Stranded BioCPU

During The Fall, attempts were made to secure the massive BioCPUs that managed modern civilization. SMS-57, for example, was moved from its nexus when rebels threatened to overrun the installation. Unfortunately, the convoy was caught in traffic and overwhelmed, leaving the disconnected brain adrift, and at the mercy of the elements… and scavengers, such as the manticore which can be seen flying in the distance, upper right.

Horror of the Eyepolyps

The Eyepolypus is a bizarre terrestrial psychic polyp colony that slithers about ruins, seeking (preferably) sapient life to enslave with its hypnotic eye. Victims become the willing minions of the eye, their minds filled with a compelling memetic dream-fog, protecting it and providing it with food. When these poor souls weaken from food and water deprivation, the eyepolypus engulfs them and absorbs the remaining nutrients. 

Once the eyepolypus reaches a certain size, it will separate into dozens of smaller colonies and the cycle begins again. 

Eyes emit a powerful psychic field that can cause headaches in sensitive individuals nearby. Some survivors claim a state of fugue consciousness, a co-mingling of awareness of all the beings in the loop, dominated by the hungry will of the polyp colony.

Tunnels of the Lost Mall

Acolyte Phaedra of the Blue Wizard Order became lost in the labyrinthine tunnels of the Mountain Undermall, leading her on a life defining adventure that saw her taken prisoner by semi-feral morlock cannibals, only to win their trust and organize them into a powerful union. She then led them against the billionaire brainpods and their robot enforcers. 

Mutant of Bunker Commune Seven

Due to radiation induced genetic deterioration, the telepathic mutants of Bunker Commune Seven resorted to telecloning, reproducing themselves via stored teleport patterns held in massive information buffers, drawing matter from tanks of organic soup and recycled corpses. 

This system evolved over time, ultimately resulting in AI super computer mainframes combining wave patterns to create amalgamated code beings with enhanced mental powers. In so doing, they avoided the fate of their increasingly genetically degraded brethren in Commune Nine. 

Caterra of Corridor B

Caterra the sorceress in Corridor B of her vast mountain undermall, outside the radioactive ruins of Denver. Fiercely anti-android, she vetted all refugees seeking shelter in her domain with a series of questions designed to stump synthetics. It later turned out she was herself largely machine. 

Space Shuttle Agamemnon

Space shuttle Agamemnon over Johnston Atoll in the Pacific; introduction of the revolutionary FJ-1000 fusion engine by Stellar Dynamics enabled shuttle craft to reach orbit without requiring external boosters, ushering in a new era in space flight. Mining of the asteroid belt soon followed, and SD was at the forefront. The massive wealth the new metal resources created caused a subsequent rocketing of prices as inflation became rampant.  

Note the ECM pod mounted on the external hull. The proliferation of cheap AAMs caused trillionaires to relocate their launch pads to remote locations and install sophisticated counter-measures as class warfare intensified.

These are old (last year) V4 Midjourney outputs (from before I cancelled my account), which were then edited in ProCreate. See the unaltered AI output at @magnum_thrax on Instagram. 

Behemoth of the wastes

Kaibutsu were bred in large numbers during the Kaiju Wars, and became a common sight in the Midwest. Some were even sold as draft animals, after hostilities ceased. 

But it is always unwise to make aggressive eye contact with them. 

Predator instincts do not die easily. 

These are old (last year) V4 Midjourney outputs (from before I cancelled my account), which were then edited in ProCreate. See the unaltered AI output at @magnum_thrax on Instagram.