Puppeteer virus

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Strain 4 Puppeteer:

The ultimate development of the Empire Builder line. These have gone past the Alliance Builder to actually reinfecting already infected systems with their own code, in effect parasitizing them. By the 1140s, almost all surviving vampire ships are of this strain, having participated in the cycle of evolution, as each attempts to counter and take over other Strain 4s which are in turn attempting to counter and take it over.

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