Lethovirus (LTH-81)

“LTH-81 is designed to incapacitate planetary populations. It targets the gatekeeper genes, excites the pituitary, encourages cell proliferation. Bone growth...

Ashes of Man, Chapter 23: Angels of Death

LTH-81. Lymphotropic T-cell Human Retrovirus Mark-81.

I’ve heard it called many names. The Red Sleep. The Gasping Death. The Fleshing Plague. To many of the poorest beneath our stars it is simply the Rot. To the nobiles, it is Lethe’s Sickness. To the scholiasts, the lethovirus.

I will call it what it is, what I called it when I discovered it in the Ganelon fortress.

Cancer as plague.

Disquiet Gods, Chapter 2: The Prince of the House of the Moon