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PHARCOM Warehouses, Almaty, Kazakhstan In 1978 Wyn Industries (predecessor to Pharcom) became the only multinational corporation allowed to operate within the Soviet Union, opening its first research facility in the city of Sverdlovsk (now called Ekaterinburg) in June of 1978. On
April 2, 1979 an unusual anthrax outbreak in the city killed 64 people and injured 94.
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The Soviet government claimed the deaths were caused by intestinal anthrax from tainted meat, but in 1992 Boris Yeltsin, along with Dr. Alibekov of Biopreparat (the civilian arm of the Soviet bioweapons program) admitted that some kind of accident had occurred at the Pharcom labs. Pharcom purchased this warehouse complex in 1980 and used it to ship product throughout eastern Europe.
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Washington Federal Bank Building, Washington D.C. This building had been vacant for several months at the time of the terrorist attack in August; Rhoemer's group found it to be a perfect location for the placement of one of their Syphon Filter viral bombs because it was central to the financial district. After the CBDC quarantine was lifted, insurance adjusters surveyed the building and were appalled.
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Every window in the building was shattered and thousands of bullet holes marred the expensive walnut panelling and imported Italian marble. The Aleczander Financial group, which owns the building, is suing the government for the cost of repairs. While the suit drags on, a local street gang has adopted the building. They don't seem to mind the mess. |
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Mt. Evans Glacier, Rocky Mountains, Colorado Colorado has 54 mountain peaks over 14,000 feet above sea level. In these higher elevations the snow never melts and snow drifts and crevices hundreds of feet deep are common. The rock is scarred by the slow movement of glaciers which, over many hundreds of years, have carved treacherous gorges, sheer cliffs and steep crevices.
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Thousands of feet above the alpine forest treeline, the terrain here is classified as alpine tundra, a harsh, cold environment where one fourth of the plants that do survive can also be found in the Arctic. At 12,000 feet, oxygen is thin, the wind is frigid, and survival is questionable.
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Carribean Rain Forest,Costa Rica Exploiting the natural resources found within virgin rain forests became one of Pharcom's prime goals in the early 1990s. Teams of scientists were sent out in small armies to collect samples for export to Pharcom labs around the world. If useful bioagents were isolated, then huge tracts of land would be purchased and plantations created.
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Field camps were often located near Aztec, Mayan or Incan ruins so that bioproducts could be transported more easily. Ancient indian artifacts bound for the Pharcom Expo Center were actually cheap replicas made in China, hollowed out and filled with refined biologicals. Phagan's close ties to the State Department enabled him to bypass all import restrictions.
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Slums District, New York Tenement buildings on the lower east side were all built from 1830 to 1850 as the city's population soared from 300,000 to over a million. Lots designed for single row houses, 25 feet wide and 100 feet deep, were soon filled with five-story buildings. Population density reached more than 250,000 people per square mile, all crowded into flats less than 300 square feet, with no toilets or running water.
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The Tribune, observing the garbage lining the streets, wrote 'it is one festering, rotting, loathsome, hellish mass of air poisoning, death-breeding filth, reeking in the fierce sunshine which gloats yellowly over it like the glare of a devil |
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Silo access tunnels, Almaty, Kazakhstan
These tunnels are the remains of a series of uranium mines that were active in the early 1950s. When Pharcom purchased the warehouse district (which had originally been built to service the mining industry) in 1980, Phagan used the mines as underground service tunnels to access the silo computer complex.
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Pharcom, in partnership with an international arms consortium and aided by Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh Communist Party leader (who wanted more autonomy from central Soviet power) took over several retired silos and began researching the use of inter-continental ballistic missiles as possible bioagent delivery systems.
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Club 32 Moscow, Russian Republic
One of the results of privatization was the wide scale closing of many Soviet factories. Once touted as the cleanest city in eastern Europe, perestroika revealed the terrible truth: Soviet industry had created an environmental disaster.
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Obsolete manufacturing technology, built during Stalin's regime, released carcinogens like dioxin into the air and ground water. Dioxin levels up to 50 million times higher than normal caused life expectancies to plummet as low as 45. Underground discos and rave rooms thrive in these abandoned buildings, filled with Moscow's young and rebellious, who have no future to waste.
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PHARCOM Expo Center, New York City When Jonathon Phagan became Vice President of Wyn Industries in 1983 (which later became Pharcom), he knew that he needed a fool-proof way of transporting potentially harmful bio-compounds internationally without having to go through expensive and delaying quarantine protocols.
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In 1992 (after co-founding Pharcom) he established the Pharcom Exposition Center and Antiquities trust, enabling the new corporation to use the same long-standing international laws that allowed the free and unhindered flow of artifacts and antiques from poor countries into venerable institutions like the British Museum and Smithsonian Institutes. The cleaning staff has tried for weeks to get Benton's blood off the floor in the Egypt room.
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Aljir Prison Siberia, Russian Republic In 1927 Stalin began his 'revolution from above', his first Five Year Plan, by implementing the collectivization of agriculture and heavy industry, and by beginning a sustained attack on all political, intellectual and religious opposition. Northern Siberia became dotted with gulags into which all dissenters vanished, never to be seen again.
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Aljir prison, located in Kazakh (Russian for white tomb) was built to house women whose only crime was being married to political dissidents. Supposedly shut down by
Krushchev in 1954, the prison secretly imprisons undesirables to this day. Matron Manya Petranova prides herself on cutting costs by forcing the inmates to take showers in freezing water.
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Sykes Parking Garage, New York The Agency is slowly buying up huge tracts of real estate on New Yorks' lower east side. 'Sykes' is one of the corporate holding names used by the Agency's financial division to hide its ownership. Future plans call for the Agency to control the twenty city blocks which surround its underground facilities.
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A structural report from the Agency Engineering and Surveying division notes with some irony that this parking garage was built according to National Nuclear Defense specifications and was suitable for use as an atomic bomb shelter, notwithstanding that its foundations lay almost directly over the location of Enrico Fermi's original nuclear pile, far below within a sealed off section of the agency labs.
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