squ1ddosThe Architect and assimilated companions
Okay, I’ll level with ya, I did not realize these builds would cause me to create such a lengthy and visceral story. However, I’m proud of it and maybe I should pursue making an actual story book? Anyways, I digress. This is an origin story for the Architect, The Torment Nexus, and the beautiful Veinhart Soul Engine and Swarm Core. These builds and their counterparts are all connected… it only took me this long to finally piece it all together. Nothing is AI generated, all my own madness. As I said, this new chapter has definitely encouraged me to take a chance. Let me know what you think.
Eons ago, before the days of the Gorath Collective and Rechidna Prime, was the industrial planet, TSyS-Hem. This planet was the sole provider for everything that the Phanor galaxy required. The planet was home to a race of intellectual beings, Jilew-crem that refined a natural resource, Ethnyr. This was the beating soul of the planet that helped stabilize their colony and was rich in this almost universal resource. It could be used in multiple ways, ranging from food all the way to fueling their star freighters. Unfortunately negotiations fell through during the Benure trade wars and soon TSyS-Hem became the prime target for this onslaught of inverse terraforming.
The Jilew-crem were a docile and passive race, and hardly ever resorted to conflict. They asked others to assist in preserving TSyS-Hem, but greed filled their allies eyes and they too assisted in the desecration of this planet. One of the beings escaped, a high elder of immense knowledge; cowered in a vacant cavity that once was home to Ethnyr. They watched as the lush landscape turned to a barren and defiled wasteland. Fields of translucent blue that once covered the ground had been ripped up and the blood of the Jilew-crem flowed through the empty fissures of Ethnyr. Screams and explosions spread over the surface as if draped over with a blanket of murder. Species from every side of the galaxy did their part in the planetary evisceration of TSyS-Hem. The high elder cried and consumed the tincture of hybrid Ethnyr and Croasx to blissfully commit suicide. Shaking violently they ingested every drop and collapsed to the bleeding ground. Motionless the creature lies, hidden in a cave as the remains of the planet’s life essence is ripped away.
They awake, seven days later to the plague of silence. Emerging feeble and frail from the chasm that shielded them from the onslaught. Gazing out over the landscape, they’re stricken with the utter realization no one is left. As they attempt to find their way home their body starts growing strange appendages and their spine becomes twisted and contorted. Writhing in agony and expelling bodily fluids the being now lays face down. A grotesque abscess pulses and protrudes from their back. The first phase of the Genexoscalarpting process has begun. Soon will follow the second phase which is blinding rage and lastly death. This was due to Xenerexes invading and transforming the air into volatile fuel, to expedite the extraction of Ethnyr. Phase two sets in as they start running, faster and faster. At this stage now they have sprouted 6 spiny legs allowing them to jump to great heights and move at incredible speeds.
Rotting carcasses of various creatures cover the once tranquil ground. Machines of war have flooded the translucent landscape, the color of death only remains. A sight of sadness is brought to the elder’s eye as they reach home. Nothing remains, but a charred and destroyed mess. However the elder then recalls they installed a hidden apothecary under the dwelling. Skittering into the hole and frantically pulling debris up to unearth their safe haven, the next last phase starts to set in. The ferocious and intense speed, diminishes and soon they are barely able to stand. Collapsing to the ground in anger and fatigue the light leaves their eyes. Lurched over, the being unconsciously reaches out one last time. Unbeknownst to them they uncover their saving grace. They awaken in daze to find they have unearthed the medicine. Exhausted from exhilaration and hunger they consume the anti-dote to Genexoscalarpting. They savor the greatness and relief that it bestows. As they ingest the capsules they feel foreign entity release and succumb to it’s exit. Quivering in fear and reprieve the being smiles and their fears wane. The creature now slumbers, lifeless in a puddle of a bile, excess Xenerexes by-product.
Days go by once again, and finally they awaken with the disgust they’re now a hybrid of Jilew-crem, and Xenerexes. A image of this new abomination is cast back to them from a shattered mirror segment lodged into the ground. Now remains a repulsive crossbreed and their head covered in a yellow hue. Painted over with a dead smile and empty eyes, their new body accepts this outcast. Angered with the actualization, they gather what resources remain to survive. They start the process of creating an assistant from the various body parts and machines littered on the ground. This will become the Engineer and their first companion.
The Architect forges on with completion of the Engineer, they set out to create one last being, the Prospector. This being of nightmares will be used in the collection of purveying various items for creating works of technological wonders no one has ever seen. These creations all reside within the Architect, which lives up to their moniker. This band of misfit abominations will one day create the Torment Nexus to terraform the landscape into a prosperous home.
TSyS-Hem will die during the terraforming and birth Rechidna Prime. This planet will flourish with a nanoscale by-product of a silicon based Ethynr. As time lingers on the Architect and the companions are extracted of their life-blood. The silicon Ethynr will consume them and birth the first new life. The offspring of this will become the Gorath Collective, in their infancy. Many millennia later, the Architect’s final blueprints will be unearth and utilized. This last great biomechanical product will be the Veinhart Soul Engine and Swarm Core.
Let me know what you think, and if you want more pictures, let me know.
