Something that's occurred to me as I flesh out the Bioweapons plotline is that the story could use an actual antagonist. Right now the "bad guy" in this arc is a division of the Word of Blake, which while reasonable for a sourcebook, provides very little workable material for a party of player characters. A group like this is not practical for the party to dismantle; while hunting down every person who was a part of this group makes for interesting literature, it isn't terribly practical in the context of a tabletop campaign. So I need to designate a specific person the party can deal with to end the threat this facility and its membership poses.
Fortunately, going back through my GM notes, there's a reference to an authority figure on the project in one of the documents I gave to the Terran party way back during their first session. One of the transmissions Alexei gave to Simon was from a Dr. Sandra Jefferies, demanding additional food, presumably to feed the Branths. She's clearly on-site and actively working on the project. The email she was sending went to a Precentor Robyn Jellico, apparently the administrative overseer of the project. Either of these individuals would make an excellent target for the party's anger. Dr. Jefferies is probably the better choice, since she in on-site and the party might realistically encounter her.
I can weave Dr. Jefferies into the story with a few more in-game documents. I have to be careful about actually showing her "on-stage" as it were during the next session as some characters (such as Shin) might shoot her without regard to consequences; as such, I need to be a bit cagey with her fictional security. More on this character's build as the week progresses.
Also, this is the 100th post of Ten Years on Terra. I am long-winded.
Jeffries wouldn't actually be at the site, since it would be too dangerous, and the Word wouldn't want to lose their asset. However, they would still want hard scientific data and would probably send one of her flunkies. I don't see anything wrong with letting the PCs think taht the flunky is Jeffries. Just allow them to get a discription of her, not a photo yet, and there you go. They think that they have stopped the bio-weapons development, or at least slowed it down, when Jeffries appears on a live press conference. Or something like that. Hope this helps.
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