Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-25890179-20150220205838/@comment-4960835-20150303205942

There is one thing i like to mention as well and that is that the Iron Skulls and the Steelrollers won't betray the UAE outright. They'll even help the loyalists to get rid of those Chapter elements that turn to the Darklings, but refuse to split. The then-Bachyeon-influenced Steelrollers seperate from the UAE and drag the Iron Skulls in their fall. Then the Grox come to save them from the Rad-Eaters, Brave Burners, and Plague Guardians, ad the Iron Skulls realize the only ones they can truly feel athome at due to their love for machinery/cybernetics are the Grox.

That is to make their fall somewhat more dramatic than just have them to betray the UAE as soon as they see fit. The Steelrollers will get corrupted bit by bit, but the Iron Skulls will completely suddenly switch side by their own initiative, no corruption here.

Also Indrak Baldarin will get killed fairly early on, as the rest of the Steelrollers go "just as planned" on him, since him and his troops are actually more resistant to the Bachyeon than most and need to be killed off in order for the Steelrollers to archive the advancement laid out by the Bachyeon.

That "advancement" means that the Steelrollers basically become walking suits of sealed powered armor. First, mechanic wires/tubes take over the function of organic neurons/blood vessels. Then, they start to grow extra synthetic organs within their bodies that allows tham to generate their own ammo, create neural shocks by releasing pulses of electricity from the wires and the remains of their neurons in their own bodies and so on. After all important organic organics are replacd with synthetic variants, the Steelroller's flesh will dissappear completely, making them automatons that are purely empty vessels of the will of the Bachyeon Hive-Mind. Their verhicles will become sentient by the influence of the Bachyeon, making gunner positions and such unnessecary. The Steelrollers will become even more heavy-weapon-centric than they already where, and no more gnner positions means a lot more of transport capacity, so even one Steelroller verhicle will be able to transport an whole unit worth of breaching something + an whole unit to give covering heavy weapon fire to an weak spot, where they formerly could only transport one of them each time.

The flesh of the Iron Skulls becomes fused to their armor and eventually becomes indistinguishable from it, as they become able to absorb weaponry into this metal flesh with extreme ease, wich they will be doing a lot from then on. Some of their verhicles also start to grow spines of cybernetic flesh, making them cybernatic as well and really upgraded compared to regular Olympian Verhicles. This former crew will bacome fused to their verhicle, and all the fleshy mess inside reduces the transport capacity of their verhicles somewhat. Even more so by the cloning pods that will be stored aboard once that happens, though said cloning Pods are able to spew out Iron Skull Olympians on their own to reinfore an Iron Skull squad that is losing numbers on the battlefield (cloning Olympians on-spot is really difficult, escpecially given the speed at wich the Iron Skull verhicles do it. Then again, Grox tech).