Automaatti

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## Biological information

### Lifespan

unknown, as long as the machinery functions

### Population

unknown

Recently, a number of humanoid automatons have been sighted on a continent north-east of Valresh. The recon team that went to investigate wasn't prepared for such a threat. When they came back they brought some valuable information about the automatons that are nearing our lands

It is thought that they will first attack in the parts where water can't damage their components, like mountains, plains and deserts.

## Appearance

Although they seem human, there is one obvious giveaway that they are, in fact, not one. The smoke that their engines lets out is one of them. Others may be: cogs on the back, mechanical enhancements, missing heads and the smell of rotting flesh.

They don't wear clothes, as the mechanical parts cover most of their bodies.

The parts of their bodies that are rotten are usually kept together by iron plates screwed into their bones. One of their hands is replaced by a sword, while on the other one, they use a piston with an iron fist for blunt damage. Their head has been replaced with a voicebox, thus being capable of speech.

## Behaviour

They seem to be passive, not attacking unarmed people. They usually roam alone, almost as if they're looking for something. When getting closer to them, they seem to speak, or rather murmur. After listening to more specimens, it has been determined that they are conscious, and are actively trying to communicate with us.

When attacked, the machinery that keeps them alive starts up with a piercing metallic sound, accompanied by the screams of the human. If it isn't attacked for an entire minute, the machinery slows down to preserve its fuel and the human quiets down. If the attacks continue, it will start attacking everything in a melee radius. If the target is out of the melee range, it will try to close the distance as fast as possible.

## Weaponry

Unlike other automatons, these ones seem to have built for warfare. Their limbs have been replaced with mechanical implants used in wars. They are as follows:

1. Their blades can set the enemies' skin ablaze, cutting through any armor. There is a minority that can poison their enemies.
2. The piston hand, which can generate up to 200kgf, is used to breach concrete fortifications, or to pulverize humans in an instant
3. A mechanical leg that can shake the ground in a 20-meter radius by stomping

## Anatomy

Due to being walking corpses, autopsies are almost impossible unless there is a doctor in the exploration group. We can speculate that they are similar to humans, with a few visible exceptions:

1. Head is missing, replaced with an improvised voicebox that is covering their vocal cords.
2. Mechanical heart, the cogs in the back being used to pump blood.
3. The weaponry
4. Cables replacing the entire nervous system.

Upon their death, their flesh starts to turn to dust, just like a vampire's. After that, their mechanical body is revealed and ready to be scavenged. An average looter can get iron and perhaps some copper from it, but the experienced ones can melt the circuit boards to also gain some gold. Sometimes, though rarely, they can also find an intact core, which acts as a brain, storing their entire memory, along with their personality.