The dataDyne Corporation is an organization that specializes in military, research, and commercial production for its contractors. It is the corporation rival and sworn enemy of the Carrington Institute.
Founded by Zhang Li and headed by CEO Cassandra De Vries, dataDyne's rise is secluded in mystery, but now it is well known for its huge funding projects and private military activities.
However, the corporation is also known for its dodgy criminal activities, which had put it under the spotlight of the Institute whom launched mission investigations in its practices for Joanna Dark and her allies in an attempt to stop dataDyne in its tracks.
The organization has its own personal staff base, including a major research team, a vast army of military-trained personnel, personal bodyguards, and a fleet of venerable vehicles.
The Skedar are dataDyne's allies, though it is eventually revealed that they intended to betray them and vice versa.
After Carrington Institute: Defense, the dataDyne forces became completely exhausted. It is ultimately destroyed for good when Mr. Blonde put a Skedar Bomb on an elevator upon capturing Cassandra for her failures and "crimes against the Skedar", in the mid-story bonus mission Mr. Blonde's Revenge.
Location
The main dataDyne HQ is Lucerne Tower, which towers over the rest of downtown Chicago. Cassandra's necklace gives her full access to all the facilities within and below the building, including a complex of research labs. It also has several branches, including a decommissioned oil derrick, which was converted into a vast underwater research facility.
Products
Most of the products, firearms and equipment in the game originated from dataDyne.
- Systems
- The VR Simulation system
- Dr. Caroll – AI Sapien
- Weapons
- The CMP-150 series—its best seller and weapon of choice among dataDyne's soldiers.
- The Dragon series. Supplied to the US Army.
- Rocket Launcher – Prototype heavy weapon.
- The DY357 series – the infamous LX version was custom built for NSA Head, Trent Easton.
- Shotgun – Often used Cassandra's bodyguards.
- K7 Avenger - A prototype Assault Rifle with technology from the Skedar.
- Combat Knives
- Equipment
- Shield Technology
- Night / X-Ray / IR Vision Goggles
- Vehicles
Affiliates
The corporation had many affiliates with government, military and even alien bodies.
- G5 Corporation, a front for dataDyne.
- NSA's Director, Trent Easton.
- The Skedar, in particular Mr. Blonde.
- The US Military – It often supplied their weaponry, and also funded the research at Area 51, under Trent Easton.
