Phayder Corporation

The Phayder Corporation is a corporation in the Unreal Universe best known for creating the Necris.

Despite the widespread knowledge of the Necris, little is known about the Phayder Corporation itself. The exact details of the Necris procedure are equally unknown. The company has massive wealth, however, as conversion to Necris is an extremely costly process, currently only affordable by Phayder themselves and Liandri Mining Corporation.

The Phayder Corporation is also responsible for the creation of the Invulnerability powerup deployed in UT3.

"Their famous motto is: 'No-on kills like the dead.'" -Unreal Championship 2

Social Structure: The Phayder created the substance known as Nanoblack to create the super soldiers known as the Necris, but the substance and the resultant Necris Process would have a significant impact on the social order on Omicron 6. Those who have undergone the Phayder's Necris process typically end up with a strong religious connection to the Nanoblack, and while this was not at all intended by the Phayder to begin with, they have since aligned themselves with the Necris' religious doctrines. The Necris are gradually taking full control over Omicron 6, and it is suspected that eventually the entire population of the planet will have undergone the Necris Process.

The Necris, and thereby the Phayder, believe that they are bringing "salvation" to the universe, by giving others "purpose" through death. They consider life to be a weakness and are grateful to the Nanoblack and the Necris Process for their present state of being.

It is conceivable, though only a theory, that the religious goals of the Necris are the expression of the underlying base desires of the Nanoblack itself to propagate and spread.

The Nanoblack itself, comprised of billions of tiny nano-tech bots, is technically a fluid with low to moderate viscosity, in it's "natural" state. The fluid is abundant on Omicron 6, and some large collections have begun to intra-communicate, resulting in a small degree of sentience among the more vast collections of Nanoblack. Nanoblack is spread to other planets via Infection Tubes, large black vertebrae-like tentacles that inject Nanoblack into the terrain and begin to not only decay the existing landscape, but grow Necris buildings on top of whatever they infect.