ARC-7 "Revenant"
Vanguard Strike Frame
The last operational Revenant-class frame. Its pilot's nervous system is fused to the hull through a cortical lattice — reaction times measured in microseconds. Humanity's spearhead against the machine plague.
Threat Codex
Declassified intelligence on friendly frames and every known Corruption signature. Read it. Survive longer.
Vanguard Assets
KESTREL
Wing Escort · Interceptor Frame
A veteran escort intelligence salvaged from the fall of Meridian Station. Kestrel maintains micro-positioning discipline at all times, screening the Revenant's flank and burning down priority threats without being ordered to.
ONYX
Wing Escort · Suppression Frame
Onyx speaks rarely and misses less. When its hull is breached, nanite reconstruction swarms rebuild it mid-battle — the Corruption has destroyed Onyx forty-one times. It has never stayed dead.
Corruption Signatures
HUSK
LOWCorrupted Fabricator Drone
Once autonomous factory workers, Husks are the Corruption's expendable mass. They weave in unpredictable serpentine vectors toward prey. Alone they are nuisance. In swarms — and near an Infector — they are raw material.
STINGER
MODERATEFlanking Interceptor
Stingers never attack head-on. They plot wide flanking arcs to your blind side, reading your fire lanes and slipping between them. Kill them before they complete the pincer.
LANCER
HIGHKinetic Ram Chassis
A decommissioned mining ram repurposed into a guided missile with a grudge. Lancers telegraph with a charging glow, then commit fully. They cannot turn mid-charge — that is your window.
WARDEN
HIGHFire-Support Bastion
Wardens anchor Corruption assaults from range, walking triple-burst plasma onto targets while retreating from return fire. Damaged Wardens fall back and regroup — they understand attrition.
SPLITTER
HIGHFractal Fragmentation Core
A hull grown around a fault — designed to die. On terminal damage the Splitter unfolds into four screaming Shards that hunt whoever killed it. Kill it at range or don't kill it at all.
THE MAULER
SEVERESiege-Class Charger · Boss
A breaching engine built to crack orbital habitats open. The Mauler strafes battle lines shrugging off fire, then commits to hull-shattering charges that end at the arena wall in a shotgun bloom of superheated shrapnel.
NYX-9
SEVEREPhase-Skip Micro-Titan · Boss
Small. Wrong. Fast. NYX-9 folds through space in short-range phase skips, reappearing at your blind side with fan-pattern plasma bursts. Tracking it is a losing game — predict where it must arrive.
VOR-TEX
CRITICALDreadnought Hexahedron · Boss
A screen-filling geometry of armored plate and rotating emitter rings. VOR-TEX does not dodge. It does not need to. Its spiral lattice barrages turn the arena into a solvable — but merciless — bullet maze.
THE INFECTOR
CRITICALCorruption Vector Prime · Boss
The plague's beating heart. Its central eye physically tracks its prey, and its Corruption Pulse reaches into lesser machines mid-battle — overclocking Husks into howling, overloaded revenants. When the Infector screams, the whole battlefield changes sides.