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==Tactical use==
Virus bombs have also been used on a tactical scale, such as during the [[Second War for Armageddon]]. [[Von Strab]] had a secret stash of them, put there by his family when the planet was colonized. They wreaked a terrible havoc on the invading [[Ork]]s but had lost their potency over time and did not have exactly the desired effect. The virus also has a tendency to blow with the winds, and during the Armageddon deployment, it washed back over the defending [[Imperial Guard]], killing as many defenders as attackers.
==Recovery==
The lifeless rocks left after a viral bombing may still contain valuable non-organic resources after the virus itself has died off. In such situations, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] may re-terraform the world, rendering it habitable again.<sup>4</sup>
==Sources==
* <sup>2</sup> [[The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel)|The Flight of the Eisenstein]] by [[James Swallow]]
* <sup>3</sup> [[Inquisitor]] (1990), by Ian Watson
* <sup>4</sup> [[Ice Guard (Novel)]] by [[Steve Lyons]]
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