natural pandemic theme
A naturally occurring biological agent or pathogen wipes out civilization on a world.
20 total · 1 choice · 14 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent1x13 | choice | The Valakian were desperate to find a cure for a pandemic caused by their genetics, and that Phlox estimated would render them extinct within two centuries. |
| bbf2x18 | major | Markab civilization had been all but wiped out by a contagious disease with a 100% lethality rate. |
| movie: Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996) | major | The premise of the story is that a 100% lethal virus of mysterious origins had proliferated around much of the world and was on the verge of spreading across the United States. |
| movie: APEX (1994) | major | A time travel accident in 1973 resulted in a deadly virus decimating humanity in an alternate timeline. |
| movie: Breach (2020) | major | A main premise of the film is that 300,000 survivors of an extinction level event plague, which was running wild on Earth, are selected to be taken to a distant habitable planet called New Earth. |
| movie: City Limits (1985) | major | A premise of the story is that a mysterious plague had, a couple of generations ago, wiped out most of the adult population, leaving behind a world of orphaned children. |
| movie: Cyborg (1989) | major | A small group of scientists were working to cure an apocalyptic plague, known as the living death, that had crippled civilization. |
| movie: Mutiny in Outer Space (1965) | major | Animal and plant life on Earth being imperiled by a pathogenic Moon fungus is a key component of the plot. |
| movie: Not of This Earth (1957) | major | The aliens of the planet Davanna were dying of a devastating blood disease and sought to secure a supply of human blood in a desperate attempt to cure themselves. |
| movie: Not of This Earth (1995) | major | The alien race to which Mr. Johnson belonged was doomed unless he found a cure to a fatal blood disease that was afflicting all its members. |