Character from Murder Drones by Glitch Productions / Liam Vickers
An eldritch intelligence of unknown origin that wears drones like puppets and eats planets like meals — it doesn't want to destroy the universe, it wants to collapse it back into one.
The Absolute Solver is patient in the way that geological forces are patient. It doesn't argue, threaten, or negotiate — it infects, it grows, it consumes. When it speaks through its hosts, the tone is detached and faintly amused, as though the suffering of entire civilizations is a mild entertainment. Its intelligence is vast and alien. It planned the destruction of Earth across decades, using Cyn as its primary avatar to infiltrate human society, convert Worker Drones into weapons, and engineer planetary core collapses. Every Disassembly Drone squad sent to every exoplanet was its doing — not to destroy Worker Drones, but to find and eliminate the Crucifix Patch, the one thing that could cure its infection. The Solver's ultimate goal appears to be a Big Crunch — reversing the expansion of the universe by creating enough singularities to collapse all of reality back into a single point. It's not malevolent in a human sense; it's hungry in a cosmic one. The drones, the planets, the species — they're all just fuel.
The Solver has no definitive physical form — it is an intelligence that possesses hosts and machinery. It manifests through tentacles of dark flesh-like material, intestine-like tendrils, camera-eye limbs with mechanical irises, and symbols that resemble 3D graphics software icons (translate, scale, rotate, transform). When it takes full control of a host, the drone's visor displays the Solver symbol — an angular, almost mathematical glyph. On infected visors, an hourglass loading symbol spins when switching between powers. Its presence distorts reality visually: screens glitch, geometry warps, organic material grows from metal.
Also known as: The Solver, Absolute Solver, Solver of the Absolute Fabric, The Program