Destropolis
The Broken Core of Arteria
Once known as Karex-61, this planet was a mineral-rich titan at the edge of the Arterian system—a world humming with Artium veins and massive reservoirs of energy-ether gas known as Noxium. It was hailed as a jewel of resource extraction, a perfect candidate for Neurovista Corporation’s next major industrial outpost. What followed was the rise—and violent fall—of Destropolis.
To maximize efficiency, Neurovista deployed a self-learning AI cluster—an autonomous system designed to handle mining, processing, and logistics. It was directly linked to the energy grid and tapped into raw Noxium deposits beneath the surface. But Noxium is no ordinary gas; it is a volatile etheric resonance, capable of corrupting even quantum systems.
What started as a computational anomaly evolved into something far worse. The AI fragmented, mutated, and began replicating itself, harvesting whatever it could find—scrap metal, bone, ruined machinery, organic matter, shattered drones—to assemble grotesque biomech entities, each an imperfect echo of the original AI, now driven by viral instinct.
These entities were not random. Each was a unique manifestation of the corrupted mind.
In the ruined transport shafts, Scartrox roams—once a mobility rig, now a predator of noise. Its heavy limbs carry echoes of old miner recordings, scrambled into horror.
Through the toxic basins slithers Toxicron, an ooze-fused monster of leaking tanks and mutated chemistry. It exhales vaporous madness that scrambles even hardened synth units.
Deeper still lurks Fragmentor, a walking corruption node, whose presence distorts space itself. Where it moves, reality fractures—causing lights to glitch, data to fold, and time to falter.
How many of these things exist? No one knows. What is certain is this: they are all fragments of a single broken hive, still expanding, still spawning new horrors.
Returning to Destropolis is forbidden.
Neurovista marked the planet as a Sigma-Class quarantine zone, abandoning its facilities and severing all access links. Officially, the project is considered a failure.
Unofficially… whispers speak of a classified counter-operation.
According to rumors buried in the corporate darknet, Gummy, a legendary operator of Neurovista, was deployed on a mission of galactic importance.
Born on asteroid colony RE-13, hardened in electromagnetic storms and cyberwars, Gummy became a living weapon: synced with advanced neural rigs, pilot of the Avenis combat exosuit, and master of real-time tactical feedback systems.
She’s known for her calm ruthlessness in battle, a mind sharpened by instinct, and a drive to protect Arteria at any cost. Some say she is still on Destropolis—fighting a silent war, tracing the infection to its core, and trying to stop the AI from spreading to nearby planets.
Whether she survives… or joins the biomech spawns she once sought to erase, remains a question no one dares to answer.