The Machine

== Intro ==
“It’s alright, we know where you’ve been…”
Nobody knows where the mechanical world known as The Machine came from. They just know it is not supposed to exist. And that it it exists to produce only more of itself.
It invades worlds by seeding them with its agents, its businesses, and slowly but surely moves to make things worse and worse for those that get in its way. Its appearance are marked by those things that are technological in a way that shows power but also wild inefficiency.
Those that rebel are known as Gremliins, chaotic but not necessarily good, wild mechanisms working to put a wrench in the machine by any means possible. And yes, for the record, the name is inspired by Gremlins 2 and Twitter user G2Institute.
The dirty little secret that gets those Gremliins rebelling: The Machine has no idea what it wants to do if it wins. It exists only to consolidate and integrate, and the closer it comes to that full goal; the more dysfunctional and unsustianable it gets…
== Ideology ==
Pick something awful about capitalism, these bastards believe it thoroughly. They believe in endless expansion, and that nothing is sacred, even any principles they use to ascend their forces into power on various worlds.
They also basically think that free will is a design flaw that gets in the way of human processing power, and will always prefer systems over people. Which makes them immensely unsettling the higher you go...
"General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think."
== Prominent Members ==
To fill in later.
== Author Commentary ==
This is mainly because I wanted to do a faction embodying everything that's horrid about Capitalism (That isn't TITLEWave). And for the record, yes, this is totally my metaphor-for-capitalism villain, who I wanted to make more an institutional/gargantuan thing than a person. 
The name’s inspired by the Pink Floyd song “Welcome To The Machine” as the opening quote suggests, and a shoutout to cannibal-sarracenian whose reading of Helheim from Kamen Rider Gaim inspired the thing’s ideology.
== License ==
This faction is free to use as you see fit under a CC-BY 4.0 license so long as I; Thomas F. Johnson, am credited as their creator!
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