"PLAN. FIGHT. WIN. INDUSTRIALIZATION IS FOREVER."
Expansion: Starters
Story Arc: The War of Machine
Faction Archetype: Titan Faction
Faction Color: Scarlet

Background

The MACHINES were created by The Cogheads under the name Autonauts, as a way to weaponize their advanced mechanical technology against The Collective, who failed to see the potential of automation in the new Industrial Era.

Autonauts were governed by massive supercomputers, called Engineers, who were responsible for developing the complex behavior logic of Autonauts, as well as identifying ways to improve their efficiency in both logic and design. However, one issue with the Engineers was that they had no conditions set to preserve Coghead lives during their decision making, that or it was simply ignored, iterated over, and forgotten in the search of perfect optimization for their prime directive.

As a result, Autonauts begun rapidly expanding on their own accord, and newer models begun terrorizing the surface of Earth, killing Collective and Coghead humans alike, until their smog covered the skies, and blood soaked the soil. The Cogheads quickly found themselves fighting a two-front war, as majority of their fighting force was now turned against them.

The Machines have no desire for flags, insignia, or anything beyond marching in the thousands in any given direction, claiming large portions of land to be either quarried, or for massive factories to be constructed upon. The Machines simply exist. Built to serve a single purpose within the greater network. Some Machines are built to dig, others built to kill anything that moves. Following the recent pushback by the R.A.I.S.E Coalition, modern generation Machines are purpose built for warfare, adorning high caliber firearms, explosives, or anything necessary to do one thing: destroy.

Nobody really knows if the Machines are self aware, nor does it really matter. All that does matter is that they are totally, and utterly eradicated.

By any means necessary.

Faction Archetype

The MACHINES' Faction Archetype is Titan, giving them the Level 5 Cards Scrambler and Flying Fortress.

The MACHINES are capable of bringing their frontline straight into action, and using their enemies most greatest assets against them to stop attacks dead in their tracks.