MESOZOIC PARK
The development in
genetics have made possible one of the old dreams of man : seeing alive
the old giants that ruled the earth before our time, the dinosaurs. The
park, situated on an island in Micronesia, let the dinosaurs live freely,
as long as they don't try to get outside. To prevent these tries, the designers
of the park have made sure that it was impossible for them to survive outside
the island : they have put cranial bombs in the head of all dinosaurs.
These bombs explode if the dinosaur wearing them goes outside the island.
> They kill escaping dinos, yeah right. They must have a trick to stun
them or something... These babies cost quite a lot! No corp wants to lose
such money for no reason.
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> This more a way to keep the public happy. The presence of the bomb doesn't
mean they'll use it.
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> Doesn't installing cyberware in the head of a dinosaur make it even more
aggressive? I don't like this...
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For this method to work, the dinosaurs must have the
cranial bomb inserted when they reach maturity, so the bomb doesn't block
the growth in any way. Before the age of maturity, a transmitter
enables to keep track of all child movements. If one of them is missing,
a magician sends a powerful elemental to take care of it. Considering the
park is an island, this has not happened yet. No flying dinosaur have been
made to prevent them from flying away. Once they reach maturity, the dinosaurs
are captured by a team of specially trained professionals and the bomb
is installed.
> Flying dinosaurs?
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> Pterodactyls...
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> What happens if one of the dino isn't caught?
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> He is free to do what he likes. Anyway the place's an island, dinos can't
escape: they can't swim for kilometers.
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The first purpose of the park is to have a place were
it is possible to observe living dinosaurs, for the advancement of science.
Of course, a project of this size wouldn't be profitable for Yamatetsu,
the owner of the park, if it was only there for the advancement of science.
To make the place more profitable hunting trips are organized for high-level
hunters who want some special challenges. Needless to say that the number
of victims in these trips is very high, therefore hunters must pay the
sum of 300,000 nuyens for each day of hunting on the island for each person
present before they enter the park. The park is much too dangerous
to even think of a use for tourism.
> Cool hunting trip! I'll start saving right now!
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> You want to hunt what? A T-rex? This baby can eat you and your car without
noticing it! Not a good place to spend shadowruns money for me...
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Another source of income is the zoo of Tokyo which features
a live T-rex and a Diplodocus. Since these attractions were set, the number
of visitors have more than doubled.
> There's a T-rex in Tokyo?! That's even better than Godzilla!
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Last but not least, Yamatetsu, as all good paranoid
megacorp would have done, is said to have a project of using these dinosaurs
as one of their security assets.
> I don't like this... Guards and security devices are hard enough already,
we don't need velociraptors too!
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> So that's what it was! Three strange creatures hit my team and me outside
a Yamatetsu research facility last month. I'm the only survivor because
I fled. These raptors are mean, trust me.
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> I've heard they even had some awakened their park. This is not
pretty... I don't like the idea of a couple of regenerating raptors guarding
a corp, I really don't like it.
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