Pollyx Industries is a corporation in A Crack in Time and Into the Nexus. A terachnoid company with headquarters in Axiom City, Terachnos, Pollyx Industries is named for its founder, Pollyx, who founded the corporation to study the Zoni and their technology. It also has subsidiaries in the fields of construction, weapons development, and technical support.
Pollyx Industries was hired by Dr. Nefarious during his reign, aligning it with him, as Nefarious' forces then served as the garrison on Terachnos. Later, it was assaulted by Vendra and Neftin Prog.
History[]
Before A Crack in Time[]
Pollyx Industries was founded to locate and sequester Zoni technology. However, Pollyx quickly began selling their findings to tyrants for profits.[1] They eventually kept a database of every Obsidian Eye in the universe.[2]
At some point, Pollyx Industries discovered the Time Bomb in the Corvus Sector, and investigation into mass producing them was listed in project file 1171-Zeta. However, the terachnoid sages used the samples to stop their mother-in-laws from coming home in time for the holidays, thus terminating the project.[3]
Aside from working with Zoni technology, Pollyx Industries launched into other ventures. One was developing weapons, wherein they developed the Dynamo of Doom to ward off space pirates.[4]
Pollyx at the Tombi Outpost.
Dr. Nefarious hired Pollyx Industries to locate Zoni technology for him.[2] Thereafter, Pollyx Industries collaborated closely with Nefarious, as Nefarious' forces were garrisoned on Terachnos "for protection" of the citizens,[5] while Pollyx Industries designed and built the Nefarious Space Station.[1] Pollyx himself also accompanied Nefarious on Zanifar in which the two captured and interrogated Orvus, attempting to read Orvus' memory to learn how to access the Orvus Chamber. This was how Pollyx and Nefarious learned that Clank was Orvus' heir.[6]
A Crack in Time[]
Ratchet threatening Pollyx.
During A Crack in Time, Pollyx Industries located their 100th piece of Zoni technology in the Vartan Nebula, and celebrated by setting up a scholarship fund for the "mentally stupid" (referring to applicants with an intelligence quota below 7,000). Additionally, Pollyx Industries banned Axiom citizens from traveling to the Corvus and Bernilius sectors[7]
Ratchet and Alister Azimuth came to Pollyx Industries headquarters searching for the location of an Obsidian Eye. Jarvis, a Pollyx Industries employee who owed Azimuth a favor, helped them bypass the defense system to get inside.
Pollyx Industries also launched another venture around this time, named Pollyx Omnitech, a field of technical support operators (who often insulted the intelligence of those they spoke to). The service was advertised on space radio.[8]
Pollyx Industries continued to work for Nefarious, as Pollyx himself calculated how many paradoxes would be needed for Nefarious' plan to work,[9] and provided the Hypernova Defense Laser to defend the Nefarious Space Station.[10]
After A Crack in Time[]
Vendra and Neftin Prog's assault on Pollyx Industries.
Pollyx Industries endured and continued operating after Dr. Nefarious' downfall.
Six months prior to events of Into the Nexus, Vendra and Neftin Prog violently assaulted Pollyx Industries and kidnapped Pollyx. This led to Vendra Prog's arrest.[11]
Behind the scenes[]
Pollyx and Pollyx Industries is an alteration in spelling of and reference to Pollux, the brightest star in the constellation of Gemini.
The company logo of Pollyx Industries is that of an atom with electrons orbiting the nucleus.
Citations[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Crack in Time menu § "Galactic Trivia"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Crack in Time script § "Travel to Axiom City, Planet Terachnos (gameplay)"
- ↑ A Crack in Time menu § "Time Bomb"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "Dynamo of Doom/(Omega) Dynamo of Devastation"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "Rendezvous at Neurox Plaza (gameplay)"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "A Nefarious Revelation"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "Bypass the Defense System (gameplay)"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "Pollyx Omnitech"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "Cassy, Libra and Carina"
- ↑ A Crack in Time script § "Destroy Dr. Nefarious' Armada (gameplay)"
- ↑ Into the Nexus script § "The Infamous Prog Twins"