United Mining Industry (UMI): Silvernia's Corporate Power

The United Mining Industry (UMI) is a major corporation in Silvernia and one of the most influential powers in Silver Palace's story. It made its fortune in the reactor trade, built closer ties between the nobility and the royalty than the old aristocracy ever managed, and in doing so turned itself into the faction every other power in the city has to reckon with.

This guide pulls together everything the game and its official reveals have confirmed about UMI: what the company is, how it rules the reactor trade, why the aristocracy fears it, who its Black Knights are, and the characters flying its banner, from the cheerful child technician Captain Kaboom to the string-pulling secretary Bentham. Where a detail is still unconfirmed, it is flagged as such.

What is the United Mining Industry (UMI)?

UMI is described in-game as "a major corporation in Silvernia, run by people outside the old aristocracy, that has driven closer collaboration between the nobility and royalty than the aristocracy ever managed." Two things in that sentence do a lot of work.

First, UMI is new money. Its leadership comes from outside the hereditary aristocracy, which makes it a self-made power in a city where power has traditionally been inherited. Second, it has succeeded at the one thing the aristocracy prides itself on: brokering closeness between the noble houses and the crown. A company of outsiders now sits at the center of relationships the old families thought were theirs alone.

Unconfirmed: UMI's founder, current leadership, and internal command structure have not been detailed. The company is confirmed to exist and to be powerful; who actually runs it is not yet shown.

One detail worth keeping straight: UMI is not a recent startup. Side-quest dialogue suggests the company is not new at all, and that its recent rise to dominance, rather than its founding, is what happened within the last few years. The flashpoint is UMI's sudden reach, not its existence.

UMI and the reactor trade

UMI's power rests on one product: Reactors. In Silvernia, Reactors are the devices that let people channel the element Silverium into magic-like effects, and the city's electrical infrastructure runs on cone-tipped Reactors called Spinotrodes. Control the Reactor supply and you control the city's daily life.

That is exactly what UMI did. The company "has been hugely successful in the reactor trade through mass-produced Reactors and has taken significant market share." Mass production is the key phrase. Where reactors were once specialist and expensive, UMI industrialized them and undercut everyone. If you want the background on the resource underneath all of this, the Silverium lore guide covers what the element is and why the whole city was built on top of it.

Reactors are also the backbone of Silver Palace's character systems. Every playable character has a Reactor Attribute (the element they channel), which is a separate thing from their combat role. The elements and classes guide breaks down how those attributes work in play.

UMI versus the old aristocracy

UMI's rise created the central class conflict of the setting. The company's dominance in the reactor trade "enrages aristocrats who fear the capitalists will uproot their wealth and status." This is not a minor rivalry. It is a structural threat to a whole social order.

The aristocracy's fear is rational. A corporation of outsiders has out-earned them, out-maneuvered them at court, and taken the market they assumed would always be theirs. For a class whose entire identity is inherited status, watching self-made industrialists broker the crown's favor is an existential problem. That tension colors how the aristocratic characters in the game, such as the figures in the full Silvernia factions roster, regard both UMI and the throne.

It also creates strange alliances. Because UMI and the crown are aligned, the Purists, a secret society that exploits Silverium for power, read as being at odds with both. In the city's power map, the corporation and the crown sit on one side while the old blood and the cultists pull in other directions, and that is the fault line most of the plot runs along.

The Black Knights: UMI's muscle?

Not everything flying near the UMI banner wears a suit. The Black Knights appear in Silver Palace as open-world enemies you can fight, and the game shows a connection between them and UMI.

Beyond that connection, very little is nailed down. They function in play as hostile encounters rather than as a named cast, and they debuted narratively in the Dichotomy beta trailer titled "Black Knights' Tango," the same trailer that first surfaced Bentham.

Unconfirmed: The Black Knights' exact nature (private security, mercenaries, or an organized-crime arm), their employer, and any named members are all unconfirmed. Their UMI connection is shown in gameplay, but "the Black Knights are UMI's private army" is an inference, not a stated fact.

UMI's reach across Silvernia

The clearest proof of UMI's power is how far its money travels. The River Constabulary, Silvernia's law enforcement agency, was "established by the Navy, at the behest of the Crown, and funded by the United Mining Industry." The corporation does not just sell to the city; it bankrolls the people meant to police it. The River Constabulary faction lore walks through why an agency funded by the city's biggest corporate player struggles to act as a neutral force.

UMI's reach runs downward too. The Spinotrodes that light Silvernia have to be maintained, and that unglamorous work falls to the Kaboom Team, a crew of homeless children who service the city's fuse boxes and stoves under the UMI badge. From the boardroom to the back-alley fuse box, the company's fingerprints are on the infrastructure at every level.

UMI-affiliated characters

UMI is currently represented by two revealed characters plus its anonymous enforcers. Both characters are early reveals, so their gameplay kits are still blank.

Captain Kaboom, Technician of the Kaboom Team

Captain Kaboom is UMI's most unexpected face: a cheerful green-haired girl in a yellow raincoat whose official title page lists her class as Technician under the United Mining Industry banner, with the tagline "Of Tinkers and Tunes." Her Technician title page introduces the Kaboom Team, described as "a hive of industrious bees, buzzing tirelessly around Silvernia's Spinotrodes." They are children without a home who keep the city's power infrastructure running for milk, a bit of coin, and each other's company.

That a faction filed among Silvernia's neutral-to-antagonistic powers puts orphaned child technicians on its front line is exactly the kind of tonal complication that keeps UMI from reading as a simple villain corporation.

Unconfirmed: "Technician" is Captain Kaboom's in-universe class, not a confirmed gameplay role. Her rarity, Reactor Attribute, and kit have not been shown, and whether the playable unit is the girl pictured, the whole Kaboom Team, or a story NPC is unstated.

Bentham, Secretary of the UMI Board Office

Bentham is the corporate insider. Her official title page names her class as Secretary of the UMI Board Office, "a kind and well-mannered professional" who "holds great power behind the scenes as she pulls the strings." Her Secretary title page leans hard into ambition, closing on the line that "the rot of ambition spares none."

Bentham sits at the heart of UMI's administration, which places her closer to the company's real levers than any frontline fighter. She also arrives with baggage: she first appeared being questioned by the Detective over a missing Reactor, a thread covered in Miss Bentham and the Augurian Reactor, and the community has built a phantom thief theory around her.

The Quartz Net and the UMI Board Office

Here is the nuance to get right. Although Bentham works at the UMI Board Office, the banner on her title page reads The Quartz Net, not United Mining Industry, and the site's character roster files her faction as the Quartz Net accordingly. In other words, Bentham is embedded in UMI's corporate machinery, but her named affiliation is a distinct organization that overlaps with it.

Unconfirmed: What the Quartz Net actually is, how it relates to UMI proper, and whether it is a division, a shell, or a rival network inside the company have not been explained. Treat "Bentham is a UMI member" as true in the loose sense (she runs the UMI Board Office) and "Bentham's faction is the Quartz Net" as the precise, labeled version.

Is UMI a villain faction?

Not exactly. UMI sits among Silvernia's neutral-to-antagonistic powers, and its Black Knights are enemies you fight, but it is a corporation rather than a confirmed antagonist. Its interests happen to collide with the aristocracy, the Purists, and at times the Detective, without the story branding it as evil.

The likeliest read is that UMI is a power, not a side. Whether it turns out to be an obstacle, an ally of convenience, or the hand behind a larger conspiracy probably depends on story branches rather than a fixed alignment. A cheerful child-technician crew on the same badge as a squad of open-world enforcers is a deliberate signal: UMI is meant to be read as complicated.

Where UMI sits in Silvernia's power structure

One housekeeping note for readers cross-referencing older coverage: the site's earlier factions guide on MISS, corporates, and syndicates discusses Silvernia's "Corporate Monopolies" in general terms without naming UMI. That guide predates UMI's fuller reveals; the corporate monopoly it gestures at is, in current terms, the United Mining Industry.

FAQ

Is UMI a villain faction in Silver Palace?

Not exactly. The United Mining Industry sits among Silvernia's neutral-to-antagonistic powers and its Black Knights are open-world enemies, but it is a corporation, not a confirmed antagonist. Its final alignment likely depends on story branches.

Who runs UMI?

UMI is run by people outside the old aristocracy, which is why it reads as new money. Its specific founder and current leadership have not been confirmed in-game.

Are the Black Knights part of UMI?

The game shows a connection between the Black Knights and UMI, but their exact nature, employer, and any named members are unconfirmed. Reading them as UMI's private army is an inference, not a stated fact.

Is Bentham in UMI?

Yes and no. Bentham is the Secretary of the UMI Board Office, so she runs part of UMI's administration, but her title-page banner and the site's roster list her faction as the Quartz Net, a distinct organization that overlaps with UMI.

What does UMI sell?

Reactors. UMI dominates Silvernia's reactor trade through mass-produced Reactors, the Silverium-powered devices that run everything from personal abilities to the city's Spinotrode power grid.

Does UMI control the police?

It funds them. The River Constabulary was established by the Navy at the Crown's request and funded by the United Mining Industry, which is one reason the agency struggles to act as a neutral authority.

Conclusion

UMI is the money-shaped center of gravity in Silver Palace. It industrialized the reactor trade, bought its way to the crown's side, funded the city's police, and put its badge on everyone from boardroom secretaries to orphaned street technicians. That spread is the point: the United Mining Industry is less a team you oppose than a system you keep bumping into.

Key takeaways:

• UMI is a powerful, outsider-run corporation that dominates Silvernia's Silverium reactor trade.
• Its rise enrages the old aristocracy and aligns it with the crown, setting up the setting's core class conflict.
• The Black Knights are UMI-connected open-world enemies, but their exact relationship is unconfirmed.
• Captain Kaboom (Technician) and Bentham (Secretary of the UMI Board Office, labeled Quartz Net) are its two revealed characters, both with unconfirmed kits.
• UMI reads as a neutral-to-antagonistic power rather than a flat villain, with its true alignment likely tied to story branches.