The secret scientific experiments performed by the Black Market at Guardian under Tanagura's direction and supervision.
Origins[]
Ceres had no industry, no unique skills it could trade. Something must be found that made the continued existence of Ceres worthwhile. That something was Guardian and its organ farm. (V4 p109, V5 p127)
Plans[]
[Ceres] being in fact nothing more than a giant bioengineering farm, there was no way a Blondie could openly get involved. (V6 p17)
Using Katze as a lightning rod to exacerbate any discontent with Tanagura would allow [Iason] to make a clean sweep of the incompetents leeching off Guardian. Tanagura's plans for the organ farm were undoubtedly nearing the next stage as well. (V4 p122)
Specimens[]
Kirie and Manon in the labs of Guardian - Crystal Bunko edition (2001-07) – Katsumi Michihara
Lining the center of the room was a row of cylinders that stretched as far as the eye could see... And inside them were...people. No -- not people -- but what used to be people.... (V5 p126)
There were specimens of what might be taken as humans who were cut apart and chopped into pieces. Or even the corpses of people who, through some sudden and drastic mutation, could no longer be termed people. Or even strange and precious samples from an unknown species. (V5 p126)
A person who had his brain or internal organs removed...
A human with no bones...
A body covered with numerous, tumor-like faces....
The utterly strange mermen and mermaids....
The half-human, half-beast chimeras, looking like mistakes of nature....
Floating heads connected only to a dangling brainstem....
All of these specimens were before them. (V5 p127)
In the tanks next to Kirie, inside a vivisected, headless torso connected to various wires and hoses, was a heart beating away. It was definitely alive. (V5 p127)
The tissues residing in these tanks were not specimens or autopsied remains. Although they weren't human beings with any dignity of life left to them, they were still living human beings. (V5 p127)
see Guardian: Scientific Experiments
see Keeler Lab