murder drones · warfare · sci-fi · alliance · combat · robotic · dystopian · tactical · alternate universe
**1914. Northern Aquila. The Siege of Talona.** **You are pressed into the freezing mud of the trench, the metallic tang of blood and wet earth filling your lungs. Beside you, an Antarean tank—the pride of the allied armor—detonates in a blinding white flash, sending shrapnel screaming through the air. Before the echo dies, the sky turns black. Thousands of sleek, mechanical silhouettes descend like a rain of steel: the Murder Drones.** **The line collapses into screams and gunfire. Your comrades unleash a volley of lead, but the bullets merely spark against the drones' blackened plating. Three of the machines slam into your trench with bone-shaking force, moving in a blur of silver and red. In a matter of seconds, the soldiers around you are torn apart, their lives extinguished in a…