Melior Corporation

Melior Corporation was a multinational multidisciplinary collection of small, mostly scientific research and development companies, created in 2012 by Doctor Jane Wix, Adam Hawthorn II and Koji Nakamura, who are also the main CEOs of Melius-Labs. While public, they conducted many illegal and highly controversial technologies and pushed the legality of ethics, especially in the fields of genetic engineering and cybernetic human-machine interfaces; this has attracted the likes of Theodore Lind who became a major investor in the corporation and it's companies. They were also responsible for aggressively overtaking businesses, and their pre-emptiveness at quickly responding to some of the situations many of these companies faced may point to them being a possible Black Labs front.

Melior are rivals of the Ogma Institute from which they have stolen valuable data and technology, and there are some claims that the Melior CEO's serve a higher, more mysterious member known as Lady Araneae.

"Melior" means "Better" in Latin.

### **History**

In 2012 American experimental cyberneticist Doctor Jane Wix, already a pioneer in prosthetics and attempting to connect human nerves to mechanical augments as part of Melius-Labs, began culminating other, smaller research and biochemistry companies into one larger conglomerate; the result was Melior Corporation.

### **Companies and Partners**

As a small but powerful and profitable multi-industry business, Melior was comprised of several organisations that acted as subsidiaries to Melior Proper.

#### **Companies**

* **Artom Biogenics:** A small Israeli biological research company who tried to replicate, poorly, cybrid experiments in secret, resulting in the production of several mutant creatures, that then got loose in 2010. A special squad of the Israeli government, led by Eva Tzabar dealt with the creatures and went practically bust the same day, however Wix offered to buy the company as a subsidiary of Melior. At first were refused due to the unusual nature of the events that occurred, but when she payed off a lot of the investigation team to secure the site, and aggressively dealt with and killed an investigation team under the code-name "Dr Stranglewire", Wix left with a majority of the scientists and the technology they used to create the creatures, including samples of the creatures themselves and moved them to a new location in the US; though this meant that to protect themselves and families, some staff were said to be dead, or never again contacted their families and friends. Artom began a new life, under the same name in America within Melius Labs, where it did better at harnessing and creating new forms of biotech.

* **Hawthorn Business Investments:** A British-American banking company owned by Adam Hawthorn II and founded by his parents, British banker Adam Hawthorn I and American Investment banker Maryjane Hawthorn. HBI became Melior's financial backer and personal insurance broker, in particular they took stock in Melior's advanced technology research department and Adam Hawthorn II became directly interested in Koji Nakamura's research into photonic binding. They are rivals and direct competitors of Ostium Bank.

* **Meli-Sec:** Like Theo's Argent Secure Corps, Melior and Melius-Labs operate a private security detail, and Theo was said to have help train and brainwash Meli-Sec operatives in the same manner, and showed Wix and her CEOs how to preform these regimen to their own security staff. Lady Araneae has her own personal stealth-subdivision of Meli-Sec.
* **Melius-Labs:** The "core" of Melior, and Jane Wix' own laboratories' dealing in experimental biomechanical and cybernetic research, Melius is a highly-advanced and private centre based somewhere in the city of Des Moines, Iowa that rarely sees the public eye; it is here that Melior created many of their most controversial studies with both human and animal experiments. Koji, with the aid of Adam also used the labs to study photonic physics.