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O.N.I. Logistical Analysis of Willard Research Station restoration
14. 6. 829 A.S.

Background

Willard is the backbone of Liberty Navy's classfied artifacts and alien organisms research. Since the highly publicised attack on Willard in 800 AS by the most likely infected Rheinland Military battle group, security has been further tightened with additional weapon platforms and patrols.

Analysis of security

Despite the increased measures Willard has fallen victim to a hostile fleet of the Insurgency during THE CRACKING OF WILLARD almost exactly two years ago.

Current Status

For the entirety of the two years, no serious attempts to repair the extensive damage to the station were done. The protective asteroid structure remains cracked, defenses weakened and although the decks have been re-pressurised, Willard is likely to operate in a limited capacity.

We can speculate that this is in large part due to the Insurgency's knowledge of the station - a full restoration would make it a vulnerable target once again.

Potential Course of action

There are multiple potential courses of action.

1) Scuttling of Willard
- The location has been compromised, which has proven to be a critical weakness during the Cracking of Willard. One of the options for the Navy is to cut the losses, and build a new installation in a secure location. Radford Research Station already serves as a top-secret research installation, with a secure location - but it's research purpose lies with weaponry from Rheinland and Omicron Nu rather than Artifacts and Alien Organisms and the Kansas anomalies.

2) Location change
This would be a logical option for a small installation - location has been compromised. Solution: Change location. However - the massive structure would require tremendous amounts of resources committed towards a relocation, and the massive amount of vessels required could defeat the purpose and reveal the new location. The stability of the base has also been compromised too much for any potential towing. It would be possible, but not necessarily feesible or cost effective.

3) Restoration in current location
This option will be possible only in case of a complete the defeat of the Insurgency. They both have heavy assets and knowledge of the location of the base - but should they be out of the way, restoration in current lotation will be plausible.

This would lead to tremendous cost savings compared to the other options, safe of expanding the mentioned other station's capacity, but careful care would need to be taken in terms of work and supply of the station in-repair. Either Navy and LSF personnel would need to be taught the skills for such an endeavour, or extreme vetting and NDA procedures would have to be employed while hiring Liberty's corporations.

Defenses would also need to be bolstered considerably, but not as much as when the Insurgency threat is present - we are deeming the Order might pose the highest potential risk after the Insurgency is defeated, due to the nature of research aboard the station.

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