Locura
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The Locura was a Star League Defense Force computer virus that was being studied at Castle Nautilus on Artru, sometime in the past it had been recognized as too dangerous or uncontrollable and research was abandoned leaving it stored on the bases computer. The code's original purpose is unclear, but it appears to be at least tangentally related to the SLDF's Space Defense System program with the code was designed to turn ships against their own crew and spread from ship to ship disabling entire fleets. Its nickname was derived from a folktale told by the mining teams operating on inhospitable Artru of "the Locura", an ill-wind howling through the canyons that would reportedly kill engines and scramble computers claiming people's lives.[1]
History
When Kamea Arano and her mercenaries landed on Artu while raiding Castle Nautilus she entrusted Farah Murad to hack into the castle. While hacking in to bases computer searching for its access codes Farah accidentally released the virus which attacked the systems of the Argo turning the ships systems against its crew and crippling the DropShip. Fortunately, the code was contained before it could claim any lives by physically disconnecting the computers from the rest of the ship leaving it floating dead in space. The code was later kept and utilized as a weapon renaming it the "Locura". It would see its use against the Fortress-class Dropship Iberia on Coromodir during Samuel Ostergaard's attack, the virus transmitted from a captured allied communication relay station disabled the engines of the Iberia as it was on approach to the planet to commence an orbital bombardment, unable to slow down the ship struck the planets atmosphere partially burning up before impacting the ground in a cataclysmic explosion, killing Samuel and all remaining hands instantly.[2]