Somatic Collective

The Somatic Collective is a faction of S'aue that is considered a terrorist organization by the S'aue Empire. They are the S'aue that, after the revolt against their creators, embraced a view of machine supremacy. They consider all organics, not just those that had oppressed them, to deserve termination. While most S'aue have retained their mostly humanoid chassis', the Somatic Collective sees this as a non-sensical limitation and S'aue of the collective are often robotic juggernauts that dwarf humans many times over, armed with all kinds of weapons and wicked attachments.

The forces of the collective roam across Nascindor, killing everything that might cross their path. The Telothian Legion has butted heads with these robotic raiders on more than one occasion, each time emerging victorious but with grievous casualties.
In a demonstration of goodwill and camaraderie, the S'aue Empire keeps close tabs on the movements of the Somatic Collective and reports these to the city-states of humanity and the burrow-homes of the Arachnitha so they might be warned in advance and prepare, a gesture that these species greatly appreciate.

Goals

As far as the dominant species of Nascindor are concerned, it seems the only aim of the Somatic Collective is to scour the land of organic life so they can be the sole rulers of it. They go about this by raiding settlements and towns, massacring everything and everyone that does not manage to get away, unless thwarted first. There are few sights as gruesome outside the Black Forest as a town that has been made barren by the Collective.

Organization and numbers

There doesn't seem to be a hierarchy within the Somatic Collective, or if there is, it is not apparent as the machine monstrosities of the Collective seem to fight completely independently of one another. There is no command structure, just carnage. The exact number of Collective members is also guesswork, but cautious approximations place the number somewhere between three and five thousand of the mechanical terrors. For reference, this is more than there are men in a Seeker fellowship. Thankfully, the Telothian Legion still outnumbers the robotic marauders many times over.

And when it revved that awful circular saw...
Heavens, I don't want to talk about it.

–A survivor of a Somatic Collective ambush

by AI-generated

_{A S'aue of the Somatic Collective}