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However, Earth has a new ecosystem of nanomachines, as well as creatures mutated over generations by exposure to radioactives and hazardous chemicals. These creatures also provide a vector for exposure to biowarfare agents that have mutated beyond the wildest dreams of their creators. | However, Earth has a new ecosystem of nanomachines, as well as creatures mutated over generations by exposure to radioactives and hazardous chemicals. These creatures also provide a vector for exposure to biowarfare agents that have mutated beyond the wildest dreams of their creators. |
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Anybody venturing into Earth's atmosphere risks being attacked by nanoconstructs or native flora or fauna -- and worse, risks bringing the mutated descendants of biowarfare agents such as anthrax, tularemia, botulism, etc. . . back to Luna, or Mars, or the other inhabited colonies of our space. For this reason, Earth remains under strict quarantine. To go there, or to bring back any artifacts from Earth, is strictly [[verboten tech|prohibited]]. | Anybody venturing into Earth's atmosphere risks being attacked by nanoconstructs or native flora or fauna -- and worse, risks bringing the mutated descendants of biowarfare agents such as anthrax, tularemia, botulinum, etc. . . back to Luna, or Mars, or the other inhabited colonies of our space. For this reason, Earth remains under strict quarantine. To go there, or to bring back any artifacts from Earth, is strictly [[verboten tech|prohibited]]. |
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Nonetheless, a few daring -- or desperate -- lawbreakers occasionally venture to Earth, attempting to salvage some of its legendary treasures or technology. | Nonetheless, a few daring -- or desperate -- lawbreakers occasionally venture to Earth, attempting to salvage some of its legendary treasures or technology. The vast majority of these are stopped by the Earth Sector Quaratine Contingent, a former branch of the [[Space Defense Force]] now funded and operated by personnel from multiple worlds across recom space. |
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| Earth orbit is huge, and while it may be difficult to catch offenders on a landing approach, outbound traffic from Earth, forced to maneuver against Earth's gravity well AND the quarantine force, faces two choices: surrender, quarantine, and extensive medical testing, followed by the possibility of imprisonment; or death. |
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