Claire took the representatives on a tour through the Hammond Creation Lab.
"While year after year revenue continues to climb, operation costs are higher than ever." Claire explained. "Our shareholders have been patient, but let's be honest. No one's impressed by a dinosaur anymore. Twenty years ago, de-extinction was right up there with magic. These days, kids look at a Stegosaurus like an elephant from the city zoo. That doesn't mean asset development is falling behind. Our DNA excavators discover new species every year. But consumers want them bigger, louder...more teeth. What also isn't helping is that we're now getting competition with Disneyland which has recently opened. The good news, our advances in artificial revivification have opened up a whole new frontier. We've learned more from genetics in the past decade than a century of digging up bones. So, when you say you want to sponsor an attraction, what do you have in mind?"
"We want to be thrilled." Osterly said.
"Don't we all." Claire said.
Claire turned on a projector that displayed the silhouette of a creature.
"The Indominus rex." Claire announced. "Our first modified hybrid."
"Well, how did you get two different kinds of dinosaurs to, you know..." Drucker said, gesturing with his hands.
"Oh, Indominus wasn't bred. She was designed." A voice said. It was chief geneticist Dr. Henry Wu. "She will be fifty feet long when fully grown. Bigger than the T. rex."
"Every time we've unveiled a new asset, attendance has spiked." Claire explained. "Global news coverage, celebrity visitors, eyes of the world."
"When will she be ready?" Osterly asked.
"She already is." Wu said.