The Plague (Subverters, Boarders, and IDs, Oh My)

[inigma]

Btw, I got this idea from a ST:TNG episode "The Game" - about a highly addictive game that took over the crew of the Enterprise and which had hyponotized them into a war for an alien race. Addictees were so affected by it that they would force the game upon those who had never played - which resulted in the quick takeover of entire ships. Of course they never realized they were being controlled by an alien race until someone discovered a method to dehypnotize the players. Does anyone remember that episode?

It's kinda what I imagine The Plague to be: psychicly hypnotized people forced to psychicly hyponotize more people in a chain reaction that takes over entire empires in service to an alien empire, except this experiment went awry and now no one controls these people, but these hypnotized people are all determined to share The Plague with everyone else.

Maybe I should rename The Plague to "The Mentality" since this would probably be closer to what they are doing.

Intersting to fight a bunch of poor hypnotized saps who don't know any better, as they quickly turn your friends into hypnotized saps that are now out to get YOU hypnotized as well, or force you to face permanent "neutralization," eh? Whatever you do, don't trust your citizens to these missionaries or they may no longer be your citizens.