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- One episode reveals that she and her brother Neri were secretly infected with a disease and allowed to flee Nebari space, since they would sleep around and infect many members of enemy races.
Source: My Species Doth Protest Too Much -
So instead they concoct a Zany Scheme to infect the other ship with a disease, inverting the trope.Face: Zsinj can investigate all he wants ... because he won't be investigating us.
Source: Comic Book / X-Wing Series - Temeraire: At the end of Empire of Ivory, the British government has sent a dragon infected with a highly contagious disease to France, where it will infect Napoleon's dragons — and from where the disease will likely spread and kill off most of the dragons in the world.
Source: Conflicting Loyalty
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