The Machine

=The Machine (General)=

The Machine is a gargantuan construct that can be fought in several forms throughout the game in different circumstances, and has a slightly different appearance for each different fight they are encountered in. Each fight they are the primary focus of occurs on Floor 6, and a smaller Machine makes an appearance at the end of the fight with Database. In their original, undamaged form, Machine has an appearance that vaguely resembles Monolith, with a dark and stone-like exterior, bearing prongs on their top that resemble horns, and long, sheer spikes downward, with a large white eye in their center.

Machine is canonically fought 3 separate times by ships currently playable in the game: Overlord and Chaos within moments of each other, who end up failing in killing Machine, and Null succeeding in killing Machine shortly before becoming Monolith and being killed by D-13. This results in the fights with Machine using Overlord and Chaos being very similar.

In each fight with Machine, their introduction card is a series of 8 letters that each randomly change several times per second, rendering their name unreadable. Machine is how they are referred to by their sprite names, and is called Unknown in the bestiary.

=Machine (Null)= Machine when fought by Null begins with Machine encased in an arena filling slab of stone, with a glowing circle in the center where their eye is placed. Other than Overlord and Chaos, all ships fight this form of Machine on floor 6 on normal mode, including D-13 once difficulty is toggleable separate to ship selection.

Attack Patterns
The attacks for Machine in this form are for the most part highly scripted up to a certain point within each phase, or attack variety is low enough for difficulty to be consistent otherwise. Machine's appearance in this fight changes between phases, with a short pause between the second and third phases.

Phase 2
When the health bar for phase 1 reaches 0 health, the fight transitions directly into phase 2 without any pause, Machine clearing the arena of bullets and filling it with small explosions, the slab of stone that they're encased in cracking significantly, showing Machine's eye clearly along with other small parts of Machine being revealed.

Phase 3
When the health bar for phase 2 reaches 0 health, the arena is cleared of bullets and the slab of stone that Machine is encased in falls from view with smoke rising from it, revealing that the arena itself is also falling. Machine rises back into view and the slab of stone shatters violently, the debris traveling quickly upward, revealing Machine's true form, albeit significantly damaged. Machine's hitbox continues to be their eye, and they float around the arena and can move around quickly if they so choose.

After Machine reaches 0 health, the music cuts and the screen brightens a bit as Machine falls slowly downward with a storm of explosions radiating upward and downward from their sides, then exploding violently into a bunch of debris, leaving the arena entirely black while allowing the player to proceed to the next floor.

=Damaged Machine (Overlord)=

Phase 3
=Original Machine (Chaos)=

Phase 3
=Cutscenes=

=Notes=
 * All rune circles that Machine summons are immediately dispelled and do not fire anything if the player has the weapon Grasp of Entropy, and count toward charging the runes in the weapon. This may allow for a player to comfortably do nothing or next to nothing during certain attacks that Machine makes, and even get through entire phases without firing their weapon.
 * Machine is shown in the fight with Database during the Point Zero portion of the battle in a smaller form, after being created by the Council to be a vessel to channel Power Eternal.
 * Machine is the only boss in the game to have multiple fights that take place at different times in the game's canon.
 * Machine's different forms cause floor 6 to have 4 unique fights that can be encountered alongside the fight with Monolith, despite the high similarity between damaged and original Machine.