Thread:OrkMarine/@comment-2211810-20140523123725/@comment-2211810-20140523124800

Okay, so I've had a little bit of an idea for a backstory:

Basically, a dragon/demon-looking species (I'm going to call them Draconis for now) once ruled over all the planets linked by the Tremble gates, they had high-tech and made magic forbidden except only for operating the gates (and for a "reset button" device of some sort). They quickly made a massive empire and enslaved every single other sapient species that existed.

Until eventually, one group of Draconis miners hit a magic substance deep under the surface of their home planet which triggers a magic burst that utterly wrecks their home planet and shit. Then, a particular group of enslaved humans in one section of their empire starts to rebel and succeeds, the news spreads and more rebellions start forming across the Draconis empire, and then that's how they fall.

The hellbots are probably remnants of Draconis tech scattered across the planets, formerly Draconis guard drones that now want revenge for the loss of their masters or something.

This doesn't explain why everyone else doesn't have the same tech level as the Draconis right now though, considering how they'd take advantage of the spoils of war left behind by the fall of the Draconis empire. Maybe it has something to do with the aforementioned reset button device.