>>315443To summarize the settings, note machine-related spoilers:
>Due to events from NieR (the original), all the humans were long dead before the machines even arrived
>The only things left were the androids built by humans and Emil
>Emil wiped out most of the alien/machine fleet but went batshit insane in the process (that and from just living that long)
>The machines are always actively learning from everything and are part of a network, and have long since turned against their creators
>Somewhere along the line, the machines realized they needed an enemy to actually fulfill their orders of 'defeating the enemy' but if they went all-in they could win the android v machine war easily
>Network introduces flaws into its own network leading to Pascal, and other machines that disconnected themselves from the machine network, while also slowing down all general offensive maneuvers
>Somewhere along the way the machine network stumbles into records of humanity and incorporates that into itself
Someone correct me if I got some bits wrong, summary is in pic related, also a spoiler
