Editing The Alliance (MT/TNE) (section)

==History==
This game follows the history of the Imperium introduced in the Mega-Traveller edition, continuing through into the timeline of Traveller:New Era. 

In short, the Imperium collapsed into rebellion and anarchy over a fourteen year period, triggered by the Archduke of Ilelish assassinating the Emperor in 1116.
In 1130,the last two great fleets met in combat in the Core Sector. Something ''happened''...there are many theories, but none that can be proved.
What is known is that a sentient computer virus was released as a weapon, devastated both fleets and mutated rapidly inside the few ships that survived and fled.

It moved across the Imperium inside the systems of the ships that carried warning of it coming, invading computerized systems everywhere they went.

This snowball effect, the element of surprise and the heavy computerisation of all high tech worlds spelled disaster for the Imperium. On world after world, all computerised technology turned on the population and attempted to destroy themselves, humans, infrastructure or everything around them. No computerised system within the Imperium was immune.  

Except the Dethenese Technical Alliance.