InCorporate

InCorporate, later known as simply the Corporation, was a powerful crime syndicate on Dronid. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)

After being on Dronid for only a few years, the criminal organisation had already amassed far more influence than anyone could have expected; not only did they gain power, they spread their deep-rooted philosophy to both their allies and enemies throughout the Spiral Underground. (PROSE: The Book of the War) Gabriel told Qixotl that Faction Paradox 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 they were the enemy, or at least the enemy's first front in the Spiral Politic. This realisation 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 coopted larger and larger military units from the lesser species. When one of these military units began attacking enemy powerbases on the planet, the Cataclysm began, and the War in Heaven with it.

After the Cataclysm, Dronid had been devastated by the gigantic world processor engines that had been buried under the planet's surface since the renegade Presidency affair, and, no longer seeing a point in hiding behind criminal syndicates, the Houses and the enemy both left Dronid 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)

The Corporation was still active on Dronid half a century after the Cataclysm, 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 them 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)

Behind the scenes

 * The original Crimes Against History timeline on the Faction Paradox website specified that, while the heads of Incorporate remained always unseen, their ground agents were Gabrielideans.