The Automatons are a species of mysterious origins.
History[]
The Automatons have a fairly mysterious origin, though it is believed that they were the creation of the Cyborgs after the First Galactic War, then after a hundred years, the Automatons sent a single message, 01000001 01001000, and then claimed worlds in the Trigon, Xzar and Severin sectors of the galaxy.
One of the worlds they most heavily defended was the planet Malevalon Creek, where many a bot and Human lost their lives, it was eventually taken by Super-Earth forces on April 1st, 2224, with the Super-Earth government recognising April 3rd as Malevalon Creek Memorial Day.
On March 26th, following the success of several major campaigns on the Terminid front, the Humans began Operation: Swift Disassembly, the Super-Earth commando corp known as the Helldivers quickly began conquering every world in Automaton space, and on April 7th, 2224, Durgen, the last Automaton world, fell, but this did not stop these mechanoids, as the very next day, they made a mighty push, reclaiming Cyberstan, and taking the Valdis, Lacaille and Hydra sectors in one fell swoop.
Biology[]
The Automatons, being machines, have a high variability in their bodily make up, most units were humanoid in build, the smaller units more closely resembling their Human adversaries, though the larger ones still had some sense of said body structure, their internal anatomy presumably had large amounts of circuitry and other components of that nature, though the most vital of there components seemed to be the head, which if destroyed would instantly destroy a unit, they also seemed to be fuelled by a kind of black, oily substance which appears to be some kind of biofuel made from Human corpses, due to being built for war, the Automatons sometimes had weapons built into themselves, such as blasters, flame throwers, missile launchers, chainsaw blades, etc.
Automatons were unlike their Terminid counterparts, they were built in small foundries known as fabricators, and these fabricators could even be used to create gunships, though most notable among their number are their Factory Striders, which are large quadrupedal moving fabricators that deploy Devastators directly onto the battlefield, aside from these fabricators, Automatons are also deployed by large Dropships which can be called in by a flair from a light armoured unit
Notes[]
- The Automatons use the same star symbol as the previous Cyborgs
- The Automatons have marching songs, in total, two are known, they go along the lines of this
- HEART, STEEL, WE, KILL, GET, UP, ON TO WAR!
- DIVER SCUM, CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN, WE COUNT DOWN, THE NEW DAWN! CYBERSTAN, CAN'T KEEP HER DOWN, WE COUNT DOWN, FIGHT TO DAWN!