Editing Setting:HR Giger's Dark World (section)

===The Birth Machine===
It is the birth machine that damned the dark world. The Darkworld is built upon the union of flesh and steel, this bio-mechanical matrimony is what gives the weapon its ammunition, the device its power, and its functionality. Unlike the world of light where the material world is killed and its corpses are assembled into primitive machines to exploit the dark draws from the user as much as the device itself. The light worlders do not understand our ways, they are unnerved, but we celebrate our connection to our devices, to feel as they feel, to give a part of ourselves to the machine with whom we bonded, and to take the risks from such a union. 

This of course begs the question for many Light Worlders, what births the birth machines. There are of course living beings who have been fused and transformed into biomachines, but these are few and far between. They are often crude, and the transformed individual often is not mentally or physically prepared for such a transition, leading to breakdowns and "complications" <!---your gun having ptsd, finding out your darkworld self was forced into becoming a turret.--> Most great and beautiful machines come from the Birth Machine. These birth machines are great factories who produce the dark world. They are The Matrons of the Mechonisms. When the Ancients conquered our lands, they captured the Birth Machines, and violated them, forcing the creation of new weapons and equipment from their domineering force. Efforts to save the birth machine were tried many times by the rebels, all of which have failed. We have long since given up. 

But that is not to say we are without all hope, for their are rumors that an egg with a nascent Birth Machine, has been kept in secret. The Maiden Machine is hidden from Drekketh eyes and known only to an organization who has yet to reveal their name. They exist in whispers. They transport the Maiden across the dark world, protecting her from the Ancient ones. No one has seen these defenders in person, and they seem to only work through agents of agents of agents. Light worlders are occasionally contacted to perform services to save this birth machine. The Dark World holds hope that one day, when she is fully formed she can restore the union that made The Dark World, and aid the rebels in final victory.

They have every reason to be cautious, because the Birth Machines ravaged by the Ancient ones are aging, their machines no longer produce what they could, and they refuse to birth another birth machine. When these machines die, the Ancient One's Empire dies with them. They must find the Birth Maidens.