Conjecture about the lore

from /hhg/ - Hazbin Hotel #327
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M
>Pretty much how the first exterminator went
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The idea of the exterminators being synthetic beings and one of them malfunctioning the first time they turned it on is legit kind of interesting. Like, Hell's ruler is a fallen angel who took a ton of other angels with him. The queen of the succubi is a proto-human turned into a demon. Hell has native lifeforms mixed in with mortal souls. The early version of the exterminator's targeting systems weren't up to the task of properly discriminating between its intended targets and the tons of other beings who were just a little too similar to them. Worse yet, in their hubric belief that they were far beyond making mistakes, Heaven didn't consider that their newest creation might not work as intended. It didn't have an off-switch.
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>for some, it was an inevitable tragedy, the result of their own hubris
>for others, it was just a steep learning curve
>for Michael, this was the confirmation that they shan't toil in God's domain - the victims were, after all, the ones who designed the accursed thing
>for Adina, this was a valuable lesson, and a demonstration of what a machine can do
>but a machine is imperfect
>compromisable
>for the task to be carried out perfectly, they would need something with unfaltering belief
>like a mortal soul, grafted to a synthetic shell, it's senses reduced to the input provided by the targeting and range-finding systems

>or...

>an angel, raised like a machine
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>There are two types of exterminators
>Each type is sent to hell every other year after the other went
>Or more simply put, group a, then group b, then group a again
>So on so forth
>The first group are the souls grafted to synthetic bodies
>The second group are the brainwashed angels
>Each group is sent to hell in this cycle to let the other group rest and get maintained and also bolstered should any be destroyed or corrupted
>The mindraped angels are moderately more susceptible to corruption but the odd are one in a few billion
>But should a exterminator be corrupted the angels in charge of them have to personally hunt it down to make sure it doesn't survive
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Here's a creepy idea:

What if Heaven isn't actually in control of the exterminators? What if they're akin to the Autofac or the Strogg or the Cylons or what the Xenomorphs used to be before Ridley Scott became the new George Lucas? Just a massive, mostly automated war machine, but the war it was built to fight is long over, and now there's no one holding the remote, and it's just performing the last instruction it was ever given, endlessly. Mortal souls are being shunted into exterminator factories the second they arrive in Heaven, or new-born angels get wired into an exterminator suit as soon as they're deemed big enough to hold a spear.
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I could see them being a mostly self-autonomous war machine, but I think Heaven wouldn't be too concerned about it. I imagine that after Lucy's rebellion, their continued existence was an unexpected plus.
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>after Lucy's rebellion, their continued existence was an unexpected plus.

Maybe the creation of the exterminators was sort of a panic button response to the rebellion by Heaven promoted by the most warhawk-ish of the angels and now it's kind of gotten out of hand?

Say, things were actually starting to settle down pretty quickly in the immediate aftermath of the War In Heaven. The rebels were getting comfortable in their new home down in Hell, Heaven was restabilizing, but these new death machines were already rolling off the assembly line, ready to enact the supernatural equivalent of nuclear armageddon: permanently erasing a soul. The warhawks were already convinced the rebellious angels would be coming back at them as soon as they were done licking their wounds; if they weren't planning on doing that before they definitely will as soon as they realize that Heaven has the ultimate weapon in its back pocket. They have to strike as soon as possible.

Lucifer and his allies were cooling their jets. Maybe they had been too brash in all this? Maybe their didn't need to be any more bloodshed? They had all said things they probably didn't mean and done things they were regretting. Perhaps there didn't need to be more war, or even reconciliation. Hell was turning out to be alright. The native demons have been welcoming. Perhaps they could just go their separate ways and leave each other alone...but then, in comes the first wave of exterminators. The rebels witness their comrades and newfound allies being slaughtered. They grow angry and vengeful. They start acting as antagonistic to Heaven as they were expected to. The burgeoning peace snapped like a twig. With every extermination, Hell came to hate Heaven more, and with every increasingly vindictive act of vengeance by Hell, Heaven became more convinced that it had to keep Hell under heel until such time as it could be wiped out entirely.