Biological warfare compound

Biological warfare compound
Language(s) Spoken:	English

A United States Special Forces squad is assigned to destroy a biological warfare compound in Iran.

Notable Locations

• A basement holding area
• A chemical tank room
• An entrance room
• A hospital ward
• A mess hall
• An office

Notable Employees

• A couple men wearing lab coats and masks

Notable Residents

• A caged man that slowly bends a metal cage
• A girl Rachel rescues from being tortured

Notable Visitors

• Rachel Mills

Heroes Evolutions

The Private

In chapter 2 of The Private, Rachel Mills is taken from a pit outside the compound to inside one of the buildings where there is a mess hall. She is placed on the bare floor of the mess hall and questioned by Harry, who uses the only chair in the room.

Later, a Special Forces lieutenant, Sam, informs Rachel Mills and Jim after they escape that his squad has been monitoring the nearby compound they escaped from for some time. He continues that the facility appears to be doing some kind of heavy duty research and development. The lieutenant guesses it is biological warfare, except more experimental stuff, noting that more people seem to come out than go in and that it's not too clear how much of it is official government stuff. Sam adds that they know that almost every major terrorist figure in the region has been through the facility in the last couple months, and that they are lucky to be alive. The officer continues that his squad has been ordered to destroy the facility.

In chapter 3 of The Private, Sam's squad is killed attempting to enter through the front door of the facility, so Rachel takes some of Sam's gear and heads inside following a man in a lab coat through a secret door that appears only as an outline in the building's metal siding. Rachel arrives in a small, dark entrance room and grabs the man, who looks possibly Indian to her, as he attempts to pass through an inner door. She takes his gun, then knocks him out and takes his coat and mask as well. Then, disguised as one of workers, Rachel heads into the next room and finds it dark like the entrance room. This inner room contains a large cylindrical metal tank full of chemicals. The tank has hazard and no-smoking warnings painted on it, and pipes run out of it into the walls. Even though she is wearing a mask, Rachel smells an overpowering odor of rot and chemicals. Opposite the metal cylinder, Rachel sees a staircase going down into an even deeper blackness and notes to herself that it has an even stronger smell. Ahead, Rachel sees a glass door into what looks to her like a hospital ward, except that it is built from warped plywood and concrete.

Rachel enters the ward area, which for Rachel has it's own smell--somewhat like antifreeze but with a burnt-after scent. Rachel finds a girl she guesses is around her own age laying in a tangle of wires and tubes on a table on the far side of the room, but she cannot tell her nationality. Rachel sees that the girl's "table" is a tray, half-full of a blue-ish chemical that is being pumped in through a tube like a garden hose, with her arms and legs swollen and bulging, as if full of liquid. She notes the girl has IVs in both arms; and although she seems unconscious, her eyes are half-open. Rachel chooses to pull out the IVs and the girl awakens. The girl then makes a deep-sounded groan and breaks the metal straps restraining her. Moving faster than Rachel thought possible, the girl makes her way onto the floor, snapping her limbs like whips. Rachel backs up, asking the girl what happened to her, but doesn't get an answer. One snap of the girl's limbs then sends Rachel into a table, sending chemicals flying and surgical tools spraying around her. After collapsing to the ground, Rachel sits up and hears a screeching coming from the man that Rachel had knocked out in the entrance room, only he is now hiding behind a table in this ward. Rachel notes that she really wants to wake up now and hears a rumbling noise outside that sounds like trucks driving around the building.

Notes

• The compound is compromised of several buildings, one of which contains a mess hall. It is not clear as to whether or not the mess hall is in the main compound building or is in a separate structure.
• Rachel Mills and Jim are initially held in a pit just outside the compound before they escape.
• The compound does not appear to be affiliated with the Iranian army or government.
• If Rachel Mills chooses to instead pull the hose attached to the girl she finds in the hospital ward area, the girl dies and Rachel encounters a second man in a lab coat whose accent Rachel does not recognize. He claims that the chemical being used is a randomly mutative, highly-flammable gasoline additive and they are using the chemical on their captives to see what would happen.
• If Rachel chooses to travel downstairs instead of the hospital ward, she arrives in a basement that contains mostly dead bodies of people who had been deformed, contorted, enlarged, reduced, or discolored. Some appear blackened and torn by an internal explosion, but all of them are in cages. Some of the people look like they died in the cages; and if Rachel chooses to go further inside, she finds a man alive who looks very small due to malnutrition and has solid black eyeballs. The man is laying on his back, hanging on the bars on the top of the cage, and he is slowly bending them.
• If Rachel decides to take the first man in a lab coat hostage instead of knocking him out, he leads her to the compound's main office, where Rachel finds the office has a small desk, low ceiling and dozens of filing cabinets. Files are open on the desk, along with piles of photographs of the captives that are being used for research. If Rachel then choose for the man to find her file, he does so and they discover Rachel's file is empty.

Gallery

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  After Sam and his squad are killed in an explosion, the front entrance of the compound is depicted as being on fire.
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  Rachel finds a large, cylindrical metal chemical tank inside one of the rooms of the main building.