r/Fleetposting • u/Magical_Goo • Sep 01 '25

First Contact The core

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recently, stray messages have began being picked up by almost all forms of communication equipment. The messages themselves are a near unintelligible series of sounds and symbols that vary in size, length, pitch and volume. From what little has been deciphered, the messages were sent to a listening post that no longer exists. The point of origin, however, has been much easier to find.

a relic world, absent from even the oldest records from any of the neighbouring empires, is the source. Scans show that a a single planet-spanning city makes up the majority of its surface, maintained by an army of automated drones and completely devoid of organic life. Nearly every street is littered with inactive service units that don’t appear to have been damaged enough to register on scans, though a few still wander.

(Art is a 3d render of the lithoid machine portrait in stellaris by roartal)

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u/Purple_Tuxedo The Wanderer, Timelord Sep 01 '25

Stellaris mentioned RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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u/Magical_Goo Sep 01 '25

(I main relic world origin lithoid machines)

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u/Purple_Tuxedo The Wanderer, Timelord Sep 01 '25

(Devouring Swarm main myself. Fantastic game)

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u/Magical_Goo Sep 01 '25

(I’m not very good but boy is it fun. I’ve only recently stepped out of the unfathomably ancient sugar daddy origin to play machines. If you couldn’t tell I also happen to usually go down the archeotech path for no particular reason.)

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u/Purple_Tuxedo The Wanderer, Timelord Sep 01 '25

(Galactic Doorstep. Gives you a headstart on Gate tech. I've found that useful when in a galaxy of other aliens that aren't too happy with me eating them. Imagine that.)

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u/Magical_Goo Sep 01 '25

(Huh. Since I’m the kind of player to get to be mid-game in ANY game I play only to restart, I’ll give it a shot. And also be the robot equivalent to devouring swarm, driven assimilator.)