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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 925329" data-attributes="member: 151">On the Animatrix, the first video is "The Last Flight of the Osiris", detailing how the doomed ship Osiris discovers that Zion is under attack and how they let pass on the message to a drop point (which is retrieved in the game, and presented in the movie).  As they're running from squids, they have two gunners with what appear to be large-shelled machine gun emplacements.  They destroy several squids this way, but it's clear that it's a losing effort.  The guns are good for taking out a few squids, but the EMP is much more effective, due to their speed, toughness and manueverability.Further, in 'Reloaded', you see some of the defenses at Zion, and they include men in battle-suits with what are probably rail-guns, and large gun emplacements at the fortifications.  But against an unrelenting onslaught of machines that don't know fear, they will only hold for so long.I think, though I don't know, that the Machines are also very energy dependent.  If the loss of the sunlight caused by "Operation: Dark Storm" (as seen in the Animatrix) caused them that much trouble, they may be very conservative when it comes to power expenditures...and it's clear that they expend a great deal of it.  Further, while they are alien in their thinking, it's clear the machines, in the past, were willing to co-exist and had a desire to live...thus, they may not want to accept the losses taken unless they're certain of victory.  Consider also that the machines are clearly not all in agreement about all things...the Oracle, architect, twins and Merovignian show that, I think.Here's a question that I've been wondering about, though:  If the architect is telling the truth (and I'm not convinced entirely that he is...especially since he may be lying by omission or intentionally misleading), then Zion has been cleared five times prior to this, right?  If so, then did they cover up their previous tunnels, or does Zion move?  The huge earth-moving process is a hell of a thing, and would be even more difficult to cover up, I'd imagine, and be pretty noticable if they did.</blockquote>

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