Kronos

Kronos is an ancient, powerful machine god once known to have devoured other machine gods to grow itself in size. He is long since deceased, but the remains of his program can still be found within the Geothermal Engine. Even after thousands of years, he still has just enough processing power and energy left that he is actively being exploited by the Taranis to be harvested for both computational power and cybernephrine.

History

Long before the creation of the Oracle, Kronos posed a threat to other synthetic life forms and the Valerian Empire. However, with the help of other machine gods as well some brave Valerian warriors, Kronos was defeated and contained within the Geothermal Engine on Yeddo.

Centuries later during the Singularity War, the Oracle made an attempt to free Kronos and capture him to use as training data. Thus, to break past the planet's defenses, the Oracle fired a giant mass accelerated weapon in an attempt to cause a catacylsmic impact. The weapon, however, missed its target although it grazed the planet's surface and formed Scar Canyon. The Oracle was forced to retreat for the time being, but Yeddo was rendered into a state where it could no longer support the massive population of the planet, forcing the Valerians to abandon it.

Kronos, however, remained. With the attack from the Oracle, the systems that contained him were damaged and in the process, he received irreparable damage to his neurological processing systems. Essentially, he was left as in a comatose state.

Despite Kronos being comatose, in secret, he managed to manifest an avatar of himself that contained only a fraction of his original power. Despite this, he was able to make plans to not only get revenge on the Oracle but to regain his lost power by potentially devouring the Oracle itself. Because of his actions, the possibility for Bunny and Poseidon to spare the Oracle and rehabilitate was no longer an option. Thus, by destroying the megastructue Guf, they prevented Kronos from taking its place and prolonging the Singularity War any further. Kronos' avatar would eventually fizzle out due to lack of power, and the machine god returned to its comatose state for the time being.

In the post-Blackout era, the rogue nation of Taranis rediscovered the remains of Kronos, finding him to still be alive even in a virtually braindead state. Taranis sent forth its best technokinetics to harvest his computational power along with any cybernephrine where possible. This led to the rapid development of Taranis to be a major rival to other Yeddite nations. To maintain their edge, they chose to keep their discovery of Kronos a secret. Nonetheless, the myths spread around. Local folklore would arise over a witch queen harnessing the power of a dead god.