A powerful parasitic-alien corporate government whose fleet waits to collect Borant's debt and run the next season.
The Valtay Corporation is one of the most powerful entities in the universe — a corporate system government of parasitic lifeforms that inhabit host bodies, preferring aquatic hosts like the Kua-Tin or the Gleeners. Their fleet is parked outside the Borant system, poised to collect on Borant Corporation's debt; they were hours from a full collection action when the Kua-Tin forestalled them by starting the dungeon season early. Odette warns Carl that the Valtay will run the next season — a more technological version of *Dungeon Crawler World*, heavy on android death machines and pulse rifles rather than goblins and trolls — and cautions him to be very careful if they ever try to contact him.
Parasitic lifeforms that utilize host bodies (favoring aquatic hosts); no fixed native appearance given.
A looming corporate-government superpower set to seize control of the dungeon's future.
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