Some years back, I included a "ghost story" in a long running BSG story
that I've been writing and posting.  At the time, I didn't plan to bring
the ship, Pathfinder, back into the narrative. However, things have
changed and it's something that I'm toying with.  However, what I need
to do now is come up with something to explain why the most modern
scientific research ship of the era succumbed to the murders and mystery
that eventually killed, drove insane, or turned them into homicidal killers.

Given that only glitches happened prior to making planet fall after the
60th jump, I'm thinking that it's something biological from the planet;
bacteriological, viral, fungal, etc.  Or maybe something else.

After thinking about this for a while, my current "explanation" is
something either fungal (spores) or aroma/pheromone based from
flowers/plants that they collected.  I've attached a link to the
relevant story (no need to download 1500+ pages and 48+ chapters) if
anyone would like to take a crack at it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5057clvpdyr1kk/Ghost_Story.pdf?dl=0

The second bit of help is more physics related:  When a nuclear weapon
detonates (or thousands of them...), is there any
particle/wave/theoretical "thing" that would travel faster than light
and would alert someone with a sensor for that "thing"?

Thanks!

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Kurt Feltenberger
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“Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me