Bot War - Mercenaries

Accompanying Slyder is Slyther, another former bot from the now defunct Snake Corp organisation.

Some more digging in the Bot War Facebook group has provided additional background about how the Snake Corp bots found their way into the Mercenaries soldiers of Fortune faction, this is a bullet point summary by Anthony Mallett, who is the owner of Traders Galaxy and the creator of Bot War, of the short story “Instruments of Destruction” by Steve Remington who is a prolific story writer for the Bot War universe…..

– COILS labs took over Snake Corp although they were the same company in a way. At least COILS owned Snake Corp.

– COILS and Snake corp shared most of the same board members. Dr Mindtwist being head of coils and Venom being head of Snake Corp. but now Venom is chairman over all.

– The Snake Corp bots were destroyed when Dr Mindtwist bot-napped the Deceiver Digger (one of the Builders that combines to form Destroyer) and copied parts of his code in the attempt to power Conspiracy (COILS titanic scale Bot). But Destroyer attacked (minus an arm) and utterly crushed the COILS lab.

– Dr Mindtwist escaped in Stryke (AKA Stormbreak) but Slyther and Slyder were destroyed, or so Mindtwist thought.

– Turns out that Slyther and Slyder were just very seriously damaged.

– But thinking they were destroyed Mindtwist downloaded their copied codes and “updated” them. The COILs bots are more aligned with the corporate principles of coils and have less “free will”.

– But Slyther and Slyder scratched out an existence, their codes hanging on until they found other mercs who repaired them fully

– These mercs then led them both to Blackwheel who is building a mercenary bot empire of his own in the heart of the democracy.

So with this background in mind, Slyther has rightfully donned the Mercs green fatigues and ready to seek revenge on all who cross their path.