Sinclair Scientifica

## Overview

Sinclair Scientifica is the company of multi-billionaire Stavros Sinclair. It is told that under Sinclair Scientifica there are multiple companies sharing 16-character alphanumeric inventory codes. They are Fenix, which is the Swedish name for the firebird that rises from the ashes, Fūjin, which is the Japanese god of the wind, and Fulgora, which is the Roman goddess of lightning. Each of these companies held a global youth summit on the environment.

#### SS2k

SS2k is the first four digits of all Sinclair Scientifica companies. It stands for Sinclair Scientifica 2000 which is the year it was founded. The second line is the abbreviation of the companies inside Sinclair Scientifica and the year it was founded. For example, Fenix's is FE13 because Fenix was founded in 2013. Finally, on the third line, all the companies have A3C which is companies in Tokyo, San Fransisco, and Stockholm. Fenix is SS2K FE13 A3C2 D1PK. If it follows that order, Fūjin would be SS2K FŪ## A3C3 ####. The # represents what we don't know. Fulgora would be SS2K FU## A3C4 ####, Olympus would be SS2k OL2K A3C1 ####, and Asgard would be SS2K AS2K A3C1 ####.

## Olympus:

Olympus is the headquarters of Sinclair Scientifica located in Paris, France. For basic training on Goldfinger Avenue, four sets were made to recreate Olympus. The first was a small autotoruem, the second was a laboratory, a ballroom, and an unknown room thought to be a server room. This was proven wrong at the end of the book to be a climate control room where Rada almost realized the XUHET. It is said to be one of the most intelligent buildings in the world between tracking every person in each room to keep the climate right, to the thousands of security cameras detailed later in the book.

### The wall:

The wall is a brick wall on the outside of Olympus that Brooklyn has to free climb. It leads directly to the climate control room. On the training wall, Brooklyn maniged to climb it twice with the help a harness, but had countless failed attemps, to the point where Mother called off that part of the mission. At the movie studio, the wall was 22 feet high, but when the Farm group arrived, they realized that it started 20 feet off the ground, making it a total of 42 feet.

### The courtyard:

The courtyard is where the thirty groups competing in the Stavros challenge waited to be let in, and sized each other up. There are thirty teams, representing 19 countries on six continents and speaking 12 languages. After a few minutes of waiting, Juelette, their Sinclair embassitior introduced herself.

### Security checkpoint:

Security is intense because they are going to the research and development center for the contest. It includes rental imaging, photographs, and a full-body scanner. To enter, everyone also had to take off their shoes, empty their pockets, and place electronics into a locker. To work on their weather data, they were permitted one laptop that was checked for anything nefarious. Security did not do a good enough job, as Brooklyn was still able to hack with all her programs intact.

### The Lobby:

Because FARM was one of the first groups to go through the scanner, they could see the lobby for a while well other groups were going through security. The architecture is modern with ivory walls and big windows that looked out on the courtyard. It features big black and white photos of different Sinclair projects around the globe. One of the photos was described as a photo of African children playing in water from a newly made well.

### The Workshop:

The workshop was designed for lectures and presentations, looking like a cross between an auditorium and a classroom. There was a stage and a video camera with seating for around 200 people. FARM took seats in the back row with the other 30 teams who were competing. This is where Sinclair made a very brief speech about the environment. This was the time that FARM thought was the least likely for the purple thumb to attack.

### Computer lab:

This was the second of the rooms that FARM recreated at Pinewood Studios. It was stated that there were small differences from the room at Pinewood, like the color of the room, and the location of workbenches. FARM was on the other side of the room from Kinloch Abby's group, letting Brooklyn hack them. The inside of the room can be assumed empty except for tables, given each team had its own computer.

## Asgard:

Asgard is the sister building of Olympus and houses the servers and storage rooms. It is named after the Norse home of the gods, while Olympus is named after the greek. Because there are almost no skyscrapers in Paris, Sinclair Scientifica had no room to put the servers, as the building needs a huge about of server support. Asgard is on the other side of Paris from Olympus.