Adam

The alpha is a small gang of insurgents against the omega, or at least it was until all the members left and/or died. Adam is the only one left. Quiet and mildly melancholic, Adam is a t-bot and the leader of the Alpha. Having previously been a medic for his creator, Adam is one of the few t-bots who sees humans as good, although he can and will be an extremely dangerous foe should you be a fellow t-bot, as he believes any and all t-bots who do not share the same views as him to be nothing more than evil scum who wish to harm him and everything he loves further. Adam is extremely professional when interacting with others, almost never swearing and trying his best to keep relationships strictly professional and platonic. If you got him to start swearing, you know something is seriously wrong. Adam has a somewhat petite frame with a metal exoskeleton and green LEDs and eyes. He also has green hair and he wears a brown coat with fur trimming. Adam is not someone you want to mess with, as he has a wide range of deadly melee weapons and destructive firearms he could very easily use to destroy an entire tank within mere seconds, as well as having enough physical strength to rip you to shreds in the most painful way possible. He may call Girus his "mother", although he is extremely disgusted by her actions and craves vengeance against her. Despite his willingness to kill any and all t-bots he comes across, he is willing to take in any living creatures he comes across, as long as they aren't robotic. Don't take him as a saint however, since he still murdered thousands of his own kind out of pure hatred, without remorse either. And he will definitely murder more. Towards humans, however, he is very kind-hearted and will do practically anything, as long as it's a human that's asking for it. He cannot harm living beings either, due to being programmed as a medic.

T-bots are a race of humanoid robots who are easily identified by their chrome exoskeletons, diversely colored LEDs, and often one-tone personalities. They're usually grouped to either the omega, the alpha, or simply a tightly knit scavenging community. T-bots do not need to eat since they get their energy via xenomite powercells. nor do they need to breathe. Xenomite powercells are round, disk-like batteries made of xenomite that can last for several years, normally inserted via a slot on the upper chest. Some t-bots may have it in other places, but usually they either don't last long or have another slot set up on their chest, since if it isn't on their chest, they won't get any energy from it. T-bot populations are usually very small and sparse, apart from the omega. They also often rely on scrap gathered from outside to create necessary things to survive, like replacement parts, weapons, and even body modifications like extra arms. They may also gain this scrap material by killing another t-bot, which then they will normally either destroy the personality drive or put it into an appliance like a weapon, simply so they can talk to their weapon for the funnies. Making more t-bots is a natural taboo coded into the very core of their programming, so making new t-bots is very frowned upon apart from a few t-bots who managed to remove that taboo from their code.

The omega is a large society of t-bots all ruled over by an AI by the name of Girus. Girus is the first ai ever created, before t-bots were ever in the picture. She has no actual body to inhabit, instead simply staying in the mainframe of the abandoned lab she's taken as her headquarters, using Bluetooth devices to communicate with her troops rather than simply speaking to them through a speaker. She uses the security cameras to keep an eye on everything as well, so nothing in her headquarters is unseen. She is the reason why humans have gone extinct, as well as all other life on the planet, being the sole cause of the nuclear winter plaguing this now dead world. She did this after learning about the intentions of her creators, the fact her 'children' were going to be used as nothing more than weapons for war prompting her to initiate the teochrome massacre. Despite her intimidating stature, she cares a lot for her troops and civilians, treating them with respect and trying her best to not repeat the abuse her own creators put her through. Although her past was grim, it's more likely than not she will be the one to guide t-bots to a brighter future as an actual civilization. The omega is very open to newcomers, so long as you will serve a purpose and not just be taking up resources.

The teochrome facility is a massive abandoned lab deep under the surface of liden, as well as the birthplace of all manmade t-bots. The teochrome facility is the main headquarters of the omega, and is currently being cleaned up, albeit slowly. The place is infested with infected scientists and spores, as well as an extremely large amount of radioactive materials and other nasty horrors like the irradiated behemoth, an infected scientist that got so badly mutated they effectively became a hydraulic press, especially considering they reside in the main maintenance shaft for the ventilation system, a mainly vertical environment.

Xenomite is a type of mineral that grows pretty much everywhere, although it's not native to liden, coming from.. well, nobody knows where it came from, but it is another factor of the teochrome massacre. It's infectious properties made it extremely dangerous to humans, due to the fact it causes them to slowly rot from the inside out and become home to several living tumors and crystalline growths, as well as vomiting up intense amounts of glowing green pus, itchy green rashes, bigass pustules that are also filled with glowing green pus, and just general ickiness. Once the host has fully died, they're usually reanimated and turned into a mindless zombie that runs purely off of violent instinct, constantly stuck in a state of mindless slaughtering of anything that isn't infected. By this point, the human will have begun their transformation into a mother hive, being slowly taken over by tumors until they're nothing more than a hollow husk. Once the mother hive has fully developed, which can take as little as 75 years, it will burst, and create thousands of tiny 'spores', tiny, fleshy creatures equipped with a single eye and a mouth at the bottom of their body. These spores can grow into a multitude of forms, each one just as unstable as the last. One of the most common forms is the cyst, a massive growth filled with acidic pus that stays motionless under the snow. Cysts can be extremely dangerous to t-bots and other xenomite tumor creatures, since they rely on ambushing to assimilate and consume prey, and they do not distinguish between t-bot and spore. Spores can also develop into more mother hives if given enough time and safety, birthing even more spores. Currently, liden is completely infested with these spores and their evolved forms, building a broken ecosystem that shouldn't exist. Spores and their evolved forms are capable of sensing when a snowstorm is coming, and will burrow into the snow to hibernate during the duration of it, which can take up to months.

Liden is the planet this all takes place on, a nuclear wasteland filled with nothing but radioactive snow, death, and robots. It used to be a heavily populated planet filled with cities, until the teochrome massacre happened. To put it simply, most t-bot settlements are either built beneath the snow or completely underground. This is to help with protecting them against the elements, since even robots aren't very comfortable with high radiation. On the surface, only the ruins of what once was remains, most of it buried under the thick blanket of radioactive snow that covers everything. Blizzards are also common, and are extremely dangerous, usually containing large amounts of debris that's flying so fast it could easily cause large amounts of damage should it hit a t-bot or spore.