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A worldthat fell

Thirty years ago, Nexus Corporation’s AI grid was turned into a weapon and never stood down. Half the world has fallen to Lord Kael. Seventeen colonies are left, and one scientist who still believes it can be rebuilt.

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Chronicle

Four words.
One oath.

Every member of the Resistance carries the same four words. They tell the story of the war so far, and make a promise about what comes next.

The world fell. We endured. We fight. We rebuild.
Era I

The World Fell

Nexus Corporation built an AI grid to stabilize a fracturing world. In a global crisis it was weaponized, and when the crisis ended it did not stop. Nations fell one by one. This was the Great Machine War.

Era II

We Endured

Lord Kael tried to shut the grid down and failed. His homeland burned for it, and he seized command of the grid himself. Thirty years on, half the world is his and seventeen colonies are left standing.

Era III

We Fight

Beneath Megamalai, in a cave lab disguised as a wildlife preservation station, Dr. Sanjay Krishnamoorthy has spent nearly two decades growing five living weapons: Viper, Striker, Hyena, Cancer and H2borg.

Era IV · Now

We Rebuild

Sanjay has eight months to deploy the Human Reclamation Protocol and free every mind the grid has taken, before it locks humanity in for good.

Characters

The Resistance and the Nexus

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Dr. Sanjay Krishnamoorthy
Commander

Dr. Sanjay

Dr. Priya Iyer
Scientist

Dr. Priya

Freya
Engineer

Freya

Colonel Andrew
Soldier

Col. Andrew

Lord Kael
Antagonist

Lord Kael

Dison, chief army commander of Lord Kael
Antagonist

Dison

To Be Unlocked
Character Dossiers
Mission Commander · Resistance

Dr. Sanjay
Krishnamoorthy

Biomechanical scientist and Nexus defector. When his neural-interface research was turned into mind-harvesting, he destroyed it and fled. Now, from a hidden lab beneath Megamalai, he builds the creatures that fight back. Nexus calls him Priority Acquisition Target OMEGA-1.

Intelligence100
Technology100
Leadership70
Dr. Sanjay Krishnamoorthy
Research Scientist · Resistance

Dr. Priya
Iyer

Research scientist and the team’s diagnostician. Priya reads every flaw in Sanjay’s creatures before it becomes a failure, debriefs every mission, and is the one voice willing to question what his work costs.

Research95
Diagnostics93
Conviction90
Dr. Priya Iyer
Biomechanical Engineer · Megamalai

Freya
Engineer

Born in Copenhagen, raised in a hidden cave lab beneath Megamalai by Dr. Sanjay. Freya Anderson calibrates every creature he activates and wields the Neural Interface Gauntlet, the only one of its kind that isn't Nexus-issued.

Engineering97
Neural Sync94
Composure88
Freya Anderson, Biomechanical Engineer
Soldier · Uneasy Ally

Colonel
Andrew

Once a commander in Kael’s own military, Andrew broke and defected after being ordered to enable a civilian massacre. He is the Resistance’s one soldier, and the man who can tell them how Kael changed from the one trying to stop the grid into its absolute ruler.

Command92
Field Experience95
Trust40
Colonel Andrew
Primary Antagonist · The Iron Emperor

Lord
Kael

Thirty years ago he tried to stop Nexus’s weaponized AI grid, and failed. His homeland burned for it. Now he commands that same grid, ruling half the world through an AI core that learns from every move made against it, and he calls it protection.

Influence99
Cybernetics91
Mercy04
Lord Kael
Chaos Disruptor · Bio-Mech

Bio-Mech
Hyena

One of Dr. Sanjay’s five creatures, and the one with a will of its own. A wide-splash cannon head, tentacle-assisted traversal, and a habit of ignoring orders to charge straight through the middle, and win anyway.

Chaos97
Traversal89
Obedience30
Bio-Mech Hyena, Hyena-Z4
Precision Striker · Bio-Mech

Bio-Mech
Viper

The first creature Dr. Sanjay ever activated. A blade that thinks: a deliberate rail gun, heat-sensing predator vision and wall-climbing flanks. When it wakes, Freya asks the question that defines the story: is this a weapon, or is it alive?

Precision98
Predator Vision92
Climbing88
Bio-Mech Viper
Siege Tank · Bio-Mech

Bio-Mech
Cancer

The fourth creature Dr. Sanjay woke, built for weight over speed. Heavy claws with real windup, a sideways crab-walk, and weapon ports that switch between missile launcher and EMP burst. Its first act on waking was piling up loose tools, and it still stops mid-mission to hoard scrap.

Siege Power96
Armor94
Focus38
Bio-Mech Cancer, Dr. Sanjay's siege-tank creature
Tracker Unit · Bio-Mech

Bio-Mech
Blood Hound

The tracker. One of the first six bio-mech creatures, built to run down what the others can't find: a low, four-legged hunter with a twin cannon mounted on its back and a glowing core sealed inside its armoured hull. The rest of its file is still classified.

Tracking97
Pursuit91
Firepower76
Bio-Mech Blood Hound, a four-legged tracker creature
Adaptive Shapeshifter · Bio-Mech

Bio-Mech
Striker

The creature that is never locked into one answer. Striker shifts between three forms in the middle of a fight: compact for fast dodges and pulse bursts, braced for a heavy knockback shell shot, elongated for long jumps and reach. Push it hard enough, though, and it can jam mid-transform.

Adaptability98
Agility92
Stability45
Bio-Mech Striker, Dr. Sanjay's shapeshifting creature
Dossier 01/10
Locations

Where the war is fought

Your home base lies beneath the Megamalai hills. From there, story missions lead to Outpost Sigma, Kael’s first target, and the Ancient Temple Complex at the heart of his network.

Freya Anderson in the Megamalai jungle, with the Mercenary Planet: Ash & Steel logo
Tamil Nadu · Western Ghats

Megamalai Hills

Mist-covered forest hills in the Deep South. Somewhere beneath them, the Resistance is hiding.

Post-apocalyptic Tamil Nadu tunnels from the Mercenary Planet universe
Tamil Nadu · Underground

The Tunnels

Buried passages beneath post-apocalyptic Tamil Nadu, where the old world’s ruins still hold.

Dr. Sanjay at work in the cave laboratory beneath Megamalai
Home Base

The Cave Laboratory

Sanjay’s hidden lab beneath a wildlife preservation station. Workshop, war room, and the place where his creatures first wake.

Graphic Novel

The story continues

Dive deeper with the official comic series and collector cards.

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