M Fnord Wrote:If CI intends to remain in the hurty-things business, then they're just going to have to learn to cope. Or not sign PEPPER, which provides a certain level of independence from the group at the cost of a certain level of inbuilt suspicion - and the moment CI weapons show up in the hands of unpleasant people CI will have to talk fast or face deeply unpleasant consequences.
Sounds fair... still, I see quite a lot smaller factions/groups (with or without local Mads) who would not sign PEPPER because they don't want to have "control visits" from larger factions regularly. On the other side, most small factions will not be building strategic weapons.
I think a solution where you can work out this checks with people you trust too might be better. Such thing would build a "network of trust", which would be more acceptable to most Fen than random externals demanding to look through ALL their experiments.
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OHH... just imagine the control group visiting GLADOS factory...
"GLADOS you have visitors."
"Welcome to chamber 1 my new test subjects!"