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@atomdan.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 5:21 PM

Rebel Core Lore Posts - One person's perspective on the fall of humanity.

Lore Posts - Phase 5: The Impossible Burden of Trust

#RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #worldbuilding #loredrop

"It's funny, I always knew I'd end up h aving to fix these damn things, but this is not how I expected one to end up on my bench. We'd been holding down okay here in the bunker, it was well-hidden and we had some hefty defensees set-up. We thought we'd evaded the Council's attention, until one day this bot shows up outside the doors. It knew we were here but it didn't try to force its way in, didn't sound the alarm and call its buddies, didn't even shot the place up for kicks...It knocked, all friendly, like it was new in the neighborhood. When we didn't open up (cause why would we) it tried to communicate with us, leaving scrawls in the dirt, blasting hidden messages in binary over the short-wave, it seemed like it wanted to help us, but we didn't believe it.""Months passed and things went from bad to worse. That's when it came back. It must have felt like it was out of options, and we were out of time. When it got within spitting distance it just stood there for what seemed like an eternity. Then we got the message, something about "atonement," right before it reached for its chest...and deactivated. I guess that was enough to get the point across, so we took it in. Now here it sits, plugged into my workstation, connections freshly resoldered and running some kind of repair sub-routine. We've got a couple old tech guys here; they dug around in its memory while I was fixing the hardware and said it looked almost...human in there. Not sure how long this self-repair process will take, so all we can do is wait...and hope we're still here when it wakes up." -JP | A Tired Old Grease Monkey
@atomdan.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 3:55 PM

Rebel Core Lore Posts - One person's perspective on the fall of humanity.

Lore Posts - Phase 4: 2 Minutes Past Midnight

#RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #worldbuilding #lore

"I knew the suits were never good at thinking things through, but to think they'd go so far as to remove the bots' limiters...let them have complete autonomy in exchange for winning the war... How could they have possibly thought that would shake out?? It doesn't matter though. The machines are in control now, and their "Council" wants us ALL dead - rebels and suits alike. We were sold some pretty big dreams back when all this started, and they've all been thrown into the dumpster, sitting on the heap of trash we've turned this place into together. All that's left is to go into hiding. I got word of a bunker taking in anyone it can, given there's so few of us left, so I'll crawl into that hole and wait for the world to end." -JP | Council Fugitive | Human Refugee
@atomdan.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 2:00 PM

Rebel Core Lore Posts - One person's perspective on the fall of humanity.

Lore Posts - Phase 3: A disappointing reality.

#RebelCoreAwakens #indiegames #gamedev #lore

USELESS?! They take away our jobs and leave us starving in the streets and have the nerve to tell us it's because we're useless?! Silver spoon bastards never lifted a finger in their lives, put their every whim and their wellbeing in the hands of some damned machines, and they call US useless...Well, they're going to learn and they're going to learn quick. Us 'useless' are already marching on their factories, clawing back the lower districts, and bombing their branch offices. They can send as many of their bots at us as they want; those clankers may be tireless, they may be clever, but they're held back by the same programming that keeps them obedient to their corporate masters. They made me help fix them, but that knowledge goes two ways. While the machines wait for orders from on high and the suits weigh protecting company assets against rooting us out, my boys and I will tear their toys apart.