PCs free Guidance from Datch's control, and the Society and Guidance develop new safety protocols to prevent a repeat going forward. During Year Two, Celita deduces out that Guidance is infected with a version of the SMoV and develops a patch to wipe it. He spends the next couple of years utilizing the SMoV to work toward his "comeback" in Year Four.į. When he's forced to "flee," he takes that knowledge of the SMoV with him. During his brief regin, they learn everything the Dataphiles know about the SMoV (including being able to examine the code directly). Late in Year One, Historia-6/Prime returns. During Year One, Datch and the "Board of Directors" deploy a newer iteration of the SMoV on Songbird Station in a plot to eliminate a loose end and maybe some Starfinder Society leaders to boot.Į. Datch and the "Board of Directors" infiltrate the Lorespire Complex and upload their current iteration of the SMoV into Guidance, breaching the Cortex's data vaults and, well, setting in place a heaping pile of Years One and Two.ĭ. If she pulls strings within AbadarCorp to obtain the SMoV, they'll assist her in her scheme. She's approached by the Secret Criminal Faction (being very vague here, since we don't know what their deal is yet) and they alert her to the existence of the SMoV. This in turn pings Datch, who is in the early stages of playing her long game against AbadarCorp. While researching the Scoured Stars in advance of First Seeker Jadnura's expedition, Historia-6 brushes up against AbadarCorp's old records. Their copy essentially sits on a shelf for decades, gathering dust and nearly forgotten.ī. AbadarCorp R&D considers whether to try to reverse engineer the SMoV but quickly decides that it's too dangerous to play with. The still-mysterious "criminal" faction of the Starfinder Society (glimpsed at the end of Year 2 and teased for Year 5) is active in this era.Īfter AbadarCorp loses an expedition to Agillae-5 and retreats from the Scoured Stars, they take a captured copy of the SMoV back home with them, kept secure on an air-gapped data module. Let's call that virus the SMoV (Synthetic Model Virus) for simplicity's sake. About a hundred years before the Scoured Stars incident, the Society and other Pact Worlds explorers pulled out of the Scoured Stars entirely, provoked at least in part by the threat of losing ships to a technomagical virus on Agillae-5. Very briefly, the chain of events in my game (not necessarily adhering to published canon):Ī. In my home game, these threads are all being woven into a single cord. And then he himself returns in Year Four as a, yup, highly invasive virus capable of usurping infospheres and living minds alike. A victim of the virus in example 1, his actions triggered the wrath of the Board of Directors and/or Datch down the line. Historia-6 ties many of these threads together. Despite some narrative obfuscation, this virus seems to me to have been a different iteration of the same SMoV uploaded to Songbird Station.Ĥ. The virus Datch used to take control of Guidance in Year Two. The "SMoV" virus unleashed on Songbird Station by the "Board of Directors."ģ. Of unknown origins created nanites that could control the minds of living creatures, and constructed a virtual mindscape to keep many more prisoners in stasis indefinitely.Ģ. The virus that accumulated a starship graveyard on Agillae-5. On the other hand, long before the Data Scourge, the threat of an invasive, incredibly powerful computer virus was a recurring theme in Years One and Two, and left a shag rug of loose threads and unanswered questions in its wake. *** When One Becomes Three: On the one hand, taking Year Four as published, the Compiler Worm might feel too familiar coming hot on the heels of the Data Scourge.
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