Bliss Virus

Name: Bliss Virus
Notes: An off-shoot of Philter research, Bliss was originally an example of nanotechnology developed by the Terran Imperial Loyalists as a means of pacification of prisoners. A glitch in a hurriedly produced batch for a rather a recently captured group of chemically enhanced Cardassian soldiers caused the nanotech to become contagious and it quickly spread to the guards and crew of the ship. Due to the isolated nature of the outbreak, containment was rather easy.
Seeing combat applications of this accidental contagious 'mutation' to Bliss, the Terran Imperial Loyalist's scientists began work on enhancing the affect. Soon they had down to the point where, by increasing the duration from a day or so to over a week and exponentially increasing the rate of self-propagation, they had modified the nanotech into something that could pacify large areas. Not taking any chances, standard operational procedure is saturation.
However, like Bliss before it, the Bliss nanovirus requires pre-programming based on the targeted species before deployment. This renders it not a weapon of opportunity, but one that needs to be specifically pre-planned for each utilization.
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