Talk:Precursors/@comment-217.122.251.244-20161013121658/@comment-70.54.179.0-20161024232759

Bio-research facilities create new diseases and combine existing ones all the time. They also allow existing strains to go through controlled mutations. The purpose is to develop antidotes and vaccines before they evolve naturally. If some of these strains were to escape into the general population we would likely be looking at an extinction level event.

For all we know something similar happened to the Precursors. The current narrative doesn't suggest a military use.