A government experiment to create weaponized immortality using a virus instead creates vampires, and the resulting plague destroys civilization, testing whether military bioweapon research inevitably produces catastrophic escape events.
Models gain-of-function research catastrophe: what if a bioweapon program created something worse than death? Directly relevant to biosafety lab escape debates and the risk of engineering pathogens.
Domains: Biotechnology and Genetic EngineeringWarfare and Weapons TechnologyExistential Risk and Civilizational Collapse
Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyCautionary tale
Outcomes: Catastrophic