>>5688742As war technology advances, so too does the scale of warfare. It was inevitable for Mankind to lag behind this quickly increasing scale, and so did civilization end in the year 2124. Evergrowing tensions between nations boiled over and War Automatons were near-thoughtlessly sent all across the globe. Into military bases, into political buildings, into cities, there was little concern for location. No one was sending their own men to die, after all. Then came the <span class="mu-r">nuclear bombs</span>. Following after was a long silence. The world had fallen apart, by the hands of metal men guided by men of flesh. Mankind would not see it this way, though government was gone the people still remembered machine long after the hellfire had stopped. Though the atom left much devastation in its way, the Automatons were a death in and of its own. Their thinking circuit boards allowed them to survive by leeching energy from wherever they could, continuing their orders for as long as they could. Certain areas of the world were even considered uninhabitable due to populations of War Automatons that guarded these locations with untold ferocity.
However, not all of these machines would keep to their orders. Nuclear radiation had a way of tampering with circuitry that rendered some parts of them inept. By most cases this would be in regard to their necessary parts, like their limbs or sight, thus making them unable to continue duty. Though, in very very rare cases, an Automaton would find their <span class="mu-g">personality inhibitors</span> beginning to erode. This would lead to machines acting out of line from their metal superiors, looking for new things to do, augmenting themselves to adapt to the scenario. These Automatons would sometimes be exiled, if not executed, by their old platoon for insubordination.
This wasteland isn't free of threats however, as a mixture of released <span class="mu-r">bio-engineered behemoths</span> and irradiated beasts have kept things far from peaceful. From nigh-impenetrable titanic tortoises to wall-shattering megahorned rams, all the way to bear-eating Eagle Rocs. Though not unstoppable, they did a fantastic job at slowing down both man and Automaton from maintaining land.
On the human side of things, the work to reclaim the world has been slow. Most of humanity was cut down in the beginning, so the leftovers have struggled to even find other people to survive with. Nonetheless, makeshift settlements and bunkers have been propped up as bastions for man to recover inside. Trade routes and common roads have even been established for the wanderers of the world to make their way around, though it's not too uncommon to be jumped by dangerous people.
