Their company mascot is a cartoon monkey, riding a cow as it jumps over the moon. FungiMonkey's public image is VERY family- and kid-friendly, even if their attitude toward outside shadowrunners (note that this does NOT include their own employees nor CCI Black Ops) is that they're chum that doesn't need a bucket because it walks on its own. As such, the stinker of a name for the station was indeed a calculated marketing decision after getting a look at the wheel design with its wedge-shaped, self contained lab modules, and the concepts curdled from there. Management was skeptical at first, but it grew on them after a few focus group studies - turning a potentially controversial setup designed from the outset to facilitate the kind of research where if something goes wrong you cut the whole lab/dorm free and use robots to push it into the sun staff and all into a positive PR asset by making it too ridiculous to get worked up over has proven successful and quite profitable.
Segments have had to be disposed of only four times, twice for bio-weapons that escaped the inner containment (one air-transmissible, organics-eating strain of a silicon-based bacteria analogue, the other a human-preferring variant on Mad Cow disease) once for an unrestrained AI robot that started killing the researchers, and most damagingly for a Grey Goo incident that also managed to infect one of the adjacent modules, requiring both to be jettisoned and "towed away for decontamination and reclamation" - which is to say, decontamination by fusion-induced plasma and radiation and reclamation in a solar furnace the like of that which originally produced their atoms. The reparations to be paid for jettisoning the unrelated module that had been contaminated by grey goo would have made for a rather tight quarter for FungiMonkey had CCI not bought out the lessor company to headhunt their staff into various branches and bury the incident.
Naturally, some pains are taken to put less volatile projects on either side of the field trip science module.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Segments have had to be disposed of only four times, twice for bio-weapons that escaped the inner containment (one air-transmissible, organics-eating strain of a silicon-based bacteria analogue, the other a human-preferring variant on Mad Cow disease) once for an unrestrained AI robot that started killing the researchers, and most damagingly for a Grey Goo incident that also managed to infect one of the adjacent modules, requiring both to be jettisoned and "towed away for decontamination and reclamation" - which is to say, decontamination by fusion-induced plasma and radiation and reclamation in a solar furnace the like of that which originally produced their atoms. The reparations to be paid for jettisoning the unrelated module that had been contaminated by grey goo would have made for a rather tight quarter for FungiMonkey had CCI not bought out the lessor company to headhunt their staff into various branches and bury the incident.
Naturally, some pains are taken to put less volatile projects on either side of the field trip science module.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows