Stingray

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Stingray
An overview of the facility.
Settlement in Medici
Type	eDEN Corporation research base
Region	Scolio
Province	Stingray Area
Coordinates	N 40 45.340 E 5 30.030
Missions that take place here	The Heist Begins

The Stingray is a location in Just Cause 3. It's a major part of the Bavarium Sea Heist DLC.

Description

It's an enormous off-shore rig consisting of a central section with three surrounding platforms connected to it. Each has a tower that shoots out lightning.

Before the Stingray Area is liberated (mission The Heist Begins), there's a disk-shaped green cloud above it. Approaching the Stingray by any means to about 1 km from the middle at this time will trigger a warning message telling you to turn back. If Rico goes with in about 750 meters from the middle, he is instantly killed by a lightning bolt, whether he is in a vehicle or not. The lightning also attacks and destroys any NPC vehicles. This specific lightning is a thick blue bolt of lightning, which looks the same as a fully upgraded eDEN Spark's lightning beam, except about twice as large.

The Stingray was constructed in the late 1980s by the eDEN Corporation to research the possibility of controlling lightning. They succeeded, but one of their experiments caused a major storm which resulted in the inexplicable disappearance of the entire facility and all of the offshore rigs. This resulted in the corporation losing a massive 60% of their funding and accelerated their decline. It did not return until sometime after the corporation's dissolution, and when it did, Black Hand forces interested in eDEN technology quickly occupied it. The Black Hand also constructed several floating outposts of their own.

See Scolio for a full list of what is found in the area.

Interior

The base is explored during the mission The Heist Begins, but they remain open after the mission. Also, after the mission there are no Black Hand soldiers on or in the Stingray.

The Stingray has one external dock, named "Dock 1" by the Black Hand. At this dock is a large closed blast door, which would lead to an internal garage. It can not be opened, but it's possible to swim under the door.

There are several large rooms. All rooms contain computers, office furniture, laboratory equipment, crates and boxes, dead bodies of eDEN employees and more. The rooms are connected to each other by corridors and blast doors. The doors are at first all closed and have to be hacked by the player. Some doors can not be opened and others spawn closed when the player returns. One of the rooms has another internal boat garage, but the bottom can not be swam through. There is no boat here during the mission, but later a Black Hand CS Powerrun 77 spawns here.

In the heart of the station is a large room (called "main lab" by the mission objectives), directly under the central tower. The tower itself is the main "Atmospheric Modulator" which must be disabled in the mission. There are large roof windows above this room, so it can also be viewed from the outside.

Another entry/exit point is a corridor that connects the "main lab" to one of the higher decks outside. This also remains open after the mission.

There's at least one locked door where Eden will forbid Rico to enter, because he doesn't have "level 5 clearance". It's not known to be possible to use that door.

There are also unused hidden interior area with a small unused moon pool and a couple of hallways, it also has one dead guy. See the video below about this.

Trivia

• The Stingray is possibly inspired by the Mother Base from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, both being oil rig platforms that house private military companies and end up getting destroyed.
• There's an aircraft carrier wreck near the dock. It's not visible from the dock, but it can easily be spotted from the air.
• This is the second unapproachable place in the whole Just Cause game series, before the mission The Heist Begins. The first unapproachable place is Insula Lacrima from the Mech Land Assault DLC before the mission Stowaway. Other places, such as Falco Maxime: Centcom are just difficult to approach.
• The Bavarium Sea Heist DLC reveals that Stingray was once classified as one of the 3 components of the "eDEN Network"; the other two being the eDEN Airship and Lacrima. The network served as the cornerstone for the majority of the eDEN Corporation's scientific research (energy sources, artificial intelligence, aeronautics, robotics, weather studies, "advancements for mankind" and bavarium).
• It has the same yellow mist surrounding it as Insula Lacrima.

Gallery (outside)

As seen in the Bavarium Sea Heist trailer.

Before the mission, approaching with a CS7 Thunderhawk.

After mission, south-east view.

After mission, east corner view.

Dock. Notice the large round objects under water that hold everything up.

Swimming under the dock during the mission. Notice that the large round objects are half-way in the ground.

Notice the aircraft carrier wreck near the bottom edge.

Aircraft carrier wreck. See more at Large ships in Medici.

Satellite Station: Farad viewed from the Loochador at high speed.

Stingray main base in the distance while parachuting.

Before The Heist Begins. Rico's character model has been modded, and he might be using an invulnerability mod as well, considering how he is seemingly immune to the lightning that should insta-kill him.

Stingray Base as seen from a CS Navajo.

Gallery (inside)

In the first room. Is this eDEN Corporation equipment, or do the Black Hand use it during lunch breaks?

Same first room. Hacking the door to the next room.

One of the larger rooms.

There's Black Hand soldiers in here during the mission, but not after.

This room still has lightning after the mission, but it will no longer harm Rico.

At the door of the "main lab".

Looking in through the roof windows.

A control panel at the "main lab".

The exit tunnel.

Gallery (exploiting a minor glitch to see under water)

The obelisk ruins with 5 obelisks.

Mile High Club.

Another wing from the Mile High Club.

Mile High Club wing and aircraft carrier.

One of the Mile High Club balloon cable holding arms.

Crashed golden Urga Mstitel.

Video of the hidden interior