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Old 04-24-2019, 09:51 AM   #21
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If you're going for that level of illegal, then yeah -- sounds like you should set up in some African failed state where paying off the local warlord and building a self-sustaining compound is still way cheaper than building an Antarctic base, and also gives you a local legal jurisdiction of 'We don't care about the illegality' and hundreds of AK-47 waving goons outside the wire to augment your on-site corporate mercenaries inside the wire, in case of overt attack.

Of course, being too public about your T-virus research then gets you hit by some First World nation's military going 'The upside of you being in some obscure failed state/rogue nation is that we don't get too many complaints about sending in the special ops teams', but operational security was already a thing we were assuming if you were doing this kind of crap at all. 'No, no, that's not a doomsday virus factory, that's just yet another drug lab helping the local warlord refine whatever narcotic plants grow around here.'
You see, what you are officially doing in Sub-Saharan Africa is doing preemphative research on emergent diseases with the aim of preventing the next big pandemic. Your operation is funded by the Corporation's charity and development arm and has a pro-bono medical facility that treats uninsured patients from the surrounding area.

All of this gives you international legitimacy for a highly secured top level pathogen lab in a failed state, excuse to send your survey teams poking about in hot zones and access to a steady flow of experimental subjects. Also, it provides the parent company with good PR. You can even show journalists around the low hazard areas containing cheerful locals who have had simple medical procedures performed free of charge and, quite possibly, some actual vaccine labs. After all, if the Raccoon City facility can have its entire admin arm underground for no good reason, you can certainly have some legitimate vaccine labs alongside your weaponisation ones and treat all sorts of people in the medical facility. No-one will be in much of a hurry to open the sealed biohazard litters you bring in to check that everyone in them actually has a virulent disease, and there are likely to be a significant number of people no-one will miss walking up to your free clinic or responding to offers to sell blood or serum or participate in paid clinical trials...
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Old 04-24-2019, 09:59 AM   #22
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If you're going for that level of illegal, then yeah -- sounds like you should set up in some African failed state where paying off the local warlord and building a self-sustaining compound is still way cheaper than building an Antarctic base, and also gives you a local legal jurisdiction of 'We don't care about the illegality' and hundreds of AK-47 waving goons outside the wire to augment your on-site corporate mercenaries inside the wire, in case of overt attack.
That's all true, but what I also meant is that I wondered from where a helicopter would fly in to a place as isolated as McMurdo, and how much time would that take (given that meanwhile the on-site security is under siege there).
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Old 04-24-2019, 11:08 AM   #23
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What you are saying is that the research center shouldn't be in Antarctica.
Sadly no place on earth is safe from adventurers and their inexplicable flaming garbage truck launcher...

But yeah as long as they're going to get you, unless some aspect of your work necessitates Antarctica, You may as well have your base somewhere sunny.
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Old 04-24-2019, 01:06 PM   #24
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You see, what you are officially doing in Sub-Saharan Africa is doing preemphative research on emergent diseases with the aim of preventing the next big pandemic. Your operation is funded by the Corporation's charity and development arm and has a pro-bono medical facility that treats uninsured patients from the surrounding area.
Oh, that's nice. I was simply going for 'conceal a heinous crime by disguising it as a boring routine one in an area already flooded with such', but if you can pay off the Red Cross people and suchlike then disguising it as a charity is much superior.

Well, unless the local shadowrunners are the genre-savvy sort who look at the shiny charity first, but consider the local routine drug crime as beneath their notice.
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