Sentinels

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Sentinels are Novium-powered clockwork automatons built by the ???. Originally commissioned as a manual labour force to assist with Aarn's reconstruction efforts after The Quake, Sentinels have since come to be utilised in a broad range of industrial tasks, such as farming, mining, and transportation. Sentinels possess rudimentary intelligence and motor functions, and can understand basic verbal commands (though they cannot speak themselves), but they are not considered to be truly 'sentient'.

All Sentinels are powered by Novium cores, granting them a lifespan that far exceeds organic beings. These cores are heavily secured to prevent tampering or theft. There are several different classes of Sentinel - Builders are large and weighted for heavy lifting, Miners are smaller and heavily reinforced, and so on. Some Sentinels are even employed as personal bodyguards for the wealthy few that can afford them.

Although Sentinels are now seen as an indispensable part of society, they were not originally so well received. The more simplistic programming of the first generation of Sentinels caused a few injuries and even one death in 7 AN. As a result, the use of Sentinels was halted by order of the Keepers for almost a year, until sufficient improvements had been made.