Placing my bet now: disease is some form of deliberate sabotage. See the Superguardians storyline from Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men, in which the bug going around the Xavier Institute is in fact nano-Sentinels.
(In this storyline, Morrison also remembered that the Imperial Guard of the Shi’ar are based on Legion of Super-Heroes characters and introduced a number of new members using this premise, which is awesome because the world can always use more Legion of Super-Heroes.)
First a spit take, and now this? I suspect the disease might be drama-flu.
Placing my bet now: disease is some form of deliberate sabotage. See the Superguardians storyline from Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men, in which the bug going around the Xavier Institute is in fact nano-Sentinels.
(In this storyline, Morrison also remembered that the Imperial Guard of the Shi’ar are based on Legion of Super-Heroes characters and introduced a number of new members using this premise, which is awesome because the world can always use more Legion of Super-Heroes.)
I was wrong. I was so very wrong.
Interestingly, though, the disease does later prove that Team Alpha has some crap biohazard suits…