The Knight Sabers’ primary nemesis for the bulk of the series is Quincy Rozenkroiz, an old white man desperate to cling to power and relevance as the world passes him by. He owns GENOM (the largest Boomer manufacturing company) and is blind to the problems of creating sentient robots and then enslaving them. He believes that the rogue Boomers are isolated issues and can’t understand why they need destroying. After all, the more Boomers that go rogue, the more people will need to buy new Boomers.

Rozenkroiz’s right-hand man, Brian Mason, has plans that don’t involve brokering peace between the humans and the Boomers. Boomer tech helped him overcome a childhood illness, and he believes that Boomers should take over the world. Mason doesn’t think he’s entirely human and sees himself as the harbinger of a new technology-based utopia where all of humanity is subservient to the Boomers.

He’s just The Worst.

Also in the running for The Worst is Sylia’s father. He experimented with both his late wife and his daughter to develop an organic core that could handle the Boomers’ complicated programming. Yep, Boomers are cyborgs. They go rogue because what human wouldn’t go completely insane if they were tasked with repetitive work all day, every day, without rest, and without rights? Sylia’s father created a proto-Boomer, the being all other Boomers stem from. This prototype was lost during the great earthquake that leveled Tokyo, and various companies have been desperate to find it ever since, to steal the corporate secret that only GENOM has claimed as its own.

Mason manages to track down the proto-Boomer and, shocker of shockers, the being looks precisely like Sylia did as a small child. Mason dubs the entity “Galatea,” after the ivory statue that comes to life in the myth of Pygmalion. He encourages her to explore her powers, which she does with great enthusiasm, causing a mass Boomer swarm that floods Mega-Tokyo like a zombie horde. Eventually, Galatea wises up to Mason’s plans and betrays him, throwing his delusions of godlike grandeur right back at his pointy, smug face. She uses her power to awaken the Boomer tech in his body, transforms him into a half-flesh, half-metal monstrosity calls him “God,” and plops him where he has a front row seat to the destruction that he started, but she’ll finish.

Men. Are. The. Worst.