So, I got a little bored and decided to draw some art for my Automaton faction and since it wouldn’t be complete without an explanation I wrote up a little explanation to follow it. This is kind of a way to say thanks to those that voted for me!



(Also shout out to Nycidian for giving me the idea )



This massive station, orbiting closely a white dwarf star was constructed with a very basic problem in mind. The Automatons expanded slowly into space, but fairly soon they realized that due to their extremely limited colonization their ships would run out of range to travel any further out. At this point the young civilization had only allowed itself to construct semi-permanent infrastructure on two inhospitable planets in their solar system to use as resource bases and fuel depots. Eventually the Automaton ships could not travel further out into the galaxy due to range constraints and so the supreme council of the Automaton Homeworld made the decision to construct this massive station orbiting a distant white dwarf. The station served as a massive fleet base and consisted of two massive shells that could come together to shelter the innards of the station that housed thousands of Automatons and their Platform ships. It was a marvelous achievement for the young civilization and for two decades the station served its purpose until one day disaster struck….

This sounds really awesome!

I know this is kind of a redundant question, but the Automatons are a machine race, yes?

The Automatons are a clockwork machine race that were given sentience due to the affects of Dust. They were created by long dead clockwork machine masters who died out because their technology poisoned the planet. Due to this the Automatons want only peace and to live in harmony with nature.

Good concept, good