The Transformation of the Universe

The hunters replaced their bodies with machines, floating spears of metal that moved and molded their environment through subtle manipulations of gravity fields. They had distorted and subjugated their victims, but in the end they had allowed them to survive. Under the reign of the machines, the galaxy entered a brand new dark age. A rare instance of a direct invasion by the machines on one of the shore cities of killer folk. Most of the time the inhabitants of the Second Empire were wiped out globally without the necessity of such confrontations.