/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9990865
I think they retconned it back in Unreal Championship 2. Brock and Lauren from the prior games both died; Liandri didn't want to accept the loss of two fan-favorites at once, so they paid Phayder to resurrect them for the tournament as shadows of their former selves. The main antagonist of the story also dies and gets resurrected at the protagonist's insistence, and DLC added a few more random shmucks like an actress who underwent the process to stay young and beautiful forever. UT3 actually reused a lot of UC2 Necris lines, just with new VAs.

I definitely prefer them as over-the-top edgy goth aliens, but I don't mind the idea that they're humanoid enough to outright convert us into more of them.