Mako is a modular war machine. She has a base mass of 300kg. Then, she can carry up to 500kg of modular weapons systems (her jump jets, confusingly, are one of these modules).
The Forge is a 100kg module, that she can carry internally, and is an autonomous system, that can do repairs, of her weapons, and ceramet (ceramic-metal) objects.
On top of this she can carry her rider in full ceramet battle armour, and his supplies and weapons load. Yes, she can haul a lot of mass around, at high speed.
Her multiple shapes (she has four) allow her to adapt to different battle field conditions, so that she can still move around effectively, and include a 'social' shape which looks like a (large) human. On top of the shape shifting she has a fully programmable holo cloak, which is supposed to only mess with light.
The term 'Forge' (usually capitalised) has been used in a quite a bit of modern science fiction, and it is typically a semi-autonomous manufacturing and repair system, that is portable enough to take most places. Mako's Forge is supposed to be a limited one, which does battle field repairs, but can't handle organics, nor can it repair the most delicate of systems.
She also can carry a field medical kit (she is) which is designed to stop (biological) people dying on the battle field, so that they can be properly repaired elsewhere. There is a long list of what it wont fix. It is definitely 'fast and dirty', but Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy wouldn't call it 'primitive'.
Mako has her own, separate, self-repair systems, but these are specialised to only fix her base 300kg body, and wont for example repair her modular weapons; this is arguable a designed-in limitation, to prevent the self-repair systems being subverted by enemy action.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
The Forge is a 100kg module, that she can carry internally, and is an autonomous system, that can do repairs, of her weapons, and ceramet (ceramic-metal) objects.
On top of this she can carry her rider in full ceramet battle armour, and his supplies and weapons load. Yes, she can haul a lot of mass around, at high speed.
Her multiple shapes (she has four) allow her to adapt to different battle field conditions, so that she can still move around effectively, and include a 'social' shape which looks like a (large) human. On top of the shape shifting she has a fully programmable holo cloak, which is supposed to only mess with light.
The term 'Forge' (usually capitalised) has been used in a quite a bit of modern science fiction, and it is typically a semi-autonomous manufacturing and repair system, that is portable enough to take most places. Mako's Forge is supposed to be a limited one, which does battle field repairs, but can't handle organics, nor can it repair the most delicate of systems.
She also can carry a field medical kit (she is) which is designed to stop (biological) people dying on the battle field, so that they can be properly repaired elsewhere. There is a long list of what it wont fix. It is definitely 'fast and dirty', but Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy wouldn't call it 'primitive'.
Mako has her own, separate, self-repair systems, but these are specialised to only fix her base 300kg body, and wont for example repair her modular weapons; this is arguable a designed-in limitation, to prevent the self-repair systems being subverted by enemy action.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind