Sombra Corporation

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Sombra Corporation is a megacorporation in The Dark Tower (series) by Stephen King. It is controlled by the Crimson King. Sombra Corporation rose to power in the late 80's and fully monopolized high-tech R&D and manufacturing for an unknown, but certainly long period of time. It is affiliated with LaMerk Industries and North Central Positronics.

In the Keystone World, the reign of Sombra Corporation was challenged and possibly halted by the Tet Corporation, which was founded by Roland and his ka-tet specifically for this purpose.

In the novels, Sombra Corporation's main act of 'evil' was to purchase the vacant lot in Manhattan which contained the rose, the manifestation of the Dark Tower on this plane of existence. The purpose of this move was to demolish the land to build condos, thus destroying the rose and, perhaps in the process, weakening or destroying the Dark Tower, the linchpin which held the multiverse together. In doing so, Sombra Corporation hoped to weaken or perhaps destroy outright the Dark Tower by annihilating its manifestation on our plane (The Rose).

Note: "Sombra" means "shadow" or "shade" in Spanish.