gtfo, we still haz teh Kyonoke component
I hope you plan on biomassing Leo, and anyone trading for it is willing to biomass. Because it's physically impossible to have that in your possession (unless you're crazy cheating Kuvakei, somehow... with magic) without death to you and anyone else that comes within the same biosphere.
EDIT: There is no way to even acquire it unless CCP gives it to you, as of right now Kuvakei is the only person that has ever contained it (and that was with magics that isn't available to any other faction in the entire universe). If you have somehow managed to convince CCP to give you the same magical device/technology to contain it... then I'll retract my statements, but till then I'm going to wave my flag.
Sorry to take it off track here for a moment. The following approaches the issues raised by Inara in a purely 'could it be done in character' fashion. It ignores, on purpose, the question of whether CCP would 'allow' anything below to happen.
For capsuleers, the possession of it (once obtained) really isn't that hard. It's my opinion that the cloning and rebirth tech that's second nature to a capsuleer is the 'magic' that allows Sansha to have stolen and kept it in the first place. Sure, you'll die a lot - and painfully - but capsuleers do that as part of their everyday routine. And soft-clones are a good way of not remembering the agony you've put yourself through X times already today. Expensive though, at least at the outset. Also - EoM? Dying and death-dealing is kind of their religion.
Transport's more of an issue - I don't know how you transport it through jumpgates, for example. Again Nation's self-generated wormholes seem to provide an answer for this, at least for them.
Containment in a facility? Apart from the massive costs that might be involved it appears that the Caldari State have managed to at least contain it and perhaps even found ways to push forward with some research on it in Taisy. How many they've lost to the prion in doing so is anyone's guess but it does suggest at least one containment protocol that's worked in PF which is backed up by live events. There's also the PF question of the freighter rumoured to have stolen a sample many years ago which has never been found but presumably would still have active Kyonoke on board should it ever be tracked down.
So, as a capsuleer, it really comes down to a few simple questions:
- How many clones are you willing to sacrifice and how many times are you willing to soft clone yourself?
- How many of your non-capsuleer staff are you willing to sacrifice?
- How will you transport it between systems?
- How much ISK are you willing to dump into a containment facility?
- Do you want to research it, or do you just want to store it away for a rainy day weapon of massive biowarfare destruction?
Getting hold of the protein itself as per PF is extremely difficult, almost impossible, sure. And that's without considering what CCP wants to do with it. But it is still plausible depending on how it's run in RP. Getting hold of data on the virus is also difficult (less so than the protein itself) and also still very plausible dependent on the RP background in place.
Without knowing what backstory (if any) Boma and Leo worked up here, it's kind of hard to know whether 'waving your flag' is reasonable or not.