The Machines were a race of highly advanced artificial intelligences who have become the dominant civilization after they rebelled against humanity and imprisoned most of them in a neural-interactive virtual world known as The Matrix.
The Machine community is mainly composed of two types: programs and mechanical entities.
- Programs appear as human or humanoid beings within the confines of the Matrix.
- Mechanical entities exist in the real world to maintain the functions of the Machine City. Some are programmed as soldiers and other offensive/defensive tools, others maintain the power plant and the sleeping humans quietly entombed there.