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The Ticon, a technologically advanced super-race of humans that built powerful machines in hopes of fending off the creeper. Much like the rest, they too fell to the Creeper menace, and yet, left a legacy forever to be remembered by those that crossed the universe in their footsteps.

This legacy originated in the sector |Eye of Orion where they fiercely protected one of their covert military research facilities. They would tire endlessly to develop automated construction vessels that would be capable of fending off the creeper with a deadly assortment of weaponry. In order to ensure the safety and long lasting of these machines the Ticon designed them to construct smaller weaponry and outfitted them to be able to collect energy.

These automated machines would enter into an annual planetary orbit of a single planet, there they would periodically scan the surface and perform perimeter checks. One problem arose when these machines began dropping out of communications one by one and disappearing, it turned out that solar power was not enough to keep these massive beasts running all year long. A clever Ticon scientist devised a state the machines could enter yet not be required to operate at full power and functionality, for these machines he created Sleep mode.

Sleep mode was a highly successful endeavour, the scientist was hailed as one of the finest in Ticon civilization. Unfortunately, their success was not meant to last, when the facility decided to recall all currently operational machines back to home for a routine check the Creeper struck where they least expected. Waves upon waves of Creeper, the horde rained in torrents upon the hapless Ticon researchers, with the large machines in repair state and a weak defensive capability they stood no chance.

The facility was overrun and the Creeper took its place as heir and sole survivor of the catastrophe.

It was only millenias later that it was discovered the planet still existed by Admiral Skarsgard Abraxis and his daughter Aliana. On the planet was found only a single outdated machine of such type for which a term was coined, the Sleeper. After defeating the problem Abraxis informed the Council of the existence of such a weapon, it was determined that it must have been corrupted millions of years ago by the Creeper though the origin of the rest that were constructed was unknown. Pursuit of this new technology was soon underway, and in the event termed the Great Awakening an activation protocol was sent throughout the galaxy by the defeated Sleeper, activating the ancient powers that used to sleep.

As many machines of different characteristics and power the Sleepers are capable of self-reconstruction and cloning as well as gel maintenance in their central operational systems. It did not take long until hundreds of thousands of planets were being orbited by the sleeping giants. Now it is up to Admiral Abraxis and the rest of the surviving humanity to fend off this cold, calculating, slumbering threat to all of their existence.

Can humanity survive this new threat? Or will they once again be made history in the cold, deadly void…

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