Hypercorp Black Projects (d10)

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d10 Result

1

Project Myrmidon - Removing self-awareness from humans while ingraining automatic behaviors that can support and maintain a corporate hierarchy. (It's capitalist Blindsight!)

2

Biologically Assisted Corporate Replacement - A series of targeted neurodegenerative diseases - intended to affect only those who are under the effects of the common life extension drugs. An infected planet should be cleared of corporate elites within days, and a specially prepared executive strike team will slot in to replace the lost and bring the planet under company control.

3

Project Mayflower - Engineering brushfire wars on frontier worlds in order to force rapid development of advanced military-industrial bases, secure consumer bases for heavy weapons, and as testing grounds for experimental weapons projects

4

The Gauntlet - A modern day space colloseum built inside an asteroid at the edge of some god forsaken system. Pirates provide captured slaves, exotic creatures as well as hacked androids to the owners of this questionable facility. Some of the demoralized super rich corp owners join in on the fun betting on the available gladiators and watching the fun from the V.I.P. balconies. The rest of the onlookers consist of space scum. A perfect place for some black project networking.

5

The Meeting Room - An entire world, terraformed to have a wipe-clean surface. Orbital dry erase markers. A fleet of executives in orbit, forming planning committees, their flow charts the size of continents. Because they CAN.

6

SleepBuddiez™ - Modifying a parasitic species that feeds on lactic acid and other biochemical sleep markers, allowing one to forego sleep for days at a time (before psychological needs outpace physiological ones). Works a treat! However... they may be some side effects... but not so many that they can't be rattled off quickly by a voice over artist at the end of advertisements for these ankle-clinging xenos! Legal's already signed off!

7

Operation MIRROR OBSOLETE: The company sends trained operatives through a dimensional barrier to report back on alternate timelines, conduct technological research (and occasionally trading), and perform corporate espionage. Highly volatile, still in early testing. Looking for volunteers.

8

Project Wholesome - Encouragement of militarism and aggression in two rival colonies, both given very reasonable discounts on weapons. Eventual goal is to have them accustomed to generations of warfare between each other before selling them off as mercenaries. The plan was drawn up before the first colony ships left.

9

Project BIG SKY: Asteroid [REDACTED] was discovered to made of a tough and sonically resonant rock which could be used for a variety of audio commercial products. Android-crewed extraction operations were discontinued after artificial synthesis of the material dramatically changed the cost/benefits of maintaining mining bases in an asteriod field. The bases were promptly retooled for resale to colonists. A buried private inquiry -- commissioned after an accidental fire during the installation of biome life support systems -- found that the combined mining tunnels, natural caverns, and auditory nature of the rock have the potential to amplify sound to brain-chemical-altering heights. Workers who did not collapse into catatonic states during the fire reported seeing angels and other supernatural iconography and sensations. A new religion has sprung up among the survivors. The report concludes that habitation of the [REDACTED] should be abandoned. The colony opens this week and there is a massive corporate-sponsored festival planned.

10

Project Camel Thread. Original intent of the project was to set up a stable tunnel through hyperspace to enable fast transit within a solar system. Didn't pan out as things had a tendency to come out...odd. The only working prototype of the tunnel is set up between two Kuiper belt objects in a backwater system; the company keeps running things/animals/people through to see if any profitable permutations show up.