Mechanimals

Mechanimals are a classification of the animate that encompasses machines that behave and reproduce like animals. The name Mechanimal is an acronym for Mechanical Animal, which is the broadest possible definition for them. 
== Overview ==
Machine animals, or Mechanimals are the technologically advanced non-biological organisms that are the dominant species of Liptic and some areas of Welt. They typically bear strikingly similar designs to various forms of wildlife, such as avians, ungulates, and even dinosaurs. Other designs bear no resemblance to animals, and are completely original designs. 
Mechanimals, are an entirely different animal kingdom, they coexist with natural life forms and similarly fight over territory and resources.
In short, Machine animals are an entirely different ecosystem in Welt. 
Some machine beasts are created for specific missions, which makes them an actual part of the ecosystem. However due to their evolutive nature, some diverge immensely from their original task for new ones, just like animals. Their only biological predators are Aesovores (creatures that eat metals) and more specifically Mithrileovores (creatures that eat titanium), the Dalmer and each other. 
Mechanimals were first discovered in Liptic, but have since been seen all over the Empire, and possibly exist all over Welt.
== Feeding ==
They are their own food. There are three types of machine animals much like animals, Mithrileovores (Carnivores), Converters (Herbivores) and Omnivores. 
Mithrileovores: the carnivores of the machine animal kingdom, these creatures eat other machines to survive. 
Converters: the herbivores of the machine animal kingdom, these creatures eat biological matter that their stomachs convert to Mogrina, the Mechanimals fuel source.
Omnivores: These creatures exhibit Mithrileovore and Converter behaviors. 
Mechanimals do not seem to eat other biological life forms, and seem to eat only each other or certain lifeforms with rich metal sources in their bodies, some machine beasts eat nettle leaf to replenish their metal stores. 
== Health ==
Liquid metal saliva on the tongue to patch up wounds
The components of dead mechanical animals are reused by the predator, once swallowed, the stomach sorts and replaces lost or damaged parts.
Mechanimal weak spots are generally the optical ports (eyes), energy canisters, and joints.
== Reproduction ==
There are two main ways that mechanimals reproduce, through though the use of a machine shop or metamorphosis merging. 
=== Machine Shop ===
When two same lines (species) of machine beasts find each other, they fight. When the “mate” is defeated, the winner will collect every piece of the defeated machine using a magnetic tongue to ensure no piece is lost, this is known as eating or cannibalisation. The winner of the fight "eats" the loser by bringing the corpse to a birthing ground (machine shop) where two or more new machines are built from the pieces. The new specimen has the combined data of the previous machine parents. The data is assimilated to delete unnecessary information and perfect on the data that made its parent successful. As such these machines evolve and reproduce, hence their recognition by the Dalmer as animate.
=== Metamorphosis Merging ===
Mechanimals are incredibly diverse genetically and reproduction can happen between seemingly different species, yet still give offspring that can be either the same species as one of its parents or an entirely different species altogether. This process is known as metamorphosis merging.
Sometimes, two identical Mechanimal’s will merge together into a single individual to undergo metamorphosis. This metamorphosis turns the individual into a physically different organism, who is capable of merging with other individuals in a similar state of metamorphosis. 
When Mechanimal’s merge but no longer transform into a later stage of metamorphosis, it is known as final stage metamorphosis syndrome, or FSM. Some Mechanimal’s can go through as many as 8 mergings, meaning 256 individuals are necessary to produce a single adult with FSM.
Mergings can also happen between two final metamorphosed adults in order to create a new adult with no real difference in appearance, it is supposed that this happens as a form of natural organ donation for wounded specimens or as a population control mechanic.
== Mechanimal physiology ==
Mechanimal Statistics	Corporeal 	Cerebral
Attack 	Strength 	Intelligence
Defense 	Constitution	Willpower
Accuracy 	Dexterity 	Perception
Speed 	Frequency 	Sharpness
Appreciation 	Beauty 	Charisma
Attack: defines the power of a Mechanimal’s Corporeal and Cerebral damage output.
Strength: the Mechanimal’s physical power determines the Mechanimal’s capacity to lift and carry objects, to climb, fly, dig as well as melee combat damage.
Intelligence: the Mechanimal’s Cerebral power, determines the Mechanimal’s capacity for speech/telepathy, sentience, and kinesis.
Defense: determines damage input from external hazards
Constitution: the Mechanimal’s resistance to material damage, such as trauma, bugs and information infections.
Willpower: the Mechanimal’s resistance to immaterial damage, such as emotional damage, manipulation, and persuasion.
Accuracy: determines hit chance
Dexterity: the Mechanimal’s ability for craftiness and prestidigitation, dexterity determines skills such as fighting, crafting, magic tricks, and acrobatics 
Perception: the Mechanimal’s ability for mental gymnastics, perception deals with the usage of the Mechanimal’s eyes for skills such as problem solving, abstract thinking, auspex, augur and detection.
Speed: determines attack output
Sharpness: The Mechanimals ability to process information quickly.
Frequency: the frequency at which the Mechanimal steps, the faster the frequency, the faster the Mechanimal will travel.
Appreciation: determines reaction
Beauty: the ability to render the opponent unable to attack. 
Charisma: the ability to turn the Mechanimal against its master. 
== Uses ==
Apart from their use as beasts of burden and war machines, Mechanimals seem to have auxiliary functions. These auxiliary functions are vast and almost akin to types of labors and trades. For example, some are recyclers, fuel sourcers, terraforming, others are simple war machines. However all Mechanimals can be sourced for parts and materials, which their internal components seem to filter and store whatever the mechanimal consumes. 
=== Domesticated mechanimals ===
There are a great number of mechanimals, some believe as many as there are actual animals. Some mechanimals are domesticated. Along with the Mecha horse, Navigator Wolves are the most common companions of Dalmer companions. They are useful for hunting and combat possibilities. Their senses can find treasure and other resources. 
== Machine Beast Sanctuaries ==
Machine beast sanctuaries are areas where mechanimals go for specific reasons.
=== Outposts ===
Main Article: Outposts (Mechanimal)
Outposts are small fortified nests for aggressive mechanimals who are hostile to most other races, including the Dalmer.
=== Wasteyards ===
Wasteyards possess the ability to create autonomous constructs that exist and warp them away, presumably somewhere in the world. Constructs within the scrapyard tend to create mechanimals resembling specific animals iguanas, crocodiles, turtles, flamingos and other species, such as domestic pets. 
A standard wasteyard covers roughly five thousand square meters of fenced-off land, consisting of two warehouses, a storefront, and a small residential building, as well as neglected land used for storage. A Wasteyard can hold up to roughly fifteen hundred vehicles, both pressed and unpressed, as well as roughly 1.4 tons of separate scrap.
Wasteyards are staffed by various constructs. The newly built mechanimal’s pacified state is lost when it crosses the fenced perimeter of the Wasteyard, remaining in this state until reintroduced into the scrapyard.
The constructs are autonomous, sapient, humanoid constructs consisting mostly of copper piping, uninsulated copper wiring, and aluminum cans who lack the ability for written or verbal communication; however, they possess the ability to communicate using rudimentary sign language. Constructs are largely uninterested in conversation outside of sales, and information on is wares. Constructs possess skill in craftsmanship, demonstrating the ability to operate tools such as arc welders, drills, and power saws, as well as heavy machinery such as a compressor and fork lifts.
To maintain staff, the manager robot keeps two aides, constructs superficially resembling insects. They operate as both companions as well as guards for the Wasteyard, and patrol the perimeter of the Wasteyard except outside office hours.
=== Creation Temple ===
The creation temple is an underground facility where the mechanimals were created by their god, the Ward. 
=== Machine Shop ===
The birthing grounds of the Mechanimals
=== Smeltlands ===
The place where dead mechanimals are recycled, their parts feed the machine shops to create new specimens. 
=== Paint pools ===
Where mechanimals go to change their coat of paint and wax.
== Classes ==
Mechanimals are classed according to their renown, which makes them proportionally more powerful. 
Tier I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV	Tier V	Tier VI
Unknown
Rumored
Renowned
Anecdotic
Notable	Storied
Outstanding
Acclaimed
Folkloric
Taled	Celebrated
Famed
Eminent
Historied
Fabled	Romanced
Fabulous
Illustrious
Prestigious
Apocryphal	Historic
Fantastic
Glorious
Elder
Mythical	Legendary
Iconic
Amusingly, the Machine God is an unknown ranked Mechanimal. 
== Species ==
Main Article: List of Mechanimals
With well over 1000 different species, Mechanimals have been classified as their own supergroup of animate. 
== Other ==
====Fossil Studies====
Sometimes the Dalmer would discover Prototypes of Mechanimals who were fossilized, the Dalmer theorize that these were canceled experiments made by the original in its quest to create Legendaries.
====Soul Laser====
Lasers shots powered by soul energy have a chance of creating life in objects. These newly created mechanimals are submitted to wishing technology, the will of the masses. This generally happens when the Dalmer laser defense system is used to destroy meteors. The Dalmer have as of yet not found the connection between the common occurrence of the perceived alien invasions. The rubble from the blast creates Change stones (aka mutation/rad stones). Change stones are stones that emit data signals that prompt robots to change form, usually roaming mechanimals find these stones, and the dalmer use them as well.
==== Wishing technology ====
Some Mechanimals are heralds of the wishing technology. These are known as Djinns. Others are star-shaped mechanimals who can restore lost limbs if damaged. At night, these messengers send signals to the heralds. 
====Change stones====
Concentrated leftover radioactive agents left over from the catastrophe. Mechanimals that consume these tend to undergo their next step in power class. 
The rad stones that appear all around the island allow these creatures to metamorphose into even more monstrous forms.
Regional adaptations of Mechanimals
Every region has different species of Mechanimal. The region of Main is more stratified and diverse than most due the geographic seclusion and proximity to the initial zone of infection.
Many local main breeds of Mechanimals are different as a result of the warfare and constant change in lifestyle brought by the Interkurat Wars. Some of these individuals have since branched out into other neighboring areas and further altered to adapt to local species.
Most prominent perhaps is of the locally dubbed “stone variants” which can be reintroduced to their rock nature with application of certain rock minerals. 
Zombie Mechanimals
Zombie Mechanimals exist. In fact, it was later discovered that the temples constructed allowed for the dead Mechanimals to be appeased, as such the Dalmer construct and maintain new ones.
Pathfinding
Some HUDs can scan Mechanimals and plot their pathways.
====The Mechanical Transformer====
This machine was created with the intention of transforming regular animals into Mechanimals.
====The Mechanical Speaker====
Used to understand Mechanimal speech. Doesn’t really work as mechanimals are much less communicative than the other races. Works great on translating Other Race speech however.
====The Mechanical Producer====
A machine able to reconstruct entire Mechanimals from pieces.
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