The EyeQons were a specialised class of enforcement and surveillance machines developed during the 10th Era of Anarkand. They were commissioned by an engineering consortium established under the authority of The Royal Guard of Kabal, with a singular purpose: to impose absolute order upon the industrial facilities controlled by the royal family of The Union of Kabal.

Originally conceived as tools of public security, the EyeQons quickly became synonymous with intimidation, surveillance and industrial oppression. Their primary deployment was within the enormous meat-processing facilities operated by the Union, where vast numbers of workers, many of them enslaved, were forced to maintain relentless production schedules.

The EyeQons were not designed to protect the workers. They were designed to make sure the workers kept working.

Constructed during the 10th Era, they were gigantic humanoid enforcement machines designed to bring order to the streets and industrial districts controlled by the Union of Kabal. Their enormous physical presence was intentional. The Royal Guard wanted a security force that could walk into a crowded factory floor and immediately establish authority without needing to speak.

Their grotesque appearance became part of that strategy.

Each EyeQon Guard possesses an enormous ocular apparatus integrated directly into its head, replacing conventional facial features with a single mechanical eye. The eye functions as a visual surveillance system, target acquisition device and identification mechanism, allowing guards to monitor workers from considerable distances.

Their bodies were deliberately built to be large, powerful and intimidating. Heavy industrial clothing, reinforced equipment and crude protective plating gave them the appearance of walking pieces of factory machinery rather than conventional soldiers.

Their uniforms were rarely replaced, and as the decades passed, many EyeQon Guards became filthy, battered and heavily stained by the environments in which they operated. Oil, dust, industrial residue and years of neglect accumulated upon their clothing and equipment. Some guards became almost indistinguishable from the factories they patrolled.

Their purpose inside the meat factories was brutally straightforward.

Workers were expected to work.

Production quotas were monitored continuously. Workers who slowed down, stopped working or attempted to leave their assigned stations could attract the attention of an EyeQon patrol. Guards were also responsible for maintaining restricted areas, escorting prisoners and responding to suspected escape attempts.

The EyeQons did not need to understand why someone wanted to escape. They only needed to stop them. Over time, the EyeQon Guards became a permanent feature of Union-owned facilities. Workers learned to recognise the sound of their footsteps long before the machines themselves appeared through the factory smoke.

A heavy metallic footfall.

Then another.

Then the enormous eye appearing through the fog.