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A faction of broken Soldierbots, all of them shut inside the Reprogramming Workshop in the north-east Deadlands. The first character to walk in becomes their master — after which they will protect you by attacking roughly everyone you meet.
The Broken Ones are a faction of broken Soldierbots. They exist in exactly one place: the Reprogramming Workshop in the north-east of the Deadlands. Currently this faction can be found nowhere else.
Their faction quote is three words: "Defend the Master."
They are not hostile — and that is easy to misread
Most Broken Skeletons attack on sight, so the first instinct is to draw. The Broken Ones are the exception: if a player character enters the workshop, every skeleton inside automatically becomes that character's ally, and holds a "Following" goal on them indefinitely.
That is where the trouble starts. Being allies, they will try to protect you in combat — but they cannot tell whether a foreign squad is actually hostile to you. The result is that they attack anyone they encounter, including non-player allies and shopkeepers. The wiki puts it plainly: they yell "Protect Master!" and go for anything that could conceivably be a threat, while staring you down.
Attack them yourself and they will not initiate combat; they will attempt to flee.
You cannot talk to them
The Broken Ones have some basic dialogue and the interface offers a chat option, but the player cannot interact with this faction: every attempt at communication returns an "Error." response.
Taking them to war
The workshop holds 25-28 Error Code 0xFFFFFF units. They soak damage, deal solid damage, and being skeletons they can be repaired. Treated well they last a long time, and they are a real asset in an assault on another workshop or on Black Desert City.
The price is the paragraph above: they will go aggressive on random people you meet, including the ones you only wanted to befriend.
They can also be lured out of the building by Iron Spiders and other enemies, and some of them die when that happens.
What is in the workshop
The Reprogramming Workshop is classed as ruins and belongs to the Ancient Ruins faction. On the ground floor there are a few lootable boxes and 6 deactivated skeleton repair benches; upstairs there are 1-2 containers, a strongbox and an ancient vault.