So how much money has the Project got?

[Project_Sardonicus]

When setting up my first campaign for the Morrow Project one question that puzzled me was; how much money does the project actually have? With which to buy equipment, facilities, train team members etc.

So the project has at least one time traveller who can read the share prices, see whose winning sports events. It's got perhaps 200 earth changing technological patents all this and with it's sponsors maybe a billion dollars to invest.

The answer seemed to me to be unlimited, literally the project could generate as much money as it needs.

Of course if the world is ending in a few decades, this isn't as much help as you'd think. There's only a few hundred scientists who could build the cold fusion reactors or cryo tubes in the whole world. So governments start wondering why they're wondering off on 5 million dollar a year contracts.

You can pay a building company to dig out your 10 story state of the art bunker, but how do you stop them talking about it?

And once you start buying missiles and training cells of trained fighters, then you look just like a revolutionary, terrorist organisation.

So the project is held up by a number of issues; it needs total secrecy, it has massive complex goals, it has no government support and it has a short time table.

Thus creating the bizarre state of Project equipment. Primitive armoured vehicles with futuristic power sources, hand scanners that can diagnosis any illness alongside 40 year old pistols.

In fact a retro adventure is something I've been working on. When the council of tomorrow uses future project members to help them right now. With everything from kidnapping scientists, to buying truckloads of illegal arms and quietly covering up leaks.

[kato13]

It doesn't answer your question directly but I used the following rule of thumb in the past.

I expected that for each member that was put in the field the project spent ~4 million dollars.

~1 mil for recruitment, psychological testing and "dissapearing" the person (with more than 9 out of 10 prospects being rejected)

~1 mil for training person (including the costs of building/maintaining and keeping secret the facilities)

~1 mil for the bolthole construction and equipment per person

~1 mil for the caches construction and equipment per person

This means a 10,000 person project means 40 billion dollars being redirected without being noticed by anyone. I have designed projects bigger than that but the risks of being discovered are higher. I usually would start thinking about government involvement after that point.

PS welcome aboard.

[Project_Sardonicus]

Hello glad to see the project still lives

[stormlion1]

Well a lot of spending was hidden inside of larger budgets, burying a bolthole under the guise of road repair or sewer repair and while demobilising AFV some are retained and rebuilt and used down the road. Weapons and ammunition are easy, arms dealers have always done a booming business. Construction crews are Morrow Project employees, ones who will end up in Bolt Holes themselves to aid in rebuilding. Training can be hidden as simple employee retreats, ones done in the backwaters of America and involving live ammunition, but when your part of a multi-billion dollar corporation, particulary one that may be doing plenty of political donations is something that the authorities will probably ignore.

[ArmySGT.]

40 years is a long time. The Council of Tommorrow is many, many Fortune 500 companies. The U.S. Government is peripherally aware. The several Cabinet level Secretaries are present and having a meeting about Bruce and his project the day the war starts.

I had a quick discussion with Richard Tucholka about Bruce Morrow.

Bruce isn't only a Time Traveller able to move himself into and out of the future. Bruce is visiting parallel dimensions, seeing the alternatives creating from choosing option A over option B.

The reason the Project benefits from future tech but not future pre-knowledge is that Bruce hasn't always returned to the proper "present". The information like targets struck, superbowl winners, and hot stock picks is different in them all.

Of course, there is a new book now and a re-interpretation of Bruce E. Morrow.

[stormlion1]

In the end, Bruce Morrow gave a 'best guess' for what was needed I think. The main question to ask is who made up the Council of Tomorrow and whether they themselves were put into cryo and would still be out there and did they set things up themselves that are separate from the Morrow Project.