Time to upgrade Atka?

[kikatsu]

And when I sat Atka I mean the Cryer research base. Now granted in the past this station was really only used for research on alien organisms and cardamine, it has kind of grown over the years... the commodities it sells kind of show this. The station is now apparently a drug manufacturing plant, a research station, and an operating location where human organs are harvested.

Now with the thriving market for synth weed and the introduction of stabiline, I would imagine it would not be unreasonable to have the DSE come in and add more modules to the tiny base to expand the manufacturing capability of the base and ensure enough stabiline is made to satisfy the demand for it in the houses as a legal alternative to cardamine. Perhaps additional cargo storage modules and cryostorage bays, additional crew quarters and maybe a solar array too would not be outside of reason.

Also, there is now an Outcast base in Sigma-13... realistically it is only 20-30K away from Atka because of jump hole placement. Now that is an Outcast base very close to a medical research station that regularly kidnaps Outcasts and has made a drug to topple their cardamine monopoly... Atka probably needs a defensive upgrade as well because they are a stone's throw away from the base and their home system is not much farther away either.


A similar argument could probably be made for Leduc, the Ageira base which makes their bioneural processors which happens to be not far from one of the Lane Hacker's most important bases. But I have not visited Leduc since the mod update, maybe it is bigger now, I dunno.