The hydrogen bomb dropped on Keppler had turned the district into a radioactive wasteland. Only robots and drones could survive inside this irradiated hellscape, but even they needed special shielding to prevent the radiation from frying their internal circuits and power cores.
The machines which were currently occupying Keppler were special variants of their stock models. They were more heavily armored than the standard units and had triple lead coating all over their bodies. To further ensure their safety, the machines operated here in two shifts. The first group of machines patrolled the district in the morning and was replaced by another group after dark.
