Help me figure out my McGuffin
So I'm a systems designer at heart and I'm working on a game called Power and Valor.
It's an online movement FPS with a lot of MOBA elements.
The premise is that there are 2 bases, each with a McGuffin at the heart of it and you win the game by destroying the other team's McGuffin.
In league of legions it's the Nexus.
In Smite it's the titan.
Point is, big old final boss that takes a team effort to take down.
Aside from the two bases, there are sub bases that can be captured between them.
Each base and sub base has generators. These generators both keep the base defenses going AND generate "power" a currency split evenly among the team to spend on upgrades.
Meanwhile there's also a flag in the enemy base that can be captured and earn "valor" which increases the damage of the whole team at increasing amounts per cap.
So a game works like this:
It starts and its a jump ball, everyone needs to rush to the 3 sub bases to capture them and gain more "power" faster than the other team.
After you have enough power, the flag becomes a viable target to steal and capture.
Power is a small snowball on a hill, Valor is a large snowball on a hill. The game gets quicker and quicker fast.
Finally, you can make a run for the McGuffin at the heart of the base.
No idea what to call it or the lore I should use.
I was thinking maybe a supercomputer god, an npc general, or maybe something like the space folders in 1980's Dune. Just a mess of flesh floating in a vat.
Thoughts or suggestions?