

The attempt failed, Steelhorn instead becoming the molten monstrosity known as 'The Mess'. whom the high command immediately betrayed and tried to destroy in a furnace, as he would serve no purpose in peacetime. Finally, the Volgan War was ended by the last and greatest ABC Warrior, Steelhorn the indestructible robot. Other original members included the sniper Joe Pineapples and the bizarre Happy Shrapnel, and they later recruited the robot wizard Deadlock and the grotesque Mongrol, before taking down the sadistic Volgan war robot General Blackblood whom, Hammerstein was disgusted to learn, his superiors intended to reprogram and induct into the Warriors. Towards the end of the Volgan war, a core group of ABC Warriors, an elite commando squad, was formed under the leadership of Sergeant Hammerstein. The prototype, Hammerstein himself, was to all intents and purposes the original ABC Warrior, and initially all the other robots resembled him, though as the war progressed a number of different models were created including the Robo-Paratroopers. They were originally created to repulse the Volgan invasion of Britain, with the first Warriors created being the Hammersteins, the Mark III War Droids (the Mark I and Mark II versions having proven unsatisfactory).

Initially, the ABC Warriors were a contingent of robot soldiers designed by Howard Quartz of Quartz Industries to be resistant to Atomic, Bacteriological and Chemical warfare, which humans could not withstand. 1.4 Leaving Nemesis, and Return to Their Own Series.
