InCorporate
InCorporate, (PROSE: Alien Bodies) or "the Incorporate", allegedly translating to "the ruling body", (PROSE: Crimes Against History) later known as simply the Corporation, was a powerful crime syndicate on Dronid, (PROSE: Alien Bodies) originally created by the Enemy as a front, although it later became independent from them. (PROSE: Crimes Against History)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Origins[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Incorporate were widely understood to have been "an intelligence-gathering arm, a 'feeler'" for the enemy that the Great Houses were to soon face in the War. There was speculation that the Incorporate's leadership wereven "the first physical manifestation of the enemy". (PROSE: Crimes Against History)
The criminal group arrived on Dronid twelve years before the start of the War in Heaven, when the planet was largely under the control of Faction Paradox. (PROSE: The Book of the War, Crimes Against History) Their leadership remained unseen, but they acted through Gabrielideans, then an obscure species not previously known to possess time-travel technology. Seeing that the Faction's forces on Dronid were on the decline, within the first year of their presence on the planet, the Incorporate had the local Faction leader executed, sparking a "decade-long gang war". (PROSE: Crimes Against History)
Pre-Cataclysm activities[[edit] | [edit source]]
Within just a few years, the group had amassed far more influence than anyone could have expected, and they began to spread their deep-rooted philosophy to both their allies and their enemies throughout the Spiral Underworld. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
Gabriel told Qixotl that the Faction had been completely outclassed since InCorporate's arrival. Abel worked for InCorporate, and he claimed he'd once attacked the Doctor with a microwave knife. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
Within two years of the organisation's arrival on Dronid, the Great Houses realised it was the enemy's first front in the Spiral Politic. This sparked a long struggle between the Great Houses and the still-expanding organisation. As the enemy supplied its affiliates with greater and greater levels of time technology, the Houses co-opted larger and larger military units from the lesser species, (PROSE: The Book of the War) like the Gabrielidean battle fleets. (PROSE: Alien Bodies) When one of these military units began attacking enemy powerbases on the planet, open fighting broke out and the Cataclysm began. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
As the Corporation[[edit] | [edit source]]
After the Cataclysm, Dronid had been devastated by the world processor engines. No longer seeing a point in hiding behind criminal syndicates, the Houses and the enemy both left the planet to fight elsewhere. However, at least one of the most prominent local criminal groups on Dronid took up the enemy's mantle, believing itself to be following in the enemy's footsteps. (PROSE: The Book of the War) Fifty years on, the group no longer went by "the Incorporate" and had renamed itself "the Corporation", being decidedly no longer under Enemy control. However, it was still active, and continued vying for power with the scraps of the Faction's mission. (Crimes Against History)
By then, they specialised in selling alien medical equipment to local residents. They made their home in the capitol, which had been long-vacated by the collapsed government; meanwhile, Faction Paradox tried to rebuild its powerbase in the smaller towns.
The Corporation found the Relic in an underground bunker under the wreckage of the Smithmanstown city centre. Little Brother Kolman learned about the Relic while watching the Corporation for the Faction Paradox mission, so he contacted some of the Faction's sharp-toothed allies in the city, and they agreed to attack the Corporation's stronghouse to steal the Relic.
When Justine and Manjuele left Dronid, they powered the Faction shrine by sacrificing a Corporation man, spilling blood on the dais and causing the shrine's skull-lined walls to scream. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
