Of all the things in this world that must never be tampered with, nuclear weapons weren't the only ones. Biological weapons were another.
A single mistake with a biological weapon could cause mass casualties, and these weapons were highly contagious. Some spread through contact between people, but the most terrifying kind spread through the air, infecting every form of life and devastating the environment.
Dilos would never make anything so terrifying, and he didn't have the ability to do so anyway. The weapon he planned to make was a branch of biological weapons: a living weapon.
And the obvious choice for this living weapon was the International Genetic Technologies' greatest asset... dinosaurs.
When John Hammond first created dinosaurs, plenty of people had coveted them and wanted to use them as weapons. In the end, however, they had given up.
Why?
It came down to cost-effectiveness.
Dinosaurs could be easily killed with modern weapons. Even the large dinosaurs capable of storming city walls in ancient times could be easily killed with modern weapons. Compared with humans, dinosaurs had few strategic advantages beyond their greater physical power.
Just keeping one dinosaur alive required spending a fortune to meet its enormous appetite. And taming even a few dinosaurs took years and cost a great deal of money. On top of that, the dinosaurs often refused to obey.
For the same price, people could train human soldiers who were obedient and efficient—and produce many times more of them. By comparison, dinosaurs were worth a great deal as attractions, but their value as weapons was as low as it could possibly be.
Dilos's goal was to raise the strategic value of a single dinosaur from useless to the level of an army that could take on ten, or even a hundred, opponents alone—or even to