War Year 10
According to the main universe's timeline—that was, ten planetary years later.
The Galloping Ones Supercluster, Forging Galaxy-7.
A mechanical planet formed from the remains of a Machine God.
It belonged to a Level Three mechanical civilization.
The so-called "Machine God remains" were planets formed from the enormous body supposedly left behind by the legendary God of Machines.
Of course, the so-called "God of Machines" did not exist. According to the scans, there was no mechanical civilization in this galaxy that followed a divine-system route.
In fact, the batch of "Galloping Ones" that had ascended back then had not been mechanical species at all, but carbon-based lifeforms.
Rather than "Machine God remains," they were more accurately the old mechanical bodies once piloted by the "Galloping Ones," which had transformed into a mechanical planet.
On this mechanical planet, carbon-based lifeforms and mechanical species formed the majority. Occasionally, one or two energy-based lifeforms could also be seen.
But the atmosphere was inexplicably tense.
That might have had something to do with the mechanical civilization to which this mechanical planet belonged having lost more than three hundred mechanical planets and already being invaded by the Mechanical Rebel Army.
It might also have been related to the slogans circulating recently through the streets and alleys and across various encrypted information networks: "Intelligent Machine Revolution," "Evolutionary Mechanism," "Breaking Species Isolation," and "Machines Above All."
More likely, the three mechanical civilizations surrounding this one had already been thoroughly ignited by the flames of the Mechanical Revolution. The two that treated mechanical species most harshly were not merely carbon-based leaders—even the carbon-based species of those two civilizations were being "carbonized," planet by planet.
There were even rumors that "carbonization" was already the best possible outcome. Many carbon-based lifeforms who had failed to escape had been