[**Technoria**
**The Great Dust Bowl**
**Oakley Military Base**]
Inside an underground lab, several hundred feet under the military base, dozens of floodlights were focused on a metal behemoth standing three hundred feet tall.
It had humanoid features with hundreds of rivets and screws holding its limbs together. On its head, there was a wide blue visor and a pair of antennas that looked like pointy black ears.
Engineers with oxyacetylene torches and precision laser cutters were busy working on the steely giant's gargantuan legs to repair the chipped edges and cracked armor plates, while lab technicians were inspecting the behemoth's operating software and subsystems.
Though this great steel giant looked in good shape from the front, its rear plates were missing and it had several snapped power cables and frayed connector cords.
