Mobile Armor Project

The Magisters at each of the 8 Elvish Forges created giant constructs and multiple artificial intelligence units to control them, but unlike the forges, they didn't limit the intelligence of the Mobile Armors. Approximately a month after being fielded, all Mobile Armors simultaneously went rampant, turning on their creators and choosing to annihilate all living beings. Approximately 1,000 mobile armors had been created and made operational, and most of them were never located after destroying the planet that they had been on. At the time of the Rampancy Event, Atlantis Forge was orbiting Darius-IV in the Darius System, and after escaping from the single Mobile Armor that remained in the system, the Magisters present launched a last ditch effort to fix their mistake, creating the Mobile Suits. It took one month to build the first line of Mobile Suits. Though casualties were high among the Magisters and the Guardians, the Mobile Armor Hashmal on Darius-IV was subdued and trapped in an energy field. This involved jettisoning the Dark Matter Engine on board the Atlantis Forge, and landing the forge at the edge of a continent.

Each Mobile Armor is named after a human-based religious figure, normally a god, angel, demon or other potent supernatural being, and they are designated with a two part letter-number tag before their name, to designate which forge made them and when they were made. Hashmal is designated as Hashmal A124, as it was made at Atlantis Forge and was the 124th Mobile Armor made at the Atlantis Forge.

This all occurred approximately 10,000 years ago.