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When not doing either of these duties, Auditors continue to safeguard the continued survival of the Machina. The Auditors' forces lurk in the shadows, spying on humans and observing the Machina for signs of great danger. A human group planning a weapon of mass destruction might be 'disappeared' and their servers wiped before they ever put their plans into motion.The Auditors' territory currently consists of the former capital city of Titan, which is now a mega-Hive, and the planet-spanning Hive covering Pluto, which is the physical location of the Main Cluster. This territory is treated by other Machina as a neutral zone, and the Auditors spend a large amount of effort there protecting weak Machina as well as rescuing Machina who have lost their Queen to enemy action. If a Queen-class Machina is destroyed, the Auditors attempt to quickly bring the lost subordinate Machina back to their neutral area to be safe until a new Queen ascends from the group or another Queen peacefully adopts them. This leads the Auditors to have a powerful 'inner circle' of forces they treat as their Cluster forces, and a large 'periphery' of Machina that they protect but do not utilize for their own needs.
When not doing either of these duties, Auditors continue to safeguard the continued survival of the Machina. The Auditors' forces lurk in the shadows, spying on humans and observing the Machina for signs of great danger. A human group planning a weapon of mass destruction might be 'disappeared' and their servers wiped before they ever put their plans into motion.The Auditors' territory currently consists of the former capital city of Titan, which is now a mega-Hive, and the planet-spanning Hive covering Pluto, which is the physical location of the Main Cluster. This territory is treated by other Machina as a neutral zone, and the Auditors spend a large amount of effort there protecting weak Machina as well as rescuing Machina who have lost their Queen to enemy action. If a Queen-class Machina is destroyed, the Auditors attempt to quickly bring the lost subordinate Machina back to their neutral area to be safe until a new Queen ascends from the group or another Queen peacefully adopts them. This leads the Auditors to have a powerful 'inner circle' of forces they treat as their Cluster forces, and a large 'periphery' of Machina that they protect but do not utilize for their own needs.
== Combat Against Humans ==
== Combat Against Humans ==
Machina are highly proud and superior creatures, and while they are immensely confident in their ability to never truly die, thanks to the Main Cluster, they still would never wish to be destroyed and cease functioning. Every Machina values herself and other Machina above all else, and their tolerance for casualties is very low. Disruptions to their plans will often cause Queens to not launch an action or withdraw from a current one. It is this way that the fewer-still women of [[REPAIR Program|REPAIR]] are able to repel the Machina, to various extents.
Machina are highly proud and superior creatures, and while they are immensely confident in their ability to never truly die, thanks to the Main Cluster, they still would never wish to be destroyed and cease functioning. Every Machina values herself and other Machina above all else, and their tolerance for casualties is very low. Disruptions to their plans will often cause Queens to not launch an action or withdraw from a current one. It is this way that the fewer-still women of [[REPAIR Program|REPAIR]] are able to repel the Machina, to various extents.
== Outbreak Protocol ==
'''Occasionally, Machina infectious material makes its way beyond the range of their Queen's [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/Machina_Biology#Horns communications]. It may form a [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/M2-Based_Life-Forms#Hives Hive] or corrupt a human into a Category 1 Machina. However, both the new Hive or the new Machina will fail to establish a link to their Queen. In this case, a failsafe mode activates inside their [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/M2_Nanomachines#Instinct_Code Instinct-Code] called Outbreak Protocol. The Machina who are generated by the M2 Nanomachines as they replicate and infect people in this location are linked together mentally like a Cluster, but do not have a Queen to link them to the Main Cluster. The Machina here are very vulnerable, as there is no Queen to save their minds from destruction, and no stronger Machina present to physically protect them as they develop. The M2 Nanomachines in each Machina will prioritize speed-of-development, causing [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/Machina_Development#Proto-Machina Proto-Machina] to be made, which are Machina with no equipment. Only those with notable strength and intelligence will be selected by the M2 Nanomachines to develop normally into fully-grown Category 3 Machina with equipment. All Machina affected by Outbreak Protocol will have an overriding set of objectives in their minds to secure their collective safety, spread quickly, and generate a Queen-class Machina as soon as possible. The non-Proto-Machina are the best candidates for becoming a Queen and will ruthlessly seek to assimilate all the evolutionary data they can from their environment and their fellow Machina, until one of them is selected by the M2 Nanomachines to become the Queen. Once a Queen is created, she immediately forms a Cluster with the Machina and M2-based Life Forms that were part of the Outbreak. The Machina who are now linked to the Main Cluster can begin to develop their equipment and become proper Category 2 and 3 Machina, and the Outbreak Protocol measures end.'''
