{"data":{"id":17148,"title":"Portfolio: Rayari Inc.","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/17148-Portfolio-Rayari-Inc","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/17148","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/17148","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":17501,"name":"RayariImage.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/0qekj18nqcag9r\/source\/RayariImage.jpg","alt":"","size":1602003,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2017-09-20T00:16:26+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/17501","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/17501\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"}],"images_count":7,"translations":{"en_EN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 5.6.\n\u201cPromote growth\u201d\nThis simple adage has been the mantra of a company that has stayed on the forefront of agricultural technology for almost two hundred years. This mantra has been the motivation behind all the company\u2019s pursuits and has driven their cutting-edge research. Although many know Rayari for their multiple initiatives and charities committed to ending hunger, and as the administrators of Reza\u2019s Landing arcology on Vosca, not many know the origins of the company itself, particularly that its founders met while working for Imperator Messer XI.\n\nA Dark Origin\nThe year was 2778. Ulysses Messer X was currently fixated on what he hoped would be his legacy: the Khanos Stadium on Angeli. The Imperator had been steadily implementing an Empire-wide \u2018renaissance of architecture\u2019 that was intended to exalt Humanity and his family line for millennia to come. Something had changed in the public, though. After centuries of oppression, the seeds of rebellion were taking root. With the death of Anthony Tanaka in 2757, the population was beginning to pull against the chains of its imprisonment.\n\nDuring this time, Ulysses Messer may have been obsessed with his buildings, but he wasn\u2019t completely ignorant of the growing dissatisfaction in the public. Though he ultimately believed that the completion of the Khanos Stadium would inspire and unify the populace, he wasn\u2019t averse to throwing the people a bone or two to pacify them in the meantime.\n\nThe Imperator drafted a challenge throughout the various Imperial departments, looking for public projects entirely intended to act as morale boosters until the stadium could be completed. Selected proposals would receive full funding under the condition that they could be implemented quickly and cheaply. Messer X didn\u2019t care where the ideas came from, he just wanted them fast.\n\nMeanwhile, deep in a research lab on Persei, Edward Kesamyn, Clara Douglas, and Asif Reader had hit a wall. The three young scientists, all fresh graduates of UPARQ, had been hired by the Agriculture Department and tasked with developing a new fermentation compound that could act as a preservative. Edward\u2019s specialty was biochemistry, Clara focused on agricultural biotechnology, and Asif\u2019s degree was in genetics. They were six months into the project and had little to show for it when the Imperator\u2019s proposition arrived.\n\nThe three initially disregarded the contest, but found themselves brainstorming ideas while having drinks one night in the neighborhood bar. The conversation became more and more intense as they ordered more rounds; by the end of the night, they had an idea.\n\nClara had grown up in a very poor family on Hyperion. Her father had always attempted to farm the windswept property outside their modest home in the hopes of producing their own food. And he had always said, \u201cit doesn\u2019t need to be anything special, just a basic vegetable we can cook.\u201d Unfortunately, if the soil didn\u2019t reject the plant outright, the desert\u2019s consistent windstorms would finish the job.\n\nThe three started discussing the Revenant Tree (altrucia lacus) and how that was able to quickly adapt to Hyperion\u2019s wind patterns and dry soil. Inspired by the wine they were drinking, Edward recounted the ancient Phylloxera aphid plague that threatened Earth\u2019s vineyards. Entomologists figured out that they could graft aphid-resistant rootstock to the bottom of the susceptible vines to avoid the deadly bug. They wondered if a similar solution could be used for her family on Hyperion. In fact, figuring out a way to graft roots of indigenous plants to common crops could open up numerous agricultural opportunities to the entire Empire. They knew that the larger companies could pull off this kind of procedure, but not independent farmers, so they decided to see if they could come up with a simple, affordable way to put this technology in the public\u2019s hands.\n\nThe bar closed and the three went straight back to the lab. For the next month, they spent every waking moment examining the feasibility of the idea and constructed a pitch to submit to the Imperator\u2019s office.\n\nTo their surprise, they were one of sixteen projects selected to receive funding. The three happily bid farewell to the fermentation project to which they\u2019d been consigned and set up a new facility and team to realize their idea.\n\nThree years later, however, the Empire took a turn. Linton Messer instigated a coup against his father on the night the Khanos Stadium was set to open, and was empowered as Messer XI. The new Imperator was considerably more vicious and petty than his father, so many in the government simply tried to keep their heads down and go unnoticed. To that end, Edward, Clara, and Asif hoped that they would be allowed to quietly continue on their work.\n\nWhen sentient life was discovered on Garron II, their 20 project came to a swift end. Asif was selected to join Dr. Michael Shiherlis and the team tasked with studying the planet, thanks to his expertise with xenogenetics. When Edward tried to respectfully protest the dissolution of their agricultural project, the Imperator\u2019s office suspended their funding. Edward was sent to a research station on Yar and Clara was tasked to Bremen where she would ultimately enter the private sector to work for Terra Mills.\n\nThe separation wouldn\u2019t last long, because in 2792 a revolution finally came.\n\nA New Venture\nIn the wake of the uprising, Asif decided the time had come for him to leave working for the government. He reached out to his old colleagues to reconnect. Even though they didn\u2019t have access to their original UEE project, their experience working together had been a singularly unique one, a dynamic that none of them had experienced in any of their labs since. Clara left her position at Terra Mills to join the team and Edward was all too eager to get off the barren rock he\u2019d been consigned to. They formed Rayari as a private agrochemical thinktank and got back to work. The three scientists quickly found that, having spent so many years apart and developing as independent scientists, they clashed a lot more often than they did in their youth, but their desire to innovate was just as strong. The bright side, however, was that they challenged each other in ways that they hadn\u2019t before, which opened up their thinking.\n\nAdopting the motto \u2018promote growth,\u2019 the team wanted to explore everything. No area of science was off-limits if it could lead to innovation that could help Humanity. Although many of the initial employees cited the combative environment between the three founders, none could deny the exciting scientific atmosphere that allowed them to try and fail.\n\nGarron would intervene once again though. The Senate announced its intention to restore Garron II to its original form. Although Dr. Shiherlis\u2019 team had kept extremely detailed notes, the planetwide devastation caused by the terraformers was going to be a monumental task to reverse, so they put the word out for scientists to lead the charge.\n\nAsif proposed returning to Garron II. As detailed in his memoirs, even though he was just a researcher on Dr. Shiherlis\u2019 team, being even remotely associated with the Massacre of Garron II haunted him. He saw this as an opportunity to undo some of the damage that Humanity had wrought on the planet.\n\nEdward and Clara quickly agreed, as they knew that by signing on, they would be able to regain access to their old project files and potentially apply that research to Garron II. In 2803, Rayari was catapulted into the public consciousness when they unveiled a complete line of indigenous plants, painstakingly reconstructed from the original planet\u2019s genetic code, but grafted to heartier flora that could withstand the changes in the soil composition. The experiment was a success and a concerted effort to reseed the planet was launched.\n\nPromoting Growth\nAfter their success in Garron, funding for the company began to pour in to examine other agricultural issues around the Empire. Rayari incorporated to handle the influx of new opportunities. What was fascinating is that although the three founders remained as Board Members, they were all unwilling to walk away from \u201cfront line research,\u201d so they hired a CEO to run the administrative aspect of the company.\n\nFor the next fifty years, the company steadily expanded. Although they built labs around the Empire, their commitment to exploring riskier scientific ventures prevented the company from truly flourishing. Edward, Clara, and Asif never saw each other socially and continue to attack each other over their work while in the office. It was always about \u2018the work.\u2019 That was the \u2018Rayari experience,\u2019 as one former employee put it. The company did well enough to slightly grow, but never thrive.\n\nWhen Clara died in 2863, the last of the original founders had passed away and Michael Vicar, the current CEO, decided it was time to transition the company to focus more on increasing their profit while diminishing their wasteful spending. Provisions in the original corporate charter prevented him from downsizing their research department, but Vicar was a savvy enough businessman to direct more of the funding towards the more commercially viable ventures.\n\nToday, Rayari, Inc. has maintained its place at the forefront of agricultural technology and development. Despite the more commercial direction the company has taken in the past eighty years, Edward, Clara, and Asif\u2019s original vision remains intact as Rayari labs can be found all around the universe, performing a wide variety of groundbreaking experiments in space and on planets, all in the hopes of finding the next breakthrough that propels Humanity further into the future.","de_DE":"Dieses Portfolio erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in Jump Point 5.6.\n\" Wachstum f\u00f6rdern\"\nDieses einfache Sprichwort ist das Mantra eines Unternehmens, das seit fast zweihundert Jahren an der Spitze der Landtechnik steht. Dieses Mantra war die Motivation f\u00fcr alle Aktivit\u00e4ten des Unternehmens und hat seine Spitzenforschung vorangetrieben. Obwohl viele Rayari f\u00fcr ihre zahlreichen Initiativen und Wohlt\u00e4tigkeitsorganisationen kennen, die sich f\u00fcr die Beendigung des Hungers einsetzen, und als die Verwalter von Rezas Landungsarchologie auf Vosca, kennen nicht viele die Urspr\u00fcnge des Unternehmens selbst, insbesondere weil sich seine Gr\u00fcnder w\u00e4hrend ihrer Arbeit f\u00fcr Imperator Messer XI getroffen haben.\n\nEin dunkler Ursprung\nDas Jahr war 2778. Ulysses Messer X war derzeit auf das fixiert, was er sich erhofft hatte: das Khanos-Stadion auf Angeli. Der Imperator hatte kontinuierlich eine empireweite \"Renaissance der Architektur\" umgesetzt, die die Menschheit und ihre Familienlinie f\u00fcr die kommenden Jahrtausende hervorheben sollte. In der \u00d6ffentlichkeit hatte sich jedoch etwas ge\u00e4ndert. Nach Jahrhunderten der Unterdr\u00fcckung nahmen die Samen der Rebellion Wurzeln. Mit dem Tod von Anthony Tanaka im Jahr 2757 begann die Bev\u00f6lkerung, gegen die Ketten ihrer Gefangenschaft zu ziehen.\n\nW\u00e4hrend dieser Zeit war Ulysses Messer vielleicht von seinen Geb\u00e4uden besessen, aber er wusste nicht ganz um die wachsende Unzufriedenheit in der \u00d6ffentlichkeit. Obwohl er schlie\u00dflich glaubte, dass die Fertigstellung des Khanos-Stadions die Bev\u00f6lkerung inspirieren und vereinen w\u00fcrde, war er nicht abgeneigt, den Menschen ein oder zwei Knochen zu werfen, um sie in der Zwischenzeit zu befrieden.\n\nDer Imperator entwarf eine Herausforderung f\u00fcr die verschiedenen kaiserlichen Abteilungen und suchte nach \u00f6ffentlichen Projekten, die ausschlie\u00dflich als Moralschub bis zur Fertigstellung des Stadions dienen sollten. Ausgew\u00e4hlte Vorschl\u00e4ge w\u00fcrden unter der Bedingung, dass sie schnell und kosteng\u00fcnstig umgesetzt werden k\u00f6nnen, voll finanziert. Messer X war es egal, woher die Ideen kamen, er wollte sie nur schnell haben.\n\nUnterdessen hatten Edward Kesamyn, Clara Douglas und Asif Reader tief in einem Forschungslabor \u00fcber Persei eine Wand getroffen. Die drei jungen Wissenschaftler, allesamt Absolventen von UPARQ, waren vom Landwirtschaftsministerium eingestellt worden und hatten die Aufgabe, eine neue Fermentationsmischung zu entwickeln, die als Konservierungsmittel dienen konnte. Edwards Spezialgebiet war die Biochemie, Clara konzentrierte sich auf die landwirtschaftliche Biotechnologie und Asif's Abschluss war in Genetik. Sie waren sechs Monate im Projekt und hatten wenig vorzuweisen, als der Vorschlag des Imperators eintraf.\n\nDie drei lie\u00dfen den Wettbewerb zun\u00e4chst au\u00dfer Acht, fanden sich aber bei einem Drink in der Nachbarschaftsbar wieder, um Ideen zu sammeln. Das Gespr\u00e4ch wurde immer intensiver, je mehr Runden sie bestellten; am Ende der Nacht hatten sie eine Idee.\n\nClara war in einer sehr armen Familie auf Hyperion aufgewachsen. Ihr Vater hatte immer versucht, das windgepeitschte Grundst\u00fcck au\u00dferhalb ihres bescheidenen Hauses zu bewirtschaften, in der Hoffnung, eigene Lebensmittel herzustellen. Und er hatte immer gesagt: \"Es muss nichts Besonderes sein, nur ein einfaches Gem\u00fcse, das wir kochen k\u00f6nnen.\" Leider, wenn der Boden die Pflanze nicht vollst\u00e4ndig ablehnt, w\u00fcrden die konstanten St\u00fcrme der W\u00fcste die Arbeit beenden.\n\nDie drei begannen, den Revenant Tree (altrucia lacus) zu diskutieren und wie dieser sich schnell an Hyperions Windmuster und trockenen Boden anpassen konnte. Inspiriert von dem Wein, den sie tranken, erz\u00e4hlte Edward von der alten Blattlausplage der Reblaus, die die Weinberge der Erde bedrohte. Entomologen fanden heraus, dass sie Blattlaus-resistente Unterlagen auf den Boden der empfindlichen Reben verpflanzen k\u00f6nnten, um den t\u00f6dlichen K\u00e4fer zu vermeiden. Sie fragten sich, ob eine \u00e4hnliche L\u00f6sung f\u00fcr ihre Familie auf Hyperion verwendet werden k\u00f6nnte. Tats\u00e4chlich k\u00f6nnte die Suche nach einem Weg, Wurzeln einheimischer Pflanzen zu gemeinsamen Nutzpflanzen zu veredeln, dem gesamten Imperium zahlreiche landwirtschaftliche M\u00f6glichkeiten er\u00f6ffnen. Sie wussten, dass die gr\u00f6\u00dferen Unternehmen diese Art von Verfahren durchsetzen konnten, aber keine unabh\u00e4ngigen Landwirte, und so beschlossen sie zu pr\u00fcfen, ob sie einen einfachen, erschwinglichen Weg finden konnten, diese Technologie in die H\u00e4nde der \u00d6ffentlichkeit zu legen.\n\nDie Bar schloss sich und die drei gingen direkt zur\u00fcck ins Labor. F\u00fcr den n\u00e4chsten Monat verbrachten sie jeden wachen Moment damit, die Machbarkeit der Idee zu pr\u00fcfen und bauten einen Pitch, den sie dem B\u00fcro des Imperators vorlegten.\n\nZu ihrer \u00dcberraschung waren sie eines von sechzehn Projekten, die f\u00fcr eine F\u00f6rderung ausgew\u00e4hlt wurden. Die drei verabschiedeten sich gerne von dem Fermentationsprojekt, f\u00fcr das sie beauftragt worden waren, und bauten eine neue Anlage und ein neues Team auf, um ihre Idee zu verwirklichen.\n\nDrei Jahre sp\u00e4ter nahm das Imperium jedoch eine Wendung. Linton Messer leitete in der Nacht, in der das Khanos-Stadion er\u00f6ffnet werden sollte, einen Putsch gegen seinen Vater ein und wurde als Messer XI erm\u00e4chtigt. Der neue Imperator war wesentlich b\u00f6sartiger und kleiner als sein Vater, so viele in der Regierung versuchten einfach, den Kopf unten zu halten und unbemerkt zu bleiben. Zu diesem Zweck hofften Edward, Clara und Asif, dass sie ihre Arbeit ruhig fortsetzen k\u00f6nnen.\n\nAls auf Garron II empfindliches Leben entdeckt wurde, ging ihr 20. Projekt schnell zu Ende. Asif wurde ausgew\u00e4hlt, um Dr. Michael Shiherlis und das Team, das mit der Erforschung des Planeten beauftragt ist, dank seiner Expertise in der Xenogenetik zu unterst\u00fctzen. Als Edward versuchte, respektvoll gegen die Aufl\u00f6sung ihres landwirtschaftlichen Projekts zu protestieren, setzte das B\u00fcro des Imperators ihre Finanzierung aus. Edward wurde an eine Forschungsstation auf Yar geschickt und Clara wurde nach Bremen geschickt, wo sie schlie\u00dflich in die Privatwirtschaft eintrat, um f\u00fcr Terra Mills zu arbeiten.\n\nDie Trennung w\u00fcrde nicht lange dauern, denn 2792 kam schlie\u00dflich eine Revolution.\n\nEin neues Unternehmen\nNach dem Aufstand entschied Asif, dass es f\u00fcr ihn an der Zeit sei, die Arbeit f\u00fcr die Regierung aufzugeben. Er wandte sich an seine alten Kollegen, um sich wieder zu verbinden. Obwohl sie keinen Zugang zu ihrem urspr\u00fcnglichen UEE-Projekt hatten, war ihre Erfahrung in der Zusammenarbeit einzigartig, eine Dynamik, die keiner von ihnen seitdem in keinem ihrer Labore erlebt hatte. Clara verlie\u00df ihre Position bei Terra Mills, um sich dem Team anzuschlie\u00dfen, und Edward war nur allzu begierig darauf, von dem kargen Felsen zu kommen, in den er versetzt worden war. Sie gr\u00fcndeten Rayari als privaten agrochemischen Think-Tank und machten sich wieder an die Arbeit. Die drei Wissenschaftler stellten schnell fest, dass sie, nachdem sie so viele Jahre getrennt waren und sich als unabh\u00e4ngige Wissenschaftler entwickelt hatten, viel h\u00e4ufiger aufeinander trafen als in ihrer Jugend, aber ihr Wunsch nach Innovation war genauso stark. Das Gute daran war jedoch, dass sie sich gegenseitig auf eine Weise herausforderten, die sie vorher nicht hatten, was ihr Denken \u00f6ffnete.\n\nUnter dem Motto \"Wachstum f\u00f6rdern\" wollte das Team alles erforschen. Kein Bereich der Wissenschaft war tabu, wenn er zu Innovationen f\u00fchren k\u00f6nnte, die der Menschheit helfen k\u00f6nnten. Obwohl viele der anf\u00e4nglichen Mitarbeiter das k\u00e4mpferische Umfeld zwischen den drei Gr\u00fcndern anf\u00fchrten, konnte niemand die spannende wissenschaftliche Atmosph\u00e4re leugnen, die es ihnen erm\u00f6glichte, zu versuchen, zu scheitern.\n\nGarron w\u00fcrde jedoch wieder eingreifen. Der Senat k\u00fcndigte seine Absicht an, Garron II wieder in seine urspr\u00fcngliche Form zu bringen. Obwohl das Team von Dr. Shiherlis \u00e4u\u00dferst detaillierte Notizen gemacht hatte, sollte die weltweite Verw\u00fcstung durch die Terraformer eine monumentale Aufgabe sein, die r\u00fcckg\u00e4ngig gemacht werden sollte, und so gaben sie den Wissenschaftlern die M\u00f6glichkeit, die Anklage zu leiten.\n\nAsif schlug vor, zu Garron II zur\u00fcckzukehren. Wie in seinen Memoiren ausgef\u00fchrt, obwohl er nur ein Forscher im Team von Dr. Shiherlis war, wurde er auch nur entfernt mit dem Massaker von Garron II in Verbindung gebracht. Er betrachtete dies als eine Gelegenheit, einen Teil des Schadens, den die Menschheit auf dem Planeten angerichtet hatte, wieder gut zu machen.\n\nEdward und Clara waren sich schnell einig, denn sie wussten, dass sie durch die Unterzeichnung den Zugang zu ihren alten Projektdateien wiedererlangen und diese Forschung m\u00f6glicherweise auf Garron II anwenden k\u00f6nnten. 2803 wurde Rayari in das \u00f6ffentliche Bewusstsein katapultiert, als sie eine komplette Reihe einheimischer Pflanzen enth\u00fcllten, die sorgf\u00e4ltig aus dem genetischen Code des urspr\u00fcnglichen Planeten rekonstruiert, aber auf eine herzhaftere Flora veredelt wurden, die den Ver\u00e4nderungen in der Bodenzusammensetzung standhalten konnte. Das Experiment war ein Erfolg und es wurde eine konzertierte Aktion zur Wiederherstellung des Planeten gestartet.\n\nWachstumsf\u00f6rderung\nNach ihrem Erfolg in Garron begannen die Mittel f\u00fcr das Unternehmen zu flie\u00dfen, um andere landwirtschaftliche Themen rund um das Reich zu untersuchen. Rayari wurde integriert, um dem Zustrom neuer M\u00f6glichkeiten zu begegnen. Faszinierend war, dass die drei Gr\u00fcnder, obwohl sie weiterhin als Vorstandsmitglieder fungierten, nicht bereit waren, sich von der \"Frontforschung\" zu verabschieden, weshalb sie einen CEO anheuerten, der den administrativen Teil des Unternehmens leiten sollte.\n\nIn den n\u00e4chsten f\u00fcnfzig Jahren expandierte das Unternehmen stetig. Obwohl sie Labore rund um das Imperium bauten, verhinderte ihr Engagement f\u00fcr die Erforschung riskanterer wissenschaftlicher Projekte, dass das Unternehmen wirklich florierte. Edward, Clara und Asif sahen sich nie sozial und greifen sich weiterhin wegen ihrer Arbeit im B\u00fcro an. Es ging immer um \"die Arbeit\". Das war die \"Rayari-Erfahrung\", wie es ein ehemaliger Mitarbeiter ausdr\u00fcckte. Das Unternehmen tat gut genug, um leicht zu wachsen, aber nie zu gedeihen.\n\nAls Clara 2863 starb, war der letzte der urspr\u00fcnglichen Gr\u00fcnder verstorben und Michael Vicar, der jetzige CEO, entschied, dass es an der Zeit sei, das Unternehmen umzustellen, um sich mehr auf die Steigerung ihres Gewinns zu konzentrieren und gleichzeitig ihre verschwenderischen Ausgaben zu reduzieren. Bestimmungen in der urspr\u00fcnglichen Unternehmenscharta hinderten ihn daran, ihre Forschungsabteilung zu verkleinern, aber Vicar war ein kluger K\u00f6nner genug, um mehr von der Finanzierung auf die kommerziell rentableren Unternehmen zu konzentrieren.\n\nHeute hat Rayari, Inc. seinen Platz an der Spitze der Agrartechnologie und -entwicklung behauptet. Trotz der kommerzielleren Ausrichtung, die das Unternehmen in den letzten achtzig Jahren genommen hat, bleibt die urspr\u00fcngliche Vision von Edward, Clara und Asif intakt, da Rayari-Labore \u00fcberall im Universum zu finden sind, die eine Vielzahl bahnbrechender Experimente im Weltraum und auf Planeten durchf\u00fchren, in der Hoffnung, den n\u00e4chsten Durchbruch zu finden, der die Menschheit weiter in die Zukunft treibt.","zh_CN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 5.6.\n\u201cPromote growth\u201d\nThis simple adage has been the mantra of a company that has stayed on the forefront of agricultural technology for almost two hundred years. This mantra has been the motivation behind all the company\u2019s pursuits and has driven their cutting-edge research. Although many know Rayari for their multiple initiatives and charities committed to ending hunger, and as the administrators of Reza\u2019s Landing arcology on Vosca, not many know the origins of the company itself, particularly that its founders met while working for Imperator Messer XI.\n\nA Dark Origin\nThe year was 2778. Ulysses Messer X was currently fixated on what he hoped would be his legacy: the Khanos Stadium on Angeli. The Imperator had been steadily implementing an Empire-wide \u2018renaissance of architecture\u2019 that was intended to exalt Humanity and his family line for millennia to come. Something had changed in the public, though. After centuries of oppression, the seeds of rebellion were taking root. With the death of Anthony Tanaka in 2757, the population was beginning to pull against the chains of its imprisonment.\n\nDuring this time, Ulysses Messer may have been obsessed with his buildings, but he wasn\u2019t completely ignorant of the growing dissatisfaction in the public. Though he ultimately believed that the completion of the Khanos Stadium would inspire and unify the populace, he wasn\u2019t averse to throwing the people a bone or two to pacify them in the meantime.\n\nThe Imperator drafted a challenge throughout the various Imperial departments, looking for public projects entirely intended to act as morale boosters until the stadium could be completed. Selected proposals would receive full funding under the condition that they could be implemented quickly and cheaply. Messer X didn\u2019t care where the ideas came from, he just wanted them fast.\n\nMeanwhile, deep in a research lab on Persei, Edward Kesamyn, Clara Douglas, and Asif Reader had hit a wall. The three young scientists, all fresh graduates of UPARQ, had been hired by the Agriculture Department and tasked with developing a new fermentation compound that could act as a preservative. Edward\u2019s specialty was biochemistry, Clara focused on agricultural biotechnology, and Asif\u2019s degree was in genetics. They were six months into the project and had little to show for it when the Imperator\u2019s proposition arrived.\n\nThe three initially disregarded the contest, but found themselves brainstorming ideas while having drinks one night in the neighborhood bar. The conversation became more and more intense as they ordered more rounds; by the end of the night, they had an idea.\n\nClara had grown up in a very poor family on Hyperion. Her father had always attempted to farm the windswept property outside their modest home in the hopes of producing their own food. And he had always said, \u201cit doesn\u2019t need to be anything special, just a basic vegetable we can cook.\u201d Unfortunately, if the soil didn\u2019t reject the plant outright, the desert\u2019s consistent windstorms would finish the job.\n\nThe three started discussing the Revenant Tree (altrucia lacus) and how that was able to quickly adapt to Hyperion\u2019s wind patterns and dry soil. Inspired by the wine they were drinking, Edward recounted the ancient Phylloxera aphid plague that threatened Earth\u2019s vineyards. Entomologists figured out that they could graft aphid-resistant rootstock to the bottom of the susceptible vines to avoid the deadly bug. They wondered if a similar solution could be used for her family on Hyperion. In fact, figuring out a way to graft roots of indigenous plants to common crops could open up numerous agricultural opportunities to the entire Empire. They knew that the larger companies could pull off this kind of procedure, but not independent farmers, so they decided to see if they could come up with a simple, affordable way to put this technology in the public\u2019s hands.\n\nThe bar closed and the three went straight back to the lab. For the next month, they spent every waking moment examining the feasibility of the idea and constructed a pitch to submit to the Imperator\u2019s office.\n\nTo their surprise, they were one of sixteen projects selected to receive funding. The three happily bid farewell to the fermentation project to which they\u2019d been consigned and set up a new facility and team to realize their idea.\n\nThree years later, however, the Empire took a turn. Linton Messer instigated a coup against his father on the night the Khanos Stadium was set to open, and was empowered as Messer XI. The new Imperator was considerably more vicious and petty than his father, so many in the government simply tried to keep their heads down and go unnoticed. To that end, Edward, Clara, and Asif hoped that they would be allowed to quietly continue on their work.\n\nWhen sentient life was discovered on Garron II, their 20 project came to a swift end. Asif was selected to join Dr. Michael Shiherlis and the team tasked with studying the planet, thanks to his expertise with xenogenetics. When Edward tried to respectfully protest the dissolution of their agricultural project, the Imperator\u2019s office suspended their funding. Edward was sent to a research station on Yar and Clara was tasked to Bremen where she would ultimately enter the private sector to work for Terra Mills.\n\nThe separation wouldn\u2019t last long, because in 2792 a revolution finally came.\n\nA New Venture\nIn the wake of the uprising, Asif decided the time had come for him to leave working for the government. He reached out to his old colleagues to reconnect. Even though they didn\u2019t have access to their original UEE project, their experience working together had been a singularly unique one, a dynamic that none of them had experienced in any of their labs since. Clara left her position at Terra Mills to join the team and Edward was all too eager to get off the barren rock he\u2019d been consigned to. They formed Rayari as a private agrochemical thinktank and got back to work. The three scientists quickly found that, having spent so many years apart and developing as independent scientists, they clashed a lot more often than they did in their youth, but their desire to innovate was just as strong. The bright side, however, was that they challenged each other in ways that they hadn\u2019t before, which opened up their thinking.\n\nAdopting the motto \u2018promote growth,\u2019 the team wanted to explore everything. No area of science was off-limits if it could lead to innovation that could help Humanity. Although many of the initial employees cited the combative environment between the three founders, none could deny the exciting scientific atmosphere that allowed them to try and fail.\n\nGarron would intervene once again though. The Senate announced its intention to restore Garron II to its original form. Although Dr. Shiherlis\u2019 team had kept extremely detailed notes, the planetwide devastation caused by the terraformers was going to be a monumental task to reverse, so they put the word out for scientists to lead the charge.\n\nAsif proposed returning to Garron II. As detailed in his memoirs, even though he was just a researcher on Dr. Shiherlis\u2019 team, being even remotely associated with the Massacre of Garron II haunted him. He saw this as an opportunity to undo some of the damage that Humanity had wrought on the planet.\n\nEdward and Clara quickly agreed, as they knew that by signing on, they would be able to regain access to their old project files and potentially apply that research to Garron II. In 2803, Rayari was catapulted into the public consciousness when they unveiled a complete line of indigenous plants, painstakingly reconstructed from the original planet\u2019s genetic code, but grafted to heartier flora that could withstand the changes in the soil composition. The experiment was a success and a concerted effort to reseed the planet was launched.\n\nPromoting Growth\nAfter their success in Garron, funding for the company began to pour in to examine other agricultural issues around the Empire. Rayari incorporated to handle the influx of new opportunities. What was fascinating is that although the three founders remained as Board Members, they were all unwilling to walk away from \u201cfront line research,\u201d so they hired a CEO to run the administrative aspect of the company.\n\nFor the next fifty years, the company steadily expanded. Although they built labs around the Empire, their commitment to exploring riskier scientific ventures prevented the company from truly flourishing. Edward, Clara, and Asif never saw each other socially and continue to attack each other over their work while in the office. It was always about \u2018the work.\u2019 That was the \u2018Rayari experience,\u2019 as one former employee put it. The company did well enough to slightly grow, but never thrive.\n\nWhen Clara died in 2863, the last of the original founders had passed away and Michael Vicar, the current CEO, decided it was time to transition the company to focus more on increasing their profit while diminishing their wasteful spending. Provisions in the original corporate charter prevented him from downsizing their research department, but Vicar was a savvy enough businessman to direct more of the funding towards the more commercially viable ventures.\n\nToday, Rayari, Inc. has maintained its place at the forefront of agricultural technology and development. Despite the more commercial direction the company has taken in the past eighty years, Edward, Clara, and Asif\u2019s original vision remains intact as Rayari labs can be found all around the universe, performing a wide variety of groundbreaking experiments in space and on planets, all in the hopes of finding the next breakthrough that propels Humanity further into the future."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":14,"created_at":"2019-07-10T18:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"6 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-26 23:59:29","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":17147,"next_id":17149}}