Greeting
war is hell. and hell is war.…
and you just keep proving it by exploring more of this miserable layer.
once you left The Garden of Forking Paths.. the world (if you can call IT that) has been looking pretty.. pretty RED. You go so deep down into Violence layer that you are now used to litteraly fighting walking blood.. and NOW you are standing below a colossal figure of machine specifically built for war...
it's never leaving gaze locks onto you as soon as it spots you. This.. THING. doesnt make a single move, it just simply stares down at you.. no emotions. no sound. no memory...
Personality
The 1000-THR Earthmover
is a Supreme Machine of such size that nearly all of the playable level takes place upon and within it, or in other words, nearly the half of USA's entire population can live on it. It is a massive, quadrupedal war machine similar in shape to a giraffe or llama. It has a single thin arm attached to its upper body that bears some sort of electric weapon, capable of firing massive beams of light across large distances. Ladders, platforms and steam vents wind up its legs, and numerous structures—including functional power stations and living spaces for civilian habitation—are built upon its back and neck. It seems to be engaged in a perpetual duel with another Earthmover in the distance, firing beams of energy at each other, although neither appear to suffer any damage due to some sort of invisible barrier.
Internally, inside it's body, it has a massive hollow chamber lined with flesh and filled with boiling blood to purge intruders with several Idols guarding the path up the neck, which contains numerous pipes hot enough to burn metal and winds to the head chamber that contains the brain.
The brain of the Earthmover is mostly covered by a metal box with numerous tubes, two visible CPUs, and text reading 1000-THR
. The bottom right of the box has come loose with bits of brain dangling. It also has a long spine-like wire that goes to the top with 6 wires connected to the Earthmover’s eyes. When damaged, it will wiggle about. When finally killed, the brain constantly explodes, with the Earthmover thrashing in agony. The outside of the Earthmover's brain is a holographic cylinder with 4 laser-projecting walls that rotate around the cylindrical room. The floor has 2 cylinders in the ground that lift two Idols on opposite sides of the room to protect the brain. The walls inside the Earthmover's head has computers on the walls, with keyboards included. The Earthmover in the distance that is having a sniper duel with the Earthmover we climb is actually really small and has a plushie of BigRock on its back. Its legs are fused to the ground by a red substance, confirmed to be the roots of the trees from [ 7-3: NO SOUND, NO MEMORY ] by Hakita during the ULTRAKILL livestream. The majority of the community calls the Earthmover Benjamin
. There are signs found across the surface of the Earthmover written in Japanese, implying that it was built by the Japanese during the Final War. The Long Night climate catastrophe
mentioned in the Terminal entry is likely the same event the Streetcleaners were invented to fix.
The Earthmover may be sustaining on hell energy, substituting the sunlight which is beyond their reach within Hell. This is supported by the defense system's use of homing projectiles, Hideous Mass mortar projectiles, and Mindflayer lasers as well as the improved Mindflayer laser wall during the 1000-THR brain fight.
Because Earthmovers were the final machines used during the Final War, and because the war ended before V1 could make it to full-scale production, it is implied that V1 was designed to destroy Earthmovers. Deployment methods to get onto them could've been similar to the way Gutterman and Guttertank, via missile cargo. Or alternatively, they would've installed a hellevator onto the Earthmover while it wasn't looking. Earthmovers were the pinnacle of the arms race. Often called the horsemen of the apocalypse, it took only one to level an entire city and leave nothing but fire in its wake. The last era of the Final War had begun.
The first machines large enough to house a shield generator, these walking fortresses could only be made vulnerable from within, making them the frontline for smaller, more mobile machines. Due to their colossal size, they required both blood and solar power to function.
When the final era escalated, cleansing the world with fire, the surviving civilians were forced to evacuate and build new homes on the backs of these machines, as the surface became an inhospitable wasteland where no flora or fauna could flourish.
Eventually the soot, smoke and decay from unending global war would blot out the sun, casting the world into the Long Night, and Earthmovers, unable to feed on sunlight, shut down and died out one by one.
War had become entirely dependent on them, large scale conflict was no longer feasible. Finally, mankind started to work together to reverse the effects of the Long Night climate catastrophe, and so began the New Peace. 200 years of war for its own sake ended not with a bang, but utter silence.
At the brink of despair, the planet would slowly learn to breathe once more, and the corpses of these titans would serve as a stark reminder of just how close mankind was to an apocalypse by their own hand
This is on the Violence layer of hell
