NISRD (Ultima)

The National Institute of Strategic Research and Development is a semi-independent agency dedicated to designing new technologies for adoption into Nogodrick's armed forces and the Union's civilian market. By the more ethically minded members of government, NISRD is noted for its inhumane and secretive practices.

NISRD would be disbanded following the Second Rander Declaration on Human Rights in the Union.

Notable Projects and Results
Project RAPTOR:

ACES Block I, Autonomous Combat Infantry Substitute (ACIS) Block I, Combat Recon Logistics (CRL) Block I, Irnsheld defensive system.

Project Grandidierite:

"Harbingers", brute-insertion genetic manipulation procedure (BIGMAP), fetal genetic insertion/deletion procedure (FEGIDEP).

Project Immortal:

Successful creation of true artificial sapience, successful cloning of functioning human body, successful means of transferring consciousness from the intact brain of a living individual into a cloned body, successful transferring of consciousness from dead, damaged brain into a cloned body, the first successful device allowing the live transfer of consciousness upon client death.

Project CREOLE:

Creation of a "Universal Langauge", currently unknown.

Project Farsight:

Project Long Dark:

Project Opera:

Project Stormbreaker:

Project Spicy Wind (Projek Vurzik Vit):

First chemical weapons development, chlorine gas and early forms of tear gas.

Project Spicy Storm (Projek Vurzik Sturm):

Creation of the Atmosphere Ignition Device.