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=== Biological Weapons ===
Instances of early biological warfare occur throughout Cryrian history. During various conflicts, the Cryrian Church offered absolution and monetary compensation to plague victims who would be willingly transported to hostile lands, while hurling cadavers over the walls of besieged settlements was a common tactic. Advances in germ theory and the Great War resulted in attempts to weaponize anthrax as a means of sabotaging food supplies, but ultimately a lack of viable delivery systems hampered this.
The modern Cryrian biological weapons program began shortly after the Great War in anticipation of a new conflict. At this time the Kingdom was in a state of growing domestic turmoil and had seen its military strength badly weakened by over a decade of continuous warfare. Its foreign influence was simultaneously collapsing with the the loss spheres of influence in Älemsi Negdel and Aikthudr'zhur. The end of the Tanznozhiv and the rise of the Volscine Confederation created a new and potentially dangerous power to the south, one which was now pressing demands against the Leidensen titles over Charlottesborg. While these were ultimately ceded in 1923, the lingering tensions coupled with dire straits of Cryrian power created an impetus to develop new means of deterrence.▼
▲The modern Cryrian biological weapons program began shortly after the Great War in anticipation of a new conflict. At this time the Kingdom was in a state of growing domestic turmoil and had seen its military strength badly weakened by over a decade of continuous warfare. Its foreign influence was simultaneously collapsing with the the loss spheres of influence in Älemsi Negdel and Aikthudr'zhur. The end of the Tanznozhiv and the rise of the Volscine Confederation created a new and potentially dangerous power to the south, one which was now pressing demands against the Leidensen titles over Charlottesborg
Tomorrow Minister Folke Hägg was the first to propose building upon previous efforts at biological warfare to that end. Both Hägg and the eugenicists at the Tomorrow Ministry theorized that infectious strains capable of inflict damage on a civilizational scale could and would be developed in the near future by various nation states. This would, in essence, create a scenario of mutually assured destruction. While the Tomorrow Ministry's estimations were wildly incorrect, they did lead to the creation of a biological warfare section under the Special Materials Division which spearheaded far more legitimate and scientifically founded research into the topic. The isolated and uninhabited island of Narsi in Tynam was used as a secretive testing and storage site throughout the early 20th century.
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