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Within a week, contact with Ighoth ceased. Ships jumping into the system encountered orbiting quarantine buoys prohibhing landing. Radio communications went unanswered. EMS scans of the world's surface revealed little or no activity. The logical assumption was that the derelict had carried some sort of virus which had evaded local decontamination procedures and wiped out the planet's inhabitants.
Shortly thereafter, Imperial authorities declared the
Ighoth system off limits for fear of spreading whatever virulent epidemic
wiped out the local Vargr. -cor
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