the great machine was once the flagship of a massive land attack division made up of all types of attack and defensive weapons platforms , light and heavy destroyers , pursuers and material retrievers , personal hunters and repairers , information gatherers and probes to find and relay information back to central command , but in the many years since the beginning of the conflict one by one they were destroyed or disabled , the colossal earthshaker called armageddon was now the only reminder of that once great strength .