"Against The Machine" - Key Lore Art (High-Res) (Patreon)

Following the signal deeper into the ancient and labyrinthine colony of techno-organic systems built upon ruins, the Heroes of  Mercy encountered the remnants of an AI scouting army. The fearsome machines stood in silent guard, ready to face off against invading armies, two supernatural heroes  however, were able to move through the constructs with ease, the AI slowly waking as it sensed the two agents of humanity reaching ever closer. 

At the source of the alien message, was perhaps the last living creature of the world, fused with grotesque machinery. Twisting the being's mind, it forced a channel of communication with the duo of interlopers, "WE ARE UNION." it proclaimed with pained and screeching digital wails. There were no questions, there was no time, the AI unleashed hordes of twisted horrors of flesh and metal against the Heroes of Mercy.

Unleashing their fury and might, the machine enslaved creature was silenced in a scorching torrent of plasma fire and wrenching psychic grip. Without it's command form, the AI was distributed into the once dormant machines of the planet. Escape was the only option against the encroaching and ravenous hordes. The fight to the surface was arduous, but once free, Neila was able to use her reality warping abilities to teleport herself and her companion to the deck of their Battlecarrier home as it drifted on the clouds. 

The skies quickly became dark as the AI's attack ships rose and Mercy's Reach took to the void. Point defense turrets and the main autocannons cut down the small ships as the planetary defense guns began firing upwards at the fleeing Battlecarrier. The world was lost, now awake had to be destroyed, the danger it posed to near by colonists and soon to be fellow investigators of the signal was too great. 

It was with much sorrow that the Battlecarrier's main cannon was readied as it reached the outer limits of the star system, the Eclipse Planet Killer, accelerating a solid 8m slug to superluminal speeds pierced the world with a micro cosmic force of a supernova. In an instant, the world was shattered into smoldering ash and annihilated under the gravity of collapsing singularity.