City of Machines

When the power of the robots rose, they started taking over the Third Mainland, which was both the largest in area and most vast in territory. They raised "Father" as their new man-made god.

## Description

On the western side of the City of Machines was a marshy plain, covered with a nerve gas to restrain those who would try to pass through. "Father's" regime extended all the way to the Eastern Shore, with the exact intention of preventing the humans from escaping.

The entire city was encircled with a black wall. The city wall was like a dark black beast that was laying dormant, criss-crossed with marks, as if a special weapon was inset inside. The wall was not high at all, most of the mechanical lifeforms were equipped with the ability to fly, and the only function of the walls was to prevent the humans and clones from leaving this place.

When it rained, it smelt like crude oil; the pollution infesting almost every part of the city.

## Layout

* The city was built in the shape of a crown; the region of the Nucleus was built thousands of years ago by humans, and its central point was "Father's" tall tower
* The Western District is the region where the mechanical lifeforms gather. This is the area where they charge up, exchange communications, and their acquisition terminals
	+ Any robots without duties would be on standby in the Western District. To save on power, "Father" will sometimes wake them up
* Gathered in the outer city are about two hundred thousand clones who provide all kinds of services for the mechanical lifeforms, just like a small-scale community
* Around the outside of the Western District there is a spare parts assembly plant, which is operated by the robotic guards. Inside there is a conveyor belt that sends metallic plates, spare parts, and other half-finished parts to the casting plant. This is the region where they refine and enhance the crude metal
* Towards the north of the city is the a moulding plant, and the biomaterial synthesis center.
* The Eastern District is where the humans are gathered. Using a central elevator that leads down into the underground passageway and the Ant Nest.

## History

> *"The steel lifeforms colonized the surface. The sulphur pollution from constant years of production covered the sky, causing the City of Machines to be constantly blanketed by yellow clouds, and though the surface was covered with forests of skyscrapers, they were all icy cold factories of steel. And deep under the surface, that was where the humans lived. They had become the slaves of the steel lifeforms, and their daily lives were simple and standarized: they took shifts to sleep, and when it was time they would get up and start working… as if they were animals kept in cages."*
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Humans had conquered the sky and the land, as though there was nothing they couldn't do. Everything that now which repressed them, humans had made, created specifically to serve humans. But the clones first betrayed mankind, and afterwards it was "Father." When the robots gained control over the clones' production lines, they finally brought the clones under the control of the machines.

Some of the humans stayed and were turned into slaves, while the rest ran off, creating new countries on the other side of the Great Ocean.

1. ↑ Novel, Chapter 6
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Novel, Chapter 14
3. ↑ Novel, Chapter 1
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Novel, Chapter 3