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GBEC Westridge Facility
(thanks to PCful for aptly naming the underground lair 'The Basement'.:3)
PS. if you don't want to read all this, go ******** yourself. do it anyways.
Upholder: Greenview Biological Engineering Corporation/US Government.
Population: ~4,543 daily in personnel, 13 permanently in top secrecy.
Cost: $3,451,989,210 USD
Cost (Assets): $18,533,561,010 USD
Net Worth: ~$6,302,388,290 USD
Law Enforcement: GBEC Security, CIA operatives, MP forces.
Type: High threat.
Risk Level: 6/10
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GBEC is the largest government funding corporation in the history of the United States of America, founded by Strelok Ezzara since 1956. Being a head of the bio-modification industry in the US, the company has been leading on multiple biological engineering projects and feats, such as GMT-81V, a biological agent that makes a human impermeable to any type of virus. That was canceled because eventually, it too, dissolved enzymes and would kill. Next, in their line of bio-tech, is the also-failure Project Anomaly; the big sister variant of Project Styrling. Project Anomaly was designed to eradicate the area of all life, in the form of fire. She died in 1999, 19 years after living with a curse of knowing she was going to die of 'overheating'. To counter the Russians under the cold war, the finally successful Project Styrling was created. Modifying DNA into a unique virus was its only weapon. It was a bio-weapon that would send the company into a backlash of its once golden days as they slipped into bankruptcy.
Nestled in the Rocky Mountains, directly 30 miles east of Aspen, Colorado, this array of corporation might practically owns an entire valley. It resides beside a private lake. It's positioned directly in the middle of an evergreen forest chain. Snow is always on the ground here, because of high altitude, even in a valley.
Along the perimeter of a 5 mile no-go area, is a large barbed wire fence. Along there are many human-size holes and cuts in the fence, immediately showing something is wrong there. The forest ambiance inside of the fence is soon broken as the facility grows nearer. The extremely faint odor similar to anti-bacterials can be scented around the area. This is all that's left of the once proud GBEC.
Surrounding much of the outside of the buildings, is a large parking lot. Cars. All shapes and sizes and colors are parked here for almost 10 hours straight. Some of them stay overnight. The parking lot itself is quite large, about the size of a mid size stadium or colosseum.
The building closest to the lake, in which the body of water lays west, is the inventory offices and inventory garages. Here, backed on truck ramps, are large semi trucks with trailers that read GBEC on them. Air ride equipped indeed. The building is about 1500m long, which is about 4930ft. It's 550m wide, which is 1800ft. It's 4 stories high, the whole building looks plated with large metallic polarized glass panels. They have a gray-green tint to them. Inside is a rather normal office-looking environment. Rooms full of cubicles, some separated rooms with personal offices. The hallways are carpeted with the typical office environment blue-gray carpet. On the roof is a big radio tower that's around 40m tall, or 120ft roughly. The top floor of this building is the security office, which tracks all signals coming in and out of the building array and in the perimeter zone. Here, he dispatches the GBEC security. The prime role of this building is to keep track of incoming and outgoing goods and services, such as food for the staff, water, viral compounds, chemicals, medical supplies, and more.
On the opposite side of the building, facing eastwards, is a large courtyard. In the middle, is a large sculpture with leaping water fountains. Arcs of water constantly 'jump' from one side of the fountain from the other, if they aren't frozen.
Walkways blotch this from the inventory building to the administration and staff building, which is the most populated, but not the biggest part of the facility. It's very much alike the inventory building, except a little bit larger and more square. Housed inside is the infirmary, the cafeteria, and temporary housing for those too lazy or unable to drive home. The amenities take up half this building. Carpeted floors and wood molding on the walls up to about waistline. Some couches and chairs with coffee tables are in crevices in the hallways. There are a couple break-rooms in the work area. Some vending machines can be found on the end of...well.. dead end hallways. 2000m long by 2000m wide, and 2 stories tall. Atop is a small guard post, and on the top rising about 1 story up is an elevated helipad set of four helipads. Helicopters can be seen taking unknown objects through the cargo hallways of the staff building.
Interconnecting the staff building with the laboratories was not an easy or originally aesthetically pleasing thing to do. A bio-dome, or giant greenhouse is over an open-ceiling glass walk way that connects the laboratories to the staff building. Under the gargantuan greenhouse is a tropical-plant bearing world. Large palm trees, banana trees, fruit vines, beautiful flowers, and tropical ferns are under the glass floor. It's humid in there, but not muggy. It's about 85 degrees always and is warmed by large heat generators. The lights are artificial, resembling the sun. The ceiling of the greenhouse doesn't show. Rather, an artificial blue sky with floating clouds that are projected from the outside. There's a waterfall nearly 15m tall under the bio-dome, giving the scene some more ambiance than before. It's shockingly realistic.
That changes as you go deeper into the laboratories. When you enter, there's a security checkpoint. It progressively scans anyone that goes in it. There's physically no way to get through without getting into a security checkpoint. Deadly force is authorized, and nobody can make it alive if they intrude without identification.
As the venture begins past the security, the floors are laminate white. Everything is white, including the ceiling. Lights can be blinding in here. Many signs direct people through the mazes, with posted and backlit directories on the walls. Some of the doors are huge, and all are padlocked in some way, except for the occasional break room. In the multiple labs there are here, seem normal pharmaceutical researchers and experiments going on. However, as you go on, it gets worse. All of the main hallways are practically straight lines, and when they reach the far end of the hallways, they are the normal scientists' dead ends, with large doors. For a scientist assigned to this location, they may enter using their ID card or a retina (eye) scan.
As the door opens, it is a large rectangular room with a single elevator. All of the doors at the eastward end of the hall meet here. Labeled over the elevator door: BIOENGINEERING LABORATORY.
The elevator descends about 350m beneath the laboratory building. It takes around 3 minutes for the elevator to get to the bottom. The place the elevator arrives at, is a top-secret underground facility known ominously and simply, as, "The Basement".
The only people that know what's going on are the few elite scientists and technicians that work there. Housed here are about 50 scientists. The entire structure, really, is large. It's jagged complexities are a sense of being falsely derelict. Nothing has color except for the LCD screens that are monitoring everything that goes on. The citizens of the US don't know about this, and most everyone in the building overhead don't know what it is. The laboratories themselves are scrubbed absolutely clean, and there's rarely any talking or chatting. In here, are the projects that are so dark, they're deemed condemned to cryo-stasis. It's divided by long hallways and several security checkpoints. Retina scans and handprint scans are required to move here through any section. Through the labs and engineering rooms, are storage. There's a room almost as big as a house filled with vials of questionable content. Some of them have organic substances in them, a section having un-grown fetuses of many animals', including humans', offspring. There are only two ways to get out, one elevator going up, or an elevator going down deeper into the earth's crust.
The second lockdown area is dubbed rather ironically, "Iceland." The cold temperatures are riveting, because of the out leak from the cryo-storage containers housed here. The lightning is gloomy, and it's simply just a 10m x 10m room. The ceiling's about 10 feet high. Inside here are mostly empty cryo-containers. Housing early variants of Anomaly, some strange-looking people, and Styrling, this truly is a wonder. It makes any normal person ask themselves if they're in a dream. These tubes are totally made out of unbreakable titanium, except for a large body-size window on the front. That too, is unbreakable by humans. There's a panel at the bottom with small limited controls. On the wall, however, are touch screen interfaces for each frozen-in-time subjects. They aren't really frozen, more well put to sleep and idle, floating weightlessly in the light blue solution. They are breathing. The solution they're in, is a liquid with extremely high oxygen content, structured not to clog lungs, more of clean them instead of hurt.
This room has extremely small air ducts leading to the surface. Some icicles are formed in the corners, the the air that goes up reeks of anti-bacterial through the small vents rimming the lake. The last building, or...set, is directly across and next to the lab. There are very tall smokestacks almost 600 feet high sprouting from this building. Nobody works in it, as it is fully automated. Thick white smoke comes from here, around the smoke stacks are large tanks of various chemicals, lined up in columns. There are 10 columns of 6 each. They're bridged by pipes, and there are underground pipes from those, some leading to huge tanks beneath all the buildings, and others leading to the inventory building. The tanks underneath all the buildings are nerve gas, in case of any virus breakout. There's a fire station on the far side of the array, with many firetrucks and a single red helicopter.
To this day, this is the most prized asset of GBEC, and is a legacy in the Ezzara family. It's truly a wonder to its own employees, but mostly to its own government...
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