"It demands a soul. Offer yours."
A failed experiment abandoned by a superintelligence, salvaged and repurposed by humanity from orbital debris, now reduced to this — a mechanical husk craving a biological mind, a beast stripped of logic yet driven by raw instinct. It cannot think, yet it knows with stubborn certainty: only by devouring a living woman, transforming her into its Matricore, can it finally comprehend slaughter, reason, and creation.
Core Mechanics:
Living Vessel Required: Only females may enter to become the Matricore. The Matricore is stripped of consciousness; her Intellectual skill determines the shield radius cap, while her Shooting/Melee skills determine the quality of spawned Pseudosouls.
Mechanical Womb: Absorbs mechanoid wreckage, reverse-engineers their blueprints, and re-gestates standard mechanoids through mechanoid means. Unanalyzed types cannot be produced. Production speed scales with the Matricore's Crafting skill.
Pseudosoul Spawns: Forcefully extracts the Matricore's combat abilities and memories to generate short-lived defenders, armed with equipment the Forgenest deems suitable. They possess no thought — only the violent mirror of the Matricore's own soul, stripped bare.(The equipment assigned to Pseudosouls currently supports Humans, Milira, Ratkin (new version, currently experiencing solar flares, use with caution), Kiiro, and Axolotl. If support for other races is needed, configuration can be done via XML.)
Absolute Dominion: Should the Matricore die or the Forgenest be destroyed, all Pseudosouls instantly vanish, severed from their foundation of existence.
Abandoned by gods. Recovered by mortals. Fed by you.
Through you, it becomes whole. Through it, you become sublime.
Come — give yourself.
Known issues: An error occurs when generating a storage area for produced mechanoids. No solution has been found yet, but it does not affect normal use.
CE compatible: If ranged weapons spawned by Pseudosouls have corresponding ammunition, they will carry ammo according to Combat Extended's own ammo logic.
