Risio (Faction)

**Risio** is the the second smallest faction of ARCDA, with its focus being upon beautification, aesthetics, and wellbeing. Their primary products are designed for human use, cosmetics, architecture, design, art, etc, but they do also expand into Gene Therapies and producing synths for pets and recreation.

They will often be involved in internal design for ARCDA, working with Atlas and Delta to build better bunkers and headquarters, or assisting in synth and technology design so that it is marketable and pleasing to the eye.

ARCDA's colour scheme has Risio with a Purple motif.

## History

Risio was originally a part of Atlas and Aura before it diverged into its own faction. It was intended to be a genetic database and testing ground nursery for designs created by Aura and Atlas before it began developing its own Synths from scratch using the database.

Although Atlas leads were initially angry at the split, they work very closely with Risio so that data can be shared as from time to time Risio creates new and useful genetic traits that can be used by Atlas, and Atlas can improve and test what has been discovered for the database. The only faction Risio does not work with is Core, and only trades them damaged, broken, or faulty products in exchange for protection as Core does not view Risio as a useful faction. In recent years this has become their downfall due to the lack of genetic testing with core-based products vs Risio products.

## Purpose

**Risio** is the the second smallest faction of ARCDA, with its focus being upon beautification, aesthetics, and wellbeing. Their primary products are designed for human use, cosmetics, architecture, design, art, etc, but they do also expand into Gene Therapies and producing synths for pets and recreation.

They will often be involved in internal design for ARCDA, working with Atlas and Delta to build better bunkers and headquarters, or assisting in synth and technology design so that it is marketable and pleasing to the eye.

## Products & Projects

### **Products**

* Gene therapy
* Plastic surgery; Facial changes, bone lengthening, permanent hair and eye colour changes.
* Design and Architecture.
* Marketing and Advertising for ARCDA.
* Risio Produced Synths.

### **Projects**

#### Risio Produced Synths

Risio produced Synths are often considered their own subtypes due to the amount of alteration done by Risio to the genomes of what was originally produced by Aura and Atlas. They are often referred to as Products rather than Synths.

They use a themed 'season' names for different batches of synths they produced, which isn't part of their ID but is how they are identified within Risio before they are sold. These are usually based off nature; *Sun, Summer, Cherry Blossom, River, Star*, and act as a stand-in name that is used.

Key Synths produced are usually:

* Pet Critters
* Cat Pards
* Dog Canids
* 'Cherubs' (Type-5 Avios)
* Angels (Type-5 Avios)
* 'Mermaids' (Pinnipiea)

Sometimes they will do 'limited edition synths' which are highly specialised.

**Failed Products.**

For a product to fail by Risio's standards, it usually involves either a major defect in their physical appearance or their behaviour.

These defects can include:

* *Missing limbs or digits or too many limbs or digits.*
* *Asymmetry*
* *Unintended textures*
* *Morphology change or mutation from their design specs (ex: wrong intended eye colour, vitiligo, leucism, melanism)*
* *Neurological issues (ex: Hyperactivity, musing effect, seizures, personality disorders)*
* *Biological issues (ex: Venom, allergies, intolerances, organ conditions)*
* *Behavioural issues (ex: biting, swearing, attempted escape, fighting)*
* *Growth issues*

**Broken Products.**

Any '*Broken*' Risio synths are usually sold on to Core to be put through either recovery and to become elites or working members of ARCDA, or Delta for them to do with as they wish. Those who are given over to Delta usually suffer large deformities such as missing limbs and give Delta a chance to experiment with bionics and replacement parts. There is also a standard of behaviour in Risio and any product that does not act accordingly or is perceived as being feral is removed from Risio.

## People from Core

#### **Synths**

* Palmer Hunter
* Nara Inxter
* Freeborn
* Darter

## See Also

* Atlas
* **Risio**
* Core
* Delta
* Aura