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 three 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 the size of a human, while older Maykr Angels and Maykr Seraphs are 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, led by a Maykr designated as the Khan Maykr, and are unable to disobey a direct order from the Khan. 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 were created by an extradimensional being known as The Father. Maykrs 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 The Father, whose essence would be used to reconstruct the Maykrs from the Singularity of their collective consciousness. 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 Maykr Drones are incapable of leaving Urdak, as their immature bodies would be destroyed in the process of leaving their home dimension.

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 seeing the wrong in their own actions. 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, and leave their jaws uncovered, and are assigned as independent advisors and overseers for Maykr-controlled worlds.

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. 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 The Father during the creation of Urdak. The first Maykrs formed were known as Seraphs, and directly assisted The Father in creation, bearing wings. By the time the realm of Jekkad was created, the Maykrs were already an established race. When the people of Jekkad, jealous of the Maykr's immortality and desperate to find a way around their own mortality, turned against The Father, 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 the Dark Lord of Jekkad, Davoth, was reduced to a disembodied essence within a Life Sphere by The Father, causing Jekkad to become the dimension known as Hell, 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, 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 to be their representatives among the Argenta. At some point in time, the Maykrs created the Divinity Machine, which allowed them to see possible timelines and futures, with a constant being the coming of one who would destroy them. Whether they saw their own corruption or not is unknown. Samur served as the chancellor to the Khan Maykr during this time. 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, granting him superhuman abilities and immortality. 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 the city, 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 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 had left Urdak, eventually taking refuge on Earth, and put the Father's consciousness into a Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) AI known as VEGA, while also being reborn as a Human named Samuel Hayden. The Maykrs had continued to subjugating more civilizations up until that point in time. Samur was informed by The Father prior to placing him into VEGA that Humans would eventually gain Argent Energy, and so Samur became the head of the UAC, transferring his mind once more to a cybernetic body. The Father became VEGA, and Samur led Humanity through the discovery of Argent Energy on Mars, intent on controlling its usage to prevent Humans from being corrupted, with VEGA possessing none of The Father's memories. As Humans became more dependent on Argent, one of Samur's students, Olivia Pierce, became a cultist obsessed with Argent Energy. She spoke with the Spider Mastermind, the current Dark Lord, and started growing a faction of cultists. Samur, seeing an impending invasion, used his cybernetic body to retrieve the Doom Slayer from Hell, and used the Doom Slayer to stop the invasion of Mars. However, the 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, 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 rebuilt Earth's Argent grids with a form of synthetic Argent Energy, only for Earth to be invaded by demon hordes under the direction of the Maykrs, who continued to seek more Argent Energy, as they were deprived of their main source and were forced to subside off of the other factories. Samur, Earth's remaining military forces, and all UAC personnel still loyal to him banded together and formed the Armored Response Coalition (ARC), which fought against the demons for years. However, Samur's body was heavily damaged during a failed offensive, and the ARC faced collapse. The Doom Slayer, now with a Sentinel space station, then arrived to stop the invasion. The Khan Maykr ordered him to stand down, but the Doom Slayer refused, killing the Deag Priests, now known as Hell Priests, despite the Khan Maykr's attempts to stop him, and retrieved Samur's body, plugging him into the station and allowing them to communicate. 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 interrupted the ceremony and killed the heart, freeing the Icon of Maykr control. The Icon left Urdak to invade Earth, breaking the Holy Seal. With that, the demons betrayed the Maykrs and invaded Urdak, with many Maykr drones being corrupted by the Icon. The Slayer opened a portal to Earth using VEGA, now revealed to be The Father, and killed many Maykr Drones on the way to the landing platform that could be used to access the portal. On the platform, the Doom Slayer fought and killed the Khan Maykr, hearing the voice of the Dark Lord, possibly Davoth's disembodied Life Sphere, cry out in rage. Urdak was then consumed by Hell, corrupting Maykrs into hostile beings known as Blood Maykrs, and VEGA remained on Urdak as The Father. Samur, restored to his Seraph form, asked for the Life Sphere of The Father to be revived so that he can avoid the Transfiguration coming upon him. However, the Doom Slayer, presumably still resentful to Samur for allowing Argent to remain on Earth and costing so many lives, destroyed the Life Sphere of The Father and took the Life Sphere of Davoth instead. 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 fought a transfigured Samur, critically damaging him. Before he could kill Samur, The Father teleported Samur away and allowed the Doom Slayer to proceed. Although the current population of Maykrs is unknown and presumed to be low, at least two uncorrupted Seraphs reside within the Luminarium, and revived Davoth, revealing that Davoth's body is a dark reflection of the Slayer himself.

Appearances

 * Doom Eternal (2020)