Thinking about maybe adding some bit and pieces of storyline into the blog, but the story is pretty vague at the moment.
How do you guys imagine Ion came about?  Why are we here?  What's the story behind the bots and creatures?
Might be fun to see how we all imagine the back story (or maybe we don't care - we just need to kill the bad things ).  For myself I see Avatar Qweeg as part of an ill-fated colony (think Aliens): ÂÂ
* Robots landed - given the crash site of one of the ships I think it was perhaps unintentional.  Not having any means to get home - or contact their robot colony, they are stuck here with us.  Having destroyed the small military presence we had, only a few of us survivors are left. ÂÂ
* All our townships have been devastated, with just three remaining (although rumours of a lone outpost south east of Babylon do exist) with working teleportation systems.
* Robots continue to harass us and attempt to move in on Zion, without success.  More recently though they have changed tact.  Mutant DNA has been introduced creating new species of creatures, all of which are hostile.  As time goes on, more and more new creatures appear, and the few of us that remain are facing a dark struggle to survive.
So for me the robots are the real enemy, and the cause of new species being introduced into the ecosystem.
But then the question remains - what caused the robots to crash here in the first place; was it just a freak accident - or were there darker forces at work here?  Have all the creatures been introduced by the robot's nefarious DNA experiments, or do some pre-date even our own colony?  Is there more to the deadly spiders - or are they really just mindless killing machines?  Questions, Questions.