Specimen Processing Center

The Specimen Processing Center of Parth is one of the sixty eight such centers maintained by the Science Council. It is part Science facility, part factory and can handle all types of specimen collected by the Explorers and also Union Fleet (they do accept civilian samples too) When an explorer lands on a new world, its survey team collects specimen of atmosphere, soil, rocks, plants, bacteria, animal life. In the case of an occupied world cultural specimen are collected as well. Since an explorer is supposed to land or sent an explorer team to each solar body in a newly surveyed solar system, a single such visit can produce specimen collections of hundred thousand samples and more. The on board labs usually only deal with the most important,most dangerous or most interesting aspects. The rest is stored then processed in such a Specimen Processing Plant. The items are further cataloged, detail scanned and all information digitized. The digitized information is sent to Omni-Mind, the actual specimen are sorted in terms of science faculties. For example the soil samples are sent to a Geological Speciality Center where they are further examined and the information added to the Omni Mind file. So researchers all across the Union have access to all the Specimen and data.