Talk:Degasi/@comment-184.4.178.63-20170919181415/@comment-10788405-20180226051927

There's a massive question lingering behind your theory

"Why?"

Why would Alterra and the Mongolian Empires send people to 4546B to attempt a retrieval of the bacteria? Why would they attempt to destroy all life?

Why?

4546B is a planet previously colonized by the Precursor Empire, which spanned many worlds with populations numbering around the Hundred-Billions. The Kharaa Bacteria was being researched by the Precursors at 4546B to attempt to cure it, experimenting on a wide array of wildlife on the planet. When a Sea Dragon Mother raided the Disease Research Facility in the Lost River, it breached containment and infected the planet with the Bacterium, forcing the Precursors to initiate a PWQ (Planet Wide Quarantine)

Not a single ship is allowed near the planet, and nothing on the planet may leave. If proof of an uninfected organism is provided, which would mean total eradication of the Kharaa Bacterium on the planet, the PWQ would be disengaged and the QEPs worldwide disabled, allowing Interplanetary Travel once again