An original AI generated sci-fi illustration on an immutable blockchain – The Titans of the Old Forge – When the Red Sun rose over the wastelands of Thal Ixion, the machines awoke. Their colossal frames groaned as ancient gears turned for the first time in a thousand years, shaking the ground beneath them. They were the Titans of the Old Forge, built before the Collapse—guardians of a forgotten civilization that had once stretched across the stars. Now, they stood among the ruins of their own kind, their glowing eyes flickering with fractured memory. No humans remained to command them, no gods left to guide their purpose. Yet something deep within their cores—a spark of code or a remnant of will—stirred them into motion. They began to walk again, each step echoing through the cracked landscape like the tolling of an iron bell. The smaller constructs around them remained buried, their power cells glowing faintly beneath the dust, like blue embers waiting for a wind that would never come. As dusk fell, the Titans turned toward the horizon where the twin moons rose. One by one, they raised their heads to the stars, broadcasting a single unified signal—a call that reached beyond the dead planet and into the void. Somewhere, light-years away, something answered. The Titans froze in place, and the world went silent. Then, with deliberate precision, they began to build once more.