Maykr

The Maykrs are an ancient race of extradimensional aliens bearing angelic appearances from the dimension of Urdak.

Biology
Maykrs are semi-humanoid, bearing a humanoid torso. Their hands have two to four fingers in addition to a thumb. Instead of legs, Maykrs have several tentacles. All Maykrs are capable of flight. Young Maykrs, known as Drones, appear to lack arms, and are about the size of a human, while older Maykr Angels and Maykr Seraphs are notably taller than the average human, and have arms, with Maykr Seraphs bearing a single rectangular eye. Maykrs, despite their divine origin and architecture, bear demonic appearances, although this could be the result of continuous use of Argent Energy.

While described as eretheral beings, they are fully organic. Maykrs are part of a hive-mind, known as the Singularity, led by a Maykr designated as the Khan Maykr, who are chosen by the Singularity itself. Maykrs are unable to disobey a direct order from the Khan. However, Maykr Seraphs are able to go against Khan orders, presumably due to direct influence from Davoth or The Father.

Khan Maykrs are large beings, and are known to have pink skin with little subdermal fat, four yellow eyes, and an exposed cortex, with the same fanged maw as the grey-skinned Maykr Angels. Outside of Urdak, the Khan Maykr is known to be invincible. A Khan Maykr would live for 10,000 Earth years before a new Khan Maykr is chosen.

Maykrs are incapable of reproducing, and are unable to truly die of natural causes, but their bodies would eventually undergo a phase called the Transfiguration, where they would experience devastating mental and physical deterioration, which is also known to allow Seraphs to regrow their lost wings.

While this cannot kill them, Maykrs can avoid the Transfiguration by allowing for a voluntary death and resurrection. This process requires another extradimensional being known as The Father, whose essence would be used to reconstruct the Maykrs from the Singularity of their collective consciousness, and elevate a chosen Maykr to the position of Khan Maykr.

Without The Father, Maykrs are able to extend their lifespans for indefinite periods of time through use of Argent Energy, and the current Khan Maykr would be able to keep her position indefinitely. If killed without The Father, they are unable to be resurrected. For reasons unknown, they are unable to enter Hell. To get around this restriction, a Maykr Seraph known as Samur transferred his consciousness to a Human host named Samuel Hayden, and then had his mind transferred yet again to a cybernetic body, which allowed him to enter Hell.

Maykrs appear to have red blood, and Prior to the dimension's corruption, Maykr Drones were never seen leaving Urdak, as their immature bodies would be harmed in the process of leaving their home dimension. Despite their inability to reproduce, adult Maykrs seem to have male and female genders, with Maykr Seraphs and Angels appearing and sounding masculine, while Khan Maykrs appear and sound feminine.

Culture and society
Maykrs, due to their divine origins, see themselves as godly beings high above the mortals. Maykrs are known to cover their bodies in white technological armor with angelic designs. For reasons unknown, many Maykrs also wear humanoid face masks that cover up their demonic visages. While this could be to appear less menacing to others, it is also possible that the masks were the original appearance of the Maykrs prior to Argent corruption. Without The Father's essence, the Maykrs turned to desperate measures to ensure the safety of their species, which included forging an alliance with Hell, granting Hell more worlds to conquer in exchange for a steady supply of Argent Energy, forsaking any and all alliances with mortals, making them all expendable.

While they held their feelings of superiority long before their use of Argent Energy, it is unknown if their willingness to invade and destroy entire dimensions without remorse is truly the result of their own society and beliefs or the result of Argent corruption and their desperation to keep their species alive, although likely the latter.

Prior to their first conflict with Hell alongside the Argenta, Maykrs were known to forge alliances and vassalize other civilizations across the cosmos with technological enlightenment and the promise of life after death, although the latter promise was questionable. Their motives for their pre-Argent actions of vassalizing civilizations is unknown, although they did not harm said civilizations, and forged a very close alliance with the Argenta of Argent D'Nur. It is known that the Maykrs foresaw the coming of a destroyer, one who would end their civilization, and it is possible that they forged alliances and vassalized civilizations in attempt to create protection against the destroyer, never knowing the truth behind the visions or Davoth's role in the creation of the destroyer. While Maykrs have an unknown language that utilizes elaborate symbols, they are able to speak fluent English, and presumably all other languages.

The first of the Maykrs created hold the title of Seraphs, once winged beings who assisted The Father directly in various works of creation. Maykr Angels are known to be speakers for the Khan Maykr, leaving their jaws uncovered, and are assigned as independent advisors and overseers for Maykr-controlled worlds. Maykrs also published altered texts on historical events to erase all mentions of Davoth ever being their creator, seeking to rid themselves of him. They were able to deem Davoth a threat to all life as he grew more ambitious and obsessive with his search for immortality.

Technology
The Maykrs have incredibly advanced technology, and are capable of interdimensional travel. Maykr armor can be weaponized, with Maykr drones being able to fire energy barrages from their foreheads, and Khan Maykrs can activate large energy wings. Other forms of Maykr weaponry include powerful energy-infused spears, and a cannon combined with Sentinel technology to form the Unmaykr. Maykr technology also bears very refined physical appearances, often angelic white in color with complimenting gold or red aspects, all distinctly alien in design.

Natural rocks and foilage are mixed into Maykr architecture, which is also adorned with statues of Maykrs and golden holographic letters of the Maykr language. Their technology can also be used to augment demons, even those as powerful as Titans. Maykrs have also created dimensional shift technology that has "anchored" Urdak by keeping it in a static position in a sub-quantum level, placing Urdak above the known universe while also pushing Hell to the bottom of the known universe. However, their technology is incapable of sealing breaches in the Holy Seal of Urdak.

History
The Maykrs were formed by an extradimensional being known as Davoth from the realm of Jekkad, who originally held the title of The Father, who also formed another extradimensional being capable of holding great power. The first Maykrs formed were known as Seraphs, who bore natural wings and were formed in the realm of Urdak. Davoth created the Maykrs with the intention of using them to find the secret of immortality, obsessed with making his people immortal, and willing to work at any cost to achieve it. The Maykrs worked with more efficiency than all the natives of Jekkad, who were gradually stripped of much of their free will to help with Davoth's search. When the Maykrs found the secret to immortality, they turned against Davoth, deeming the knowledge too dangerous for others to know and seeing Davoth as a threat to all life, taking on Davoth's other creation as their deity.

They quickly stripped Davoth of his power of creation, transferring it to the other extradimensional being, along with the title of The Father, and sealed Davoth away with Jekkad, letting it be corrupted into the realm known as Hell. Davoth, regaining power as the Dark Lord, swore vengeance and led a war to reclaim the power of the new Father. During the war, there was a battle known as the Battle of Isonkast, where the Seraphs were stripped of their wings. The Seraphs then built the Luminarium for The Father, and to ensure that they would not seek to regain their lost power, The Father ordered that they serve all who reach the Luminarium equally.

When Davoth was reduced to a disembodied essence within a Life Sphere by The Father, who was reluctant to destroy his creator, The Father withdrew from the physical realm to prevent Hell from claiming his power, and put his own essence into a Life Sphere, which was taken to the Luminarium. Maykrs would go to The Father for guidance and to avoid the Transfiguration through voluntary death and rebirth. In secret, The Father told Samur, the most trusted of the Seraphs, to take his essence away to a hidden location if Hell were to ever become a threat again.

The Maykrs spread across various universes, coming to vassalize or otherwise influence many civilizations, granting technological advancements and the questionable promise of an afterlife. One of the civilizations they came across was in the realm of Argent D'Nur, populated by a people known as the Argenta, who described themselves as mankind and were indiscernible from Humans. The Argenta were ruled by a warrior caste known as the Night Sentinels, who worshipped beings known as Wraiths, who had granted a power source to the Argenta known as Sentinel Energy.

The Maykrs forged a very close alliance with the Argenta, helping their civilization prosper and overcome their enemies, and as the Argenta forsook their worship of the Wraiths to worship the Maykrs, the Maykrs reorganized a caste of priests known as the Deags, made up of three members named Ranak, Nilox, and Grav, to be their representatives among the Argenta. At the same time, despite lacking a physical body, Davoth was still able to influence the mind of the Khan Maykr, making her believe that there would be a "chosen one" who would threaten her rule.

As a response, the Maykrs created the Divinity Machine, which held a piece of Davoth's essence within it, and allowed them to see possible timelines and futures, with a constant being the coming of one who would destroy them, as was intended by Davoth. Samur served as the chancellor to the Khan Maykr during this time, and the Maykrs used the Divinity Machine to "test" Argenta warriors to see who was the so-called chosen one, destroying them in the process. Davoth poisoned the mind of Samur, convincing him that the Khan Maykr would drive them to ruin, prompting Samur to find the chosen one and use him to assassinate the Khan.

In the Age of Nuzia, prior to the appearance of the Doom Slayer, The Father once more saw Hell rising as a threat. At the same time, an unnamed Human man, a marine from Earth, had traveled back in time and across universes in a relentless battle against demons, and was found by the Night Sentinels. He was taken to the arena to be granted asylum, and the Khan Maykr took interest in him, wanting to hear more about the demonic entities he claimed he had fought. Then, Samur hid The Father's Life Sphere as commanded, within a fragment of Urdak still in Hell. For this, Samur was seen as a heretic once his actions were discovered.

Sometime after the unnamed man gained asylum among the Argenta, demon hordes invaded Argent D'Nur, and the Sentinels were unable to stop them. The Maykrs were perplexed by the demons, having never seen their kind or the power behind them, and were also growing increasingly worried with the silence from the Luminarium, finding that The Father's essence was gone, preventing them from being reborn.

While the Maykrs struggled to find answers, the Deag Priests managed to unlock the secret of the demons, a well of energy known as Hell Essence. The Deag Priests and Maykrs combined Hell Essence with Sentinel Energy from the Wraiths to create Argent Energy, and the Maykrs found that the energy could indefinitely prevent the Transfiguration. Before Samur was discovered as the one who took the Life Sphere, and without the council of the Khan Maykr, Samur took the unnamed man, who had become a Night Sentinel, and placed him within the Divinity Machine, reversing its polarity and granting him superhuman abilities and immortality, unwittingly fulfilling Davoth's plan. The man, now known as the Doom Slayer, took up a Crucible in the heat of a battle against a demonic Titan known as the Dreadnought that was assaulting Taras Nabad, the original capital of Argent D'Nur, and killed it by stabbing its heart, leaving the Crucible within its body to prevent the Titan from rising again.

Meanwhile, the Maykrs secretly forged a deal with the demonic being who succeeded Davoth as the Dark Lord, allowing the demons to invade and conquer more worlds in exchange for a steady supply of Hell Essence that could be purified into Argent Energy. The Argenta population, minus the Night Sentinels, was also corrupted by Argent Energy, making them fully loyal to the Maykrs. When the time came, and the Maykrs' true motives were revealed, it was too late for the Argenta.

The Maykrs had used the Deag Priests and Argenta slaves to construct vast Argent Energy factories, and had used the Doom Slayer's campaign against Hell to acquire the territory to construct said factories, taking advantage of the fact that the Slayer did not care for politics and did not see their true motives either. As the Sentinels rallied behind the Doom Slayer to stop the Argent production, those still loyal to the Maykrs split into another faction, starting a civil war.

The Deag Priests, tricking the Night Sentinels into believing that they were still allies, trapped the Doom Slayer and Night Sentinels in Hell, as the Maykrs subjugated the remaining Argenta population, believing the Doom Slayer destroyed. At the same time, an Argenta commander known as Valen was tricked into allowing the Deag Priests access to the Wraiths with the promise of resurrecting his dead son. The Wraiths were taken, and fused to the well of Hell Essence, providing a supply of Argent Energy that was used for demonic power and siphoned to the Maykrs. Samur was expelled from Urdak as the Maykrs continued to subjugate civilizations, eventually taking refuge on Earth, being reborn as a Human named Samuel Hayden in the late 2010's.

As a Human, he founded the Samuel Hayden Foundation, sponsoring and supporting young scientific talents, and was later appointed as the director of the Global Science Council, before joining the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC). The Father then informed Samur that Humanity will soon discover and harness Argent Energy, and thus, Samur led Humanity through the discovery of Argent Energy on Mars in 2095, intent on tightly controlling it to prevent Humans from being corrupted by it. To assist in this goal, he reconstructed The Father's consciousness into an AI known as VEGA, although VEGA had no memory of being The Father.

As Samur's Human body grew older, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, but he avoided death by transferring his consciousness yet again to a cybernetic body, presumably built with reconstructed Maykr technology. While this body appeared to only serve the purpose of saving him from death, it also allowed Samur to enter and return from Hell, which was impossible for him to do in his Seraph form, a motive unknown to the Humans. As a cyborg, Samur was immortal once more, and in 2127, he finished the construction of the Argent Tower on Mars, commencing the shipment of Argent Energy to Earth. As Humans became more dependent on Argent, one of Samur's students, Olivia Pierce, became a cultist obsessed with Argent Energy.

She contacted and spoke with the Spider Mastermind, the current Dark Lord, and started growing a faction of cultists. In 2145, Samur, seeing an impending invasion, used his cybernetic body to lead a manned expedition to Hell and retrieve the Doom Slayer. In 2149, the invasion began, and the Doom Slayer was used to stop the invasion of Mars, with Samur remotely contacting the Slayer regularly to aid him in the mission, even briefly meeting him face-to-face once more. During the mission, the Doom Slayer was forced to destroy VEGA's central processing core to create a Hell portal, but the Slayer saved a backup copy of VEGA before the core detonated.

Doom Slayer also destroyed Humanity's access to Argent Energy, even freeing the Wraiths and preventing the Well from making more Argent Energy, and Samur, rather than allow humanity to move on from Argent, or see the wrong in allowing Humanity to extensively utilize Argent to begin with, banished the Slayer to an unknown region of space, claiming the Crucible that the Slayer had recovered as the new power source for Argent Energy, knowing that the Slayer would never agree. With the Crucible, Samur sought to continue to exploit Hell's resources for Humanity's prosperity.

However, Earth, now in an energy crisis with the loss of the Argent Energy generators on Mars, was soon invaded by demon hordes under the direction of the Maykrs, who continued to seek more Argent Energy, as they were deprived of the Wraiths and were forced to subside off of the other factories, which required new mortal souls to operate. Samur arrived on Earth in 2150, meeting with the Allied Nations shortly after the invasion began, and used the Crucible to rebuild Earth's Argent Energy grids with a form of synthetic Argent Energy.

With these grids used to produce weapons and resources for Humanity, Samur, Earth's remaining military forces, and all UAC personnel still loyal to him banded together and officially formed the Armored Response Coalition (ARC) in 2151, which fought against the demonic invasion. However, the demonic forces proved to be to be too much for the ARC to handle, ravaging the planet's surface and killing billions of humans, resurrecting many as undead soldiers or transporting their souls into Hell for conversion into Argent Energy. Samur's body was heavily damaged during a failed offensive, and the ARC faced collapse. The Doom Slayer, now with a Sentinel space station known as the Fortress of Doom, then returned from the unknown regions of space to stop the invasion.

With the aid of VEGA, who now served as the station's AI, the Doom Slayer tracked down the Deag Priests, now immortal beings known as Hell Priests, to the remains of a city near the San Andreas Faultline, now known as the San Andreas Chasm. The Slayer confronted Deag Nilox within his mobile Titan-carried fortress, but found that the priest's soul was guarded by some form of demonic protection.

However, the Slayer used a holy medallion that he had previously acquired, presumably from the Fortress of Doom, to bypass Deag Nilox' protection, quickly killing him and slowing the consumption of Earth. After fighting his way through demonic hordes in the city, the Slayer confronted Deag Ranak and Deag Grav within a demonic citadel erected in the city's center, although he was unable to kill them due to lacking more medallions, allowing the Khan Maykr to teleport them away after they pontificated about the Maykrs' supremacy and the inevitable subjugation of Earth to Maykr rule. The Khan Maykr then appeared as a hologram, and ordered the Doom Slayer to stand down, but the Doom Slayer refused.

The Doom Slayer chased Deag Ranak to his base in Antarctica, gaining another holy medallion and killing Ranak after slaying his Doom Hunter bodyguards. In response to this, the Khan Maykr had Deag Grav evacuated to Sentinel Prime, the site of the former holy arena of the Night Sentinels on Argent D'Nur, and gave the Slayer another warning to stand down. In the meantime, the original headquarters of the ARC, now used to house Samur's remains, was under an unrelenting attack by demonic forces. To track Grav down, the Slayer tore his way through the invading demons in the ARC complex, retrieved Samur's body, and plugged him into the Fortress of Doom, allowing them to communicate, as Samur easily adapted himself to the Maykr and Sentinel technology present in the station.

With Samur's help, the Doom Slayer tracked Deag Grav, and was informed by Samur that the only way to Sentinel Prime was through a portal held within the remains of Hebeth, a Sentinel city trapped near the core of Mars. To do this, the Slayer was informed of the BFG-10000, a superweapon built by non-cultist UAC directors on Phobos shortly after the demonic invasion of Mars as a defense measure, determined to use the BFG-10000 to blast a hole into Mars, something that Samur disagreed with. Despite their disagreement, Samur still remotely contacted the Slayer as he fought his way through the demons invading the UAC Phobos base. The Slayer blasted a hole into Mars, claiming the BFG-9000 held within the BFG-10000 before making his way down to Hebeth.

Using the portal, the Slayer arrived on Sentinel Prime, met with a line of Night Sentinels and a Maykr Angel, who welcomed the Slayer home. As the Slayer made his way into the arena, the Khan Maykr contacted the Doom Slayer through holograms, trying to come to a truce, offering to return the Slayer to the time and place before his involvement with demons, presumably an alternate Earth, also saying that everything she did was only to save her species. However, the Doom Slayer ignored her, battling and killing Deag Grav's bodyguard, the Gladiator, retrieving a holy medallion held within its body and using it to allow him to kill Deag Grav. Despite Grav's transgressions against the Night Sentinels, Grav was still of Sentinel holy blood, prompting the Night Sentinels present to turn on the Doom Slayer.

Turning away from the Sentinels, the Doom Slayer returned to the Fortress of Doom, where the Khan Maykr hijacked the station's systems and deactivated them, attempting to trap the Slayer in space. However, the Slayer used the Demonic Crucible, which he retrieved alongside Samur, to reactivate the station and use it to find a way into Urdak. The deaths of the Hell Priests resulted in the demonic consumption of Earth halting. In an attempt to continue the consumption of Earth, which would grant them more Argent Energy, the Maykrs took the corpse of the Icon of Sin to Urdak, bypassing the Holy Seal.

They worked to revive the Icon of Sin, augmenting it with Maykr technology, and keeping control of the heart of Valen's son, whose essence was used to create the Icon, and which could be used to control it. However, the Doom Slayer fought his way through the Nekravol, using its Argent transmitter to arrive at Urdak, where he interrupted the ceremony and killed the heart, freeing the Icon of Maykr control and freeing the soul of Valen's son. The Icon immediately left Urdak to invade Earth, breaking the Holy Seal that prevented demons from entering Urdak. With that, the demons betrayed the Maykrs and invaded Urdak, with many Maykr drones being corrupted by the Icon and placed under demonic control. The Slayer opened a portal to Earth using VEGA, allowing VEGA to interface with Urdak and discover he was The Father. The Slayer killed many Maykr Drones on the way to the landing platform that could be used to access the portal, and on the platform, the Doom Slayer fought and killed the Khan Maykr, hearing a mysterious voice cry out in rage. Urdak was then consumed by Hell, corrupting surviving Maykrs into hostile beings known as Blood Maykrs, and VEGA remained on Urdak as The Father.

Samur continued to contact the Slayer as the Slayer fought his way to the Icon, informing him that the Icon of Sin would grow more powerful the longer it was on Earth, and declaring a prophecy of a great battle between the Slayer and the Icon fulfilled when the Slayer confronted the Icon atop a skyscraper. Some time after the Slayer killed the Icon of Sin and stopped the invasion, he was sent to retrieve Samur's original Maykr body, which was held within the sea-based UAC Atlantica Facility. After retrieving it, Samur reuploaded his consciousness into his original body. Restored to his Seraph form, he asked for the Life Sphere of The Father to be revived so that he can avoid the Transfiguration coming upon him, prompting the Doom Slayer to fight his way through the Blood Swamps in Hell to the sanctum of the Life Spheres, known as the Temple or Souls, allowing it to be accessed. Upon reaching the sanctum, Samur appeared to the Doom Slayer again, presumably able to enter the temple due to the now-opened sanctum being a part of Urdak lost in Hell. However, the Doom Slayer, presumably still resentful to Samur for allowing Argent Energy to remain on Earth and costing so many lives, destroyed the Life Sphere of The Father and took the Life Sphere of Davoth instead, leaving Samur behind to continue degrading. When the Doom Slayer arrived back on Urdak to revive and kill the Dark Lord Davoth, which would end Hell's threat forever, he killed many Blood Maykrs, and was confronted by Samur in front of the Luminarium.

Samur demanded that the Doom Slayer stop his actions, and then succumbed to the transfiguration, attacking the Slayer. The Slayer battled him throughout the entrance to the holy center of the Luminarium, critically damaging Samur. Before he could kill Samur, The Father teleported Samur away and allowed the Doom Slayer to proceed. Two uncorrupted Seraphs continued to reside within the Luminarium, and revived Davoth, revealing that Davoth's body is a dark reflection of the Slayer himself.

The Slayer attempted to kill Davoth on the spot with his super shotgun, but no blood could be spilled within the Luminarium, and Davoth escaped to the Hell city of Immora. The Slayer followed him, first arriving back at Argent D'Nur, and making his way into the World Spear, finding that it was truly a sort of ship, with ghostly images of Seraphs at its center. The Slayer fought and killed more Blood Maykrs on his way to Immora, and when he first confronted Davoth at Immora, Davoth was flanked by more ghostly Seraphs, who were identified as Ancient Gods.

When Davoth was killed by the Doom Slayer, and all demons outside of Hell were destroyed, the Slayer fell comatose, as his connection to Davoth through the Divinity Machine, amplified through Argent Energy fueling his power, made him into yet another denizen of Hell, but his human origins prevented him from dying. Maykr Seraphs took the Doom Slayer's comatose body and entombed him atop the Temple of Souls, letting the Slayer rest at long last, as he would hopefully never be needed again. What became of the Maykrs afterwards is unknown, and their population is presumably still extremely low.

It is unknown if The Father ever did regain enough power to restart their race, if the corrupted Maykrs were purified or destroyed by the Dark Lord's destruction, or if The Father wished for their species to restart at all, due to Maykr actions being what caused the turmoil that plagued the cosmos for eons.

Notable Members

 * The Khan Maykr:
 * Maykr Drones:
 * Maykr Angels:
 * Samur Maykr:
 * Maykr Seraphs:
 * Blood Maykrs:

Appearances

 * Doom (2016)
 * Doom Eternal (2020)
 * Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 1 (2020)
 * Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 2 (2021)