However, rumors continued that the Orions maintained involvement through under-the-table business partnerships and controlling the workers' unions. Regardless, in the decades following, more reputable individuals and corporations took over Risa's tourism trade and it lost its Orion-dominated image. Finally, in 2317 when his Syndicate partners suspected him of taking a slice of their share of the profits, they had him assassinated in his penthouse suite. Leyvan grew wealthy off tourism and Risian real estate, but not wealthy enough to pay his debts. In 2313, Leyven officially opened Croesus' Palace, which became the planet's principle resort for decades, and popular through the Federation. To this end he obtained hefty loans from the Orion Syndicate and invested them into technology that would stabilize the climate and seismic activity to within habitable bounds and transforming it into a paradise in less than a decade.
Leyven had a vision for the planet, as the premiere vacation destination for the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Later investigation after his death confirmed them as all true. In life, his past and means of arrival were a mystery rumors persisted that he was affiliated with the Orion Syndicate and that he had crashed on the planet while trying to escape the law. There was little interest in Risa until the turn of the 24th century, when a man named Arlo Leyven came to Risa. The crime was unsolved as of August 2267. In April 2260, the art gallery of the Midas Casino was burgled. Risa was admitted into the Federation in 2249. The Risian themselves were often found in small, isolated groups with limited technology and oral histories which cited how their ancestral settlements had often been destroyed by the gods. The planet was often subject to frequent storms and its three moons created tectonic strains which made it geologically unstable.
( ENT episode: " Two Days and Two Nights")Īt this early date, although Risa was a warm and pleasant Class M world it still was not the lush tropical paradise that it would later become.
Those crew members included Captain Jonathan Archer, Ensigns Hoshi Sato and Travis Mayweather, Commander Charles Tucker and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed. Risa was first visited by Humans and Starfleet in 2152 when the Enterprise (NX-01) arrived at the planet and several crew members took shore leave. The world is also alternatively spelled, "Riza." ( TOS video game: 25th Anniversary) ( TOS novel: The Case of the Colonist's Corpse VAN novel: Precipice) Many resorts on Risa also house gambling casinos. ( SCE eBook: Paradise Interrupted) Its native species, notorious for their open sexual mores, number approximately three billion, and the planet hosts about one billion tourists at any given time.
Risa is famous throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants as a place of tourism and recreation, and is referred to as a "pleasure planet." It got that reputation because of its constant, stable climate, its attractive landscapes, and most of all, its very friendly staff. ( DS9 - The Maquis: Soldier of Peace comic: " Vacation's Over") ( SCE eBook: Paradise Interrupted)Ī starship, the Risa Express, transports people to Risa. Technology stabilized Risa's atmospheric and meteorological state with tectonic equipment to keep it from sliding over the edge. There were those who wanted to return Risa to its natural state, however, Risa had been unstable for centuries. Risa, having become dependent on technology, then became an illusion of the paradise it once was. Before the introduction of automated technology, Risa, in its natural state, was a paradise. If those automated systems failed, Risa would be in jeopardy. Risa relied on mostly automated systems to make the stay of their guests as simple and as pleasurable as possible.
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