What does the Project offer?

[mmartin798]

Originally Posted by tsofian

Restoring nerve damage would be ideal, as would replacing damaged limbs. Even curing diabetes would open a huge pool of potential volunteers. We know that in canon we have both a super anti toxin and a super antibiotic, so people dying of all sorts of poisons and infectious diseases would be candidates for those. Perhaps MP developed gene therapy way ahead of everyone else and they can even treat genetic disorders.

The only problem here goes back to pre-activation phase secrecy. Curing people of debilitating injury/disease/illness using nanotechnology (as described in 4th edition) would be hard to keep secret. Once a Project member's family member is cured, that family member will get noticed by a friend/relative/medical professional who will want to know how they got something completely taken care of that cutting edge medicine could not do. I am sure a Morrow Medical Research facility could do all of these things, or at least try to so they can fine tune the nanotech. Without taking the person so helped out of circulation, someone will start asking questions and that will not lead to anything good. In fact, the healed person would likely be asked to become a case study to see why they got better. Limb regeneration would be very hard to explain.

[tsofian]

The healing of the people means nothing if they don't live through the war, so they will either get sent to an out of the way location and/or frozen.

Terry

[cosmicfish]

There are also the ethical questions of being able to save so many people and holding it back - it seems unlikely to me that the kind of people the Project needs would be okay joining a group that will let so many die or suffer.

[Project_Sardonicus]

Would some recruitment take place in the very beginning of the war to end all wars?

Various very high profile recruits, leading surgeons and scientists get a call just as the bombs start dropping?

Here's a chance to save what's left of civilisation come join us.

That said the project probably wouldn't be short of recruits. Just maybe slightly eccentric ones to put it mildly.

Whenever a ship sinks or a building burns down, investigations into who died are hampered by people claiming to have been there. To have their lives written off and start over again. With a bright new identity; Lionel Hutz is dead, long live Miguel Sanchez.

The project would provide a chance to do this on an epic scale. And if a recruit had family, then a generous life insurance payment could be sorted.

The project would not be short of people dreaming, the dream of starting over as someone else. Besides however good the training many simply wouldn't believe the world was really going to end. It's something that's so hard to visualise that they may not realise what they actually let themselves in for until they step out of that bolt hole for the first time.

[tsofian]

Originally Posted by Project_Sardonicus

Would some recruitment take place in the very beginning of the war to end all wars?

Various very high profile recruits, leading surgeons and scientists get a call just as the bombs start dropping?

Here's a chance to save what's left of civilisation come join us.

"Come with me if you want to live!"

Do they get a call or are there special teams waiting for the final warning to grab these resources and protect them somehow?

This is an excellent opportunity for some great story telling. The player characters can be either the special Morrow Teams or the high value resources that are to be salvaged. Maybe the team lives next to a University and has the cover of a coffee shop staff. They get the call and "round up" their targets. There is a bolt hole under the coffee shop. It would be a lot of fun to play the scientists of such, especially if you didn't let the players know what was happening! They roll up some sciency or college type and all of a sudden BAM they morrow team shows up and lays the heavy shit down on them!

[Project_Sardonicus]

Some how this makes me think of a fusion of Friends and the Morrow Project?

But I could imagine an interesting scenario would be the first months of the war. With a desperate need to secure resources, human and material.

Maybe ensuring the use of airfields and making sure that key facilities aren't accidentally overrun by refugees. Without necessarily revealing their existence.

There may even be a need to track down senior Project members who've snuck off campus to bring their own families to safety.

[tsofian]

Originally Posted by cosmicfish

There are also the ethical questions of being able to save so many people and holding it back - it seems unlikely to me that the kind of people the Project needs would be okay joining a group that will let so many die or suffer.

If that is true The Project can not exist at all. The canon project has clean nuclear fusion. That could save millions of lives across the world simply by running water treatment plants, let alone prevent death in coal mining or from pollution caused by coal fired plants. How many millions would the universal antibody save? The Universal antidote? Could not the Project's advanced lasers be used as missile shields?

The Project is able to utterly convince its volunteers that the war is absolutely going to happen. Curing Uncle Ned's diabetes only to have him die of radiation sickness a few years later isn't a good bargain. Volunteers accept that the Project doesn't release this technology widely because doing so will simply compromise the ability of the Project to rebuild civilization after the inevitable war.