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Just two things.
1) Synth Paste is already ingame, it's food rations. Food rations are synth paste, and luxury food is real grown food.
2) There is no Synth presence in Cambridge. The scientists there grow all Bretonia's food single handedly.
EDIT: And yeah, Synth really does need bases. Even if it's just somewhere convieniant to get Synth missions/bribes for character set-up