What was the purpose of The Machine?

[TheUprising]

Just beat the game, read through all the notes and all the deleted notes, and still have no clue.

The machine took people, fed their meat to the workers, and used the rest of them to make Compound X which ran the machine. But to what purpose? Was it just to kill everybody to "save" them like Mandus saved his children, or was their a deeper purpose? The machine states at one point:

"Soon I will spill that blue water and split the egg, the atom, my soul and there will be a very great burning that we might make the world clean. Be proud for this is your doing. Until you steeped me in the blood of your own I was nothing but rotten architecture. You have made me and I will make the world anew."

By egg he means the core of the planet, so what did he plan to do with it? Blow it up?

Also, I don't think the ending was metaphorical, since its the only time we ever see the orbs, the "power source" as listed in the deleted notes, so Mandus walking into his beating heart near the end was him becoming "whole" and he was then teleported to the core of the machine.

[[OKYPSO] IcyMumfo]

To make pigmen, duh.

[TheUprising]

Originally posted by OKYPSO IcyMumfo:

To make pigmen, duh.

Pigmen were the workers, "tools" according to Mandus. Most of the people processed into the machine were used simply to make Compound X to fuel the machine. But to what end?

[Bite]

Originally posted by TheUprising:

Originally posted by OKYPSO IcyMumfo:

To make pigmen, duh.

Pigmen were the workers, "tools" according to Mandus. Most of the people processed into the machine were used simply to make Compound X to fuel the machine. But to what end?

As far as I understood, the idea of the machine was that it could support itself through time, it's a machine that makes pigs so that the pigs it creates can work on the machine so it can keep making pigs.

Again, that's what I remember, I've yet to play it again.

[The Governor]

The machine is the Insanity of a normal man how lost everything!

[Umi Nova]

a selfsustaining machine? a neverending cycle.

[Throne]

what are the deleted notes?

[TheUprising]

Originally posted by Throne:

what are the deleted notes?

look in the wiki, playing through the game again. I'm thinking the purpose of the machine is left to be a mystery. Maybe it was the orbs fullfilling their own agenda. Its weird, the world of the first Amnesia had a lot of mystery around it but the most important parts were all explained as you continued forward, I guess its just a different type of story telling.

[Roler42]

The purpose of the machine (at least in the eyes of madnus and the machine itself) Was to spare humanity from the century of hell that was awaiting for them by killing them and turn them into mere pigs so they wouldn't suffer

In short... Saving humanity by ending it completely