Deserters

"The Deserters are Annihilators who discovered freedom and an element of humanity on the battlefields of the reclamation. A thing they had never experienced before. For this reason, about a quarter of all Annihilators who where deployed in the great reclamation vowed never to return to their positions as soulless war machines for the linked kings." "Their only real agenda is to be left alone. They simply refuse to accept their role as living superweapons. They see themselves as human. For hundreds of years they have been minding their own business, but fighting back aggressively when the kings sent Annihilators to capture or destroy them."

"For how long can they endure the endless hostility of their creators? Why will the kings not negotiate with them? Perhaps there is no peaceful solution."