# Splicers

By [xWhiteOuroboros](https://paragraph.com/@xwhiteouroboros) · 2023-03-28

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**_Splicers_** is a [role-playing game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game) using the [Palladium Books](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_Books) Megaversal gaming system. The game is set in the midst of a war between humans and a world-wide computer intelligence alternately referred to as the N.E.X.U.S. or the Machine. Players take on the roles of humans engaged in the fight against robotic, android, and [necrotic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrotic) minions of the Machine, using technology that is primarily derived from highly advanced [biotechnology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology). The computer intelligence has released a "[nanobot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology) plague" on the world; within a few seconds of a human touching non-precious metal, the item will begin to twist and attack the person, sometimes even animating into a robotic minion of the Machine. The result is that the nanoplague has effectively made non-precious metal allergic to mammalian life.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicers#cite_note-1)\[[_citation needed_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)\]

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