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So..it's pretty clear that iilal has been fuzzed to the point that OMGWTFBBQ sauces eat the planet rather than our chicken nuggets.
Resources? Slowly dying. Planet? Turning into cold hard steel. People? Killing each other faster than the hawken virus can kill us for the purpose of being some corporate plaything in corporate bullshite.

No doubt things were Better. No...that's wrong. Things were DEFINITELY better BEFORE we came to this planet. Or Atleast...before Crion took a nose dive in safety practice...
I don't think that our spacefaring civilization at the time of iilals colonization had to build their gear from anything and everything found in Garbage and scrap piles.

With that said...What do you think a Pre illal/Hawken mech looks like?
What would it use?
And why is it Pre Hawken age gear?

Edited by Armymonger, 15 April 2015 - 08:55 AM.

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There are many advantages to use bipedal machines instead of wheeled ones.You can maneuver easily in close space, walk on messy grounds or also take less space on ground. But I think heavy weights and high speed is the very limitation (forget Cavourite a moment).


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Redacted.


Edited by KilleR_OrigiNs, 30 April 2015 - 10:35 PM.


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^This

 

I guess the first mechs on Illal were industrial machines, something similiar to the SCVs (starcraft) and Power Loaders (Aliens)

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And even the assault's description tells us it was firstly built for mining purpose


Edited by Tankman95, 15 April 2015 - 09:38 AM.

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Hi, in the HAWKEN Genesis graphic novel, Illal was terraformed long before the discovery of Cavorite. It was meant as a hub for industry and the three corporations were involved in very different areas. Sentium was into Transport and industrial machinery. Prosk was into household goods aimed at the everyday citizen and Crion were the experimental scientists into space travel, medical innovation and AI.

 

It was only after James Hawken discovered that Cavorite could be used to make metals weightless (and could be adapted to use with heavy loading, bipedal mech loaders) and  Ryan Lazlo demonstrated this idea to the Prosk board of directors that it became such a valuable commodity. One worth spending vast amounts of scrip mining for and one worth creating powerful machines to fight over it. Hence the Cavorite Conflicts.

 

James Hawken then defected to Crion. (I wont say why in case you want to read it)  He was experimenting with something very powerful in the Praxis Valley, Typhus facility and there was an accident that let loose the 'HAWKEN' virus. The virus slowly began to destroy the planet. Many people evacuated but soon a quarantine was placed that left people trapped. Cavorite was still very valuable so those that were left still fought over it. The Vitrolium war is a whole other story that happens after the HAWKEN virus hits Illal and it's all to do with Rat Poop :) 

 

I hope that helps :) 


Edited by Pastorius, 15 April 2015 - 10:42 AM.

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Redacted.


Edited by KilleR_OrigiNs, 30 April 2015 - 10:35 PM.

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Damn I need to get HAWKEN Genesis D:


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Sorry matey I wasn't trying to douse anyone's fire. I just got a little too into HAWKEN that's all...  

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So, esentially early Axes and mechs weren't actually made for military purpose at all.

They were more or less smaller, more rudimentary for civilian purposes.
Lifting crates, building walls...mining precious cavorite...

Something like that?

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Well in the Novel they are pretty hefty things that James Hawken is messing with. I think that even though Prosk were houshold names for every day solutions they were  into all sorts behind closed doors.  James wanted to use his discovery for engineering applications but the Prosk board wanted it for military purposes. 


Edited by Pastorius, 15 April 2015 - 10:50 AM.

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@Pastorius: Well do you have that one, too? :P

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Well in the Novel they are pretty hefty things that James Hawken is messing with. James wants to use his discovery for engineering applications but the Prosk board wanted it for military purposes.


kinda explains why the weapons of these mechs don't extend past the hands...
A mech that's built around the idea of murder and explosions would probably have weapons built into the chassis...
it would counteract the idea of limbs being blown off by missiles and cannon fire and thus cutting their firepower in half or completely...
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Redacted.


Edited by KilleR_OrigiNs, 30 April 2015 - 10:35 PM.





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