Named-as-they-look works for me.
I was actually figuring that the 'you seriously need to be telekinetic to operate this' factor driving Blue-blooded pilots wasn't anything to do with making the machine move - its own mechanisms can articulate and shift just fine - but in coordinating the controls.
In the absence of AI support, neural uplinks, or power-armor style servo slave gear, you'd pretty much have to have a separate dial/throttle type control for every articulated joint, which'd be utterly impossible as an actual control scheme...
...unless the operator could telekinetically operate all of them at once.
This also implies that the inside of a F1942 mecha is banks and banks of humming machinery - I've never seen so many knobs, which I find highly apropos to the dieselpunk side of the genre.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
I was actually figuring that the 'you seriously need to be telekinetic to operate this' factor driving Blue-blooded pilots wasn't anything to do with making the machine move - its own mechanisms can articulate and shift just fine - but in coordinating the controls.
In the absence of AI support, neural uplinks, or power-armor style servo slave gear, you'd pretty much have to have a separate dial/throttle type control for every articulated joint, which'd be utterly impossible as an actual control scheme...
...unless the operator could telekinetically operate all of them at once.
This also implies that the inside of a F1942 mecha is banks and banks of humming machinery - I've never seen so many knobs, which I find highly apropos to the dieselpunk side of the genre.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."