Lasalle Bionational

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**LASALLE BIONATIONAL**

Lasalle Bionational is a multinational conglomerate specializing in biological research and development.

**HISTORY**

A relative newcomer, Lasalle Bionational was formed in the wake of mass layoffs in the W-Y bio research and development division during the late 2130s. W-Y VP Brendan Lasalle quit over the firings, citing “creative differences” as the cause. He obtained start-up funds and assembled those laid off to create Lasalle Bionational. It wasn’t long before his company acquired a lucrative government contract to produce an inexpensive, radiation-resistant corn substitute, as well as a blight virus that would destroy an enemy’s crops, securing their place in the market.

**LEADERS**

Bionational is owned and operated by the Lasalle family, handed down from father to daughter. While there is a board of directors in place, the family controls a majority of shares, ensuring they cannot be ousted from their own corporation.

**LOCATIONS**

Lasalle Bionational has its home offices on Earth in Texas, Columbia, and French Polynesia. The company is known to operate several sterile research space stations in the Outer Veil and sponsored the colonies on Taurus 7 and LV-113 in the Outer Rim Territories. On the Frontier, Lassalle Bionational maintains a farming colony on Terraform 3 and operates a fleet of SEVs out of Anchorpoint Station.

**RELATIONS**

Lasalle Bionational is in a bio-arms race with Weyland-Yutani to secure bioweapons contracts with the USCMC, and each is constantly the victim of corporate espionage and sabotage by the other. As Lasalle Bionational is not as well protected as W-Y, the UPP has placed spies within the Bionational administration with the intent of stealing their research for their own.

**PRODUCTS**

Lasalle Bionational is known for its radiation resistant crops, bioengineered livestock that can be customized to a number of different environments, extrasolar pathogen vaccines, and its biological research, procurement and weapons division.

**EDINA LASALLE**

CEO OF LASALLE BIONATIONAL

Daughter of the company’s founder, Edina has just taken over for her now retired father. Edina believes that expansion of the company’s bioweapons department is key to their survival, and has stepped up her father’s initial plans to sequence the genome of Xenomorph XX121. Not one to trust reports, Edina is currently inspecting and reviewing the company’s holdings first-hand, traveling with a security team to each and every facility to determine each project's worth. While her father Brendan stepped down and put Edina in charge, he still has a seat on the board of directors and acts as her advisor. Edina is not cold-hearted, she just has a logistical approach to things—treating employees as company assets, for better or for worse. After several security breaches and deaths of prominent employees, Edina Lasalle is looking for someone with a particular set of skills to protect the company’s interests.

**CURRENT ACTIVITIES**

Rivals to the Weyland-Yutani bio-weapons division, Lasalle Bionational has in fact managed to secure their own cache of Xenomorph XX121 ovomorphs and has successfully bred a hive for study and observation in the Taurus system. Bionational science and security exploration teams scour the Frontier looking for ancient Engineer laboratories, traces of Chemical A0-3959X.91-15, and any other alien lifeforms, viruses, or mutagens waiting to be discovered.