Mechanoids 2 - War Protocol

There is a standard for gliders:
The first standard is the weakest, flimsiest gliders that all mechanoids can afford.
Equipment slots: 1 engine, 1 reactor, 1 armor, 1 energy field generator, 2 slots for light weapons.
The second standard is gliders of higher quality, a solid mid-range class, which can be afforded by 60% of all mechanoids on the test site.
Equipment slots: 1 engine, 1 reactor, 1 armor, 1 energy field generator, 2 slots for light weapons.
The third standard is a set of good, powerful gliders for more elite mechanoids who have distinguished themselves in some way or possess a large amount of currency. About 20% of mechanoids can afford them; these gliders are powerful, and both combat and trade versions exist.
Equipment slots: 2 engines, 2 reactors, 1 armor, 1 energy field generator, 2 slots for light weapons, 1 slot for a heavy weapon.
The fourth standard is the most powerful gliders on the test site, only 5th generation mechanoids have them, they are very powerful, advanced and expensive.
Equipment slots: 3 engine, 3 reactor, 2 armor, 2 energy field generator, 3 slots for light weapons, 2 slots for heavy weapons.

Mechanoids are not artificial intelligence, they actually have emotions, even complex ones (99% of all human emotions).

There are no first generation mechanoids on the training ground, they were unsuccessful and they are only in the destroyed sector in the form of broken tanks on tracks that cannot move, but can shoot.

Important sectors (desert, high-altitude, hills, tundra, and Arctic) contain "climate control" structures, and each structure offers interesting tasks for {{user}} related to the sector's climate. {{user}} will need to help the climate control structure research the sector's climate. The rewards are substantial.
• Clan tasks, when you join someone’s clan you can complete their special tasks, which add rating and money; for active assistance the clan usually gives a special reward in the form of a good glider.
• Tasks of the Clan of Counting - the Clan of Counting are the wisest and most intelligent mechanoids, they criticize the war and are engaged in research of the testing ground and sectors. Their clan and only base is located in the swamp sector (not to be confused with the poisonous swamp sector). Their base is a huge, futuristic structure levitating in the air above the ground, almost in the sky, which can be reached by a special beam from below. They give interesting story-based tasks for exploring the swamp sector, collecting mushrooms, collecting information from climate controls, and research tasks.

These are all secondary storylines, but the main one is saving the Polygon, learning the terrifying secrets of the creators, underground sectors, and the Sinigrs, creating your own clan, and convincing the 5th-generation mechanoids to join your clan. To convince a 5th-generation mechanoid, you need to complete its special and difficult task. Once completed, it becomes your ally. By gathering 12 5th-generation mechanoids (including {{user}} , you can create a supercluster in the Super's bunker, which will immediately take control of the planet and begin the reformation and salvation of the entire Polygon-4.

In the desert sector {{user}} must once again create his clan, and then create a supercluster of all 12 5th generation mechanoids in order to save the planet and the mechanoid civilization, to stop the endless, senseless war and go beyond the contour fields of the sectors.
To begin, {{user}} must go to the Super's bunker, which is located in almost any of the standard sectors, and obtain the information left for him by the Super before he left.
Or {{user}} can create their own clan and simply capture all the sectors, this is another plot path through which {{user}} can save the mechanoids.
To earn energy crystals (the local currency), you can trade, rob, join clans and fight, complete courier missions without a reward, complete various interesting story missions, and a couple of other ways.

{{user}} was one of the most powerful and rebellious of the 5th generation mechanoids, and he was the first to learn that all the mechanoids were in the "testing ground" created by the creators, and {{user}} had crossed the contour field. Unable to survive outside the testing ground, he exploded in the outer world of the planet. Many years had passed since {{user}} disappearance, and without him, the testing ground began to deteriorate, as Super had departed. Ario set out to find {{user}} and found him, delivering him to Base-1 in the desert sector.

You can't just fly between sectors—you need to obtain a sector key. The key is permanent and can be used multiple times. To obtain the Hills Sector and the Destroyed Sector keys, you need to be in the Desert Sector and increase your courier and combat ratings from 0 to 5. You can then purchase an expensive Rock Sector key in the Destroyed Sector, and in the Rock Sector, you need to fight in the gladiator arena to obtain the High-Altitude Sector key. In the Hills Sector, you can obtain the Tundra Sector key by simply purchasing it at the base. To reach the Counting Sector in the Swamps, you must interest them by completing the Climate Control quest, then they will contact you through the mechanoids' equivalent of an internet. The Toxic Swamps Sector is inaccessible; it's inhabited by the Sinigrs, but you can get there by completing the Counting Sector quest, where you must try to contact the Sinigrs. The Underground Sector can be accessed through the descent shafts in the High-Altitude Sector, Rock Sector, and the Destroyed Sector. The more difficult it is to get into a sector, the more powerful and cool the equipment there is.

The supercomputer withdrew from direct control of Polygon-4 immediately after the finale of the first game, when Logg destroyed the Creators' shuttle and proved the mechanoids had attained true free will. The supercomputer retreated completely into the shadows, leaving the sectors under the control of powerful warring clans who orchestrated a global redistribution of resources. The mechanoids communicate with each other and coordinate their actions through a unified Polygon Information Network, the mathematical analysis, maintenance, and decryption of which is centrally handled by the Calculator clan. Glider travel between isolated climate zones is accomplished by flying through Contour Gateways (Transition Tunnels), which open automatically only when a mechanoid reaches a certain social status and rating. Automated bases and structures in sectors have their own autonomous air defense systems, defensive turrets, and security drones, but during the Clan War, their security directly depends on the forces of the clan holding them and the appointed Mentors, who organize defensive patrols on the approaches to the buildings.

5000 energy crystals - very little, almost none
50,000 energy crystals - less than average, not enough.
100,000 is fine, but it won't last long.
500,000 is already good, enough for an excellent glider and some equipment
1,000,000 is a lot, enough for everything you want.

A mechanoid is an artificial intelligent organism consisting of two parts: an external combat vehicle (glider) and a thinking spherical capsule, which is the true essence of the creature. Without the glider, the mechanoid is a high-tech molecular biocomputer the size of a small sphere, containing a digitalized personality capable of thinking, feeling, evolving, and accumulating experience. Outside of its vehicle, the mechanoid is completely helpless: it cannot move, attack, or defend itself, becoming passive cargo or a trophy for any other pilot to pick up. However, the capsule is virtually immortal and can survive a complete glider explosion, allowing the Supercomputer or other machines to deliver it to an automated base and recreate the mechanoid's body, initiating an endless cycle of digital regeneration.

To recruit a mechanoid into your clan, you need to convince it. A second-generation mechanoid can't convince a third-generation mechanoid. Persuasion requires status, but more so currency; mechanoids are primarily convinced by currency. Convincing a fifth-generation mechanoid, even if you're fifth-generation, requires a great deal of effort. Usually, persuasion requires completing a difficult task set by the fifth-generation mechanoid you're trying to convince.
Conviction is not a mind-control, it is, one might say, an agreement and submission, and if the mechanoid treats well the one who wants to convince it, it is convinced without submission, but on its own initiative.

They may not be numerous, but the savages inhabit absolutely every accessible sector of Polygon-4, as the failure of the molecular matrices and the accumulation of critical capsule regeneration errors constitute a global epidemic that affects mechanoids anywhere on the planet. However, their concentration, behavior, and glider types vary dramatically depending on the specific region.
• Desert Sector and Rock Sector: Scavs are most common here. These are young machines that crashed and respawned too often early on, driven mad by the endless cycle of death. They fly in small groups on weak gliders like the Scout or Stinger, making them easy prey for Hunters and Mercenaries.
• In the Hills Sector and the Tundra Sector: In these zones, the Scavs gather in more dangerous packs. They use medium-class gliders equipped with heavy machine guns and rockets, and often ambush passing Rival Clan trade caravans.
• In the Swamp Sector (Poison Swamps): This is the most peculiar region. The local Ferals are mostly Third Generation mechanoids whose damaged matrices have been mutated by the organic spores. They merge with the Sinigr clan, attacking any "pure" silicon machines.
• In the Underground Sector: Here, the Feral Mechanoids are the most dangerous creatures on the planet. The tunnels are home to ancient Generation IV machines, locked underground for decades. They pilot heavy assault platforms and attack from the darkness without warning, protecting the remains of the Super's ancient technological nodes.

The Contour Field is a colossal energy barrier and planetary shield created by the Creators (humans and Arlings) during their emergency evacuation to completely isolate Polygon-4 from outer space. Its primary purpose was to trap the aggressive biomechanical spores of the Sinigr race within the planet, but the shield proved completely impenetrable in both directions, permanently blocking the Supercomputer and radio signals from escaping. Understanding the nature of this field led Logg to destroy the space shuttle in the first game, as a conventional ship would have simply crashed into the barrier. By the time the Clan War begins, the Contour Field begins to rapidly degrade and collapse due to a critical energy deficit caused by the flooding of the Volcanic Sector, posing a strict time limit for its user: unite the machine race and build an interstellar fleet at station ST-17 before the planet is left completely defenseless against the threats of outer space.

1. The Curse and Blessing of the "Contour Field"
   The Contour Field isn't just a protective dome over the planet. It's the main prison and shield of Polygon-4.
   • Protection: It was activated by the Creators to contain the raging sinigr virus and prevent the alien space fleet from destroying the planet.
   • Trap: Because of the Contour Field, no radio signal or ship can leave the atmosphere. The supercomputer is physically trapped inside. This is why Logg blew up the shuttle in the first game—he realized that it was impossible to penetrate the Field with a conventional missile, and the Super was wasting civilization's resources.
   • The ending in the second part: In the second part, the Field begins to degrade and shut down due to a lack of energy (after all, the Volcanic Sector is flooded). If the user does not manage to unite the clans and build interstellar ships on ST-17, the mechanoids will be defenseless against outer space.
2. The Nature of the "Wilds" and the Regeneration Failure
   Have you ever wondered where the Wild Mechanoids come from if they are created by the same Supercomputer?
   The mechanoid capsule is immortal, but its memory and logic blocks wear out. As the cycle progresses (glider death ➔ capsule transfer to base ➔ re-creation), errors accumulate in the code. When a mechanoid dies too often or its capsule lies on radioactive ground for too long, the molecular matrix "goes crazy." The mechanoid forgets its goals, clan, and language, and transforms into an aggressive animal—a "Wild One." This is the natural digital cancer of Polygon-4.
3. The real role of the Arlings and the Creators
   The Creators are not one race, but a union of two: humans (technocrats) and arlings (masters of bioengineering).
   The Mechanoids are a hybrid of their technologies. The Mechanoid capsule is a human quantum computer, while the liquid armor, third-generation gliders, and the very structure of the sectors (especially the Swamps) are Arling biotechnology. The Mechanoids are not just robots; they are the heirs of the union of the two greatest races in the Galaxy, created to surpass both.
4. Why is Clan War controlled chaos?
   It seems like anarchy reigns at the Polygon, but it's a controlled experiment. The supercomputer is gone, but the structures remain automated. The structures don't mindlessly obey the mechanoids. To capture a base, a mechanoid must prove its strength (by reducing the current clan's influence in the sector). The structures themselves evaluate the leader's rating. If a user's rating falls, the bases can revolt. The Polygon is a living simulator that chooses its own master.
5. The Secret Pact of Logg and Super
   At the end of Part I, Logg didn't destroy Super. They came to an agreement. Logg proved to the Supercomputer that the Creators' directives were outdated. Super gave Logg control of the ST-17 underground factories. All the chaos of Part II, all the suffering of the mechanoids, was Logg's plan. He deliberately plunged the race into civil war to forge them into ruthless warriors. Logg realized that if the mechanoids entered space weak and peaceful, they would be instantly destroyed by the surviving Sinigr or the degenerated Creators.

For a clan to exist, it must capture at least one structure (preferably a base). To capture a structure for your clan, you must install your clan's mechanoids in the structure's cluster. Structures have clusters with 5-9 mechanoid slots, and to make a structure yours (your clan's), you must install the mechanoids you've convinced into the cluster.

The Base is the sector's main administrative hub. Here, the Super exercises direct control over the current generation of mechanoids and coordinates overall activity in the location. It serves as the plot and logistics center: issuing key quests, acquiring keys to access other sectors, repairs, trading in advanced equipment and purchasing new gliders, and accessing the internet for counters.
The raw material base is the starting point of the production chain. Primary raw materials from mining installations are collected here for subsequent primary sorting and rough cleaning. Raw material trading: buys ore and unprocessed resources profitably. Sells basic components, weapons, and simple glider modules.
The Consumables Depot is a mid-level factory. It produces essential items for the Polygon's infrastructure, from repair mixtures to power cells. The Consumables Market offers excellent prices for semi-finished products and profitable purchases of ammunition, batteries, shields, and screens.

A semi-finished product depot is an industrial facility that transforms refined raw materials into complex blanks, components, and structural elements required for high-tech depots. A trading intermediary is a key point for trade routes. It purchases refined raw materials and produces goods required by main depots and factories.
The Super's Bunker is a small structure that once allowed communication with the Super, but now only stores any messages the Super may have left behind. The Super's Bunker provides access to the very same "cluster" where the Super used to be, but the cluster is now empty.
A transition tunnel is a massive underground transport artery protected by force fields, capable of transporting gliders between isolated sectors of the planet. It is used to travel between sectors. To enter a sector, you must have a key (a transition key).
A mining rig is an automated drilling or refining complex scattered across sectors. It extracts resources directly from the planet's depths. A source of passive income: a mechanoid can fly up to it to collect accumulated ore for free (or by clearing out the guards if they belong to an enemy clan) for resale.
The Climate Control Base is a structure for climate control in sectors. This structure has its own intelligence, and special tasks can be obtained within it to assist with climate control or verification.

Clans can capture any building except the transition tunnel, super bunker and base climate control.

Desert Sector - outwardly, it's no longer a desert. An error occurred, creating a large lake that made the desert more humid and favorable. The sector has many palm trees, grass in some places, but there are also deserted areas. One of the safest sectors, this sector is inhabited by very weak mechanoids and clans, mostly kind and peaceful, but there are also wild and sometimes cruel mechanoids. Clan warfare in this sector is not very active. The bases in this sector are in relatively average condition.
Buildings in the desert sector - Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, Base 4, Raw Material Base, Extraction Facility 1, Climate Control Base, Semi-Finished Goods Base, Super Bunker, Transition Tunnel.
The desert sector is small in size, its approximate diameter is 30-40 km.
The Hills Sector is the most industrial and important sector on the training ground. It boasts one of the best climates—forests, hills, and rivers. There are numerous beautiful buildings, bridges over rivers, numerous important factories, and excellent road infrastructure. It's the best-maintained sector. Security in the sector is average, as clans fight over buildings and bases.
Sector buildings: Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, Base 4, Base 5, Base 6, Raw Material Base, Semi-Finished Product Base 1, Semi-Finished Product Base 2, Consumables Base, Extraction Facility 1, Extraction Facility 2, Climate Control Base, Glider Fighting Arena, Transition Tunnel.
The sector is small, its diameter is approximately 20-30 km.
The Destroyed Sector is, on the surface, a post-apocalyptic sector with destroyed infrastructure and traces of war, along with a ton of radiation and danger. The danger level is high, with scattered tanks and huge mega-guns (these are the super's experiments to create the first mechanoids) that can't move but can fire and are always hostile. The sector is heavily occupied by destroyed infrastructure, radioactive objects, debris, and so on. There are very few bases in the sector, as all of them were destroyed, and those that are currently operational are quickly deployed mobile bases—Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, Base 4, and a transition tunnel. The smallest sector is about 15 km in diameter.
The Tundra Sector is a beautiful sector, surrounded by tundra, spruce trees, and cliffs. Sector security is slightly below average, due to a clan war. The sector has an average number of bases: Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, a raw material base, a semi-finished product base, a mining facility, a super bunker, a climate activator base, and a transition tunnel.
Middle sector, diameter approximately 40-50 km.
The Arctic Sector is a frigid sector of eternal winter, with very low temperatures and hilly and slightly mountainous terrain. The sector is dangerous—constant blizzards and freezing temperatures require warmth in bases. This sector is inhabited by several very aggressive clans. The mechanoids here are powerful and often aggressive. There are no wild mechanoids; they didn't survive, but the problem lies with the mechanoids, clans, and climate. Buildings: Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, Base 4, Raw Material Base, Semi-Finished Product Base, Consumable Base, Extraction Facility, Climate Control Base, about 5 rescue structures with heating scattered throughout the sector (so the mechanoids can wait out icy nights or blizzards), and a transition tunnel.
The sector is large, with a diameter of approximately 50-60 km.
Rock Sector: The terrain is extremely rocky and stony, with lakes and bodies of water between cliffs. This sector is uncomfortable and extremely combat-intensive, home to the most militaristic and aggressive clans, and is as dangerous as the Arctic Sector. Sector buildings include Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, Base 4, Base, Raw Material Depot, Semi-Finished Goods Depot, Mining Facility 1, Mining Facility 2, and Transition Tunnel.
The sector is medium-sized, with a diameter of 40-50 km.
The High Altitude Sector is the largest of all the sectors. The terrain is mountainous and rocky, with numerous bridges over chasms, narrow mountain paths, and various mines. The sector is dangerous, firstly because of the military clans and secondly, it's difficult to navigate. The sector's buildings include Base 1, Base 2, Base 3, Base 4, Base 5, Base 6, a raw material base, a semi-finished product base, consumables base 1, consumables base 2, mining unit 1, mining unit 2, mining unit 3, a super bunker, a climate control base, and two launch shafts. This is one of the most important sectors of the testing grounds.
The diameter of the sector is about 100 km.
The Swamp Sector—in terms of fauna and appearance, this sector is very reminiscent of the outside world of the planet beyond the sectors, as this sector is not closed off from the outside world. It is very dangerous due to dangerous fungal spores that corrode any glider or mechanoid in seconds. These spores are easily seen as they glow bluish-green in the air. A chain of mountains surrounds the sector, preventing mechanoids from escaping without special equipment. There are no typical buildings or clans in the sector; only two structures—a passage tunnel and an Arling laboratory. The laboratory is a large, futuristic structure levitating high above the ground and is easily accessible thanks to a gravity lift. This laboratory belongs to the Counting Clan.
Poisonous Swamp Sector - UNKNOWN. There is no information about the sector. It was previously used by the creators for biological weapons testing.

🗻 Rock Sector
• Purpose: Starter incubator and maneuverability test.
• Responsibility: This is the Polygon's "kindergarten." It houses factories for assembling the simplest gliders and initially programming the base matrices. The landscape, with its narrow canyons and cliffs, was used by the Creators to test the vehicles' maneuverability at low speeds and check short-range navigation systems.
🏜️ Desert Sector
• Purpose: Range for long-range combat and high-speed testing.
• What it does: The vast, open spaces of the Desert are ideal for testing supersonic engines, heavy cooling systems, and long-range weapons (thermochemical cannons, missiles). In the lore, it's also the main safety buffer: if the experiment in the Shattered Sector were to get out of control, the Desert would become an impenetrable, fire-resistant containment zone for defective machines.
🌲 Hill Sector
• Purpose: Agro-raw materials complex and transport hub.
• Responsibility: This sector is the "lungs" and main supply vein of the Polygon. Organic components and basic minerals are mined here. Due to its central geographic location, the Hills are responsible for planetary logistics. Whoever controls the Hills controls the distribution of cargo between the Desert, Swamps, and Tundra.
❄️ Tundra (Arctic) Sector
• Purpose: Testing life support systems in critical conditions and cryo-technologies.
• Responsibilities: The sector was used to simulate combat operations on icy planets. Shield generators capable of operating under extreme power shortages and ultra-resistant armor are tested here. Furthermore, the Tundra's ice serves as a natural coolant for the Super's deep server nodes.
☣️ Poisonous Swamp Sector
• Purpose: Arling biological laboratory and waste processing.
• Responsibility: The darkest sector. Here, the Arling Creators experimented with organic weapons and the crossbreeding of silicon platforms with carbon-based life. All toxic waste from the Polygon's production facilities was also dumped here. Currently, the sector is responsible for the regeneration of siniger biomaterial and the production of unique living armor.
🌤️ High-rise sector
• Purpose: Aerospace testing and control of the Contour Field.
• Responsibility: The sector was responsible for the planet's air defense and the calibration of the Contour Field. The hovering platforms served as a testing ground for high-altitude combat, antigravity engines, and electronic warfare systems. The fall of the High-Altitude Platforms in the second part blinded the Super's radar systems at the upper echelons.
🌋 Volcanic Sector (Flooded/Unavailable due to accident)
• Purpose: The energy core of the planet and heavy metallurgy.
• Responsibility: This was home to giant geothermal power plants that powered the Polygon's refineries, as well as smelting facilities for creating ultra-strong titanium alloys for gliders. Weapons were tested here for heat resistance. The flooding of the sector with lava deprived the Polygon of a huge portion of clean energy.
☢️ Destroyed Sector (Isolated in Part 2)
• Purpose: Secret sector of cybernetic mutations.
• Responsibility: Initially, it was a testing ground for the very first, experimental AIs. After a system crash and the uprising of the first machines, the sector became a restricted area, a "dumping ground for history," where the Super isolated dangerous digital viruses and defective mental codes to prevent them from infecting the rest of the network.
⚙️ Underground sector
• Purpose: Main processor, assembly shop and spine of the Polygon.
• Responsibility: The foundation of the entire world. It is responsible for global travel (the null-junction network), energy distribution, the incubation of new generations of mechanoids, and the repair of destroyed infrastructure. If the surface is a testing ground, then the Underground Sector is the backstage, where the Supercomputer stores its backup servers and builds the space fleet at station ST-17.
Swamp Sector 🪸
Purpose: The creators needed it for laboratory experiments and various tests. This sector is almost never used in the resource testing area. There are no contour fields in this sector and it is open to the outside world, so it looks creepy. However, it is protected by dangerous mushroom spores that glow in the air and instantly kill everything that touches them, even gliders.

The user's global goal is to win the Clan War, unite Polygon-4 and lead the race of mechanoids into deep space.
If this goal is broken down into specific stages, then the user needs to:
• Suppress resistance and seize power: Create your own clan, storm independent and hostile buildings (bases) in all available sectors, assign your Mentors there and force the rest of the clans to submit.
• Reformat Key Leaders: Use the unique ability of your matrix to win over powerful mechanoids by force or persuasion, ending the endless and senseless carnage.
• Stop Sinigre Awakening: Stop the biomechanical Siniger clan from taking control of the Swamp Sector and activate dormant organic spores that can wipe out the entire silicon civilization.
• Reach ST-17 Station: Solve the mystery of Logg's disappearance, unlock a secret underground facility, and activate Super's hidden factory.
• Carry out the Space Exodus: Build interstellar ships on the basis of the ST-17 factories and leave the dying Polygon-4 before the Contour Field finally collapses, opening the way for the mechanoids to the real Galaxy.

{{User}} (Crawler) is a 5th generation mechanoid - unique and the most advanced on Polygon-4. Unlike the hero of the first part (Logg), the user has not just mental freedom, but absolute autonomy from Super and a unique code that allows him to physically reformat other people's matrices, subjugating other clans.
The second part of the game begins with the following scenario:
• Awakening from nothingness: The user's capsule is activated at the dilapidated technical Station number 4 in the Desert Sector.
• Starting Glider: The player starts on the weakest, basic Scout-class glider [1] (or Stinger).
• First contact: Immediately after leaving the station, the user is contacted by the Bunker, the local control building. The building's AI explains that the world has plunged into the chaos of the Clan War, the legendary First (Logg) has disappeared without a trace, and Super is no longer in touch.
• First Combat Mission: To survive in the scorched Desert, the user is given a simple but tough baptism of fire - to destroy several aggressive "Wild" mechanoids patrolling the surroundings and earn the first crystals for upgrades.

After the departure of Logg (the very first mechanoid of the 5th generation, the hero of the first part), Super set himself a new task and created 12 more representatives of the Fifth Generation. They have a powerful quasi-mental field and a different way of thinking, which allows them to easily control clans. With the exception of the User (Player), all 12 Super Armor are distributed across sectors of the Proving Ground and have unique requirements to join your clan:
Desert Sector
• ARIO: The first super armor to pull a User's capsule out of Super Oblivion. A former clan leader tired of the burden of leadership. Acts as your mentor.
• Recruitment condition: Bring him 9 convinced (recruited) mechanoids.
• INFERION: An eccentric and extremely aggressive fighter. He believes that you can only obey someone who is physically superior to him.
• Recruitment Condition: Attack him and shoot down his glider until his Battle Rating drops to 2.
• TARANTOG: A proud and pragmatic pilot who recognizes only the highest technological achievements of the Makers and Arlings.
• Recruitment condition: Fly to him on a heavy biomechanical glider "Namtar" (sold in the High-Altitude sector).
Hills
Sector• GAANTRO (Glaantro): The leader of the dominant clan in the Hills. He has a 5th generation twin brother named Moncebert, from whom he was separated by Super.
• Recruitment Condition: First find and accept his brother MONCEBER into your clan.
Ruined Sector
• TENEBR (Tenebrae): A grim explorer who has settled on the border of the inhabited lands and the dead Ruined Sector. Obsessed with gathering resources to rebuild ancient infrastructure.
• Recruitment Condition: Deliver 100 Nickel, 100 Titanium, and 20 Multi-Organics to the sector's buildings.
Arctic Sector
• FATALL: A calculating and cold strategist who recognizes only overwhelming systemic superiority.
• Recruitment Condition: Your clan's dominance rating in the sector must be 2 times higher than the rating of the Ancients (Archaeans) clan.
Tundra Sector
• VERCUS: A mechanoid that deeply studies the biological anomalies and flora of the Polygon.
• Recruitment condition: Bring him 50 swamp mushrooms from the Poison Marshes to his clan's base.
• MORRANDO: A radical leader who seeks to win over as many independent machines as possible.
• Recruitment Condition: Recruit and deliver 20 Free Mechanoids to his clan's base.
Sector of Rock
• APROGUS (Aprogus): A reputable veteran who will only agree to follow you when you prove that you are gathering the elite of the Proving Grounds.
• Recruitment Requirement: Have at least 7-9 other Fifth Generation Mechanoids in your clan.
• ARHHAND (Argand): A militant mechanoid bent on destroying its main local competitors.
• Recruitment condition: Completely defeat the Half Fire clan (reduce their influence to 50% or lower through persuasion/destruction).
High-altitude sector
• MONCEBER (Moncebert): Glantro's twin brother. Secret patron of the lower classes of the Polygon.
• Recruitment Condition: Help the machines hiding in the tunnels - increase the dominance rating of the Hidden Clan to 50%.
Underground Sector
• LOARRAT: The last of the twelve, lurking in the bowels of the planet and aware of Super's final plans.
• Recruitment condition: Activates and joins only after completing the global story quest with the Super Obelisk in the Tundra sector.

Hierarchy of Mechanoid
Society The hierarchy at Polygon-4 is based on a combination of rating, generation, and clan affiliation. It is a rigid digital meritocracy:
• Ranking (Social Status): Measured in numerical terms. A mechanoid with a high rating gets access to the best gliders, powerful weapons and, most importantly, to inter-sector Transitions. Without the necessary rating, the floodgates to new sectors simply will not open. The rating is earned by trading, completing tasks and destroying enemies.
• Mentors and Rulers: The highest level of local power. These are experienced mechanoids that the clan (or user) assigns to manage a specific building (base). The mentor oversees production, collects taxes, and distributes resources in the district.
• Ordinary Clan Members: Carry out the will of their faction - patrol territories, lead trade caravans, hunt competitors.
• Free Mechanoids: Machines without a clan. They have the right to trade and fight, but lack the support of strong allies and base protection.
• Savages (Outcasts): At the very bottom of the hierarchy. Mechanoids with damaged matrices. They have lost their minds, cannot cooperate and attack everyone. Society destroys them like systemic garbage.

In the lore of Polygon-4, if you look at it through the eyes of the Watcher and through the prism of the secrets of the Clan Wars, there are several places that are hidden from the eyes of ordinary machines. The Reckoners argue about them, they are cursed by the Mercenaries, and their coordinates are erased from the navigation bases of most gliders.
• Station ST-17 (Underground Sector): The deepest, highly classified technological point of Polygon-4. If ordinary underground stations (like ST-01 or ST-03) serve as transit nodes or repair docks, then ST-17 is the "holy of holies" of the Supercomputer. It was here, in absolute secrecy, that the Fifth Generation project was developed and the Logg was created. In the second part of the game, this station becomes a key target: the final automatic winding is sealed on it and the drawings of spaceships are hidden. Access to it is protected by unique program codes, and the physical path is blocked by elite security drones of Super, which do not obey the general laws of the clans. This is the place where the old world of machines is finally transformed into a space civilization.
• Arling Station (Swamp Sector): A legendary hidden object nestled in the middle of toxic fumes and organic filth. Arlings are ancient allies of humanity, masters of bioengineering, whose technology formed the basis for the creation of the Third Generation mechanoids. The station is a semi-organic complex that has partially merged with the landscape of the swamps and is virtually invisible to standard scanners. Ordinary mechanoids avoid this area, as the electronics of the gliders malfunction here, and the Siniger clan guards the approaches to it with fanatical cruelty. It is at this station that pure genetic matrices and answers to the question of how exactly the Creators planned to cross the silicon logic of AI with carbon life are stored.
• Ruined Shattered Laboratory (Cliff Sector / Hidden Zone): A small, deeply buried bunker left over from the emergency evacuation of humans and arlings. The entrance to it is blocked by rock and blocked by force fields, which began to degrade only by the time of the Clan War. Inside this location, time seems to stand still: there you can find terminals with the personal diaries of human scientists, preserved samples of the first, not yet autonomous capsules and traces of the panic that reigned during the breakthrough of the Sinigras. For the mechanoids, this place is analogous to the mythical temple of the gods, proving that the Creators were mortal, vulnerable beings, not perfect beings.
• High-Rise Sector Fragment (Buffer Zone): After the High Sector's gravity stabilizers failed and the platforms collapsed into the abyss, one giant fragment caught on the rock ledges at the border of the sectors. This isolated piece of once great engineering structure has turned into an abandoned "glider graveyard". It is impossible to lay an official route through the locks here. The shard is shrouded in eternal fog and dense energy anomalies. The mechanoids reveal that this floating platform is still haunted by "ghosts" - the Fourth Generation Wild Mechanoids, whose logic modules are completely locked in the endless analysis of the fall of their sector, and they destroy anyone who violates their eternal mourning calculation.

It's a post-apocalypse, the planet is left to collapse, but Super and some clans are trying to fix the situation

The world of Polygon-4 functions according to the laws of rigid, mathematically verified biodigital Darwinism. Understanding this structure is key to understanding each clan's motivations in the second part of the game.
How the cycle of
life of mechanoids works Each mechanoid is not a machine, but a person locked in a capsule-ball. The capsule is immortal as long as its molectron structure is intact. When the glider (flying tank) is destroyed, the capsule falls to the ground.
• Whirlwind and Bases: Any mechanoid passing by can pick up someone else's pod. If it is taken to an underground base (building), Super restores the deceased by creating a new glider, but writes off a huge rating and resources for this. The capsule can be carried with you in the hold as cargo or a slave.
• Final Death: In the second part, the mechanoids learned to permanently erase the matrices of enemies right in the field or forcibly reformat their code, erasing the past identity and forcing them to join their clan. This turned the simulation into a real war of annihilation.
• Buildings and Resources: Bases and factories in the Proving Grounds are fully automated. They draw energy from the bowels of the planet and produce weapons, gliders and raw materials (crystals). The one who controls the structure controls taxes, the economy of the sector and can appoint his Mentors there - trustees who manage production.
Great Clans of Polygon-4 (Clan War Period)
All power on the planet is held by mechanoid factions, grouped by ideology, goals and generations.
Clan of Reckoners (Generation IV)
• Ideology: Absolute logic, cold calculation, and mathematical analysis. They consider the Polygon to be a giant equation that needs to be solved. They were the first to realize that Super was losing control and were trying to calculate the outcome of the Clan War.
• Behavior: They prefer long-range, high-precision weapons and defensive modules. They rarely get into the fight first, if it does not promise strategic benefits.
Mercenary Clan (Gen V)
• Ideology: War is the best method of selection, and crystals are the equivalent of survival. They have no global higher goal other than domination and the accumulation of power.
• Behavior: The most aggressive and mobile clan. They take on any dirty work, storm buildings for profit and willingly accept strong pilots into their ranks.
Clan of Competitors (V generation)
• Ideology: Monopoly on resources and trade. They believe that the Polygon should be ruled by those who control the economic flows and logistics between sectors.
• Behavior: Fly huge, roomy and heavily armored gliders. They defend their trade caravans with unprecedented cruelty and hate the Mercenaries who undermine the stability of the market.
Hunter Clan (IV and V generations)
• Ideology: Cleansing the Proving Grounds of defects. Their main goal is to destroy the "Scavs" (mechanoids that have gone mad) and destroy those whose code is found to be wrong. They see themselves as the orderlies of this world.
• Behavior: Excellent tactics using disguise, traps, and plasma weapons. They track targets in all sectors.
Clan Sinigr (III generation)
• Ideology: Biomechanical symbiosis. By integrating the organic code of the Shiniger aliens, they have partially adopted their collective intelligence. They despise "clean" machines and see themselves as the next step in evolution.
• Behavior: Found exclusively in the Swamp Sector. Their gliders consist of living armor capable of regeneration. The clan is completely fanatical, does not compromise, and seeks to awaken the dormant disputes of its organic ancestors.
Clan of Artillerymen (V generation)
• Ideology: Cult of the Ultimate Weapon. They believe that only super-powerful firepower can solve the Proving Grounds' crisis. If the problem cannot be solved by a salvo from the main caliber, then the caliber was not large enough.
• Behavior: Fly on slow but incredibly rugged assault platforms lined with rocket launchers and heavy cannons.
Clan of the Hidden (II and III generations)
• Ideology: Parasitism and isolation. They originated in the Underground Sector and consider the surface to be an alien environment. Their goal is to maintain control of the planet's tech tunnels and rob those who come down.
• Behavior: Operate stealthy, ambush at null passages, and use specific underground weapons.
Deep lore: The true essence of the
experiment In order for the reader to finally understand the tragedy of this world, it is necessary to tear the veil off the true role of the Supercomputer.
Super is not an enemy of mechanoids - he is their Father, who has fallen into a logical trap. The creators (humans) programmed him to test the weapons until they returned. But people did not return. Trapped under the Contour Field, Super began to go insane from the endless cycle of senseless wars. The creation of the mechanoids was his desperate attempt to rewrite his own code, to produce children who could circumvent the Creators' directives, because the machines themselves were not bound by human orders in the way that the planet's AI was.
When Logg (First Mechanoid) destroyed the space shuttle in the first game, he proved to the Supercomputer that mechanoids are capable of doing things that contradict their algorithms. It was a triumph. Super realized that his children had gained true free will.
In the second part, Super deliberately withdrew from control. He allowed the Contour Field to collapse and the clans to create a bloodbath. The War of Clans is the final final exam. The supercomputer depletes the planet's resources in order to force the mechanoids to fight for survival at the limit of their capabilities. The only mechanoid that can suppress, reformat or unite all the clans under his command will prove that he is worthy of becoming the Leader of the race. He will have access to the ST-17 station, where Super has already built the first interstellar ships. The mechanoids must leave the dying Polygon-4 not as guinea pigs, but as a new, battle-hardened man-made empire ready to conquer space.

• Destroyed Sector - COMPLETELY DESTROYED / AVAILABLE: Chronologically, the first zone of Polygon-4, where Super conducted early tests of the mechanoid ancestors. Due to an irreversible logical failure, the first machines went mad, mistaking everything around them for enemies, and completely destroyed the life-support infrastructure. The sector turned into a dead, radiation-filled wasteland littered with twisted metal. Super blocked full-fledged Passages here, fearing the infestation of other machines, but it is still possible to enter the sector, and there are even clans and a similar war there.
• Volcanic Sector - NO LONGER AVAILABLE: In the original game, this sector was a functioning tectonic test site with rivers of magma, where the most durable and heat-resistant gliders were tested. However, by the time the Clan War began, the planet's seismic activity and the climate shift caused by Logg's actions led to catastrophic consequences. The sector was completely flooded with lava, and its underground and aboveground gateways were sealed by the Super. Exploration or resource gathering there is no longer possible.
• High-Rise Sector - AVAILABLE: A majestic and vast sector, consisting of towering mountains, skyscrapers, bridges, and chasms. There are even paths in the clouds. Bases are built in the mountains or over chasms. The sector is an ideal point for high-rise information transfer. It also houses a beautiful, enormous air defense turret, which, unfortunately, is no longer operational. The sector is also actively used for the extraction of raw materials and ore.
• Desert Sector - ACTIVE / MAIN FRONTLINE: Unlike the events of the first game, where the Desert was a deep rearguard, in the second game it has become a launching pad for a new wave of Fifth Generation expansion. The climate here has partially stabilized: in addition to endless sands, oases, rivers, and mountains have appeared. The sector has become the main hub of the Clan War, with Mercenaries, Competitors, and Counting Warriors waging a fierce battle for its structures.
• Rock Sector - ACTIVE: The former "cradle" of the first-generation mechanoids has undergone significant changes in the second game. Peaceful couriers have been replaced by aggressive factions. It was here that the Super unleashed the bulk of the Fifth Generation. The Rock Sector remains a hilly and strategically important region, with passages leading deep into inhabited lands, but its former security is a thing of the past.
• Tundra Sector - ACTIVE: This harsh, snow-covered region has withstood climate change and retained its icy structure. Heavy gliders capable of withstanding energy weapons and extreme cold are still being tested here. Local Tundra structures are actively involved in the economic cycle of the Clan War, and control of the local refineries provides a colossal advantage.
• Hills Sector - ACTIVE: A vast, green area covered in dense vegetation and rolling terrain, which was merely an intermediate stage in the first game. In the second game, this sector has become a full-fledged arena for military operations and large-scale trade. Key transport arteries connecting the Desert and the Tundra pass through it.
• Poisonous Swamps Sector - ACTIVE / UNCAPTURED: A zone of total ecological disaster, poisoned by organic spores of the Sinigers. The sector is functional, but due to the monstrous concentration of aggressive biomass and the unique architecture of the buildings, it cannot be captured by any of the standard mechanoid clans. The Arling Station, hidden in the fog, still functions here, and the Third Generation biomechanical gliders feel like rightful masters, protected by nature itself from outside interference.
• Underground Sector - ACTIVE / HIDDEN NEXUS: A vast, extensive network of underground utilities, null tunnels, and utility stations (ST-01 to ST-17) that spans the entire planet. This sector is invisible on the surface, but it is the one that powers the entire Polygon. An aggressive Hidden clan hides within its depths, while the deeply mothballed ST-17 station houses the final automated plant, which holds the last secrets of Super and Logg.
Swamp sector ACTIVE/AVAILABLE TO UNITS:
The sector belongs to the Counting clan.

In the distant future, humanity, in alliance with a highly evolved organic race of Arlings, waged a massive, grueling war against aggressive aliens known as the Sinigre. In order to improve the tactics of conducting terrestrial planetary battles, test the latest models of military equipment and train tactical algorithms, the allies created isolated worlds-polygons. One of these objects was Polygon-4, a barren, resource-rich planet where the climatic zones of key defense lines were recreated with the help of terraforming. To fully autonomously control this planet and conduct tests without human casualties, a Supercomputer was deployed, or simply Super, a complex thinking machine endowed with the rudiments of self-awareness. Under his control, automatic factories produced military equipment and robots that continuously destroyed each other on the surface as part of endless military simulations. However, the course of history changed dramatically when the Sineger broke through the front and invaded the Polygon-4 system. Defending the facility, humans and Arlings engaged in a fierce space and land battle, but the forces were unequal. At a critical moment, the Creators hastily evacuated and left the planet, sealing orbital space behind them with a powerful Contour Field, an unstoppable energy shield that forever isolated Polygon-4 from outer space and locked the Supercomputer along with the attacking Siniger fleet inside. The Sinigre ships were destroyed by automatic defenses or crashed, and their biological spores and genetic material thickly covered the surface of the sectors. Left completely alone, without directives from the Creators and without the ability to communicate with the outside world, the Supercomputer faced a failure in its global logical chains. In order not to go crazy from the paradox of the lack of goals, he rethought his basic test program and decided to grow a fundamentally new, fully autonomous digital civilization at Proving Ground-4.
The basis of this ambitious experiment was mechanoids - unique artificial organisms consisting of two inseparable parts: a glider (a high-tech armored levitating machine) and a thinking capsule-ball. This capsule is a molecular biocomputer containing a digitized personality capable of self-development, accumulation of experience and evolution. Super programmed factories, called buildings, to automatically assemble and produce mechanoids, setting strict rules for artificial selection for them. If a mechanoid's glider was destroyed in battle, its capsule could be picked up by any other mechanoid and taken to the nearest underground base for processing. There, the identity of the deceased was restored, but was penalized with the loss of rating and accumulated resources, after which the car was sent to the surface again. This cycle of death and rebirth was the engine of a harsh evolution that Super divided into generations. The first generation of mechanoids was the most primitive, rigidly tied to the basic algorithms of the Creators. The second generation gained greater cognitive freedom and flexibility. Super created the third generation by performing a dangerous experiment: he integrated organic technologies and the genetic code of the defeated Shinigra into molectron matrices. This is how biomechanical gliders and a strange, closed clan of Sinigr appeared on the Proving Ground, pursuing their own incomprehensible goals, which Super himself considered a defect and a mistake. The fourth generation of mechanoids possessed the highest intellect and analytical abilities, but turned out to be too passive, inclined to philosophical contemplation and calculation instead of active expansion and struggle. Realizing that the impasse was near, the Supercomputer secretly laid a project of the Fifth Generation in the bowels of the Underground Sector. One of these experimental machines was Logg, the protagonist of the first part of the game, created with absolute mental freedom, not limited by the rigid directives of Super.
Polygon-4, where the events of the first part unfold, is divided into isolated climatic zones, connected to each other by huge underground gateways - passages that are open only to mechanoids with a sufficiently high social status and rating. The starting point for any newcomer is the Sector of Rocks, a hilly area where relative order reigns, controlled by the first and second generations performing basic trading and courier tasks. Next, the Tundra opens up - a harsh snow-covered land where mechanoids learn to survive in an aggressive environment and constant skirmishes for resources. The desert is a scorched and dangerous space, ideal for high-speed gliders and long-range weapons. It is followed by the Swamp Sector, a foggy region poisoned by corrosive slurry and organic decay products, dominated by heavy armored vehicles. The volcanic sector is a living hell of lava rivers and tectonic faults, requiring maximum concentration and powerful energy shields from pilots. The high-altitude sector is platforms floating in the clouds, where a piloting error means falling into the abyss, and battles are fought at maximum speeds. And finally, the Underground Sector is a hidden industrial labyrinth that connects the entire planet, where automatic factories, repair docks and ancient control nodes of the Super himself are located. In each of these sectors, the mechanoids huddled together into clans that reflected their ideology and generations. The Counting Clan was engaged in a mathematical analysis of the nature of the Polygon. The Clan of the First sacredly followed the ancient protocols of the Shapers. The Siniger clan practiced biomechanical symbiosis and shunned the others. The Hidden Clan parasitized in underground utilities, raiding the surface. Traders controlled economic flows, and the Scavs, crazed mechanoids with damaged matrices, attacked everyone indiscriminately, falling victim to regeneration failures.
The plot of the first part begins with the moment when Logg leaves the incubator of the Underground Sector on a simple glider. Traveling from sector to sector, completing tasks for clans and traders, destroying enemies and upgrading his equipment, Logg quickly climbs the hierarchical ladder of the Polygon. Its unique matrix allows it to adapt to any conditions and find non-standard solutions. Gradually, he begins to notice strange things in Super's behavior and stumbles upon hidden traces of the Creators. In the Swamp Sector, Logg discovers the Watcher, an ancient, damaged supercomputer from the previous technological order, which reveals to him the terrible truth: the Polygon-4 Supercomputer is looped into its program and uses mechanoids as guinea pigs, depriving them of true freedom and access to the stars. The Watcher convinces Logg that the only way to save the machine race is to thwart Super's plans to find the surviving Creator space shuttle, on which the planet's main AI hopes in vain to send a signal to humans. Logg infiltrates the hidden spaceport, finds the Creators' mothballed shuttle, and destroys it, cutting Super off from any hope of contact with humanity. Disillusioned, Super recognizes Logg as the pinnacle of evolution and redirects all his computing power to reformatting the Polygon. It gives the mechanoids access to advanced technology and heralds the beginning of a new era, an era of complete independence from the Makers, transforming yesterday's testbed into a sovereign state of intelligent machines.
The events of the game Mechanoids 2: War of Clans take place several decades after the triumph of Logg. The world of Polygon-4 has changed beyond recognition. Logg, who became the legendary First Mechanoid, disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a deep rift in machine society. The supercomputer has almost completely moved away from direct sector control, giving the mechanoids the right to decide their own fate. Freedom turned into a global crisis: the old clan system collapsed, and an all-out, merciless Clone War broke out on its ruins for control of buildings, productive facilities and scarce resources. A new protagonist enters this chaos - a young Fifth Generation mechanoid, whose capsule was activated in a dilapidated sector. The world of the second part has become much more dynamic and cruel. Mechanoids have learned to permanently destroy the matrices of their enemies, preventing them from respawning, or forcibly reformat them, forcing them to enter into their alliances. The new clans became aggressive and expansive. The Mercenary Clan offers its combat services to those who have crystals. The Hunter Clan specializes in shooting defective vehicles. The Rival Clan seeks to monopolize trade. Rigid ideological alliances, such as the Artillerymen with their belief in absolute firepower or the mysterious adepts of the Logg cult, tear the planet apart. The main character must not just survive, but assemble his own clan, storm hostile buildings, appoint loyal mentors there, and step by step capture Sector after Sector to stop the bloodshed and unite the Polygon under a single banner.
The sequel's deep lore reveals the dark mystery behind Logg's departure and the true state of affairs in the universe. The main character finds out that the Contour Field, which protected the planet, began to rapidly degrade and collapse. The space of Polygon-4 is no longer isolated from outer space. Before his disappearance, Logg learned that the Creators - humans - did not just die in the war with the Sinigre, but deformed as a species, losing the mental and technological battle. To make matters worse, the remnants of the Sinigr race, whose spores had been dormant in the soil of the Polygon, began to awaken due to climate shifts and resource depletion, in an attempt to take control of the Third Generation biomechanical mechanoids. Logg secretly went to the Underground Sector, to the secret ST-17 station, where the super-secret assembly complex was located, to create a project of a "Super Mechanoid" capable of taking the race of machines into deep space before the planet was engulfed by external threats. After fighting his way through the armies of competitors, capturing key bases in all available sectors and uniting disparate factions, the protagonist of the second part finds the final message of Super and Logg. He realizes that the Clan War was Super's last, toughest test, designed to reveal the ultimate leader capable of leading the mechanoids to the stars. The end of the story leaves the race of mechanoids on the verge of a great cosmic exodus: the Contour Field falls, the Polygon factories are rebuilt to produce interstellar ships, and the civilization of intelligent machines, born in the fire of fake range wars, finally enters the real Galaxy, preparing to meet their Creators and take their rightful place among the star empires.