The dataDyne Corporation is an organization that specializes in military, research, and commercial production for its contractors. Alongside being its business rival, dataDyne is the sworn enemy of the Carrington Institute.

History

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, similarly to the Carrington Institute. However, the corporation itself is also known for its dodgy criminal activities, which had put it under the spotlight of the Institute whom Daniel Carrington launched mission investigations in its practices for Joanna Dark and her allies in an attempt to stop dataDyne in its tracks, setting the main story of Perfect Dark. It's first mission even takes place there.

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. By 2020 they had bought the entirety of Brazil.

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. The corrupt corporation is ultimately destroyed for good when Mr. Blonde put a powerful Skedar Bomb on the elevator connecting the labs upon capturing Cassandra for her failures and "crimes against the Skedar", in the mid-story bonus mission Mr. Blonde's Revenge.

Location

dataDyne's main HQ is the Lucerne Tower, which towers over the rest of downtown Chicago. Cassandra's personal 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.

There are also headquarters in Seattle.

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
  • Hovercopter
  • HoverBike
  • Jet Pack
  • Hovercraft

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.

Trivia

• The name of the in-game company dataDyne was inspired by Yoyodyne from the 1965 novella The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.