Life Recycling Institute

A Californian organization closely linked with Kantoku Corp. The Life Recycling Institute handles of variety of social responsibilities for the PRC government, but is itself a scientific organization specializing in human cloning, transgenic sciences and neural engineering. 
From the point of view of the LRI, humanity is approaching a crossroads where the previous way and form of life will no longer be possible, and that humanity must instead evolve with the world as the planet itself changes. They are somewhat opposed to the Silicon Society due to the Society’s pursuit of a perfect, immortal existence through cyberization. The LRI instead asserts that the definition of perfection is ever-changing, and a perfect lifeform must also be in constant flux with its environment. The main purpose of the LRI is, ultimately, to ensure the survival of humanity in a deteriorating environment - to use whatever means necessary to revitalize mankind and ensure its hold on the planet as the apex species of Earth in an age of fear and existential uncertainty. Although sounding noble on the face of it, the means by which they strive to accomplish this are often perverse and extreme. Some within the LRI seek to produce “reinforced humans” better suited to survive an increasingly chaotic planet, while others seek to push human evolution to the next stage, even if the resulting creature is no longer recognizably human.
To the masses of California, the LRI provide essential services treating sickness and disease, and for those that can afford it, they also provide services allowing for the creation of “designer children”, not just tailored to the whims of their parents, but genetically superior to a natural-born human. The LRI also takes volunteers for various “enhancement” experiments in exchange for payment, though few subjects survive to retain their mental faculties afterwards, and all are considered Institute property. One of the other duties of the LRI is the collection of human corpses. Most of these are to secretly be recycled into nutrirods or rendered down into biological materials for cloning projects.
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