Salamandyr
The Salamandyrs were a species of mutant salamanders with dimension-travelling capabilities, based in the Salamandyr Dimension. They were the long-standing nemeses of the Order of the Automata.
Nature
The Salamandyrs' biology was unstable, such that they would abruptly transform back into ordinary, small four-legged salamanders if any lavender made contact with their bodies, even in trace amounts. (PROSE: Peace and Quiet)
History
Early on in their history, the Order of the Automata, still led by the Ancient One, fought the First Great War against the Salamandyrs. As the War seemed hopeless, the Ancient One declared that he had a “secret plan”, and also that should he be killed, he had discovered a way to come back to life in the Order's hour of greatest need. The former part was a lie meant to boost morale, though the latter actually wasn't, but the Order never got the chance to find out as the Ancient One was destroyed in a surprise attack, only for the tide to then turn and the Automata to triumph against the Salamandyrs on their own powers.
Over the following decades, with no other threats forthcoming, they slowly “decommissioned all of [their] battling equipment and military bases and turned them into shopping malls and more robots and the like”. This left them basically defenceless when the Salamandyrs returned in 2019, with the Salamandyr War Fleet invading Automatia itself without warning, headed by the Salamandyr Emperor's Void Ship. Remembering the Ancient One's prophecy, the Automata waited around a while, but as the number of captured robots grew, they realised no help was coming, and the Captain gathered all the robots he could aboard the Order's single great Void Ship and headed out into the Void.
There, while hovering above the Interdimensional Tavern, they found Marksmanship-522, who they decided must be the reincarnated Ancient One. Taking him to Automatia, they beamed him onto the Emperor's ship despite his protests. However, by coincidence, Marksmanship ended up discovering the Salamandyrs' great weakness to lavender, and after the Emperor's Ship automatically teleported back to the Salamandyr Dimension, Marksmanship cowed the Head Military Strategist into ordering the rest of the Fleet to fall back in turn. Many of the Salamandyrs were happy with this, much preferring the Salamandyr Dimension to the dry rustbucket that was Automatia. (PROSE: Peace and Quiet)
