Event: Zombie Plague

Type: Planetary
The Zombie Plague is believed to have originated from an unknown biological weapon of unknown origins. The Plague effectively turns infected wounded and dead into mindless infected monstrosities that shamble around wounding and killing the living to create more of the creatures.
The initial Zombie outbreak will begin with up to 20% of planets manpower being converted into zombie units, there is also a 25% chance that up to 20% of military ground units will be initially infected and a 5% chance that up to 5% of starships in orbit will be infected at the start of the plague.
The only method of killing the zombies was decapitation, incineration or complete destruction (explosion or crushing or disintegration for example). Most conventional weaponry only slowed down the creatures. This restriction will be taken into account during combat with the zombie units.
During combat with Zombies, any living creature wounded or killed by a zombie would become a Zombie.
The Zombie Plague can be spread to Starships and other planets. As such, if a Starship or any trade routes are active from the system at the time of the outbreak, there is a 25% chance that an outbreak will occur at that location the following turn.
There is no known cure to the Zombie Plague at this time beyond complete eradication of all Zombies and those infected. Research into cure is possible.
Category:Event
Category:Planetary Event