![]() That could just be because he needs someone mobile to get carry out his agenda for him, but he could genuinely be concerned for their safety (Being a snob isn't -necessarily- the same thing as being a bad person after all). On the other hand, because there HAS been at least one heroic voltbot, there's always the possibility that there are more, and Core DOES seem to be urging his steambot companions to be cautious. ![]() So there IS good reason to be wary of Core, even if his companions don't know it yet. So far there's only ever been one non-antagonistic voltbot, and even they started with a VERY dim view of steambots. Almost all of them that we've seen have basically been puppets of Vectron. The third robot that you saw in the intro, Core, is almost certainly a voltbot, the most advanced of the robot types we've seen in the games so far. So humans got pushed underground because they were trying to destroy the steambots to get at their gold) They have no idea why humans would be so obsessed with a metal that they can't eat. (Also, fun fact, in the first Steamworld game, Steamworld Tower Defence, the steambots are mystified as to why the shiners are attacking their cities, unaware that they're after the huge stockpiles of gold that have been accumulated inside. I can think of two possibilities (That is, the later two types of robot were invented relatively close to the nuclear war so there were still a lot of steambots left over, OR steambots, being intelligent, were granted rights and continued building themselves), but that's mere speculation on my part. It's not actually explained why steambots were still widespread enough to still exist and then go on to become the dominant civilization on Earth, when, presumably, they would have been rendered obsolete by the development of dieselbots and later voltbots. The Shiners are the descendants of humans from areas that weren't important enough to be targeted, which is partially why they have a hillbilly aesthetic. The reason the setting is post-apocalyptic is, at least so far as we've been told, because of a nuclear war between human factions. There was a video put up by the creators of the Steamworld setting that explained that the steambots were actually invented in the 1800s and that this massively accelerated human technology. Certainly none of the Steamworld protagonists ever display much knowledge of their own history, focusing more on their present problems than the abstract past. Humanity lost control of the Steambots simply because due to being non-networked, new generations of Steambots simply forgot that humanity made them and started treating humans as dangerous pests. ![]() I think humanity created the Steambots to get out from under Vectron's control, but as was stated in Build's intro scene, Steambots are VERY GOOD laborers, and effectively Von Neumanned their way to becoming Earth's dominant race. ![]() Humanity unfortunately got lost in the crossfire. And the end result is an ongoing feud where Vectron would try to take over, steambots fight it, win, and then forget Vectron ever existed, and then rinse and repeat. Given Vectron's ability to take over anything with a network connection, I very much get the impression that non-networked robots like the steam bots and deiselbots (possibly others) were created as a response. The villain Vectron with their control freak tendencies appears to be the original instigator of robot rebellion. So from what I can tell, sometime in the distant past, humans made robots, robots rebelled, and now steambots (and possibly other bots) rule the world (until it gets blown up), while humanity has retreated underground to become the Shiners of the Dig games. While there's no lore, you can glean something of Steamworld's backstory from the previous games simply through visual story telling of their backgrounds.
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