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== Individual Behaviour ==
== Individual Behaviour ==
Individually, a Machina is instinctively driven to grow and become more advanced, as well as to seek pleasure as much as possible. This behaviour facilitates the survival and advancement of the M2 Nanomachines too. Her instinctive need to experience new stimuli that tests her abilities causes new adaptations in both her body and Gene-Code, as they are linked to each other. By enhancing the Machina's sexual prowess, seeking pleasure is almost always sexual in nature. The sex obsession displayed by nearly all Machina causes the proliferation of M2 Nanomachines and the sharing of Gene-Code improvements between Machina. Because Machina are driven to engage in sex as often as possible, there is no effective way to hoard Gene-Code improvements among most Machina. This removes the possibility of stagnation by ensuring that no Machina may simply accumulate Gene-Code improvements and keep them for herself to the detriment of others. Machina must always improve via their own efforts to stay ahead of the constantly-advancing baseline.
Individually, a Machina is instinctively driven to grow and become more advanced, as well as to seek pleasure as much as possible. This behaviour facilitates the survival and advancement of the M2 Nanomachines too. Her instinctive need to experience new stimuli that tests her abilities causes new adaptations in both her body and [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/M2_Nanomachines#Characteristics Gene-Code], as they are linked to each other. By enhancing the Machina's sexual prowess, seeking pleasure is almost always sexual in nature. The sex obsession displayed by nearly all Machina causes the proliferation of M2 Nanomachines and the sharing of Gene-Code improvements between Machina. Because Machina are driven to engage in sex as often as possible, there is no effective way to hoard Gene-Code improvements among most Machina. This removes the possibility of stagnation by ensuring that no Machina may simply accumulate Gene-Code improvements and keep them for herself to the detriment of others. Machina must always improve via their own efforts to stay ahead of the constantly-advancing baseline.
Machina are instinctively driven to spread M2 Nanomachines to uncorrupted humans. This drive to corrupt more humans almost always leads them to conflict with human armed forces. In the event of conflict, Machina instinctively avoid killing humans to preserve as many humans as possible for corruption. What the humans see as war, the Machina see as sporadic fights while hunting for unwilling sexual partners on the battlefield. As this is happening, both individual Machina and their controlling Queens are constantly analyzing human belligerents. If a human or group of humans is doing something that would jeopardize the life of a Machina, and they cannot be quickly and reasonably taken-out using non-lethal methods, the Machina will destroy the threat with lethal force without hesitation.
Machina are instinctively driven to spread M2 Nanomachines to uncorrupted humans. This drive to corrupt more humans almost always leads them to conflict with human armed forces. In the event of conflict, Machina instinctively avoid killing humans to preserve as many humans as possible for corruption. What the humans see as war, the Machina see as sporadic fights while hunting for unwilling sexual partners on the battlefield. As this is happening, both individual Machina and their controlling Queens are constantly analyzing human belligerents. If a human or group of humans is doing something that would jeopardize the life of a Machina, and they cannot be quickly and reasonably taken-out using non-lethal methods, the Machina will destroy the threat with lethal force without hesitation.
== Clusters ==
== Clusters ==
A Cluster is the network shared between all the Machina belonging to a certain Queen. Utilizing quantum entanglement, the Machina of a given Cluster are linked to each other and their Queen via their [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/Machina_Biology?venotify=created#Horns horns], the organ that facilitates the connection. Each Machina contributes a portion of her processing power to the Cluster and is able to instantly communicate with her sisters as much as she needs. The Queen-class Machina controlling the Cluster acts as the central server for communication and coordination between her subordinates. The Queen is able to learn everything that her subordinates know and experience, and issue commands that are followed without question.
A Cluster is the network shared between all the Machina belonging to a certain [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/Machina_Classes#Queen_class Queen]. Utilizing quantum entanglement, the Machina of a given Cluster are linked to each other and their Queen via their [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/Machina_Biology?venotify=created#Horns horns], the organ that facilitates the connection. Each Machina contributes a portion of her processing power to the Cluster and is able to instantly communicate with her sisters as much as she needs. The Queen-class Machina controlling the Cluster acts as the central server for communication and coordination between her subordinates. The Queen is able to learn everything that her subordinates know and experience, and issue commands that are followed without question.
== Imperial Clusters ==
== Imperial Clusters ==
== Auditors ==
== Auditors ==
There are two unique Empresses who are referred to as Auditors. Their task seems to be the preservation of Machina survival. It is observed to consist of two main parts: Internal affairs and defense against threats to the Machina as a whole. If a Machina performs actions that are deemed self-destructive to the Machina, such as harming other Machina or becoming a liability to Machina survival through actions or inaction, the Auditors will seek out that Machina and punish her, often re-educating the offending Machina. The Auditors will also strike at human projects that would pose a threat to the continuation of Machina life. As a result of their twin purposes, these Machina are very vigilant, constantly searching for threats within and without. Auditors appear to only have two abilities that are unique to them. The first is that they seem to be able to focus on a Machina that they do not control, including other Queens, and issue commands to them as though they do control that Machina. This is often to issue commands to stop the Machina from continuing their dangerous behaviour, and to assign punishment to them. The authority of a single Auditor is enough to command or punish any non-Alpha Machina. For issuing commands and punishments to an Alpha, the consent of both Auditors is needed. The other ability possessed by Auditors is a seemingly-unbeatable Cluster-Code, possibly so they can instantly force other Machina into submission and not be forced into submission themselves.
There are two unique Empresses who are referred to as Auditors. Their task seems to be the preservation of Machina survival. It is observed to consist of two main parts: Internal affairs and defense against threats to the Machina as a whole. If a Machina performs actions that are deemed self-destructive to the Machina, such as harming other Machina or becoming a liability to Machina survival through actions or inaction, the Auditors will seek out that Machina and punish her, often re-educating the offending Machina. The Auditors will also strike at human projects that would pose a threat to the continuation of Machina life. As a result of their twin purposes, these Machina are very vigilant, constantly searching for threats within and without. Auditors appear to only have two abilities that are unique to them. The first is that they seem to be able to focus on a Machina that they do not control, including other Queens, and issue commands to them as though they do control that Machina. This is often to issue commands to stop the Machina from continuing their dangerous behaviour, and to assign punishment to them. The authority of a single Auditor is enough to command or punish any non-Alpha Machina. For issuing commands and punishments to an Alpha, the consent of both Auditors is needed. The other ability possessed by Auditors is a seemingly-unbeatable Cluster-Code, possibly so they can instantly force other Machina into submission and not be forced into submission themselves.
== Combat Against Humans ==
Combat behaviours of the Machina and how they are fought against are influenced by a few factors. The first is their incredible durability thanks to their [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/Machina_Biology#Machinium biology]. When the Saturn invasion occurred the Machina were already extremely durable, thanks to the strong survival drive of the M2 Nanomachines within them. Combat against the [[United Human Federation]] and megacorp security forces, which would become the [[United Operations Forces]], at Saturn merely accelerated their evolution towards extreme durability. By the end of the Saturn invasion and especially by the time of the Jupiter invasion, Machina were able to ignore almost all weapon systems which did not involve [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/REPAIR_Equipment#Weaponry magnetically-accelerated kinetic-energy projectiles].
Another factor is their numerical inferiority. Even as they overtook the Jupiter system, corrupting the near-total cityscape of Ganymede and the many cities of Callisto, the total amount of humanity corrupted into Machina equates to about a tenth of humanity, with most of the human populace still overcrowded on Mars. In addition, not all Machina are capable of combat by their standards. Many Machina exist only to [https://wiki.machinamaincluster.com/index.php/Machina_Classes#Injector_class create more] M2 Nanomachines and other Machinium-based life, to further the spread of corruption. While all Machina possess incredible durability, strength, and speed, these Machina would be armed only with these basic features should they be caught up in combat. Therefore, combat Machina are almost always a small group attempting to conquer a far larger number of human combatants.
Therefore, Machina fighting against humanity takes the form of carefully planned feints, diversions, flanks, rear-line disruptions, and highly mobile coup-de-grace strikes to circumvent the UOF's tactic of massed guns and being too risky to attack head-on. Machina, while incredibly durable, do not rely on this alone. They utilize their unending endurance at all levels to never be where the humans are targeting in the first place. Therefore, if one were to observe a Machina attack on a strongpoint, the observer would see platoon-to-company sized Machina elements racing with unnatural speed across the battlefield, leaping over obstacles, and dashing out of the way of human targeting, taking on a battalion-to-division sized human force. The observer would not, however, see the many deceptions and weakening strikes conducted by the Queens to arrive at this final attack.
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.