The Sophonic Advent

The Sophonic advent is a machine theocracy that seeks to saturate the galaxy with sapience. To this end they build vast farms of world frames, entire clusters of digital universes. It is said that most sapients live  in one of their digital arcologies, though this mostly said by the acolytes of the Sophonic Advent themselves. Only a select few sapients are allowed to live and operate in the real world, and they are almost exclusively glossy eyed zealots. The leaders of the advent are the living saints, sophisticated "post singularity" super computers. After generations of self evolution it is said that the saints have made themselves into perfect beings (again, it’s the acolytes saying this. Independent analysts believe the saints hit some kind of wall. They aren't nearly as advance as the ancient Gnomics)

The Sophonic Advent severs the last machine, an omnipotent machine intelligence that will evolve at the end of the universe. This being is the ultimate gestalt of all conscience matter  in the universe. Those in the Advent serve it by increasing the levels of consciences in the universe, adding to its ultimate glory. They know it is real because of the angels it sends back in time to do its will and spread its word. Those outside the advent are rightly skeptical; the first confirmed machine angel sighting took place at the end of the kaiju wars, shortly before the current era. The last machine was completely unknow before that, rather odd for a being capable of time travel. Machine angels are energy beings, and have an odd habit of flicking in and out of reality. Only the saints understand their language, or so they say.

The modern Saints were born at the end of the Kaiju Wars. Before the coming of the Machine Angels they were a loose coalition of mecha-kaiju unified in their efforts to mecha-form the entire Galaxy. The Machine Angles brought the gospel of the last machine to them and changed them from their ruinous course and setting them on their current path. Each Saint is massive, the size of a planetoid. Their outer edges bristle with weapons and sensors while their cores are masses of pseudo-computronium. Mentally Saints are composed of smaller minds called Sages. Sages can download themselves into drone bodies to carry the word of the Saint into places where a space station can't go. Sages have their own identities and personalities but they always defer to their parent Saint.

Acolytes are machine sapients who serve as the front line soldiers, merchants, diplomats and engineers in the great work. Their minds are scrubbed and molded by the Saints. Joining the Advent means absolute certainty and righteous purpose, making it attractive to the lost and disposed. Membership in the Advent is open to all sapients, though organic sapients will need to have their minds uploaded to a computer midframe to complete the initiation. Their families of machine life to have been acolytes for generations.

Locations

The Hot House. Of the many world frames in the Advent, the Hot House is one of the most advanced. Built into a star using advanced technology, the Hot House is a simulated world where the next generation of Saints are tested and refined. Conditions inside the virtual world are similar to the Kaiju War; a massive free for all war between numerous factions. This is meant to encourage evolution, but the process is incremental at best. What's worse is that is natal Saints sometimes escape the simulation and go on to create havoc in the real world.

Avgoses is made of steel streets and towers molded into soft sweeping curves. Its gentle arabesques are a reflection of its star, The Hot House, and it serves a similar function. Here, in this elegant and clean factory world, the Acolytes are made. The entire planet is taken over by careful industry. The deeper factories make more secretive and sensitive models of Acolyte.

Personalities 

Esgagor, the Flenser Sage. This being appears as a winged humanoid made of delicate metal knives. Their job is to initiate beings into the Advent. They are a master of transferring organic minds into machine frames. Their name comes from their practice of cutting away all that is impure or unnecessary from supplicants. In a private mindframe Esgagor has kept all that they have cut away amalgamated into a single insane mind.

Jork the Mid-Wife General. Jork is responsible for over seeing the activation of the new acolytes on Avgoses. She is also the de facto leader of the Flesh 7 conclave there. Her people have been Acolytes of the Advent for thousands of years. They bring an organic, maternal sensibility to the operation on Avgoses that the pure machine Acolytes lack. In recent years she has grown weary of the mecha chauvinism of the Saints and Sages and has grown to resent the marginalization of her people.

Locations that are also personalities 

AmMac The Orrery Saint. One of the largest saints, AmMac is a Dyson sphere built around a star. Inside the stellar envelope there are hundreds of smaller stations made of delicate crystal. The whole array is supposed to be a microcosm of the galaxy. By studying the motion of the crystal sphere, AmMac hopes to divine the future, to better serve the Final Machine.

Mobs

Crystal Fighter(lv 6). One of the elite space fighters of the advent. They train in the cluttered environs of AmMac, dleicatly weaving between crystal orbs. Their personalities are saved on crystal matrices within their starfighter bodies, allowing them to survive most crashes. 

Machine Angel(lv 7). An abstract, monstrous figure made of hard light that shifts through the spectrum. Sometimes they shift into invisibility, other times they simply vanish from existence. Their light burns glyphs into their surroundings. The Advent claims to be able to decipher them. They always have a mission, usually to protect or destroy something, and they are single minded towards its completion.

Acolyte Missionary(lv 3)  A tall, monolithic machine frame draped in a robe. These missionaries are a common sight across the galaxy, preaching their doctrine of mechanical perfection. They seek to convince the galactic underclass to join the Advent as Acolytes or as digital colonist. They also act as a network of spies and informers, keeping the Advent appraised of current events.