UR-025

UR-025 was a thinking machine and one of the legendary "Men of Iron" sentient robots who had threatened the earlier human civilisation of the Dark Age of Technology many millennia ago. It survived the Cybernetic Conflict that defeated the Men of Iron and disguised itself as an Adeptus Mechanicus robot as it made its way through the Imperium of Man.

UR-025 took part in an expedition to the seventh Blackstone Fortress discovered in a starship graveyard in the Segmentum Pacificus, where it hoped to learn more about other forms of machine life.

History
The Imperial Robot UR-025 is an oddity, even by the standards of the ramshackle frontier void station and port of call known as the Precipice. Claid in thick metallic plating and bearing devastating weaponry, this Battle-Automata is a highly sought-after ally for those looking to venture into the seventh Blackstone Fortress discovered near Precipice.

Having arrived at precipice on a dilapidated Imperial junk hauler, it emitted an auto-proclamation claiming it had been sent by Magos-Ethericus Nanctos III as an autonomous data-collection unit, and that it had directives for sanctioned eradication of those who impeded its Omnissiah-given duty.

But in truth, the robot is far more ancient than anyone realises. Its origins date back to the Age of Technology, when Mankind built thinking machines that eventually turned violently upon their masters. Known as the Men of Iron in legend, these sentient robots were all but wiped out.

Yet UR-025 has persisted over the long Terran millennia, hiding on the fringes of the galaxy and allowing others to believe it is a robotic tool of the Imperium and the Adeptus Mechanicus. Unlike the other inhabitants of precipice, it cares little for the trinkets of xenos races that have been subsumed by the nearby Blackstone Fortress. Instead, it seeks to obtain the technologies that underlie the existence of the fortress itself, for in the colossal space station UR-025 sees a kindred being to itself.