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Hammerstein is a Mark III War Robot, created by Quartz Industries to fight the invading Volgan forces who had originally conquered Britain in 1999. The Mark I War Robots were first deployed Circa 2009 but had difficulty distinguishing friend from foe and had to be destroyed, while the Mark II's (programmed with moral values their predecessors lacked) were by nature pacifists who refused to fight. Hammerstein was the prototype Mark III, a compromise solution, given programmed emotional responses but a deep seated sense of patriotism and belief that his commander is always right and the enemy is always beyond redemption. Hammerstein was the first of what came to be known as the ABC Warriors, created to deal with Atomic, Bacteriological and Chemical warfare, which humans had no defense against. As the war progressed, he became a Sergeant, in charge of a commando unit whose name became synonymous with the ABC Warriors, alongside the sniper Joe Pineapples, the absurd Happy Shrapnel, and later several other recruits including Deadlock, Mongrol, Steelhorn and the reprogrammed Volgan robot General Blackblood. It is noteworthy though, that Hammerstein from fairly early on showed signs of having been programmed a little too well, his moral code sometimes causing him to question his superiors, and to adopt a protective attitude to the robots under his command. With the Volgan war over, Hammerstein and his Warriors were sent to Mars to make the world safe for human colonists. That mission accomplished, they were decommissioned, and Hammerstein sold by the military into private hands.

Hammerstein needed to hide his true identity at one point, necessitating the replacement of his original head with a cheaper model which left him with a slightly altered personality, a somewhat buffoonish 'Colonel Blimp' persona (He later claimed his original head had suffered some damage). He was sold, ironically, to Ro-Busters, the organization created by Howard Quartz of Quartz Industries (who had designed the Mark I War Robots for the military) as a disaster rescue squad. Partnered somewhat unwillingly with the former sewer maintenance robot Ro-Jaws, Hammerstein became one of the core team of Ro-Busters, until Quartz decided to shut the operation down for tax reasons and scrap the robots. Rebelling, Ro-Jaws and Hammerstein led the remainder of Ro-Busters off planet to the free robot world of Mekka and a new life.

Much of Hammerstein's life over the next few centuries is unclear, but he at some stage returned to Earth and had his old head repaired, restoring his original personality, and eventually ended up back in the Army, fighting for the forces of the oppressive regime of Earth (now renamed Termight) against aliens who were largely non hostile and harmless. Deployed against alien civilians in the 'Gothic Empire', an alien Empire based on Earth's Victorian era, he eventually realized he was on the wrong side and joined the alien revolutionary Nemesis the Warlock in reforming the ABC Warriors to battle against Termight's evil regime. After several missions, Nemesis dispatched the Warriors into the Time Wastes to repair the damage done to the Black Hole Bypass by his son, Thoth, and save the Galaxy. On this mission, Hammerstein met Terri, a deluded human girl who believed she was a robot and that he was her boyfriend, Craig. Hammerstein formed an attachment to Terri, but she later died, leaving him alone and depressed. He temporarily ceded leadership of the Warriors to Deadlock but eventually rebelled against his anarchic ways, leading to the Warriors breaking up once more. Subsequently, Hammerstein was tricked into placing himself in the hands of his old foe Blackblood for a 'service', and ended up disassembled and welded to a workbench for five years being systematically tortured. Eventually released when the Warriors were needed again, he was somewhat put out to find that his comrades had apparently known where he was all the time! Facing the demonic Hellbringer, his neural net was overloaded with guilt over his past actions and he had to overcome it in order to free himself, having finally realized that, in the words of fellow Warrior Morrigun, 'Nobody likes a nice guy'.

Hammerstein later led the Warriors back to Mars in order to deal with unrest there which eventually became a full scale war. Currently, he is still on Mars with the Warriors, trying to restore peace.

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Several built in weapons, including the war hammer he has instead of a right hand.

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Hammerstein has been rebuilt several times, so his physiology has varied over the years. Notably, his helmet-which was once a part of his head-is now removable.

TriviaEdit

One story recounts how Hammerstein rejoined the Army after the original Mars mission and fought the Judges of Mega City One following the Atomic Wars of 2070. Hammerstein ended up buried in the Cursed Earth radiation desert for decades before being freed and encountering Judge Dredd, fighting the lawman before realizing that the war was long over and he had no purpose any more. The canonicity of this story is uncertain, however, as it appears to conflict with the chronology established in the ABC Warriors series; it may be that this was an alternate timeline version of Hammerstein.

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