going through Lancer lore. it kicks ass
the core conceit is absolutely Communist Fighting Robots, but with the "no. really. how the fuck would that work" that lets you know the authors give a shit.
the Third Committee of Union is doing its best, and doing extremely well. but it's not the only interstellar polity, its constituent elements are frequently at ends with each other, capital is constantly doing what capital do, they can't be everywhere, and their attempts to do so MAYBE birthed a god
RA does not appear to be hostile, but, uh
it appears when you link five superAIs together, with every precaution against cascading known to man (cascade, noun: "when robits have existential crises and start actively altering their own programming it gets very ugly very fast") they find a way to cascade NOT known to man
they are all still perfectly functional predictive engines. just, uh.
please do not ask where Deimos went. and if you see it, please notify authorities.
also their industrial core started off as a rabidly capitalist-bordering-on-feudal world that didn't undergo the apocalyptic fall of the first galactic civilization that birthed UNION
they have been integrated, but... incompletely. the Karrakin Baronies have their Committee representative, and as they all agree in public: they definitely would not take any opportunity to expand their power at UNION's expense
real shame about that workers revolt on Ludra, that UNION definitely didn't support
the interstellar megacorps very much work for Union. after all: they're the only game in town! but capital gonna capital, and Harrison Armory (benchmark combat robits, the Sherman is the main battle frame of every armed force that can pay for it) has made Moves to ensure... redundancy, if UNION were to suffer a reduction in force projection capacity.
incidentally Harrison II died around the same time Deimos spontaneously manifested in-atmosphere of Ras Shamra. noone read anything into this.
also there's an anarchist collective called HORUS that appears to exist solely on the omninet. they do not so much manufacture robits as offer access to schematics that you can install at your discretion. that many of these schematics violate the laws of physics as known prior to the birth-of-what-always-was of RA, and the rest are all platforms for/the weirdly useful aftermath of receiving fiendishly dangerous code attacks, raises a whole lot of eyebrows.
cool robits tho
@bryceyoungquist do the robits eat ass, though?
@Surasanji if your NHP exhibits interest in eating the booty like groceries, please check the user's manual: this may be indicative of pending cascade issues, addressed by cycling. Alternately it may be well within standard parameters. Remember: every NHP is different!