Devil Splicers

"I don't have time to explain why I don't have time to explain."
This article has new content coming soon and may not be complete, confirmed, or correct. Please update it as soon as any relevant and accurate material is available. Editors must cite sources for all contributions to this article. Edits that do not follow this standard will be reverted without notice. For more information, see the Citation policy.

"That which we were, we are no more. That which we are is undefined. We make our new selves. We need not machines, because we are machines. ~consume enhance replicate~"

— Aksis

Devil Splicers
Overview
Type:	Experimentalists
Affiliation:	House of Devils

The Devil Splicers belong to a radical sect of the Fallen House of Devils' Splicers who became obsessed with godhood with the discovery of SIVA, a nanotechnology capable of altering the material world. Realizing this could make them closer to the "machine-gods" that they had always worshiped, the Devil Splicers immediately began infecting their fellow Devils with SIVA.

Their weaponry is Solar-based, with red-colored energy instead of the typical blue Arc-based. This is likely because of SIVA augmentation.

History

The history of the Devil Splicers is mostly unknown besides belonging to the Fallen House of Devils. They worked like other Splicers of other Fallen Houses, working to improve their houses weapons, technology and evolve their species. However, the Splicers like the rest of the House grew desperate after the lose their Houses Kell, Archon and Prime Servitor at the hands of the Guardians of the Last City. However, a disgraced machine priest, Aksis, returned and claimed the title of Archon finally bringing a sense of leadership back to the Devils. With Aksis and his followers in power, the Splicers redoubled their efforts in pillaging the Cosmodrome of Old Russia to find any piece of Golden Age technology to hopefully turn the tide. Their efforts proved fruitful as they found SIVA, a nanotechnology sealed away by the Iron Lords.

While the conventional leadership believed they have found a new machine to worship as a god, the younger more ambitious sect of the Splicers believed they could use SIVA to become the machines they worship. Aksis was the first to do so, reaching apotheosis and becoming more machine than Fallen. The Splicers under Aksis then used SIVA to bring back the Devil's Prime Servitor, Sepiks, to prove the technology's worth to the rest of their brethren. However, since SIVA is completely new to the Fallen, the Splicers sought the means to control and understand. Therefore, they traveled to Mars, taking a risk with the Cabal, to learn from Clovis Bray's archives as they were the original creators of SIVA. The Fallen were able to gain a basic understanding from the archives but the Cabal arrived and drove them away, preventing them from learning anymore.

With what they've learned, the Fallen were able to find Site 6, the replication center for SIVA, in the Plaguelands and reactivated it to produce more for themselves, twisting the land into their headquarters in the process. In the process of learning about SIVA, the Devil Splicers also learned about the original Iron Lords that sealed SIVA away and believed that they could learn more about SIVA from the Iron Lords fortress of the Iron Temple. With a force of Devils under the command of Sepiks Perfected, the Fallen hoped to gain more knowledge of SIVA from within and destroy the temple to ensure the Guardians couldn't find a way to stop them. However, Lord Saladin learned of their plan and lead the Guardian to Felwinter Peak to defend the temple. Despite the Fallen's numbers and Sepiks' new powers, they failed to breach the temple. However, Sepiks survived, thanks to SIVA's regenerative powers, and fled into hiding.

Meanwhile, the Devils and their Splicers breached the Cosmodrome Wall to gain a better entry into the Plaguelands and to melt down the wall's metal for processing. With SIVA, the Devils were even able to drive both the House of Kings and the Hive out of their holdouts, leaving the majority of Old Russia under the Devils control, though the Hive continued to harass the Splicers despite their new abilities.

Command Structure

The command structure and tactics of the Devil Splicers is generally the same to their generic House of Devils counterparts, albeit more dangerous, zealous and with minor differences. For example, Splicer Priests fight generally like Captains but have more powerful shields and/or weapons.

• Splicer Dreg
  • Splicer Reaver Dreg
    • Enhanced Dreg
    • Perfected Dreg
• Splicer Vandal
  • Splicer Reaver Vandal
    • Enhanced Vandal
    • Perfected Vandal
  • Splicer Scout
• Splicer Captain
  • Splicer Reaver Captain
    • Splicer Scorch Captain
    • Shock Captain
    • Null Captain
    • Enhanced Captain
    • Fused Captain
    • Splicer Priest
    • Perfected Captain

Automata

• Splicer Shank
  • Splicer Reaver Shank
  • Splicer Shank Master
  • Perfected Shank
  • Voltage Eater
• Splicer Servitor
  • Splicer High Servitor
  • Enhanced Servitor
  • Perfected Servitor
  • Splicer Emissary
  • Shock Servitor
  • Scorch Servitor
  • Null Servitor
• Splicer Walker
  • Perfected Walker

Vehicles

• Splicer Skiff
• Siege Engine
• Splicership Menkis-Syn

Notable Members

• Aksis, Archon Prime
• Dresiks, Splicer Baron
• Kaviss, Splicer Captain
• Kovik, Splicer Priest
• Meksis, Siege Engineer
• Rahndel, the Perfected
• Sepiks Perfected
• Vosik, the Archpriest

Gallery

• 
• 

  Splicer logo

List of appearances

• Destiny
  • Rise of Iron (First appearance)