Quote:The groundbound thing is pretty much reliant on where they're deployed - local gravity, etc. I'm not saying all of them, but the more beefed up ones ... well, I'm not exaclty thinking Battletech mechs here, come to think of it. Something bigger. Possibly equivalent to a walking Destroyer, with reaction drives on the more exotic models strong enough to lift them out of the gravity well of the usual worlds they operate on, enough armor to be able to hande re-entry (or an appropriately armored entry 'shell' ... sort of like Starship Troopers had, just on a very much bigger scale), and the ability to operate in hard vacuum while being on par with a light destroyer or really heavy gunboat in terms of firepower.
I'd be more inclined to have a fuedalistic culture associated with the 'Gundams', actually, mostly because canon BT already has that sort of government. Also, battlemechs are a bit groundbound, ne?
When you said walkertank, my imagination kinda ran away with me and shoved Battletech to the side.
Plus, I was thinking the f*ugly appearance of the common walkertank would make a neat contrast with the kawaiiness of a female nekojin.
*snicker* So, to preserve cinematics, the mechs of the Fanatics should board through the upper atmosphere when doing re-entry, right?
-Griever
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