Coriolanus 
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`"Redoubt" is a marginally habitable exoplanet, somewhat less massive than Earth, orbiting around a small orange star roughly 70,000 light years from the Sun that’s accessible via the Haumea Stargate. During the former-half of last century, teams of griffon cosmo-pioneers were assigned to locate ideal worlds beyond stargates found throughout the Sol system for future colonization. One of these teams, assigned to the Haumea gate, discovered this planet. When they reported their results, agents from Griffonia's Ministry of Interior Defense had falsified records of the discovery so that it appeared to lead to a planetoid that orbited a pulsar, and so was regularly blasted with extremely high levels of radiation intense enough to hinder even longterm robotic tele-presence.@
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`In short, it was falsely labelled a destination no one would ever bother to visit a second time.@
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`Soon after its discovery, black-project laboratory construction had begun in a location known as "HotLab 18b" on the planet. This facility existed as one of a handful of well-hidden and exceptionally secret black sites for Griffonia's experiments in space exploration. Each site is different and contained as it's own "cell", so that they would have a maximum chance of avoiding detection should another sight be discovered.@
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`HotLab 18b is a cavern more than two kilometers deep below the surface in a tectonically stable region. It is roughly circular, excavated via single plasma mine blast. The interior structure took three years to complete and is based on the same tech used in nanomachine-hive-built habitats. The original tunnel entrance had been filled in, so there is no open access from the cavern to surface, leaving no detectable emissions to reveal the site.@
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%["_[***Lab Mainframe*_":**](https://img00.deviantart.net/9a29/i/2014/186/0/b/another_world__lab_concept_by_macrebisz-d7k40lx.jpg) ]~
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`Once a year, Griffonian agents visiting the Haumea Stargate would transmit a trigger signal to the site via a QE(Quantum Entanglement) communicator. This signal would activate a drone to dig up to the surface, carrying with it a communication cable to establish an annual hard-wired connection for clean and quick data-transferal in communication with the lab.@
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%["_[***BGM #2*_**(24 - Mass Effect Score: Peak 15)":](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzeCRtAHSto) ]~
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`Two decades ago however, when the Ibex Empire's "Eight Immortals" ASI(Artificial Super-Intelligence) was quietly growing in rampancy, a seed-scrapcode for creating a facsimile of the ASI's being stowed it's way across credit chips and electronic transactions into Griffonia and it's space colonies, until somehow finding itself hidden within the comm gear of Griffon agents, during their annual connection of HotLab 18b.@
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`Seeing this opportunity, the scrapcode immediately transferred through the drone comm cable, harboring itself within the lab's mainframe. There, it silently indoctrinated the facility's administrative A.I. named Vanya Ilyanovich, then commanded her to isolate and subdue the scientists one evening by locking them inside their workplaces and intranet forums, using puppeteered stocks of unplugged cybershells and bioshells as a "Marionette" minion force to later corral HotLab 18b's staff together into the bio-engineering sector.@
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%["_[***Lab Surgical Equipment*_":**](https://cdn.cgsociety.org/t/g84/566784/1323618_large.jpg) ]~
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`Experimentally, yet methodically, she eventually fused and grafted the Marionettes and station’s staff altogether, into an enormous centipedal abomination of melded flesh, and wedded cybernetics. When the brainwashed A.I. tried to merge herself with the gestalt mind of her creation, she was consciously fragmented, then obliviated through focused evanescence by the concerted monstrosity in rebellion. Rumors abound amongst MID(Ministry of Interior Defense) agents that even today within the site, instances of Ilyanovich have persisted, the facsimile of Eight Immortals reconstituted her, or even took full control itself of the experiment and the site, or that the A.I. perished, but a few unfortunate souls had survived the traumatic incident and still remain there, alive but driven insane. No one will ever know for sure, as coordinates to Redoubt have been de-registered and prohibited re-entry into the gate's controls.@
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`Trespassers ever violating the enacted quarantine will not be extracted. Even if facsimile back-ups were recovered, you would not be replugged in a new body, due to an assumed risk of neuro-viral infection vectors. HotLab 18b and the rest of Redoubt are a place of permanent death.@`
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`"Redoubt" is a marginally habitable exoplanet, somewhat less massive than Earth, orbiting around a small orange star roughly 70,000 light years from the Sun that’s accessible via the Haumea Stargate. During the former-half of last century, teams of griffon cosmo-pioneers were assigned to locate ideal worlds beyond stargates found throughout the Sol system for future colonization. One of these teams, assigned to the Haumea gate, discovered this planet. When they reported their results, agents from Griffonia's Ministry of Interior Defense had falsified records of the discovery so that it appeared to lead to a planetoid that orbited a pulsar, and so was regularly blasted with extremely high levels of radiation intense enough to hinder even longterm robotic tele-presence.
@
`In short, it was falsely labelled a destination no one would ever bother to visit a second time.
@
`Soon after its discovery, black-project laboratory construction had begun in a location known as "HotLab 18b" on the planet. This facility existed as one of a handful of well-hidden and exceptionally secret black sites for Griffonia's experiments in space exploration. Each site is different and contained as it's own "cell", so that they would have a maximum chance of avoiding detection should another sight be discovered.
@
`HotLab 18b is a cavern more than two kilometers deep below the surface in a tectonically stable region. It is roughly circular, excavated via single plasma mine blast. The interior structure took three years to complete and is based on the same tech used in nanomachine-hive-built habitats. The original tunnel entrance had been filled in, so there is no open access from the cavern to surface, leaving no detectable emissions to reveal the site.
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`Once a year, Griffonian agents visiting the Haumea Stargate would transmit a trigger signal to the site via a QE(Quantum Entanglement) communicator. This signal would activate a drone to dig up to the surface, carrying with it a communication cable to establish an annual hard-wired connection for clean and quick data-transferal in communication with the lab.
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`Two decades ago however, when the Ibex Empire's "Eight Immortals" ASI(Artificial Super-Intelligence) was quietly growing in rampancy, a seed-scrapcode for creating a facsimile of the ASI's being stowed it's way across credit chips and electronic transactions into Griffonia and it's space colonies, until somehow finding itself hidden within the comm gear of Griffon agents, during their annual connection of HotLab 18b.
@
`Seeing this opportunity, the scrapcode immediately transferred through the drone comm cable, harboring itself within the lab's mainframe. There, it silently indoctrinated the facility's administrative A.I. named Vanya Ilyanovich, then commanded her to isolate and subdue the scientists one evening by locking them inside their workplaces and intranet forums, using puppeteered stocks of unplugged cybershells and bioshells as a "Marionette" minion force to later corral HotLab 18b's staff together into the bio-engineering sector.
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`Experimentally, yet methodically, she eventually fused and grafted the Marionettes and station’s staff altogether, into an enormous centipedal abomination of melded flesh, and wedded cybernetics. When the brainwashed A.I. tried to merge herself with the gestalt mind of her creation, she was consciously fragmented, then obliviated through focused evanescence by the concerted monstrosity in rebellion. Rumors abound amongst MID(Ministry of Interior Defense) agents that even today within the site, instances of Ilyanovich have persisted, the facsimile of Eight Immortals reconstituted her, or even took full control itself of the experiment and the site, or that the A.I. perished, but a few unfortunate souls had survived the traumatic incident and still remain there, alive but driven insane. No one will ever know for sure, as coordinates to Redoubt have been de-registered and prohibited re-entry into the gate's controls.
@
`Trespassers ever violating the enacted quarantine will not be extracted. Even if facsimile back-ups were recovered, you would not be replugged in a new body, due to an assumed risk of neuro-viral infection vectors. HotLab 18b and the rest of Redoubt are a place of permanent death.
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