Which puts you pretty permanently into the player camp, alas. The GM mindset requires a lot more flexibility.
First of all, Ouch. Let's keep things civil please.
That was perfectly civil. Any alienation felt is solely from you, to yourself.
Secondly, I have and do GM sucessfully. However I require slightly more realism in my plot than a nonsensical nano-virus that would require in excess of 19 figures to deploy on the scale you're listing. As I said, I'm not saying that is isn't the dragons nor that it isn't a nano-virus. I'm simply noting that if it is then total global infection is not their endgame.
My apologies - yes, one can GM successfully with the mindset you have. What you seem to be doing is
refusing to listen to any sort of explanation as to How X Can Occur - and you playing a game with dragons, magic, semi-common AI, direct brain-computer interfaces, revealed truth, etc. My suggestion as to how this
could occur (please note that I find the thought that it's the dragons, even only Celedyr and/or Eliohann, excruciatingly laughable) hinges on what is both possible and likely, given the state of Shadowrun. Your 19-figure monetary requirement (1,234,567,890,123,456,789 - a quintillion nuyen or more, I guess) is as unrealistic as a deployment on the scale you're
presuming is being talked about.
What I would suggest, should someone decide that the dragons are pursing this in their campaign, is a set of simple requirements:
- That the broken-down remnants of the thousands of different artificial adders in common food items build up, in however minute doses, in the system;
- That those remnants are artificial in origin, e.g. long-chain molecules, complex hydrocarbons, metals, and the like;
- That certain designs of nanomachines can utilize these, perhaps after only simple chemical actions, to build new nanomachines;
- That such a nano-virus would be capable of spread similar to a low- to medium-survivability biological virus, whether transmitted by physical contact (e.g. skin-skin) or airborne (e.g. sneeze);
- That the designer really does want e-things to dominate metahumanity.
Given this list - none of which is beyond realistic, or even unlikely, given the level of nanotechnology we've seen in SR - then it's less a matter of loading food products with nano-ready build materials and less a matter of finding a scientist clever enough to utilize
what's already there.
So yeah, flexibility. And the
willingness to take a wonky idea and figure out
how it could be possible.