SlaughterBot

06: Human

Nicolai awoke to find himself under assault by waves of sensation. He felt oddly expansive, free and undefined.

He heard a strange grunting from nearby, as though from an animal, and experienced an intense urge to move and see what it was. He attempted to do so but merely flopped, everything reeling around him. A sense of familiarity nagged at him as he twitched, searching for hardware connections.

Nicolai quickly realised he wasn’t in Zero-Twelve. The vast number of artificial ...

05: Purgatory

Nicolai experienced a dizzying disconnect. For a moment his mind was scrambled and his body did not exist. Then, with a sudden rush, his connections to the outside world returned. He, in the body of Zero-Twelve, found himself somewhere new.

The two primary cameras he defaulted to were pointed down and through them he saw that Zero-Twelve stood on a small island, green grass and colourful flowers crushed between the metal claws of its feet. Stressed metal squealed as Nicolai made the bod...

04: Welcome to Reality

In the middle of the enemy there was a top-of-the-line mech which Threat Analysis identified as a customised Kleio X-17u, piloted by a human who Nicolai thought was likely the Primary Target. 

Accompanying it were two more mechs, cheaper variants, alongside three light information-type bots and one heavier general purpose killbot. These seven units stood within a shimmering blue shield, the generator of which would be deep under the floor and connected to mains power. This shield p...

03: Fox in the Henhouse

The Void of Space

The golden strand of light reaching towards Earth was, in galactic scales, almost within touching distance. It sparked and seethed, humming and twisting as it anticipated the end of its journey.

Back at Heaven Actual, Angels and Denizens waited, ready to finally tick the necessary boxes and throw the various levers. Across the millions of planets within the Divine Empire, Immortal Corporations signed contracts and calculated profits while Sects a...

02: Poseidon Tower

Zero-Twelve popped open, limbs uncurling, and twisted its body to match the curve of the side of the golden horse. The killbot skimmed past, attention turning to its next move.

Zero-Twelve was moving very fast, and it was very heavy. Unless it did something to manage those factors then when it hit the roof, the roof would know about it. Its body spread like an artificial spider, limbs wide and artificial muscle tense, each of the manipulators on the ends of its many limbs switching to p...

01: Free Market with Teeth

Heaven Actual

At the centre of the Andromeda galaxy lurks the largest black hole in the Local Group, known to humanity as Andromeda M31.

M31 is not visible to most observers, possessing a gravitational pull strong enough to capture even light. Impossible to view directly, it makes its presence known through the stellar phenomenon around it.

A great accretion disk of spinning gas and dust circles M31, light years wide. This matter was unlucky enough to be cap...

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