Now that I've read the chapter rather than looking at the spoiler thread first.
Chasm wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:12 am
The Parri obviously have decided that they want to be part of that, so it did not happen.
I'm guessing that because they already could both hear and understand commune as well as do telepathy and TK, their brain structure was "too advanced" for the virus to be able adapt them the rest of the way.
Jason's wondering about the impacts on Faey society, I'm wondering about the impacts on human society on Earth. Between "the kimdori sense" telepathy, telekinesis, and commune they're the ones really getting the culture shock.
Not already mentioned: There were actually two initial strains. "Patient Zero" was ostensibly Dahnai, although the real Patient Zero is likely to be ensconced inside the FMS that had been in lockdown for a week prior to the outbreak. The KMS were being paranoid
idiots and released a retrovirus that only targeted Faey, the humans went along for the ride because they essentially are the same species, and even more-so now. It appears that was simply an unavoidable outcome for the FMS and not intended. (They also thought announcing that the Faey are effectively going to become Generations is going to be a deterrent for others rather than a lure. While also forgetting it is
the technology the Karrine Generations hold which makes them something to be feared. A generation without the tech, and more particularly
without the training is easy pickings for an adequately prepared group. Something I'm sure Jason will be pointing out to the Faey in the days/weeks to come.)
Good odds the FMS panicked in response to the Karrine and Kimdori probes of that lab. Which lead to a "live trial" being attempted within the lab. Only they engineered the retrovirus so well that it escaped their own containment procedures. Resulting in the lab being locked down and the observation that nobody had left in almost a week before the outbreak was detected on Karis and in the Imperial Palace on Draconis(where the FMS couldn't contain the information).
In that light, it is possible they called in almost everyone who was part of the initial wave and contained them in the lab, but not in time to prevent the retrovirus from having spread to various points in Draconis in the interim. Which is how Jason then picked it up from Dahnai and brought back a mutated form of it back to Karis and Earth. Of course, in the interim, the FMS has also started ensuring maximum spread through the Imperium for their version of it.
They're just lucky Songa's projected complication rate was overly conservative by a few orders of magnitude.
Once "the honeymoon period" is over however, I think people are going to be a little pissed at the FMS, even absent further revelations beyond the matter of their being the originators of the retro-virus.
Every human on earth, and a number of people from other races as well, are now essentially restricted to Earth, the Imperium, or Karrine holdings. Anywhere else is now a dangerous place for them to visit without serious protection coming with them. The Faey at large are also now likewise impacted in the same way, they're limited in exactly the same way. The lack of freedom of movement that causes is going to start to chaff. It is even worse for the Imperium, the Karrines and Earth have it easy by comparison, they have a limited number of holdings, and can easily secure those to the point where abductions aren't particularly viable, and the Karrines are seeing to that now. But if you live in the Faey Imperium? Oh boy, trouble is calling. I expect there is going to be problem with disappearing Faey in the near future.
That also ignores the matter that while the Karrine sensor net and planetary shield will address smuggling people away from Earth. It does little in regards to "biological samples" being smuggled out. If all you're interested in is the Virus, or the end product, you don't need the person, you just need "a sufficiently large sample" of their DNA. So while a living subject is preferred, as they can generate "new samples" that way, that isn't the only option.
Edit: TL;DR version:
The real "fun"
should happen after Dahnai and Jason hold a Siann meeting and have briefed the Siann on the situation they face going forward... Assuming they're clever enough to think of convening such a briefing. The challenge is the logistics of holding that meeting while contending with the incubation times on the retrovirus. They might need to pull a Confederate Council option for that(bionoids or some flavor with Biogenic commune being employed for most of the "communication haul" as it were--maybe merge pods in KMS Frigates/ships staffed by Bionoids?).