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−	'''UrbStryc-A''' (military designation), also colloquially known as "'''Wei gas'''", is a lethal poison gas that has been used as a nerve gas agent by the [[Star League]] and [[Capellan Confederation]]. While deadly, it was also designed to be easy to clean up.<ref name=4SWv2p42>''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 42–43: "Wei"</ref><ref name=DARWp118>''Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)'', Wei writeup (PDF p. 118)</ref>	+	'''UrbStryc-A''' was the name give by [[Capellan Confederation]] military of a nerve agent ''born'' on [[Wie]] when it was discovered that some of the plants on the planet contained chemicals that when combined, produced a nerve gas. These plants were found in the southern reaches of Province<ref name="DARWp118">''Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)''</ref>
	==Overview==		==Overview==
−	On the agricultural planet of [[Wei]], certain plants were discovered to produce chemical compounds that could be combined into deadly nerve agents. Since the [[Star League era]], these plants were grown in the southern reaches of Providence, the world's sole (and very large) continent, and used to manufacture Wei gas in a secret base at Boganville, due north of the planetary capital Vandannis City, in the large Vandannis Valley in the center of the continent.<ref name=DARWp118/>	+	This nerve agent was very effective and had a high mortality rate.{{cn}}
−	One form of deployment was a thick green smoke, deployed through a fast and low-flying [[aerospace fighter]]. It was found that water neutralized the poison, and that the droplets of poison were rather heavy and did not carry far on the wind. However, in vehicles and [['Mechs]], UrbStryc-A would initially be trapped in their air filters but minute amounts would then gradually evaporate into the air circulation loop; this can result in casualties after some time unless all air filters are changed after a gas attack.<ref name=4SWv2p42/><ref name=DARWp118/>	+	It was used in several incidents in Wei itself by the [[Capellan Confederation]] in the [[Fourth Succession War]]<ref name="4SWv2p42">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 42–43: "Wei"</ref>, but also in other worlds like when [[Thuggees|Thuggee cultists]] made use of the UrbStryc-A from Wei during the [[Capellan-St. Ives War]] attacking major population centers on [[Indicass]] and [[St. Ives]]<ref name="DARWp118"/>, and it got worse during the course of the [[Jihad]] when the UrbStryc-A from Wei would be used on dozens of worlds resulting in deaths numbering in the tens of millions and with half the planetary population of Wei killed.<ref name="DARWp118"/>
−	==History==	+	===Notes===
−	The first use of UrbStryc-A - it is ultimately unclear from the text if this was the first use ever or the first use in the [[Fourth Succession War]] - occurred on 3 July [[3029]] when [[Federated Suns]] forces attacked Wei and a defending ''[[Transgressor]]'' aerospace fighter deployed the nerve agent against the [[mercenary]] [[First Stygian Heavy Infantry Regiment]], killing some 200 personnel.<ref name=4SWv2p42/> Throughout the Wei campaign there were several more uses of the gas by the defenders, including improvised artillery shells in the final battle on 18 July where one shell prematurely detonated and neutralized the artillery position.<ref name=4SWv2p42/>	+	[[Tamas Rubinsky]] survived to exposure to the UrbStryc-A Nerve Gas, but he acquired [[Degenerative Feedback Anomaly]] which left him unable to use a [[Neurohelmet]] and thus incapable of ever being able to again pilot a [[BattleMech]].<ref name=TKF>''The Killing Fields'', Chapter 19</ref>. It cannot be confirmed if this was a side effect of surviving the nerve agent or a combination of the agent and another preexisting condition on Tamas.{{cn}}
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−	[[Thuggees|Thuggee cultists]] made use of UrbStryc-A during the [[Capellan-St. Ives War]], attacking major population centers on [[St. Ives]] (including the capital city, Milos) and [[Indicass]].<ref name=DARWp118/>.
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−	Over the course of the [[Jihad]] UrbStryc-A was used on dozens of worlds, resulting in deaths numbering in the tens of millions including half the planetary population of Wei.<ref name=DARWp118/>
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−	==Notes==
−	[[Tamas Rubinsky]] survived exposure to the UrbStryc-A nerve gas, but he acquired [[Degenerative Feedback Anomaly]] which left him unable to use a [[neurohelmet]] and thus incapable of piloting a [[BattleMech]] ever again.<ref name=TKF>''The Killing Fields'', Chapter 19</ref>. It is unclear if this condition was a side effect of the nerve agent or a combination of the agent and another preexisting condition on Tamas.
	==References==		==References==
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	* ''[[The Killing Fields]]''		* ''[[The Killing Fields]]''
−	[[Category:Weapons of Mass Destruction]]	+	[[Category: Weapons]]
		+	[[Category:Nerve Agents]]

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'''UrbStryc-A''' was the name give by [[Capellan Confederation]] military of a nerve agent ''born'' on [[Wie]] when it was discovered that some of the plants on the planet contained chemicals that when combined, produced a nerve gas. These plants were found in the southern reaches of Province<ref name="DARWp118">''Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)''</ref> ==Overview== This nerve agent was very effective and had a high mortality rate.{{cn}} It was used in several incidents in Wei itself by the [[Capellan Confederation]] in the [[Fourth Succession War]]<ref name="4SWv2p42">''NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2'', pp. 42–43: "Wei"</ref>, but also in other worlds like when [[Thuggees|Thuggee cultists]] made use of the UrbStryc-A from Wei during the [[Capellan-St. Ives War]] attacking major population centers on [[Indicass]] and [[St. Ives]]<ref name="DARWp118"/>, and it got worse during the course of the [[Jihad]] when the UrbStryc-A from Wei would be used on dozens of worlds resulting in deaths numbering in the tens of millions and with half the planetary population of Wei killed.<ref name="DARWp118"/> ===Notes=== [[Tamas Rubinsky]] survived to exposure to the UrbStryc-A Nerve Gas, but he acquired [[Degenerative Feedback Anomaly]] which left him unable to use a [[Neurohelmet]] and thus incapable of ever being able to again pilot a [[BattleMech]].<ref name=TKF>''The Killing Fields'', Chapter 19</ref>. It cannot be confirmed if this was a side effect of surviving the nerve agent or a combination of the agent and another preexisting condition on Tamas.{{cn}} ==References== <references/> ==Bibliography== * ''[[Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)]]'' * ''[[NAIS The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 2]]'' * ''[[The Killing Fields]]'' [[Category: Weapons]] [[Category:Nerve Agents]]

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