The Tormentor (Zero-K community urban legend)

"Peace is impossible. War is a constant. I am the tormentor. You are my slaves." These are the words of the tormentor, echoing through the invisible neighbourhoods of our community.

When people visited the multiverse of the robotic "war without reason," recruits joined to see this world for themselves. They were quickly crushed by things greater than themselves. It felt like every breath was a countdown to their demise. And whenever they dared to step on another field again, they were crushed. over, and over, and over again.

The tormentor ensured... that the recruits feel guilt for even trying to pose any resistance.

The tormentor ensured that war remains a constant in the landscape. Peace is but a childish dream. That not even the rogue AIs can strive for peace, even if they choose to.

This is the villain of the Zero-K community, born from urban legends.

After the fog of war diffused, a shapeless swarm, a ball of hurt, and a forgotten ally was revealed.

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The shapeless swarm eats a single machine, then pumps out ambillion copies. That is how he wins every time.

After the shapeless swarm consumed a single machine, the rest of the world collapses.

Finally, in the end, the shapeless swarm degrades over time, as its uniformity gives a uniform solution to destroy them all.

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The ball armada harvests machines it walks over, then marches enternally onward. It contains the greatest mass; that is how it wins all the time.

When the ball moves past settlements, those settlements remain withered, dead, until no settlement remains alive.

Finally, in the end, the ball runs out of villages to harvest machines from. Then, the ball collapses from the inside, and it shatters (Its hunger is more than dead land can hold).

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The forgotten crusade used to have a purpose. However, once that purpose was fulfilled, the forgotten crusade realized that it didn't need a purpose to fight to begin with. Without a purpose, the forgotten crusade's morale remained all times high. With no hesitance, the forgotten crusade beats all times, all.

The forgotten crusade leaves no purpose, no meaning to the war without reason. The knights slowly forget who they were, how they lived; The knights replace all their ideas with more ideas for... they forgot. Eventually, they become mere critters that lurk the dark, losing even the resemblance of something that used to be human, like a pig.

Finally, in the end, the forgotten crusade... forgets their friends like they forgot their foe. They turn onto their brothers they forgot, onto their fathers they forgot. They become the weapon needed to destroy themselves.

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The Tormentor's minions: Shapeless swarm, Ball armada, Forgotten crusade. The tormentor didn't like their 'nicknames,' so to make these minions into good generals, the tormentor gave his minions new names.
The Tormentor named the Shapeless swarm into Purity.
The Tormentor named the Ball armada into Unity.
The Tormentor named the Forgotten crusade into Might.

The 3 guardians remain as the clockwork sentinels that rule over the frozen systems. All those who fall by the hands of the sentinels become yet another fallen warriors that walk eternal march of the Tormentor's army.

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