Cathedral earned its name from the towering spires that crown its upper hull, rising nearly twenty stories above the prairie. The machine walks on four massi…

…cally hunting the mercenary team across forty kilometers of wasteland, crushing their vehicles and equipment with precise leg strikes. There were no survivors. Since tha…

…he one you can't see coming until the ground starts moving. Wasteland construction always includes seismic monitors, and 'Leviathan drills' — emergency evacuations trigg…

…they need to see. A clock. A prayer. A warning. A map. The wasteland saying 'steady as Meridian' means reliable to the point of being uncanny.

…been doing nothing but walking north-south across the Iowa wasteland for as long as anyone has documented the Behemoths. Its path is precise to within two meters of an…

…tually circles back to Obelisk. It is the closest thing the wasteland has to a holy site — a place of pilgrimage for those who worship the machines, a place of dread for…

…s, most of which appear inactive. Palisade moves across the wasteland like a mobile airfield, its passage flattening everything in its path into a smooth, compressed roa…

…t collects other machines. It walks on six legs through the wasteland, and slung beneath its central hull is a vast cargo bay filled with the carcasses of destroyed auto…

The Foundry is a walking factory. There is no more precise description. It stands ten stories tall on four thick, piston-driven legs, and its body is an indu…

…s — it generally ignores humans unless they're in its path. Wasteland communities have learned its route and built settlements just outside its corridor. Some even worsh…

…d soil that is measurably more fertile than the surrounding wasteland — the combination of electrical discharge and rainfall appears to revitalize dead earth. Wasteland…

# Behemoth Country ## What They Are The Iowan Behemoths are autonomous machines. Not synthetic life. Not AI in the way the cities use the term. Machines — …

# Behemoth Country ## What They Are The Iowan Behemoths are autonomous machines. Not synthetic life. Not AI in the way the cities use the term. Machines — …

…and strangely. ## Day 4-7: The Green Belt I had expected wasteland. I found forest. Between kilometers 60 and 150, the terrain is densely vegetated — a secondary fore…

…and strangely. ## Day 4-7: The Green Belt I had expected wasteland. I found forest. Between kilometers 60 and 150, the terrain is densely vegetated — a secondary fore…

…ctual machines, the autonomous megastructures that roam the wasteland between the Great Lakes cities like geological events with schedules. I have tracked them through w…

…ctual machines, the autonomous megastructures that roam the wasteland between the Great Lakes cities like geological events with schedules. I have tracked them through w…

An emergent modification in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) populations that recolonized GLMZ following the regional colony collapse of 2120-2125. The recovere…

Nevada, a largely depopulated wasteland with a few fortified settlements clustered around remaining water sources.