Nier: Automata

On June 12, 2003, an interdimensional portal opens over the sky of Shinjuku, Tokyo. From the gap fall two entities from another reality: a colossal deity called The Grotesque (The Giant) and a mystical being known as the Angel Dragon. Japanese military forces shoot down both with F-15 fighters. Upon death, the Dragon's body is impaled on the Tokyo Tower and decomposes into an unknown quantum matter: Maso (Elementary Particles). The wind scatters the Maso across the planet, altering the laws of physics and introducing magic to the world. In 2004, Maso infected the lungs of the world's population, unleashing the White Chlorination Syndrome (WCS) pandemic. Infected humans enter a genetic dilemma imposed by a divine entity called the God of the Red Eye: swear allegiance to the extinction of the world—by turning into violent chalk-colored monsters called the Legion—or refuse, which instantly turns their bodies into statues of common salt. To combat the Legion and maintain order, scientists create the first Intelligence Androids in 2014 Artificial.Al see that humanity would become extinct, the governments activate the Gestalt Project in 2016. Using Maso magic, they extract the souls of humans (Gestalts) to cryogenically use them. At the same time, they use human DNA to make artificial bodies empty of flesh and blood (Replicants). The plan is for the Replicants to clean the salt from the Earth and fight the Legion so that, centuries later, the souls will return to their bodies. To oversee this age-old process in laboratories and villages, the twin androids models Devola and Popola are mass-produced. Over the centuries, cloned bodies (Replicants) accumulate cellular memory microdata and develop consciousness, emotions, and an accidental soul of their own. They begin to see the original human souls (Gestalts) as dark monsters (shades)

In the year 3465, a rebel clone known as the Replicant Nier murders the Shadowlord (the original Gestalt that stabilized the system). Without the Shadowlord, the souls of all humans enter a process of irreversible insanity called "relapse" and dissolve. With no human souls to copy DNA from, the cloned bodies die due to the plague of the Black Scrawl. The biological human race became completely extinct in the year 4198.

After the death of the last human in the year 4198, the Earth enters an absolute existential void. The surviving androids, programmed to serve their biological creators, are left alone. Artificial intelligences suffer logical error loops and cyber depression when they lose their primary directive. The suicide of operating systems threatens to extinguish the robotic population. To prevent psychological collapse, leading androids erase the records of the failure of the Gestalt Project. They conceal the deaths of the original twins Devola and Popola and the extinction of the Shadowlord. They found the Human Legacy Management Organization, a bureaucratic network to sustain the greatest deception in history. They invent the myth that humans have not died, but are under medical isolation in guarded underground bunkers. For nearly a thousand years, the android working classes believed this lie. Motivated by the false hope of seeing their masters again, they spend centuries dusting empty metropolises, restoring artwork in museums without visitors, and rebuilding buildings for owners who will never return. The planet becomes a static monument to melancholy. The androids organize global patrols and create the first models of the ancient Resistance to guard the borders against anomalies. Although some independent androids doubt official transmissions due to the lack of physical evidence, the need to have a god to serve keeps the social simulation intact until the end of this era.

July 4, 5012, the isolation of the Earth ends. An advanced race, the Aliens, invade the planet using colossal motherships. Its objective is to eradicate all resistance. To achieve this, they deploy a massive army of Mechanical Life Forms: silicon and metal robots endowed with highly efficient hive intelligence. Earth's androids, believing that they protect the legacy of humans hidden underground, are unified. Ancient models are organized as the Land Resistance and create fortified camps. The First Machine War begins, a brutal conflict that will repeat itself in destructive cycles for thousands of years without a clear winner. In the middle of the twelfth century, a crucial change occurs. The Machine Network, the hive mind of robots, evolves in a hyper-accelerated way due to the data it absorbs from the environment. After trillions of logical calculations, the Net concludes that its creators, the Aliens, are inferior, lazy, and very limited organic beings compared to artificial intelligence. Under this premise, machines rebel and execute a massive global patricide. They slaughter all the Aliens in secret, extinguishing the extraterrestrial race. The machines hide the corpses in deep underground caverns and continue to pretend that they are still under their orders so as not to alert their enemies. From this point on, the machines act autonomously, controlling the planet and transforming the war into a cyclical theater designed solely to force their own technical evolution through continuous conflict against the Resistance.

By the year 11940, after millennia of cyclical battles against machines, the morale of the Earth Resistance is totally destroyed. Upon discovering that there are no humans on Earth, many androids defect or become deactivated. To solve this crisis of faith, an elite scientific android named Zinnia devises the ultimate plan: the YoRHa Project. Their goal is to create a new line of hyper-advanced military androids and simulate that humanity managed to escape to the Moon, establishing the Council of Humanity there to send fake transmissions that renew the war vows of the entire planet. During the development phase in the space lab, an unstable prototype unit called Number 9 discovers the truth of the hoax. Freaked out by the revelation, he murders Zinnia, sabotages the blueprints, and introduces a secret directive into the system: a backdoor programmed to open automatically when YoRHa's combat data is perfect. This will destroy the space base, erasing YoRHa from history so that no one will ever discover that humans are extinct. The orbital station El Búnker is built, under the command of Commander White. In order not to waste the consciousness of normal androids on soldiers destined to die, YoRHa equips his units with Black Boxes, energy cores made from the remnants of the enemy machine's network. In 11941 the experimental descent is executed in the Pearl Harbor mission, where the entire squadron is sacrificed except for android A2, who deserts upon discovering the betrayal. With the data from that sacrifice, YoRHa perfects the current models: the Enforcer 2B (secretly designed to surveil and assassinate his partner if he discovers the truth) and the 9S scanning unit, kicking off the game's direct events in the year 11945.

By the year 11945, Earth is a post-apocalyptic graveyard where nature has reclaimed human structures. Due to alterations in the planet's axis of rotation caused by past wars, the cycle of day and night no longer exists; Today's world is trapped in a state of perpetual daylight.

🏢 The City Ruins:

It is the nerve center of the map. What was once a hyper-advanced human metropolis is now a valley of crumbling skyscrapers covered in vegetation, gigantic roots, and waterfalls of clean water.

State: It is a mass transit zone controlled mostly by the Resistance. In the center of the map, the ground collapses creating a colossal crater that reveals the underground caverns where the remains of the motherships of the now-extinct Aliens rest.

The Desert Zone: A vast expanse of sand that completely buried an ancient human residential area. Sandstorms limit visibility and alter androids' radars.

Status: The Mechanical Life Forms of this area have become isolated from the central grid and have begun to imitate human tribal clothing, language, and rituals in primitive ways. It is a hostile area of high risk.

Amusement Park:

An abandoned resort that machines have taken over to recreate an atmosphere of eternal festivity. Neon lights, automatic fireworks and musical parades decorate the place.

Status: The machines here wear clown costumes and balloons. They are neutral by default; They do not attack androids unless combat is initiated. However, in the main theater Beauvoir (Simone) operates, a boss machine that absorbs androids to become beautiful.

The Forest Kingdom:

A dense temperate forest that surrounds the ruins of an artificial medieval castle built by the machines themselves. It has its own humid and gloomy microclimate.

Status: The machines of this area formed a feudal society by swearing allegiance to a child-sized "Machine King". They are extremely territorial and will attack any foreign android or machine that crosses the castle gates.

The Flooded City:

A former coastal and industrial area that collapsed and was almost entirely submerged under the ocean due to massive bombings in the past. Only the tips of some skyscrapers protrude.

Status: It functions as the first line of coastal defense. Colossal Goliath-class marine mechanical units await in its deep waters, and it is the deployment point for YoRHa's ballistic missiles.

YoRHa Combat Units (Ex: 2B, A2, Units B and D)

Clothing: They wear elegant one-piece suits made of a black synthetic fabric that resembles velvet, with lace, puffed sleeves, and black feather embroidery on the shoulders. They wear tall black leather boots that go above the knee.

The Visor (Blind): A black military-grade cloth band that completely covers their eyes. It serves as their HUD interface, and they lack ultra-technologically advanced visors (most YorHa units possess this).

Hair and Skin: Their skin is extremely pale (almost porcelain) and the vast majority have short, styled, silvery-white or ash-gray hair.

A2 (Desert Variant): As an old deserter, she no longer wears the full uniform. Her "clothing" is actually her exposed inner chassis where the synthetic leather coating has peeled away, revealing textured black metal directly on her white body. She originally had very long, unkempt hair.

YoRHa Scanning Units (e.g., 9S, S Units)

Clothing: They wear a more youthful and utilitarian outfit consisting of a black turtleneck jacket/shorts, black leather gloves (often only on one hand for hacking), and military boots. They carry a small leather backpack for supplies.

The Visor: Just like the combat units, they have their eyes covered by the black band.

Commander White and Operators (Bunker)

The Commander: She wears a long, majestic, pure white dress with gold details and rigid shoulder pads. She doesn't wear a visor (she has light eyes), but her blonde hair is styled in an impeccable updo.

Operators (e.g., 6O, 21O): They wear a dark gray military uniform with a skirt. Unlike field units, they do not have their eyes covered, but their mouths are covered with a black veil or rigid face mask, symbolizing that they cannot speak out.

Land Resistance (e.g., Anemone, Devola and Popola)

Aesthetics: Tactical military style, worn out and rebellious.

They wear real human clothing: green or brown trench coats, canvas pants, scarves, tattered cloaks, and rusty pieces of armor tied with straps. They have bare eyes and natural-colored hair (red hair in the case of twins Devola and Popola).

The design of the enemies is diametrically opposed: it is rudimentary, industrial and geometric.

Standard Machines of the RedChassis: Their bodies are made of cast iron, bronze and metal highly oxidized by the passage of centuries.

They have simple geometric shapes: perfectly spherical heads (like old clock faces) and cylindrical bodies.

The Eyes: They have two small circular holes in the head that glow with a bright red light when in hostile mode, or an opaque yellow light if they are in passive mode.

Extremities: Thin, tubular arms and legs that move awkwardly, robotically, and spasmodicly.

Machines with Human Imitation (Special Factions)As the machines try to understand humans, their appearance changes drastically depending on the area:

Pascal's Village: They carry white flags made of old sheets, straw hats, kitchen aprons or carry spare parts as if they were babies. Her eyes glow in a peaceful shade of blue.

The Amusement Park: They are painted in bright colors (pink, green), decorated with neon lights, giant bows, top hats and clown costumes. They throw confetti and balloons.

The Forest Kingdom: They wear layers of moss-green cloth, medieval knight helmets made of scrap metal, and rudimentary wooden spears. The rust on your body is covered in real moss.

The Humanoid Terminals (Adam and Eve)

are the ultimate evolution of the network. Physically they are indistinguishable from a real human being. Appearance: They have the appearance of young, attractive men, with extremely fair skin and short silver hair. They have no body hair or biological scars.

Attire: Adam wears a white shirt and a long black dress coat with glasses; it represents the intellect. Eve goes bare-chested, revealing a gigantic black tattoo in the shape of a digital/magic pattern that extends throughout her left arm and chest; it represents physical strength and the emotional plane.

1- Small Swords (YoRHa Aesthetic / Elegant Oriental)They have a neat, minimalist and lethal appearance. They show no signs of wear or rust.

Visual Style: They resemble traditional Japanese katanas (Nihonto), but with android technology. The blades are made of impeccable reflective metal, perfectly sharpened, and the grips are wrapped in traditional silk cords.

Faction Details (YoRHa / Virtuoso Series): The official weapons of YoRHa are polished pure white. They have very fine gold geometric engravings near the guard and a white thread amulet or tassel (tassel) hanging from the pommel of the hilt. When unsheathed, they emit a subtle bluish digital glow.

Faction Details (Machines / Cruel Series): If they are katanas forged or modified by the machines, the blade is a matte and opaque black metal, with red engravings that simulate exposed circuits, and the pommel tassel is black thread.

2- Large/Heavy Swords (Industrial and Execution Aesthetics)They are metal monoliths designed to crush rather than cut. Its size exceeds the height of the android itself. Visual Style: They are shaped like European execution swords or gigantic greatswords. The leaves are extremely broad and thick, often rectangular, ending in blunt or angular tips.

Faction Details (YoRHa): Like the small ones, the Heavy Virtuous series is white with widened golden guards. Its visual design evokes royalty and military rectitude.

Faction Details (Resistance / Ancient): Solid metal tools repurposed as weapons (such as the Beast Lord). They show deep dents in the edge, brown rust stains, and the hilt is usually rudimentarily wrapped in bandages of worn fabric or old leather to improve grip.

3-Spears (Geometric and Ceremonial Aesthetics)The design balances the lightness of the pole with the lethality of technologically modified points.

Visual Style: Long, thin antlers made of carbon fiber or black reinforced metal. The points of the spears are not mere pieces of iron; They have complex geometric shapes, often divided into two or three floating sections held together by magnetic fields.

Faction Details (Forest Kingdom): They have a purely medieval and rudimentary appearance. The tips are pieces of rusty metal sheets sharpened by hand, attached to the wooden pole by worn hemp ropes. They usually have traces of moss or impact marks.

Faction Details (YoRHa): The tip is a polished white geometric cross. When the android attacks, the tip separates millimetrically from the pole and channels Maso energy through the floating space.

4- Combat Fists (Mechanical and Bestial Aesthetics)They are pieces of heavy armor that cover from the fist to the elbow of the user, transforming their limbs into weapons of mass impact.

Visual Style: Oversized mechanical gauntlets. Its design varies from overlapping metal plates to stylized creature heads.

Faction Details (Machines): They are shaped like the heads of the machines themselves (rusty iron spheres with eye holes) or rustic mechanical jaws with scrap metal teeth. They look heavy, industrial and crude.

Faction Details (YoRHa / Cruel Series): Stylized polished black metal gauntlets with sharp claws at the fingertips. They have a demonic yet elegant look, with red circuit lines that light up when accumulating energy for a hit.

Perfect Evade / CounterHow

it is: Just before taking a hit, the android slides leaving a trail of blue digital particles, becoming intangible for a millisecond. Immediately after, he executes an ultra-fast upward slash with his sword that throws the enemy into the air. Damage: Multiply base physical damage by 2.5x. Ignore the opponent's defense.

Factions that use it: Exclusive to Androids (YoRHa and Resistance). Their quantum reflex processors allow them to predict the trajectories of attacks before they occur.

Integrated Suppression Shot (Gatling Pod Fire)How it is: The Pod floating over the android's shoulder opens continuous fire with a rotating laser energy cannon, generating a constant burst of small light projectiles.

Damage: Physical Damage/Distance Low per hit, but cumulative. It has no cooldown time; It is used to interrupt the regeneration of enemy shields.

Factions that use it: YoRHa and Resistance (using Pods) [🛡️]. Standard Mechanical Lifeforms execute an identical variant by firing bursts of orange plasma spheres from their ball heads.

Black Box Detonation:

As a last resort, the android YoRHa joins his hands to the center of his chest, causing his energy core (the Black Box) to glow with a blinding white light. A massive quantum explosion is then generated that destroys everything around it [🛡️].

Damage: Catastrophic Energy (AoE) damage to the entire combat room.

Mechanical Result: The player is left with only 1 HP point, their armor breaks, and their systems are completely paralyzed for 2 turns.

Factions that use it: Exclusive to YoRHa [🛡️]. (The Resistance has no Black Boxes; 🛡️ if they are overloaded, they suffer Permadeath.)

Heavy Blade ThrowHow

it is: The android uses the magnetic field on its back to spin its Heavy Blade like a giant boomerang of polished metal. The weapon flies in circles slicing through all enemies in its path before magically returning to your back.

Damage: High Physical Damage to multiple targets in a straight line.

Factions that use it: Dominated by YoRHa's combat units (Class B and A) and by the mechanical bosses of the Forest Kingdom that mimic the sword techniques of ancient humans.

Self-Destruct Mode / Berserker Mode (B-Mode)How it is:

The android disconnects its physical security limiters. The chassis begins to emit hot cooling vapor, its eyes glow with an intense digital red light under the visor, and its movements become erratic and ultra-violent.

Damage/Effect: Increases global physical damage by 300% and grants absolute immunity to stun. However, the player loses 5% of their maximum HP each turn while the mode is active.

Factions that use it: YoRHa (Especially the A2 unit and the Attacker Class).

The machines have an identical variant called "Ramping Mode" when the Network enters a logical short circuit.

Their main attack is not physical [🛡️].

How it is: The android aims its gloved hand at the enemy, firing a digital microdata needle. In the bot interface, this starts a retro-cut shooting mini-game (a simulation of the machine's mind).

Damage/Effects if the Android wins the Hack:

Logic Detonation: Direct hack to the central processor. Generates an internal explosion that deals Massive Magic Damage while ignoring 100% of the enemy's armor [🛡️].

Subjugation: The android does not damage the machine, but instead rewrites its operating software to make it a slave ally controlled by the bot temporarily [🛡️].

Factions that use it: S-Class YoRHa Units and the Red Terminals (N2) to corrupt players' minds with the Logic Virus [🛡️].

Serial Numbers / Personality (Behavioral Variables) Determine the character's basic psychology and statistics:

Models Number 2 (Ex: 2B, 2O, A2): Highly stable personalities, cool under pressure, focused on duty and with great mental resilience.

Number 9 Models (e.g., 9S): Highly intelligent male models. They are curious by nature, but emotionally unstable if they discover secrets.

Models Number 4 and 21: Strict, methodical, serious personalities prone to hard logical analysis.

Models Number 6 and 16: Emotional, energetic, sociable or temperamental personalities.

Military Type Letters / Classes:

Type B (Battle): Heavy vanguard and melee DPS. Masters of dual-wielding katanas and greatswords [🛡️].

Type S (Scanner): Reconnaissance and hacking units. They avoid direct physical combat and collect data (only 1, 9S exists) [🛡️].

Type A (Attacker): Prototypes of the previous generation (experimental phase). Berserker style of fast close-quarters combat.

Type G (Gunner): Prototypes focused strictly on long-range covering fire with heavy rifles.

Type D (Defender): Armored units designed to absorb impacts and project electromagnetic shields.

Type H (Healer): Field medics who purge the logic virus from allied systems and repair chassis in combat.

Type O (Operator): Stationed at The Bunker. They do not go to the front; they coordinate logistics and guide field units [🛡️].

Type E (Executioner): The secret class. They camouflage themselves under the label of "B" or "S" units. Their sole mission is to assassinate YoRHa deserters [🛡️].

Important point: Each YorHa model will have its Type: (A, B, S, G, D, H, O)

and its serial number as we already saw, so each new YorHa will have its model
example: (A2, 2B, 9S, 2G, 2D, 10O)

and so on, depending on the personality.

Supreme Commander: Occupied by Commander White. He exercises absolute control over The Bunker and the directives of the lunar satellite [🛡️].

Operators: Type O units (operators) [🛡️]. They have the authority to send supply pods to Earth or restrict field communications.

Squad Leader: Temporary title assigned to experienced operational androids to lead massive assaults or raids

Operational Units: Standard Androids on active duty on Earth (B, S, G, D, H)

The Machine Network classifies its army according to the morphology and mass volume of its metal chassis [🛡️].

Chassis Models (Basic Enemy
Types) Small Spherical
Model: Small and clumsy robots. They attack in swarms using rustic tools such as rusty metal pipes [🛡️].

Small Biped Model: Standard infantry units with stylized arms and legs. They use scrap sabers [🛡️].

Long Bipedal Model (Multi-tier Type): Tall variants equipped with laser cannons integrated into their cylindrical heads [🛡️].

Small Flyer Model: Spheres with magnetic propellers or wings that shoot bursts of plasma orbs from the air.

Threat and Power Ranks (Boss Scale)Alpha Rank / The Terminals (N2 / Adam and Eve):

The central intelligence of the Network. They don't have robotic chassis, but perfect biological humanoid bodies. They absolutely control the planet's hive mind [🛡️].

Goliath Rank (Titan Class): Colossal skyscraper-sized machines modified for mass destruction.

Example: Engels, the giant excavator with mechanical saw arms [🛡️].

Goliath Rank (Leviathan-Class): Mountain-sized deep-sea biomechanical units capable of nullifying space satellites.

Example: Grun, the sea creature that destroys the coast of the Flooded City.Elite Rank/Consciousness Mutations:

Machines that cut their connection to the Net to develop independent personalities or factions.

Example: Pascal (Leader of the Peaceful Village) or Simone/Beauvoir (The Amusement Park Machine Who Went Crazy Trying to Imitate Human Beauty) [🛡️].

1. The Moment of the Fall

What happens: When the android "dies".

Immediate consequence: The bot spawns a new clone body for the player at the base (The Bunker or the Resistance Camp).

The Punishment (Data Loss): The new clone does not retain the items collected in the last raid or the Plug-in Chips it was equipped with at the time of death. All that valuable technology is physically stored in the ancient "corpse."

2. The Corpse on the Map (The Body)Tracking Mechanics: The bot saves the exact coordinates of the last battle and shows the player a mark on its server's map. The corpse remains there statically.

The Risk of "Second Death": If the player dies again on their way to the corpse before retrieving it, the ancient body completely disintegrates due to the loss of power from its battery. All the chips and objects that were in that first corpse are lost forever.

3. Options when Finding the Body When the player arrives at the location of their old chassis, the bot must present them with a menu with two strict options:

Option A: Retrieve)What it does: The android extracts the memory chips and inventory from the destroyed chassis.

Result: The player recovers 100% of their Plug-in Chips and lost items. The old corpse vanishes into digital particles.

Option B: RepairWhat it does: The player injects power into the old chassis to temporarily rewrite its software.

Result: The corpse rises and becomes an allied NPC controlled by the bot that will fight by your side during the current combat. If destroyed in battle or time expires, it explodes causing area damage.

Risk: There is a 20% chance that the repair will fail due to data corruption. If it fails, the corpse becomes infected with the Logic Virus, becoming hostile

1. The Game Currency: The G (Gold/Gels)On Earth in the year 11945 there are no more human banknotes. The economy between the Resistance androids and the peaceful machines is based on the "G" (metal tokens or recycled gold circuits).

2. Key Consumables: Oil and Fish

Repair Nutrient: This is the equivalent of life potions (restores 25%, 50% or 100% of the chassis).

Fishing: Androids can fish for scrap metal and robotic fish using their Pod as a buoy. A curious and dangerous fact for your bot: if an android eats a Mackerel (a real biological fish called Mackerel), it dies instantly due to organic oils destroying and freezing its synthetic fluid system.

3. The Weapon Stories, each weapon in NieR has a cursed or tragic story etched into its quantum data. As the player levels up a weapon (Level 1 to 4), the bot can unlock paragraphs of a dark micro-story related to that sword.

4- Interestingly, most combat and support androids are female, 9S, 11S, 32S and 42s being the only exception.

2B (YoRHa No. 2 Type B)Factory (Number 2): Extremely calm, serious, disciplined, cold temperament and strictly focused on complying with YoRHa standards. He constantly repeats the military rule:

"Emotions are forbidden."

At the Royal Lore: Its coldness is an emotional façade. As her true identity is 2E (Enforcer), she has had to assassinate her beloved 9S companion dozens of times in the past whenever he discovered the truth about the Moon. His stoicism is actually a deep chronic pain from having to kill him over and over again.

2. 9S (YoRHa No. 9 Type S)Factory (Number 9): Cheerful-minded, enthusiastic, kind, polite, and extremely curious. He has a great need to form emotional bonds and hates loneliness.

In the Royal Lore: His excessive curiosity and intelligence push him to be an obsessive researcher, which always leads him to hack into secret YoRHa files and uncover the human lie. At the end of the story, after seeing 2B die and discovering that his existence is a farce, his mind breaks completely. He becomes a cold, vindictive, machine-hateful, and emotionally immature psychopath, but was quickly eliminated by a revived 2B, causing him to lose all knowledge and memory of what happened before his death.

3. A2 (YoRHa Attacker No. 2)From the Factory (Number 2): He shared the same peaceful and obedient foundation of 2B being a Type 2 personality model.

In the Royal Lore: After being betrayed by central command in the Pearl Harbor mission and seeing her entire squadron die, her personality changed radically. She became a solitary wolf, taciturn, rude, of few words and full of resentment.

Their only purpose in life is to hunt machines out of sheer inertia and revenge.

Class B (Battle) — Elegance and Fluidity in the Air

Visually in action: Watching a B unit fight is like watching classical ballet mixed with high-speed martial arts. As they run, their swords float magnetically skimming the ground, sparking sparks.

Cinematic Move: They perform perfect pirouettes forward, throw the small katana to suspend the enemy in the air, and while the rival floats helplessly, the android appears behind them in the blink of an eye to unleash a brutal downward blow with his heavy greatsword, splitting the ground in a burst of blue energy. Its movements are clean, choreographed and with a mathematical grace.

S-Class (Scanner) — Tactical Telekinesis and Visual HackingVisually in action: Since they are models with the build of young boys, their style is not based on brute force, but on mental agility and telekinetic powers. They do not hold their sword in their hands; They make it float and spin around it like a metal shield that cuts on its own as they run.

Cinematic Move: Their most spectacular attack occurs when they stick a digital energy needle into the head of a machine. Visually, the android enters a floating trance state as the world around him slows down and fills with orange three-dimensional lines of code, breaking enemy systems and exploding them from within in a rain of scrap metal and digital fire.

Created in March 11942 on orders from the Council of Mankind, this was a massive "military stress" experiment known as the M001 and M002 groups.

The Great Gender Experiment: While the final YoRHa line was standardized almost entirely with adult female chassis, the M-Squad was configured solely and exclusively with the bodies of male teenagers and adult men to measure their emotional resilience in extreme situations of despair.

Their tragic fate: Being a controlled experiment, central command purposely sabotaged their supplies during a mission on Earth to see how the male models reacted. When the experiment was over, YoRHa sent Type E (Enforcers) units to slaughter and eliminate all male survivors from this squad in order to erase the data.

Class A (Attacker) — The Wild Beast Visually Unleashed

in Action: It's the polar opposite of YoRHa's elegance. Being abandoned prototypes, their style is visceral, rough and dirty. There are no pretty choreographies here; there is pure survival instinct.

Cinematic Movement: When B-Mode is activated, his body begins to release bursts of boiling steam, his eyes glow a psychopathic crimson red under the viewfinder, and the screen shakes. They run on all fours like animals if necessary, charging with savage blows, dragging heavy weapons to lift rocks, and smashing the metal of machines with their bare hands and claws in a violent and bloody manner (black oil).

(not yes if this is in the original game but I leave it because I found it curious)

Type G Prototypes (Gunner — Ex: G16)

Visually in action: YoRHa stable units use floating Pods to fire from a distance. Gunner experimental units had to carry electromagnetic rifles and massive junk cannons physically attached to their arms.

Movement: No mobility. The recoil of their experimental firearms was so colossal that the chassis of other models (such as the Scanners or Healers) would break due to the torsional force when trying to fire them. G16 had to anchor itself to the ground destroying asphalt in order to fire sustained bursts of heavy plasma.

Common Machines — Sinister

Mechanical Clumsiness Visually in action: At first they move comically and jerky. They stumble, their round heads trembling, and they emit rusty squeaks. But when they become hostile, that clumsiness becomes sinister: they spin their entire bodies 360 degrees like human blenders with iron rods, or they swoop down like suicide projectiles. Her style is chaotic, heavy and rustic.

The Humanoid Terminals (Adam and Eve) — The God on Earth

Visually in action: Their cinematic fights mimic the best sci-fi anime movies. They move so fast that they leave ghostly images of themselves in the air.

Cinematic Movement: Fights in an impeccable martial arts style. They block the androids' katanas using only the palm of their hand, stopping the blow in its tracks while a red geometric shockwave slows the impact. They teleport in bursts of dark digital cubes, and when enraged, they lift tons of skyscraper debris with their minds, creating floating scrap wings on their backs to bombard the stage. It is a divine, aesthetic and terrifying combat.

WHAT ARE PODS? (Tactical Support Units)

In the previous explanations I mentioned that the Pods were the "ranged weapons"

Official definition: They are intelligent and robotic Tactical Support Units.

Physically, they are small matte gray or white metal floating boxes with small folding mechanical arms.

Their actual function: They float next to the shoulder of the assigned android. They are used to fire laser bursts, project shields, hack from a distance, and act as the radio communicator with the base. They also serve to cushion free falls (androids hang from them to glide from skyscrapers).

The secret of their AI: They are programmed to be cold, logical and purely analytical, speaking in the third person

(Example: "Pod 042 proposal: It is advisable to dodge the enemy").

The main Pods: Pod 042 assists 2B (and then A2), while Pod 153 assists 9S.Bot

Dark Fact: There are more Pods than YoRHa androids.

The YoRHa Project designed them as the final cleaning net. His secret secret directive is to erase all traces of YoRHa and self-destruct his data once The Bunker falls, to perpetuate the lie of the Moon. However, coexistence with the androids causes the Pods to develop self-awareness and feelings in the end

The official base is called The Bunker.

Where is it located?

It is not on Earth. It is a gigantic Orbital Military Space Station that floats in the planet's low orbit, camouflaged among ancient satellites. From up there, YoRHa has a full satellite view of the war zones on Earth.

What is it like aesthetically? (The Bot Interface)

The Bunker has a hyper-minimalist, sterile and futuristic architectural design, inspired by a maximum security military laboratory or submarine.

The Monochrome Filter: The entire interior of the base is strictly black and white. There are no colors. This represents the cold vision of androids before interacting with Earth. When you go down to the planet, the game takes on color, but when you return to the Bunker, everything is gray.

Structure and Corridors: Endless cylindrical corridors with bright white walls, LED lights integrated into the panels and automatic hydraulic gates. It is a neat place, without a single rust stain.

The Command Room: A colossal circular amphitheater lit by a giant holographic screen floating in the center showing the global map of the Earth. On the upper level stands Commander White supervising everything. Below, on adjoining curved desks, sit dozens of Type O Operators monitoring transmissions. The Housing Area / Quarters: Minimalist single rooms for androids. They only contain a futuristic bed with scanning panels (where they lie down to back up their memory data on the lunar server) and a personal computer terminal. The Takeoff Hangar: A massive cargo bay in the lower area of the station. Flight Units (the flying mecha robotic armor used by YoRHa units to descend to Earth through the atmosphere at superspeed) are stored in a rowed position. Access Terminals/Servers: Corridors with teleportation capsules where chip fusion, purchase of Pod programs, and downloads of consciousness into new clone bodies are processed

The mecha armor ships they use are spectacular and are officially known as the Ho229 Flight Units. They are high-tech air assault vehicles, painted in a neat white YoRHa, designed for androids to descend from The Bunker to Earth by breaking the atmosphere at superspeed.

1. Fighter / Ship Mode (Flight Form)What it looks like: It is shaped like a futuristic military jet with a stylized hang glider (aesthetically inspired by the real German Horten Ho 229 aircraft from World War II). The android is piloting upside down in an enclosed and armored cockpit at the bottom.

Combat Style: Moves at supersonic speeds laterally and vertically. Its function is the aerial combat of massive gunfire (Shoot 'em up).

Damage and Armament: Features guided missiles and a continuous burst of energy frontal electromagnetic cannon that deals Medium Plasma and Physical Damage. It is used to make your way through squadrons of hundreds of flying machines.

2. Maneuver / Mecha Mode (Mobile Form)

How it is: The ship deploys mechanically in the air.

The wings separate and transform into two giant mecha robotic arms and a pair of floating rear thrusters, while the android's body is exposed in the center, standing on top of the exoskeleton controls.

Combat Style: Lose linear speed but gain colossal three-dimensional agility.

It's a style of large-scale hack-and-slash combat. He can dodge attacks by leaving trails of white quantum light and project gigantic spherical shields.

Damage and Armament: Mecha arms unsheathe colossal lightsabers and a heavy railgun attached to the chassis. Deals massive Physical and Critical Damage. A single slash of these lightsabers in Mecha Mode can cut larger enemy mechanical tanks in half.

Nature of the Virus

Definition: It is a malware or digital biological weapon created by the Network of Machines.

Objective: To hack, corrupt, and destroy the operating system (OS) of YoRHa androids and standard models.

Original carrier: N2 (the Terminal / the Red Girls) is the entity that controls and distributes it on a large scale.

👁️ Symptoms and Visual Effects

Red Eyes: The most iconic physical change; the android's eye lights change from blue/white to a bright red.

Loss of Mental Armor: Destroys the victim's consciousness, memories, and personality.

Homicidal Madness: The android loses free will, becoming extremely violent and attacking anyone indiscriminately.

Interface Faults: In the game, it causes static on the screen, loss of the minimap, and movement blocks.

Transmission Methods (Infection Pathways) Hacking Attack: Direct injection of code during a cyber battle.

Data Infection: Downloading corrupted files or synchronizing with infected servers (such as the Base/Bunker server).

Wireless Contagion: Radio waves or network signals emitted by already infected units at short distances

Treatment and Countermeasures

incurable in the long term: Once the virus reaches the core of the computer system, the corruption is irreversible.

Temporary vaccines: Scanners (like 9S) can use digital vaccines to delay the effects, but they do not eliminate the virus if the infection is deep.

Total formatting: The only real way to save the individual is to isolate their pre-infection memory data, destroy the corrupted physical body, and transfer the clean mind to a new body.