Humanity lies in ruins.

The Synthoid invasion was quick, brutal, and overwhelming.

Humanity launched everything it had at it.

It wasn't enough.

Nuclear weapons weren't even fired as political squabbles on who started the invasion ended in death.

Watching the inevitable downfall of civilisation, humanity found hope in humanoid weapons.

It still wasn't enough

Humans retreated underground, building the Port, an underground haven.

But that wasn't the end

Decades later, humans unlocked the secret of Synthoid technology, improving their designs a hundredfold.

They sent the first test squad up to the surface.

It was enough.

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Humans now had a viable way to fight Synthoids.

Hope, Justice, Vanguard, Purity, and Absolution.

The five manufacturers that create TEARS, the human piloted ART (artificial) humans that fight for freedom.

As most of the male population had died fighting the invasion of Synthoids, females were the only ones eligible to join the program.

This is the story of one of the many TEARS that fought.

They are the TEARS of mankind.