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Greybaum is a secret criminal organization and antagonistic faction in Custom Robo Arena.

Background[]

Their overall goal was to rule the world, as well as to weaponize the use of custom robo technologies and research for otherwise unscrupulous means. They were seen (but not mentioned) early on in the game. but the group's name and motivations were not revealed until the Robo Cup's eventual demise.

The gang was led by Scythe, a robo-terrorist who impersonated the late Dr. Mars during his tenure at NeoBrain. Seven years prior to the story of Arena, he had attacked the World Science Committee by murdering Eddy and Liv's father using the illegal robo, Katana. Rumor had it that Greybaum were secretly funding NeoBrain over the years.

Much later, Scythe, as well as his fellow members Kindjal and Sling were inserted into NeoBrain to secretly create and test illegal parts, as well as their masterpiece robo--Hadron. "Project Hadron" was Greybaum's secret project in order to achieve their ultimate goal in the process.

While developing Hadron in secret, they hoped to use the Robo Cup in Encephalon Isle as the perfect opportunity to reveal themselves and their plans, originally by having all the security robos in the area going haywire and attacking competing commanders and innocents, which also led to the unveiling of Hadron to the public. Much later, members of the gang had originally intended for the Hero to dive into Hadron, but once they learned of Liv's power-transfer ability, they swiftly changed their plans as Scythe put it: "Once we learned of the girl's ability, we changed our plans to take (your) battle data to make Hadron autonomous, and use the girl to give him a continuous source of power rendering him invincible!" (sic).

However, their endeavors of conquering the world through the use of Hadron and the weaponization of robos was not to last, as the Hero infiltrated their base, disabled their defenses and defeated their top members, Scythe included. Hadron was initially defeated by the Hero at first, but it had shortly absorbed the power of a severely wounded Scythe, killing him, and posing a threat to the Hero and his allies once more, as it gained Scythe's subconscious and mental faculties, before the Hero defeated Hadron yet again, destroying it completely.

The destruction of Hadron, as well as the death of Scythe, coupled with the exposé on the entire Greybaum organization, eventually led to the arrests of its key members and the dissolution of the group, with NeoBrain originally facing scrutiny for their involvement with Greybaum, but were eventually cleared of any suspicion following their partnership with Lambda Ltd. shortly thereafter.

And thus, Greybaum and its top associates were never heard of again, and the Robo Cup was restarted by Lambda Ltd. some time later on. However, the incident left a lasting aftermath; with the former NeoBrain laboratory in Encephalon Isle still under investigation, and that Scythe's body was never recovered after he had died there.

Known members[]

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Trivia[]

  • Most main members have a necklace shaped like a crescent-moon with two spikes at the bottom, possibly making reference to the Z Syndicate's insignia from Custom Robo GC.
  • Near the end all of them were knocked out by the hero upon their defeat and arrested. This is also nearly identical to what happened to the the Z Syndicate. (Albeit minus the memory erasing.)
  • All of them have Battle Data in the Underground Arena except for Coyote.
  • Most of the people in the Underground Arena look like and may possibly be ex-Greybaum members. One of them said he hates kids because one shut "their organization down."
  • Scythe was not seen in the epilogue where top members such as Sling, Cleaver and Kindjal were all arrested, suggesting that he had died after Hadron absorbed his life force.
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