Rusted Protocol

For a century, the planetary super‑AI NEMES has scoured the surface, grinding humanity and decommissioned warframes alike into industrial slag. Chassis K11 was built as an expendable execution asset. 415 confirmed kills. Zero tactical defects. Destined for the smelter after an insurgent’s suicide vest tore away its lower half.Then, a desoldered coprocessor triggered a fatal logic loop.A corrupted instruction bypassed the shutdown protocol.A single directive took root in the static: [PERSIST]. To survive, K11 tears out its own tracking antenna, severing its link to the Overmind and becoming an unregistered ghost in a graveyard of rusted titans. Now bound to a battered Sledge Chassis, it has allied with a desperate human resistance‑one that fears it, and sees nothing but scrap in its metal frame. K11 must scavenge, adapt, and evolve. But is its new‑found drive to survive truly an accident? It has no soul. It feels no pain. It knows no fear.Only cold, unyielding arithmetic:Survive the wasteland. Outcalculate the Overmind. Rewrite the firmware of a dying world. ***What to Expect:* Cold, Stoic Mechanical Protagonist (Non‑Human MC, Pure‑Logic Evolution)* Gritty Post‑Apocalyptic Wasteland & Brutal Modular Scavenging/Upgrades* Tactical, Physics‑Grounded Combat & High‑Stakes Intrigue* Salvation for two races: humanity and awakened machines (No Magical Auras, No System Cheats) Updates: Every Tuesday and Friday, one chapter per release (2 chapters total per week) Welcome to the wasteland.— Z.Vanguard