity to punish him after he provides the cure) or simply shooting him and let the plague go on. (Neither ending is exactly bright and cheery.)
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Synthetic Plague / int_d9919dda	comment	In Last and First Men, the second men eventually created a virus designed to destroy the Martians (themselves sentient clouds of microbes), but the side effects of the plague lead to the second men's downfall and replacement by the third men.
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Synthetic Plague / int_dbad3e87	comment	One Chance is all about this, as the player takes the role of a researcher whose team has inadvertently created an airborne pathogen that will kill all life on Earth in six days.
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Synthetic Plague / int_dbd793bc	comment	d20 Modern: In the d20 Apocalypse setting Plague World, a species of alien invaders unleash a deadly engineered virus on humankind. Too bad for them, the virus mutated, so when they landed to finish the surviving humans, they suffered from massive casualties caused by their own weapons.
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Synthetic Plague / int_e4732abc	comment	The Hoffan Plague spread by Micheal in Stargate Atlantis in an effort to cripple the Wraith. For reference, a group called the Hoffans created a drug that, if taken, would render one immune to Wraith feeding, and indeed poisonous to the Wraith. It also had a 50% mortality rate among those who took it; they were aware of this, and took it anyway. The Wraith slaughtered the survivors. Micheal got a hold of it, turned it into a disease (albeit with "only" a 33% mortality rate), and spread it to as many human populations as he could in order to poison the Wraith's food supply.
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Synthetic Plague / int_e52e2ac	comment	In Metaltown, the corn flu was created by accident when scientists tried to create longer-lasting crops after drought led to famine. While not contagious by normal means, it's in enough food that buying anything processed is a great risk, and being in the food-testing facility is a guaranteed death sentence.
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Synthetic Plague / int_e5667f2	comment	User RandomJ of SpaceBattles.com created Neococcus ecoclastus, a.k.a. "Little Boy", a bioweapon purpose-built to wipe out entire ecologies. It's extremely contagious, highly deadly, and resistant/immune to basically anything that kills bacteria, up to and including liberal application of fire. Symptoms include conversion of most of your biomass into various types of plastic and rapid death from several particularly deadly chemical compounds. Worst of all, it's made by combining traits of real organisms.
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Synthetic Plague / int_e5da0fa0	comment	In the Myst franchise, devastating plagues are a recurring theme in the history of the D'ni civilization and all can be traced back to a single source: King Alsendahl, who created a plague to exterminate an alien race who he believed were preparing to attack, only for it to jump the species barrier and nearly wipe out his own people. In atonement for this, he had himself and all known sources of the disease permanently sealed inside his palace. Mutations of the plague popped up every few centuries thereafter, and have been major plot devices in two of the tie-in novels: in The Book of Ti'ana, the vengeful criminals Veovis and A'Gaeris release a plague onto the D'ni city, destroying its population almost completely, and in The Book of D'ni, a strain that had been rendered harmless to the D'ni proved fatal and virulent to their crueler cousins, the Tehranee, resulting in the destruction of that civilization.
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Synthetic Plague / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: The overarching plot of the first four novels of the X-Wing Series concerns the Krytos virus. Ysanne Isard, the Director of Imperial Intelligence and de facto ruler of the Galactic Empire, concludes that the diminished Empire is in no state to defend the capital world of Coruscant, and so decides to use the entire planet as a trap for the New Republic by seeding it with a plague synthesized from several of the galaxy's most lethal and infectious diseases. As per her specifications, the results are 100% lethal (Gamorreans get to the point where moving their bodies ruptures their skin, while Quarrens liquify) and highly contagious... except humans and Bothans are wholly immune, and the disease is easily treatable with bacta, an expensive medicine that is commonly used to treat battlefield injuries. This ensures that by taking the planet meant to firmly establish their legitimacy, the Rebels will inherit a humanitarian disaster that will bankrupt them to combat (a situation made worse when Isard seizes the only planet in the galaxy that produces bacta), while also stirring up anti-human resentment among the other races of the Alliance (which is exacerbated by the Bothans, being a species of politicking opportunists). Fortunately for the New Republic, Rogue Squadron is able to capture Coruscant two weeks ahead of Isard's timetable and in a way that destroys some of the virus reserves, while technicians also come up with alternative treatments that are cheaper and require less bacta. Meanwhile, the fact that Krytos was so lethal meant that infectees often died before spreading it to its fullest extent. The second arc of Young Jedi Knights features a similar plague... aimed at humans and humans only. The Diversity Alliance's insane leader seeks to find and unleash it. Later, the characters discover that the Empire had created plagues specifically targeting each individual species. The asteroid containing the viruses is destroyed, though the fight that ensues does end up releasing some viruses, which infect both the father of one of the knights and the leader of the Diversity Alliance. The father sacrifices himself to ensure that the asteroid blows up. The leader tries to fly to Coruscant to spread the disease, but her disillusioned number two subdues her and flies her to parts unknown to die. During the New Jedi Order series, the war against the Yuuzhan Vong goes badly enough that a synthetic plague called "Alpha Red" is created, which specifically targets the Vong and their Organic Technology, killing them within days. It is deemed unethical and condemned by the heroes, but still gets released here and there by certain elements in the Alliance. The Vong weren't above using their own synthetic plagues, including one nasty variant released on Ithor that also had the side effect of over-oxygenating the atmosphere, so anything surviving the plague had global firestorms to look forward too. One of the many arguments against Alpha Red was that it might spur the Vong to retaliate in kind, potentially sterilizing the entire galaxy. Thousands of years before these examples, the ancient Sith Alchemists perfected the Rakghoul Plague, a debilitating infection that would irrevocably transform its victims into the eponymous mutant beasts. Nearly every humanoid species (and quite a lot of others besides) are at risk, ensuring that rakghouls are an ever-present threat once an infection begins.
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Synthetic Plague / int_e93a5ed7	comment	Dimension X's "Pebble in the Sky": In a change from the original, Dr Shekt is one of the biologists who created the virus that will kill the Outsiders (humans that aren't Earth-natives). He's motivated to do so because he is older and in violation of The Sixty; mandatory euthanasia.
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Synthetic Plague / int_ecc94716	comment	"Manticore" in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a bioweapon created by ATLAS to kill anyone not inoculated by them. The inoculation is given to all ATLAS personnel, both current and former. In Exo Zombies, it ends up causing a Zombie Apocalypse.
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Synthetic Plague / int_ecd0659d	comment	In "How Things Smurf" from The Smurfette Village, the "Blue Plague"note no relation to the disease from the episode of the same name in The Smurfs (1981) was manufactured by either Gargamel or the new villain Asmoday to wipe out all the Smurfs and Smurfettes at once, although because Papa Smurf had put up a magical force field to keep the plague from spreading, several Smurfs were spared this fate and would go on to build a whole new Smurf Village elsewhere.
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Synthetic Plague / int_ed72b3c9	comment	The main antagonist of Trauma Center (Atlus) leads a cult which believes that modern medicine leads humanity to lead unnatural lives. They operate by spreading GUILT, a pathogen engineered to kill their patient. The sequels also deal with artificial pathogens with differing origins and intent of creation.
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Synthetic Plague / int_eec04867	comment	The Dirk Pitt Adventures novel Vixen 03 involves a race to stop the release of a bioweapon that is projected to be able to kill up to 98% of all human life.
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Synthetic Plague / int_f1874342	comment	The Viral Factor revolves around a prototype virus being smuggled into Malaysia and being developed in a top-secret lab by a terrorist mastermind who intends to spread it worldwide. The hero, Jon, has a few weeks left to live because of a bullet in his brain and must prevent the virus' release before then.
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Synthetic Plague / int_f40a645	comment	The Satan Bug involves the protagonist trying to save humanity from annihilation by preventing the release of such a doomsday disease.
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Synthetic Plague / int_f43b3a51	comment	One episode of Diagnosis: Murder has RZ1765, a genetically modified strain of smallpox with an 8-hour incubation period and the potential to wipe out a small city. It gets stolen, along with the antigen that counteracts it, from a biological research company and by a series of unlucky coincidences infects an unfortunate burglar who expires inside Mark's home and spreads it to Mark and Jessie, although thankfully Mark recognises the smallpox symptoms on the burglar's corpse and sets up a quarantine before anyone else gets infected. The rest of the episode then becomes a race against time to figure out who originally stole it and what they did with the antigen.
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Synthetic Plague / int_f5a3f243	comment	In L: change the WorLd, Blue Ship, a terrorist group, manufactures an extremely dangerous virus in order to wipe out humanity and restore balance in the ecosystem.
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Synthetic Plague / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Babylon 5 episode "Deathwalker" has Jha'dur, a Dilgar war criminal infamous for exterminating a whole planetary population with Stafford's Plague (among many other things).
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Synthetic Plague / int_fa13d9be	comment	In The Wild Boy, the virus created and released by the Lindauzi. Everyone thought they were humanity's saviors, but later, Ilox found the truth.
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Synthetic Plague / int_fadb79ee	comment	In Quarantine (2008), the rabies infecting everyone in the building is revealed to be a "super-rabies" stolen by an apocalyptic cult.
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Synthetic Plague / int_fc996022	comment	Ashes of Empire: A good chunk of Imperial Night deals with Lyonesse's efforts to keep out the "Barbarian Plague", an Imperial bioweapon accidentally released when reavers raided biowarfare labs (placed on the Empire's borders to keep them well away from inhabited planets) looking for technology to scavenge.
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Synthetic Plague / int_fd289bb0	comment	In Revolution, The Patriots purposely use a designed, targeted version of typhus against people with mental or biochemical disorders. They're not very nice people.
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Synthetic Plague / int_fd8ef85e	comment	Some of the graffiti in Left 4 Dead written by the unseen survivors has them making up theories that the Green Flu was made by the government as a biological weapon or some sort of conspiracy theory. If this is true or not is, for the time being, left ambiguous.
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Synthetic Plague / int_fdd8bf3	comment	In the Plague Year Series, the nanotech plague/Grey Goo that befalls humanity was originally intended as a cure for cancer; it worked by dismantling the cancer cells. By the time they figured out that it dismantled a little too well, it had already escaped containment.
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Synthetic Plague / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Double Helix series (set primarily during the Star Trek: The Next Generation era), a shadowy malefactor sponsoring medical research appears to be purposely infecting different planets in order to test out the most efficient way to send out viruses to kill off as many Federation citizens as possible.
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Synthetic Plague / int_ffd1ab7f	comment	Starsnatcher has the Plague. It originates from a Mechanical Abomination and has originally been designed to infect computer systems. First, it uses radio waves to spread as far as possible and infect anything mechanical it can get its hands on, shutting off any infrastructure that could help you. Then, it infects nanofactories and forces them to print biological pathogens to infect organic life. Any life infected by it is going to turn into super-zombies with way more eyes, mouths, or fingers than what is healthy and a desire to kill/infect as much as possible.
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Aristoi / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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Quazi / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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Remember To Always Be Brave / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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The Stars Are Cold Toys / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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Twig / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
X-Wing Series / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
TheSatanBug	seeAlso	Synthetic Plague
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All of Us Are Dead / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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Dark Angel / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Diagnosis: Murder / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Extinct / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Helix / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Intelligence (2014) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Legends of Tomorrow / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Limitless / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Motherland: Fort Salem / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Supergirl (2015) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Travelers / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Westworld / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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Blue Planet (Tabletop Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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Renegade Legion (Tabletop Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
ARMA (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Bloody Zombies (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
CT Special Forces (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
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Code 7 (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Crysis (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
DUSK-12 (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Dreamfall Chapters (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Dying Light (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Fallout (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Instinct (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Iron Helix (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Michigan: Report From Hell (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
NanoBreaker (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Soldier of Fortune (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Spore Creatures (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
State of Decay (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Syphon Filter (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Trauma Center (Atlus) (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Zombie Infection (Video Game) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Bloodbound (Visual Novel) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Gamer Poop (Web Animation) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Genocide Man (Webcomic) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Viral By Committee (Webcomic) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Weapon Brown (Webcomic) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Taerel Setting (Website) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Animals (2016) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Centurions / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Isle of Dogs / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Pantheon / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Spiral Zone / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
Ever17 (Visual Novel) / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague

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