The Machines have been operating on their own ever since.
If I remember this correctly humanity was already extinct at the end of Nier 1. The Aliens are not given a back story at all and players know too little about the aliens to care about them. Also, we know that the Bio-machines have some sort of AI or personality data, so this is the biggest hiccup for this theory. You're browsing the GameFAQs Message Boards as a guest. 3DS FC: 2681 0071 7240/PSN ID: Solid_Snake-MGS/XBL: SolidSnakeFHC. Just bothered me and leaves a black mark on an otherwise fantastic game.
The Aliens are an extraterrestrial race that conquered Earth sometime after the events of NieR Gestalt.
Funny, to me, those aliens reminded me of the scene from the 1979 movie Alien, when the crew finds the alien spaceship. And he was apparently the last Human alive before he was transformed, not an Android like NieR and every other 'human' in NieR. It's very clear in the game that we see them grow and evolve, so this could be plausible. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Aliens really attacked earth. The Aliens are an extraterrestrial race that conquered Earth sometime after the events of NieR Gestalt. He harbors latent magical power, but most of his memory is gone due to the long years that have passed/making so many copies of himself. As revealed by the Complete DOD Chronology, According to Accord (found here) the aliens arrived July 4th of the year 5012 and in their initial invasion quickly annexed both North and South America, setting up founderies, or scavenging existing ones, that would be used to produce the Machines, their weapons of war.
*spoilers*, You're just thinking about how much you want to **** 2B, aren't you?
By year 7645, the Aliens and their machine armies had successfully conquered over 80% of earth, despite the best efforts of the Android and Emil resistance against them.
He was built long ago as a weapon, and he himself was but one of many copies produced during the war against the aliens.
To be honest I was expecting the aliens to show up in some point of the game even though they were claimed to be killed off.
How can I save 2B from the virus when you're A2? aliens were a lie to cover up their mistake.
It seems to me that the biggest trolls on GameFAQs are the moderators themselves. What's also important to point out about the Emil clones is that, every time he creates a clone, his memory gets thinner and thinner, more and more diluted that he can hardly remember who he is--very much like the Emil we meet in N:A. Something interesting in Drakengard 3.
Even if humanity did create the machines, the Androids with their intelligence would have figured about being betrayed by the ones whom they were programed to protect.
It will absorb Xehanort and become Kairi's grandma, the final villain!!!