Is there any actual lore associated with this company? Like, in the wiki or anything?
They have a large plant on the north side of Mercy Island. Part of the plant are the cesspools that I believed "the infected" were coming from. The descriptions of the Infected mention they're drinking from the cesspools. In the pools is the exploration badge Cesspool.
Cesspool: "Many would-be villains have drunk their fill from the cesspool in hopes it might grant super power. Mostly they go insane."
Stricken: "It doesn't take long for the cesspool water to have an effect. These petty thugs have been drinking from it for only a few days, but already the change in their appearance is apparent."
Blighted: "Blighted have been subsisting on cesspool water for many weeks now, and the changes they have undergone are far greater than skin deep. They no longer desire any nourishment other than that they take from the cesspool. Their old friends and dreams are entirely forgotten as they slip deeper into their irradiated daze."
Devolved: "Most people on Mercy agree: the Devolved no longer qualify as human. After months of consuming nothing but cesspoll water, they have become tireless, witless, and wickedly strong. It would be fair to call them more zombie than man.
I believed the Infected were coming from the cesspools in Flying V's plant (and they likely still are), but then both Doctor Weber and Doctor Creed have missions and dialog that indicate a Doctor Geist is experimenting on or creating arachnoids and the waste of his research is being dumped into the cesspools., and it is this mixture that is creating the Infected. So maybe Flying V is not involved in that. On the other hand, on Flying V's back docks are a large number of Arachnos branded shipping containers - the kind you find cluttered about the corridors of many Arachnos bases.
I'd like to know more about Flying V Industries, which may or may not be attached to the Infected and arachnoids. And may or may not be a subsidiary or contractor for Arachnos.