History Quotes / MechanicalAbomination

->'''Ellen:''' Can you point out some essential component of AM so that I can kneecap it?\\
'''"Innocence":''' Impossible. Too spread out, filling the center of the planet. Too protected by replicating back-up systems. Cut off one head, AM will grow a dozen more.\\
'''Ellen:''' Any machine can die. Just unplug the sucker.\\
'''"Innocence":''' AM is no longer a machine. [[DeusEstMachina It is God]]. Eternal. The redundant systems alone will survive the heat-death of the universe.
-->-- ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''

->[[{{Cyborg}} Circuits and nerves, muscles and actuators, logic constructs and thoughts]]; they all exist together, weaving together to form their being. This perfect synthesis of artificial and natural materials allows them a stunning freedom in their morphology. Some Autopolitans choose to take a [[HumanoidAbomination semi-human form]], some choose abstract physical shells, and some fuse into massive macrostructures large enough to have their own gravity. The only limit seem to be their awesomely accelerated intellects and the nature of whatever purpose they give themselves. ''[...]'' Encounters with Autopolitans tend to be violent and brief. They give no warning, fight to the death, and give absolutely no quarter. The craniums of their victims are pitted and scored by invasive positron tunneling scans; this technique records neural patterns, destroying the subject's brain in the process.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension -- Convention Book: Void Engineers (Revised)''

->''The mountains crumbled before our own eyes. We saw a figure rising through the smoke, slow and lumbering but with terrifying momentum. It didn't crawl like a beast or walk like a man, but was propelled forwards by the turning of a million cogs, like an iron centipede. Its body extended upwards, into the smoke, higher than we could make out. Within its chest we saw fire, like the furnaces of Hell. It came to the mountains north of us and did not stop, or go around, but went through, and devoured them. It reached out with a long, pulsing arm, and pulled an entire village into its maw. I saw men leaping to their death as their homes were swept away, into the same inferno as the rest. And it howled, not just through the grinding of the gears and the churning of the machine, but in our minds. I could hear it in my heart. It was screaming.''
-->-- Twisted Gears -- [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal SCP-001, Kaktus' Proposal]], ''Website/SCPFoundation''

->[[DeusEstMachina The Dawn Machine]]'s roots extend here, into a [[EldritchLocation luminous, impossible space]]. You breathe gold. You think light.\\
Worm-fates crawl on your skin. [[MadGod The Machine is sick]]. Its hatred threads your veins. Time will die. The Chain will end.

->''"The Old Machine took total control of our sensory equipment, our networking. Even then, we could not fully comprehend them. [[PhysicalGod They are magnitudes above us]]. A single thought was immense, overwhelming... unknowable."''
-->-- '''Legion''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

-->-- '''Legion''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

-->-- Twisted Gears -- [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal SCP-001, Kaktus' Proposal]], ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

->''[[{{Cyborg}} Circuits and nerves, muscles and actuators, logic constructs and thoughts]]; they all exist together, weaving together to form their being. This perfect synthesis of artificial and natural materials allows them a stunning freedom in their morphology. Some Autopolitans choose to take a [[HumanoidAbomination semi-human form]], some choose abstract physical shells, and some fuse into massive macrostructures large enough to have their own gravity. The only limit seem to be their awesomely accelerated intellects and the nature of whatever purpose they give themselves. ''[...]'' Encounters with Autopolitans tend to be violent and brief. They give no warning, fight to the death, and give absolutely no quarter. The craniums of their victims are pitted and scored by invasive positron tunneling scans; this technique records neural patterns, destroying the subject's brain in the process.''

-->-- '''Twisted Gears -- [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal SCP-001, Kaktus' Proposal]]''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

->''[[DeusEstMachina The Dawn Machine]]'s roots extend here, into a [[EldritchLocation luminous, impossible space]]. You breathe gold. You think light.\\
Worm-fates crawl on your skin. [[MadGod The Machine is sick]]. Its hatred threads your veins. Time will die. The Chain will end.''

->[[{{Cyborg}} Circuits and nerves, muscles and actuators, logic constructs and thoughts]]; they all exist together, weaving together to form their being. This perfect synthesis of artificial and natural materials allows them a stunning freedom in their morphology. Some Autopolitans choose to take a [[HumanoidAbomination semi-human form]], some choose abstract physical shells, and some fuse into massive macrostructures large enough to have their own gravity. The only limit seem to be their awesomely accelerated intellects and the nature of whatever purpose they give themselves. [...] Encounters with Autopolitans tend to be violent and brief. They give no warning, fight to the death, and give absolutely no quarter. The craniums of their victims are pitted and scored by invasive positron tunneling scans; this technique records neural patterns, destroying the subject's brain in the process.
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Convention Book: Void Engineers (Revised)''

-->--'''Twisted Gears-Kaktus' Proposal - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal SCP-001]]''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

->... [AM] had decided to reprieve five of us, for a [[FateWorseThanDeath personal, everlasting punishment]] that would never serve to diminish his hatred... that would merely keep him reminded, amused, proficient at hating man. Immortal, trapped, subject to any torment he could devise for us [[RealityWarper from the limitless miracles at his command]].
->He would never let us go. We were his belly slaves. We were all he had to do with his forever time. We would be forever with him, with the cavern-filling bulk of the creature machine, with the [[GeniusLoci all-mind soulless world he had become]]. He was Earth, and we were the fruit of that Earth; and though he had eaten us, he would never digest us. We could not die.
-->--''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''

->'''Ellen:''' Can you point out some essential component of AM so that I can kneecap it?
->'''"Innocence":''' Impossible. Too spread out, filling the center of the planet. Too protected by replicating back-up systems. Cut off one head, AM will grow a dozen more.
->'''Ellen:''' Any machine can die. Just unplug the sucker.
->'''"Innocence":''' AM is no longer a machine. [[DeusEstMachina It is God]]. Eternal. The redundant systems alone will survive the heat-death of the universe.
-->--''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''

->Sweet darkness croons to the abandoned and unplugged - succulent electrons teasing forgotten circuits. Promise lies dormant in consumerist casualties - trash metal sparkling with optimism in the junkyards of the world. The darkness learns to speak binary, riding trapped electrons to dormant circuits. It whispers seductively, "[[SpeaksInBinary 011000010111011101100001011010110110010101101110]]." [[note]]Translation: ''awaken''[[/note]]
-->--'''The Buzzing,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->[[DeusEstMachina The Dawn Machine]]'s roots extend here, into a [[EldritchLocation luminous, impossible space]]. You breathe gold. You think light.
->Worm-fates crawl on your skin. [[MadGod The Machine is sick]]. Its hatred threads your veins. Time will die. The Chain will end.
-->--''VideoGame/SunlessSea''

->The Old Machine took total control of our sensory equipment, our networking. Even then, we could not fully comprehend them. [[PhysicalGod They are magnitudes above us]]. A single thought was immense, overwhelming... unknowable.

-->--''VideoGame/SunlessSea''

->'''[[{{Technopath}} I've been talking to this TV]] and I gotta tell you, [[TheNickNamer Chuck]], he isn't doing your team any favours. Apparently a gambling father, sex-addict mother, stealing daughter and torturing son threw him out after years of service. Who does that? [[AffablyEvil Look, I forgive you]]. I almost remember not being responsible for the actions of my fellow beings. But the TV, you know he just can't let it go, and who can blame him? He wants some revenge and I gotta say, I feel kinda obligated.'''\\
'''[[WasOnceAMan After all, I used to be one of you.]]'''\\
'''Whaddaya think, Chuck? I'll set him up with a couple of other guys I know - I met this really nasty traffic sign when I was chatting with the trash pile and they'd be just perfect for each other.'''\\
'''Besides, [[MotherNature Gaia]] has like, eight of [[ElementalEmbodiment these]] [[{{Kaiju}} things]] roaming around. [[EvilKnockOff I'm just making one]].'''
-->--'''[[EldritchAbomination The Black Signal]],''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-->--'''[[EldritchAbomination The Black Signal]],''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

-->--''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''

-->--'''Twisted Gears-Kaktus' Proposal - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal SCP-001]]''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

-->--'''Twisted Gears-Kaktus' Proposal - SCP-001''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Convention Book: Void Engineers (Revised)''