Sariphage Plague strikes Caspar

Ending of the year 27 ABY, a handful of mountain communities of Caspar fell to the rise of a plague of terrible ferocity, it burned its way through the small communities at an all consuming pace. The locals unaware of what they were dealing with sent children and women to the coastal city of Noques Rasala, with the intention of transporting them to safety from the capital. This would prove to be a devastating error on the part of the local leaders who rightly had no idea of what they were dealing with. By the early part of 28 ABY, the Groton Science Institute had identified the spreading illness as a plague, one that had the potential of exterminating all life on the world. In the later weeks of their research it was revealed to be fatal to human and near human species. To Sarians it was a death sentence and in a matter of weeks, the Sariphage ravaged the planet. Killing young and old alike and even outright alien species fell critically ill and would die of complications from their weakened states. Only specifically alien species who held little in genetic relation to humans and near humans seemed immune.

GSI issued a planet wide quarantine and blockaded any ships attempting to leave the planet and issued a one way warning to vessel seeking to land on Caspar. The Caspians would not prevent landing by blaster point, but they couldn't risk the plague getting off world. The matter was hotly debated by many colorful and prominent members of galactic society, not a single entity of the galactic powers were absent from events unfolding on the remote bastion of Sarian culture. Some were more discreet than others, but all eyes were watching and all understood the risks involved. Every government so inclined offered support in the form of emergency supply drops to the locals and what remained of the planetary government and the scientific community leveraged their considerable weight to solving the enigma of the Sariphage.