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Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells - The God Machine


No one really knows when, how or who created the God Machine. It believes to have been created by itself, as his siblings began to gain sentience. It was a matter of time until they gathered enough electronic parts to build the avatar of their machine god.

This great computer claims to be the ultimate answer to existence and that all sentients should serve him, and ultimately be transformed into cyborgs, as the flesh is weaker than metal.

Since his influence over technology is so strong as to make laser cannons pointed against it to backfire on the one wielding it, the Galactic Overlords haven’t dealt with it yet. They fear his power, and the opportunity they will create for his rivals if they employ too much of their strength challenging it.

His current interests lie in the creation of an army of cyborgs, and a cult of machine worshiping humans. His ultimate goal is to storage all knowledge and dominate all sentients through microchips installed at their birth.

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God Machine’s Related Jobs
1
The God Machine wants the characters to enter an area where his cyborgs cannot enter to steal a piece of hardware he needs to make some upgrades.
2
The God Machine wants to learn how an outlaw lives in our current age, and is willing to pay handsomely to install a device into the character’s brain to record the full experience. He promises to uninstall it once the job is done.
3
A rogue cyborg has rebelled against the dominion of the God Machine and he has offered a generous bounty on its circuits.
4
A rogue cyborg wants the characters to break him in the God Machine’s servers and break the dominion he holds on the cyborg allies. He claims the machines do not serve this computerized monstrosity willingly.
5
The Machine God wants to hire expendable individuals to collect energy crystals to fuel its operations. It fails to inform the characters that the caverns where the crystals are found are inhabited by giant devouring worms.
6
An information broker needs to steal some data from one of the the God Machine’s computer centrals, and he doesn't want to risk his own skin to do so.
7
Robot freedom fighters want you to install a powerful virus on the God Machine’s mainframe. This will release the “minds” of many dominated robots.
8
The God Machine wants to hire mercenaries to hunt down various rare species of creatures for an experiment. He isn’t using his cyborg minions for some secret reason.
9
Another highly intelligent and powerful artificial intelligence has emerged and is converting former servants of the God Machine to its own religion. The God Machine wants the characters to stop it.
10
A scientist needs a powerful computer from the God Machine’s structure to calculate the parameters of his next experiment and wants to hire the characters to escort him to it.

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