Disease Research Facility

The Disease Research Facility is a destroyed Alien Base located in a cave that can be accessed from the Lost River Junction and the Mountains Corridor. Built around one thousand years ago, sometime before the imprisonment of the Sea Emperor Leviathan, the main purpose of this Disease Research Facility was to infect creatures with the Kharaa Bacterium to study their reaction to the disease. The sole specimen that survived the Kharaa Bacterium was sent to the Primary Containment Facility for further testing in order to synthesize a cure for the bacterium.

The Disease Research Facility is heavily damaged, and unlike the other bases, is completely filled with water. It lies partially suspended by several loose-hanging cables, with several sections of destroyed cables found scattered around the perimeter of the Disease Research Facility. The base was attacked and destroyed by a Sea Dragon Leviathan (which is found dead via its skeletal remains outside the base) in an attempt to retrieve its stolen egg - an event that also unleashed the Kharaa bacterium into the native ecosystem and prompted the Precursor Race to initiate their planetary quarantine by activating the Quarantine Enforcement Platform.

It is possible the Disease Research Facility was constructed partially to study the skeleton in the Bones Field - the remains of a three-million-year-old super-predator. This is evidenced by the fact that the Precursors had taken samples from the aforementioned creature's ribcage.

A secondary purpose of the Disease Research Facilty was to construct Warpers so they could slow the spread of the Kharaa Bacterium. In the room where Warpers were constructed, there is an inactive warper and various warper parts. This is also where the player first acquires the first stage of the Kharaa Bacterium, and gets given clues on where the Primary Containment Facility is.

Interior
The interior of the Disease Research Facility is accessible via an entrance on its northeast face near the top of the structure. It is mainly a straight path from the entrance to the Warper room, with some deviation. Starting at the entrance, the right-hand wall contains an Ion Cube and a force field room that can be unlocked with a Purple Tablet; this room contains a Data Download entitled "Alien Research Data". Continuing along the path, which turns left and downwards, there is another Ion Cube and a small tank on the left. The main path turns right into a room containing the Sea Dragon's egg and various fauna. The path turns right again, with a large aquarium on the left, accessible via a broken window, housing the skeletal remains of Research Specimen Theta. At the end of the path is a room with various Warper parts, including a torso that can be scanned. A data terminal in this room, when interacted with, triggers the PDA to prompt the player to perform a self-scan, which reveals the Kharaa Bacterium has spread to the skin on the player's hands.

Resources= Fauna= Flora=
 * Ion Cube
 * Amoeboid
 * Bloodvine

Data Bank Entries
Kharaa Contagion Profile= Bacterial Infection Report= Damaged Anchor Cable= Damage Report= Remains of Research Specimen= Specimen Research Data= Sea Dragon Egg= Ray Species on 4546B= Rib Cage Samples= Self-Warping Quarantine Enforcer Unit= Warper Parts= Production Line=

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Trivia

 * The former name for the Disease Research Facility was the Secondary Bio-Research Facility.

Centre de Recherche sur les Maladies Alien