APCL

## Advanced Pest Control Laboratories

* **Location:** Centennial Complex, 2111 E Willett Dr, Laramie, Tetonwan CF, Očéti Šakówiŋ 82071
* **Jurisdiction:** Očéti Šakówiŋ, Bureau of Agriculture
* **Description:** The Očéti Šakówiŋ's premier pest control research and agricultural genetic research facility
* **Leadership:** Pipe Holder Terrance Running Battle, head of the Like-a-Fishhook Akichita Society

Its not for nothing that the Očéti Šakówiŋ is known as the 'Breadbasket of North America'. Agriculture still forms the largest sector of the Očéti Šakówiŋ's economy and produces the majority of the real (non-soy) food on the continent. Its the second largest agricultural industry on the continent, second only to the vast, Caribbean aquafarms of the Azzies.

So it only makes sense that the Očéti Šakówiŋ would pour meganuyen into maintaining the strongest agricultural science sector they can. And the center of that effort is the Advanced Pest Control Laboratories maintained by the Bureau of Agriculture on the grounds of the former 'University of Wyoming' in Laramie. The work being done here is recognized as being one of the world leaders in experimental agriscience. The APCL is probably the largest publicly-funded agriscience institution in the western hemisphere, second only to the vast research complexes of the Amazon and those run by the Big Boys.

Despite the name, the APCL works on a whole lot more than just pest control, although their work in that field is also unparalleled. Genetic engineering, chemical sciences, environmental studies (both magical and mundane) and even some top-level nanotech food synthesis. Not just science, but also magic, with the professional shamans of the Očéti Šakówiŋ working on ways to forge better, more symbiotic, relationships with the spirits of the land they are using and of combating the many threats (from toxic plant blights to Awakened swarms to things that nobody has a cut-and-dried category for) that come from just living in the Sixth World. The BoA has right of first refusal on all technologies and techniques pioneered here, selling or leasing rights to OS-based concerns at its discretion.

Naturally, with all this cutting edge tech and magic in one place, doing work that's this key to their economy, this place is a constant target for Laramie and Tsehestano-based shadowruns. And with good reason, there's a lot of nuyen here waiting to be picked up. The Azzies, especially will pay top nuyen to get their hands on the trade secrets of their biggest rivals in the farming game. But don't think that makes this place an easy payday. The Sioux fraggin' well know all this and they've put everything they've got into protecting it. An entire Akichita Society (The Four Bears Society) of the dreaded Sioux Wildcats is dedicated to its protection, the matrix warband has one of their most high-ranking AI's, the Lone Man heading up the efforts of guarding its valuable information and as impressive as the physical and matrix security is, it pales before the layers of spirits, wards and other protections built up by generations of the Očéti Šakówiŋ's finest magical minds. And if that's not enough, rumor in the shadows has it that the place is riddled by OMI agents. So yeah, its no milk run, but if you can get in and out with paydata, you can pretty much name your own price...

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