Borant Corporation

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Sources — 22 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 1

The Borant Corporation was assigned regency over Earth's solar system and chose the 18-Level World Dungeon as the method of resource reclamation.
It retains all rights to broadcast, exploit, and control the World Dungeon as long as it follows Syndicate regulations.

Chapter 2

It is the entity principally owned by the Kua-Tin, the dominant species of the Borant System.

Chapter 4

The Borant Corporation is the company running the current dungeon crawl on Earth and has a huge backlog of worlds to mine.
Borant earns money from mining rare elements, advertising dollars, a Syndicate stipend, and a commission on every credit patrons spend.
Borant releases edited highlights reels and a premiere 'introductory episode' of the crawl to draw viewers.
Borant's previous dungeon lacked rest areas, so crawlers relieved themselves in hallways, prompting Borant to add restrooms this time.

Chapter 5

It is the company running this season of the dungeon, trying a different approach than last season.
It replaced last season's slot-based inventory with a dimensional inventory and AI cataloging system.
It fixed last season's problem of crawlers starving to death by time-locking stored food, since disease and starvation made poor drama.

Chapter 14

Tally regards Borant as giving people a real chance, unlike the Squim Conglomerate.

Chapter 20

Borant is the production company running the dungeon, issuing daily announcements and patch notes to crawlers.
Borant's daily update announced fixing exploding and suction toilet bugs, adding all missing languages with cross-speech support, making Feral Rabies curable and no longer airborne, removing the overpowered Blender Fiend mobs, and upgrading the Street Preacher to a borough boss.

Chapter 28

The Borant Corporation produces the main program Dungeon Crawler World: Earth this season, and Lexis nearly refers to it by another name beginning with 'Mu' before correcting herself.

Chapter 29

Borant is the kua-tin-run company sponsoring this season; Odette says some of its people are okay and just want to put on a good show.
Borant was forced into an early release of the dungeon, and political pressures and possible bankruptcy seizure threaten its survival.
The next Borant-sponsored season would be at least seven or eight seasons away, and indentureship contracts freeze during a bankruptcy seizure.

Chapter 36

Borant prefers a hands-on ("fins-on") approach, sending real kua-tin admins into dungeons rather than using holograms like other corporations.
Borant is being forced by the kua-tin government to end the game as quickly as possible because it needs the post-season cash to avoid bankruptcy.
Borant does not receive advertising, tourism, or monster-sponsorship money until the season ends, and has been formally warned by a committee over recurring 'bugs' like the bathroom and overpowered-mob issues.

Chapter 44

Borant commended Carl and Donut for showing proper respect, and cannot discriminate against Syndicate-member production companies tied to sponsors.
Borant's stance is that crawlers may criticize other governments without punishment as long as they don't disparage the company, the Party, or the Syndicate.