Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140922181150/@comment-29458028-20140925121843

GM Ebola? Gimme a break man! So you are going to release a super virulent virus that has an equal, if not greater chance of wiping your own society than Tamrielic society into the world? (You forgot those vamps and werewolves?) Making a vaccine for your own troops is like ridiculously hard, if not impossible, since there is no working vaccine currently and Ebola treatment meds are incredibly rare. And you modified the virus itself.

You know how many Earthbound scientists that's going to kill because inavertantly, such research is ridiculously dangerous due to the pathenogenicity of the original virus? You know, that was just plain not legit.

Next thing, turns out Tamriel uses a different amino acid than us in their biology. Viruses don't work on them but us...

Biological weapons on Aliens can mess up becasuse of a smallest ematiomeric trifle. Sure thing, they might work, but there's a 50% chance, because levo - amino acids can build biology as well as their dextro counterparts.

Biological weapons were outlawed not because they were cruel, unlike chemical weapons. They were outlawed because they were ridiculously destructive and totally impossible to control, thus it was plain stupidity to possess and use them.

Pelinal Whitestrake wrote: "And, there would be no possible way to create enough cure disease potions/get enough mages to heal infected people to prevent an epidemie. The number of casualties caused by that genetically modified Ebola would become very soon over 10 million. The hygienical standards by themselves seem terrible in (most) Nirnian citys as well. " "Yes, and if the virus comes back to Earth, because one infected personnel is all it takes, you realise we are all messed up, right, 10 million of theirs, 100 million of ours (We got global travel and dense populations, viruses spread way faster)? The hygiene in several parts of the Planet even today is not much better, hell, it's worse, they don't even have sewers."