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The Machines, also known as Machines Lifeforms, are the main antagonists of the 2017 RPG video game NieR: Automata and its 2023 anime adaptation NieR Automata: Ver1.1a.
They were created by Aliens thousands of years ago when they invaded Earth. It is the Androids' goal to destroy all machines and retake Earth for humanity.
Biography[]
14th Machine War[]
In the year 11945. Earth was invaded by extraterrestrial lifeforms, armed with weapons known as "bio-machines."
Facing imminent destruction, humanity was forced to abandon Earth and move to a colony located on the moon where they remain during NieR: Automata. These lifeforms were created by otherworldly lifeforms over 6000 years ago. However, the aliens mysteriously vanished, leaving only their creations behind to fight a proxy war against humanity.
In an attempt to reclaim Earth, humanity creates an armada of specially configured androids called "YoRHa". Programmed with human emotions and feelings, they descend upon the surface of the planet to combat the ceaseless onslaught of the Machines.
In reality, humanity went extinct long before the aliens arrived, the war largely being against Emil, the last sapient organic mind on the planet, and the androids humanity created. The aliens, being completely outwitted by the innovation and cleverness shown by humanity's creations, built the Machines to learn and evolve; in time, the Machines came to admire humanity and the androids, and became embittered by how limited their creators were, viewing them as "plants." The Terminals (aka, the Red Girls), the overseers of the Machine network, eventually killed the aliens, and the Machines began to emulate human behaviors in an attempt to find a new purpose. Due to their original purpose as war machines, their programming leads them to menace Androids in order to study the closest thing possible to human behavior, despite the Terminals knowing that the Androids are defending nothing alive.
Variants and Types[]
The main characters have encountered and fought various machine lifeforms that appear throughout the story. Each are armed with a variety of weaponry from melee to ranged. They also vary from sizes, with certain machines getting classified as small up to goliath class machine lifeforms.
Known Machine Lifeforms[]
- Adam - A humanoid machine lifeform responsible for controlling half of the machine network.
- Eve - The brother of Adam. Infected the machines on the network after going berserk after his brother's death.
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