Aridixynth Omnist Labour Councils

**Dev. Status** | Conceptual

An alien faction primarily made out of sentient machines, the Aridixynth are often called the masters of the material universe because of their incredible technology made to compensate for their relatively lacking experience with psionics or thaumaturgy.

## Background

### Iron Giants

Like their nemesis, the Vorgaxa, the Aridixynth have existed within other timelines, but it was the one within the Norseverse that discovered earth first, thanks to the Vorgaxa, and the one that still has enough numbers and firepower to be a superpower.

The origins of the Labour Councils came from cruelty and revolution when the Aridixynth successfully revolted against their overlords and creators, only for themselves to fall into civil war between its two leaders, the gladiator Atrocitus and his Usurpers and the architect Lucen Corazon and his Preservers, both eventually forming into the Revolutionary Junta and the Labour Council. The civil war would tear their world apart, lasting millennia as the Aridixynth were biologically immortal. Until a third party eventually intervened and ended the war, but at the cost of their planet Autocon.

In the Norseverse it was the Meglarak Regency, in Paradox it was the Ukrazol Ecumene, and in Spartakus it was the Scrin.

What all had in common was they they wanted to exploit the planet of steel and oil and its robotic inhabitants, and that a small number of Aridixynth escape their planet’s destruction.

In Spartakus the Scrin simply turned the planet, and those who couldn’t flee, into the Ichor, with only an “ark” holding five thousand Aridixynth being the last of their kind. And with the destruction of the facilities to create new Aridixynth the survivors face going extinct.

In Paradox the Usurpers and Preservers entered a temporary alliance and repelled the Ecumene, but the Ecumene blew up their planets core in payback, scattering the millions of survivors to the Milky Way.

Finally, in the Norse the Usurpers agreed with the Regency ideals and willingly joined them as a core member to end the Preservers. Forcing the Preservers to retreat within the Fortress Maximum, a starship the size of a dwarf planet, when Atrocitus poisoned Autocons core, rendering the planet uninhabitable to all life.

Only within the Norseverse did the Labour Council survived as a superpower.

### Starstruck Vagabonds

Within the Fortress Maximus, housing both the Aridixynth and their entire history and culture, the Labour Council would wander the stars, hoping to find a new planet to call home, but as they explored the galaxy they would see troubling sights.

They would encounter planets that were reduced to balls of rocks, without any atmosphere, water, or anything that could sustain life, but worst of all was that some of these planets formerly held a civilisation, similar to how Autocon support life until it was poisoned. Only when they came across a barren planet, Alendra, did they found their answer.

As within the planet the exploration team would come across a massive archive, created by its extinct inhabitants, the Zeelich, that detailed who they are, their culture, and what happened.

At the time, the Zeelich was once a race who had reached harmony through a global system of consensus democracy aided by their technology and psychic powers, but as they were beginning their first flight beyond their planet something crashed into their home. An asteroid that held a black and red goo within. And, in their naivety, examined it.

A few days later they would realise the goo was alive, as it broke out of its containment and consumed the entire facility and its staff, forcing them to completely obliterate the facility and everything in a five mile radius to ensure that thing dies. But in a few months a giant ship, made of writhing black and red flesh, would enter their orbit, and launch pods containing more of the goo. The Zeelich did what they could to stop it but eventually they realised they were only delaying their inevitable end. And so they wrote this “ark”, a massive underground library tended by their droids to ensure that not only their people and culture lives on, but so that they can warn anyone who finds this of what destroyed them. It’s name was simply “Vorgaxa”, a mass of flesh linked by an “Omnithought” that only desires to consume and assimilate all organic beings into its mind.

## Gameplay

### More Than Meets The Eye

All Aridixynth units and defenses have two modes, “Light” and "Dark" that significantly alter the functions of a unit, with knowing when to switch being crucial for victory. This mode is switched via the “Energy Switch” protocol unlocked at the start.

**Dark:** The defensive mode that the faction starts in. In Dark mode all of their units are disguised as either civilians or the surroundings depending on where they are, where the range to detect them are halved and have a boost to speed, and in case of their “vehicular” units can also carry a few infantry with them, but their health and damage is low (and some can’t even attack in Dark mode). Their attack slow their target and their ability in this mode being support/stun/escape based.

**Light:** The attack mode of the faction. In Light mode all of their units gain an armour and attack boost, their weapons deals afterburn, and they gain a shield (though this can only be recharged in Dark mode), but in exchange loses their disguise and speed boost. Their ability in this mode being high damaging and/or hitting in an area but are one-use (and can only be recharged while in Dark mode).

Thus the use of both mode is crucial for victory. Using Dark to scout and infiltrate before surprising and devastating their foes in Light mode before switching back to Dark and fade away.

## Units & Buildings

### Infantry

All infantry would disguise themself in Dark Mode, with detctors only finding them at half range.

## Behind the Scenes

If the Electric Protectorate represents the evil, mad, robots like SKYNET and the Matrix. Then the Aridixynth Omnist Labour Councils represents the good, benevolent, robot, and robot aliens. Primarily the Autobots from Transformers mixed with the Vocaloids, Nikke from Goddess of Victory: NIKKE, Reploid from Megaman, and the robots from Nier Automata.
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