divine malevolence
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Rabbit Techno-Mage, Nine and Acme, the horse-bird, walk past dead Mata_Bots and Mata_Mercenaries. They're having a conversation regarding the machine deities.
Rabbit: "...Spirit of the Machine? Fossangels? Sure, they're out there. But we're nothing to them but playthings... No benevolent machine being in the sky would let things get this far."