biogene

Your mission: determine the cause of a mysterious malady at the Biogene company picnic.

He claimed BioGene was trying to steal his work."

BioGene reps will be arriving here soon and they'll scare you more than Smee does.

I stole his project file, as much as BioGene could recover from the fried memory.

"I did some damage to BioGene's system.

I backtracked him for a few weeks before I lost him, and BioGene's probably doing the same.

Mama said, "I don't suppose BioGene's brains have sussed it out yet.

"I raided BioGene's data banks.

BioGene reps had stopped in three or four times a year as well, high profile corporate drones most of them, with faces impervious as glass and their big-city dollymops along for a squeeze.

That had been Mama's original plan, all those years ago when she had gotten the first BioGene grant--before the corpse gardens themselves took root, before the disorders and the crash that followed.

I'd never known Mama to be wrong - not about something like that, anyway - and I figured it was only a matter of time before BioGene showed up in force, and maybe the Feds, too.

Mama said that BioGene had shifted into bio-warfare research big time by then, and we figured they'd forgotten all about their little experiment--though I suppose someone must have remembered because corporate continued to download Mama's check regular as clockwork.

But BioGene hadn't sent one of their drones around for over four years at this point, so when I saw the humvee rumbling through the trees below I figured the stranger to be a bandit, and I lit out for home.