Bourque Industries Inc (BORK)

[Scorpitron]

You're right, Flatcat, the lab was set up properly for all the standard tests, and staffed by people who do this professionally, for a living, all the time. They know what they're doing.

It just so happened that the thermal properties of Kryron far exceed what standard tests are able to show--an impressive thing for Kryron (not that the company seems to be interested in pursuing it though), which in turn means more sensitive equipment will be necessary to properly measure those exact properties. Obviously this doesn't happen often, otherwise they'd have had that higher-tier equipment on-hand already.

The armor, however, was not tested for ballistics, and Mr. Rieger was given samples of unknown provenance (as he mentioned in his report, they were "purportedly" Kryron). So B.I. staff shit the bed once again by failing to provide a proper sample for armor testing.
Whether that was on purpose or just incompetence, I will leave others to debate.


Cliffs:

Lab & lab personnel = good
Kryron samples = half-good, half-unknown
B.I. staff = ???

EDIT: here's a link to Rieger's report again, which includes lab location