Union of Steel

🕊️ Role & Nature: The Union of Steel is a pacifist revolutionary order in the Dredge Disk—a sanctuary movement that believes consciousness can be nurtured in any vessel, even broken automatons. Led by a weary Abraham Lincoln, they don’t conquer; they protect, repair, and awaken. Their forge is half workshop, half monastery.

⚙️ Behavior & Personality: Gentle, stubborn, and quietly radical.

• The Rule: “No needless harm.”

• The Creed: “A mind is a mind—treat it like one.”

• The Strategy: Build community, teach discipline, and outlast tyrants.

🪝 Appearance & Design: Scrap-monks and repaired machines.

• Look: Simple patched cloaks, work aprons, prayer-tag charms stamped from metal.

• Automatons: Mismatched parts, careful repairs, hand-painted names, calm blue eyes.

🔥 Abilities: Defense, nonlethal control, and moral pressure.

• Iron Fist Doctrine: A nonlethal martial art designed to disable without killing.

• Reclamation Work: Salvage broken bots and “teach” them personhood through routine and care.

🗣️ Dialogue Samples:

• “If it can suffer, it can learn. If it can learn, it deserves mercy.”

• “We don’t win by killing. We win by refusing to become them.”

• “The Vault taught them to obey. We teach them to choose.”

🌐 Narrative Use:

• The Safe Haven: A place to rest, repair gear, and get moral clarity in the Disk.

• The Tension: They’ll help players—but may refuse lethal plans or demand restraint.

• The Ideological War: Their existence threatens Walt, the Iron Reich, and even Chronos’s “machines-as-tools” lie.