Aggieland
Aggieland is everything that is right and everything that is wrong with the Church of Darwin, distilled into a single compound. Located in the Lone Star Territories, outside the purview of the Lone Star itself, this settlement exists for one purpose: to understand the biological conditions that allowed the Strains to evolve and adapt, and to pursue that understanding without hesitation, oversight, or moral objection.
The research proceeds at a pace that drowns out ethical complaint. Technological advancement and biological study that would take years elsewhere progresses in months at Aggieland, driven by unrestricted experimentation on both willing and unwilling subjects. Theories are tested alongside screams for mercy. Radiation exposure, surgical intervention, and meticulous notation are a way of life. The residents are not completely immune to empathy; the effects of their subjects' suffering register. But the majority accept that without the sacrifice of the few, there would be no advancement for the many.
Beneath the public research lies something deeper. Hidden programs probe theories relating neural networks and psionic links between Infection-carrying hosts. Hundreds of thousands of psion brains have been exposed and monitored to advance understanding of the connection between the Infection, psionics, faith, and near-death experiences. The surface work produces creditable research notations. The hidden work may produce something else entirely.
The research proceeds at a pace that drowns out ethical complaint. Technological advancement and biological study that would take years elsewhere progresses in months at Aggieland, driven by unrestricted experimentation on both willing and unwilling subjects. Theories are tested alongside screams for mercy. Radiation exposure, surgical intervention, and meticulous notation are a way of life. The residents are not completely immune to empathy; the effects of their subjects' suffering register. But the majority accept that without the sacrifice of the few, there would be no advancement for the many.
Beneath the public research lies something deeper. Hidden programs probe theories relating neural networks and psionic links between Infection-carrying hosts. Hundreds of thousands of psion brains have been exposed and monitored to advance understanding of the connection between the Infection, psionics, faith, and near-death experiences. The surface work produces creditable research notations. The hidden work may produce something else entirely.
Purpose / Function
Aggieland exists to understand the biological conditions that allowed the Strains to evolve and adapt, and to pursue that understanding without hesitation, oversight, or moral objection. The public research covers biological studies of Strain evolution, radiation exposure experiments, and experimentation on both willing and unwilling subjects. Hidden programs probe theories relating neural networks and psionic links between Infection-carrying hosts, with hundreds of thousands of psion brains exposed and monitored to advance understanding of the connection between the Infection, psionics, faith, and near-death experiences.
Design
Built from the remains of an old-world technical institution in the Lone Star Territories, outside the purview of the Lone Star itself. The compound has been expanded and adapted to serve as a comprehensive research facility where laboratories, holding areas, and observation chambers support the continuous experimentation that defines daily life at Aggieland.
Sensory & Appearance
The smell of chemicals and the hum of equipment fill the compound's corridors. Screams from test subjects mix with the clinical murmur of researchers documenting results. Radiation exposure has left its mark on the environment and on the residents who move through it with the focused efficiency of people who have accepted that their work requires costs that most would find unacceptable.
Hazards & Traps
The compound operates without ethical oversight. Unrestricted experimentation on unwilling subjects is standard practice. High radiation environments pervade the facility. Hidden psionic research programs conduct work on scales that would be considered monstrous by any standard outside the Church of Darwin. Visitors who are deemed useful as test subjects may find their status changing from guest to specimen without warning.
Darwinist research compound where unrestricted experimentation advances science at a human cost
