An other possible reason for a distant lab would be to keep it out of some jurisdictions. The owners of the lab want to dodge some regulation or an other, or some taxes (though that would point to production rather then research usually)
This can be a reason, why no marines are sent, the goverment says "It's your mess not ours, why should we care!".
The lab owners face the dilemma, that they have an interest to keep some of what is happening there secret, that they have insufficient security personell (especially security personell with high enough security clearence) and that they likey want to avoid any publicity.
This is a situation, where hirering diseputable independent actors, with diverse skills (pcs), and withholding important information from them, can seem like a good idea.
An other scenario for why the response team does not get the information it needs, can be a result of need to know and slow communication (propably as result of the FTL communications model). The closest branch of the lab owners (be they corporate, goverment or whatever) knows that this is a very valuable installation, and that protecting it is very important, but little else.
Overall pretty Travellerish sounding conditions, but for instance the situation in the novel "Falling Free" also has pretty much all the
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