Malcolm

"FenTech's finest creation, Malcom is an engineered warrior enhanced by chemicals. Adrenaline stimulants, synaptic catalysts, and impulse regulators combine to create as superhuman killing machine."

- Unreal Tournament

"Needs no introduction - most famous veteran of the Tournaments, recognized on every planet. With the typical calm pride of the Earth-born, and strong sense of loyalty, Malcolm is a true survivor and born leader."

- Unreal Tournament 2004

"During the off-season, Tournament stars and team captains are often recruited by the major corporations to serve as consultants for training or leading their paramilitary security forces. With so much at stake on the planet Taryd, the Izanagi Corporation made a massive investment, recruiting tournament champion Malcolm as commander of their security forces. Malcolm: a true survivor and born leader, a nine-time champion whose face is recognized on every planet in the galaxy."

- Unreal Tournament 3

"The most famous Tournament player, Malcolm is a nine-time Champion whose face is recognized on every planet in the galaxy. His winning streak (and his spine) was snapped a few years ago by a crushing blow delivered by Gorge in the tournament finals. Malcolm never regained his former agility, but makes up for it with decades of experience. The Liandri use him extensively as a color commentator in their pre-game shows."

- Unreal Championship 2

Malcolm (called Malcom in UT) is a Human warrior designed by FenTech Incorporated. He is entered in the Liandri Grand Tournament as leader of Thunder Crash, where he becomes famous for defeating longtime champion Xan Kriegor in 2293 (UT).

Malcolm remains champion for nine consecutive years, until he is defeated by the Juggernaut Gorge in 2302 (UT2003), who breaks Malcolm's spine in the process. Malcolm never fully recuperates, but keeps participating in the Tournaments. Since then the Liandri use him as color commentator in their pre-game shows. During the 523rd Nakhti Ascension Rites (UC2) he meets Anubis and invites him into Thunder Crash, but Anubis declines.

It is possible, given Malcolm's affiliation with the Liandri during the Ascension Rites tournament, that this offering was an attempt by the Liandri presence on the planet to get Anubis out of the way without having to pit him against Selket. Selket was already in Liandri's pocket, and while they probably were fairly confident that they could buy him over by manipulating his grief for his dead love, he was a much less certain thing, and if they could associate him with Thunder Crash it might prevent him from pushing on to the finals and potentially disrupting their plans to gain political control over the Nakhti planet via Selket. Early-on, it is established that the Liandri liaison is attempting to decide between Selket and Anubis, and the match leading up to the Selket fight is artificially tilted in Anubis' favor. Most likely, once Liandri realized Anubis couldn't be bought out so easily, they decided to bank on him being easily manipulated as a result of his prior relationship with Selket. This behavior is consistent with Malcolm's actions in UT3 (where he sells out Reaper and his team to the Phayder to protect the Izanagi Corporation from potential legal damages caused by Ronin's brash actions,) and with the typical Unreal story-telling style, where characters are rarely all good or all evil, but simply act on their own motivations. Malcolm may come off as a heroic character style on the surface, but he knows how to play the game with the corporations. To him the Tournament is simply business, no matter whose lives they may be destroyed in the process.

Links

 * Introduction video of Malcolm for UC2