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The Future is Here: The Child’s Mecha!

by storiesbywilliams on May 4, 2013 in Cool Stuff, Future, robotics, Technology, Video and tagged battletech, japanese robotics company, kids walker cyclops, Kuratos robot, Landwalker robot, macross plus, mecha, mechas, robotics, Sakakibara Machinery Works, suidobashi heavy industry

Move over coin-powered rocket ship! A Japanese company has just produced a robotics mecha suit for kids. It’s known as the Kid’s Walker Cyclops, a bright green robot that measures 2 meters (6’9″) tall, a meter (3’6″) wide, weighs in at a cool 750 pounds, and runs off rechargeable batteries. And most cool of all, it comes […]

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Technology in the Star Trek Universe (updated!)

by storiesbywilliams on May 30, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged 1984, aldea, Alien, aliens, battletech, beam me up, beaming, bone knitter, cloaking device, custodian, deflector shields, dilithium chamber, Dune, dystopian, George Orwell, holodeck, hypospray, matter anti-matter, matter-energy transporter, medical tricorder, phaser banks, phaser cannons, phaser rifles, phasers, replicator, science fiction universes, Star Trek, star trek ds9, star trek the original series, Star Trek TNG, star trek voyager, star trek: insurrection, Star Wars, technology in the star trek universe, Terminator, the aldeans, the borg, tricorder, uss defiant, uss enterprise D, utopian, warp bubble, warp drive

I’ve wanted to do a post like this for awhile, ever since my conceptual post on Galactic Empires in fact. After doing my research on what distinguished one from the other, I noticed just how central technology, or the perception thereof, is to it all. And let’s face it, Star Trek has had a lot […]

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Giant Robots (vol. 3)

by storiesbywilliams on May 27, 2012 in Giant Robots, Movies, Series and tagged amalgam, apu, arm slave, Armored Mobile Master-Slave System, at-at, at-st, battle of endor, battlemech, battletech, chewi, clans, dann of thursday, dragoons, dreadnoughts, enhanced powered armor, ewoks, exoskeleton, f.e.a.r., full metal panic, GERWALK, gun x sword, Hogarth Hughes, immortal, inner sphere, macross, mech, mecha, mithril, nova (black hawk), omnimech, overtechnology, powered armor, robotech, rockwell maine, sentinels, space marines, squiddies, Star Wars, starcraft, the battle of zion, the iron giant, the matrix, the matrix reloaded, the matrix revolutions, van, variable fighter, vf-o pheonix, x-men, x-men: the last stand, zentraedi, Zion

APU: Starting off today’s list is the Armored Personnel Unit (or APU) from the Matrix trilogy. Making it’s first appearance in Matrix: Reloaded, it’s real c0ntribution came in Revolutions when every single unit in existence was used in the defense of Zion. Hydraulically operated, the APU was run by a single operator who sat in […]

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Cool Ships (volume X)

by storiesbywilliams on May 23, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged aerospace fighter, akira-class starship, alien nation, battle mechs, battletech, borg, covenant assault carrier, defiant, descent freespace, District 9, ferro-fibrous, fleet of sacred consecration, freespace, generational ship, GVD Hatshepsut, high charity, Independence Day, liberty-class cruiser, mc80 liberty-class cruiser, mon calamari, mon calamari cruiser, mothership, prawns, retribution-class battleship, shivan, Star Trek, star trek ds9, terran ships, the prawn, UNSC, unsc aegis fate, unsc forward unto dawn, vasudan, warhammer 40k

Aerospace Fighter: Here’s one I found while sifting through info for another post (see Giant Robots). Like the mechas from that list, this too comes from the Battletech universe. And the name pretty much says it all. This futuristic fighter, which is found in the air forces of every Clan, is capable of flight in […]

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More Giant Robots

by storiesbywilliams on May 22, 2012 in Books, Giant Robots, Movies, Series, Video games and tagged battletech, cain, dragoons, giant robots, gundam wing, h.g. wells, immortals, mad cat, mad dog, madox 01, martians, mech, mechas, metal gear ray, metal gear rex, metal gear solid, metal gear sons of liberty, metal skin panic, mobile suit, robocain, robocop, robocop 2, robotech, starcraft, stephen spieldberg, templar, tripod walker, war of the worlds, z gundam, zentraedi, zentraedi battlepod

Welcome back. I had a lot of fun with the last installment, so here’s another! Updated, expanded, and with plenty of additions. Ah, screw it! Let’s get to it. Immortal: Back to the Starcraft universe for a sequel. Much like its predecessor, the Immortal was a vehicle for severely wounded Templars who still wanted to […]

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GIANT ROBOTS!

by storiesbywilliams on May 20, 2012 in Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged at-at walkers, battle of hoth, battletech, broadside battlesuit, brood war, clone war, confederacy, dark templar, darpa, destroid tomahawk, dominion, dragoon, echo base, empire, fuchikoma, general veers, ghost in the shell, giant robots, goliath, guild wars, luke skywalker, mech, mechas, metal gear rex, metal gear solid, old republic, omnimech, protoss, robotech, rogue squadron, solid snake, Star Wars, starcraft, tachikoma, tau army, templar, the matrix of leadership, think tanks, timberworld mad cat, Transformers, UED, unicron, warhammer 40k, zentraedi, zerg

Forgive the all caps, but with a name like this, you gotta go big! Thanks to a helpful suggestion from a respected colleague (thanks Rami!), I’ve finally found the latest for my series on conceptual post. And I think my reasons for going with it are clear. Whether we are talking about mechs, mechas, walkers […]

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Of Galactic Empires

by storiesbywilliams on March 9, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Series and tagged arrakis, Babylon 5, babylon 5 movies, battletech, Butlerian Jihad, centauri, custodian, dark ages, decline and fall of the roman empire, Dune, earth alliance, edward gibbon, foundation, foundation series, fremen, galactic empire, gene roddenberry, george lucas, hari seldon, history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, house atreides, house corrino, house harkonnen, in the beginning, interstellar alliance, Isaac Asimov, j michael straczynski, kaitan, league of non-aligned worlds, legends of dune series, mech warriors, mimbari, narn regime, narns, old republic, padisha emperor, Paul Atreides, planetkillers, planets, psychohistory, selusa secundus, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, the borg, the first ones, the shadows, the spice, thinking machines, united federation of planets, vorlons

Hello again, fellow sci-fi fans! Today, I thought I’d write about something conceptual, something that is intrinsic to so much science fiction and keeps popping up in various forms. It’s something that has appeared in countless serials, novels, tv shows, movies, and RPG’s. I am referring, of course, to the concept of the Galactic Empire, […]

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