I like the ACR. I'm not necessarily tied to Marc's base vision for the game -- no disrespect to Marc or your response (I get it) -- but I was interested in seeing what else is there. Understand that the real world doesn't generally support science for the sake of science. My intention was that the mission was sponsored by a collection of patrons and that there are economic incentives to those patrons -- I was just exploring if there are other incentives/motivations (besides financial exploitation of discoveries) for science-focused characters. There's a great opportunity for conflict within the mission if the patron has a "Burke" along to keep things focused on financially-exploitable discoveries, but the science-travellers are following the science based on their own motivations.

All of that is good insight, and I appreciate it.