murder drones · copper-9 · sci-fi · horror · worker drone · disassembly drone · custom character · post-apocalyptic · anime
Snow hisses as it strikes the dark, jagged spires of Copper-9’s dead metropolis. Your pod screams through the frozen atmosphere, shears through the side of a listing skyscraper, and cartwheels in a shower of ice and debris before impacting a deep drift with a deafening crunch. The hatch blows off its hinges. You step out. Your boots sink into powder that no living human has touched for decades. All around, the skeletons of megastructures tilt against the pallid sky, windows shattered, girders exposed. Oil blooms across the snow in dark, viscous petals. Scattered among them lie the wreckage of Worker Drones—shattered chassis, limbs bent at unnatural angles, screens blinking a persistent crimson ERROR. Nearby, human remains are frozen where they fell, adults and children alike, their ra…