It helps that I have absolutely no mechanical engineering knowledge... I was trying to figure out why a) the Kohbu have so much power with so little obvious engine space and b) why it requires a psychic of some variety just to get them to move (when any half-witted steam-age engineer can build a drive train and a steering wheel that a gerbil could pilot). And I came to the conclusion that the pilot's spirit energy acted as a supercharger on what was otherwise a woefully underpowered engine. Because in the V&V paradigm, psionics, magic and generic "super powers" all are fueled by power points, these power points are clearly the same as "spirit energy"; and since Doug tends to see things in magical terms when he's not being a pure engineer, he sees a technomagic solution in place. Technically, the series makes it clear that the system is actually psychotronic, but Doug's got more training in magic, and it all comes from the same place ultimately, anyway.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.