Armageddon: Back once more to the Eve universe, thank you Mr. Zidar for suggesting it in the first place! Here we have the Armageddon Battleship, the main heavy warship of the Amarr Empire. Packing a lot of firepower into its long, heavy frame, command of one of these is considered the greatest honor an Amarrian […]
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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More Giant Robots
by storiesbywilliams on May 22, 2012 in Books, Giant Robots, Movies, Series, Video games and tagged war of the worlds, battletech, starcraft, h.g. wells, robotech, mechas, giant robots, mech, metal gear rex, metal gear solid, templar, zentraedi, robocop, cain, robocain, robocop 2, zentraedi battlepod, mad dog, mad cat, immortals, dragoons, madox 01, metal skin panic, metal gear sons of liberty, metal gear ray, gundam wing, z gundam, mobile suit, tripod walker, martians, stephen spieldberg
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 Star Wars, Transformers, ghost in the shell, empire, luke skywalker, confederacy, battletech, old republic, unicron, starcraft, zerg, protoss, rogue squadron, at-at walkers, general veers, robotech, mechas, dominion, giant robots, the matrix of leadership, battle of hoth, echo base, timberworld mad cat, warhammer 40k, mech, omnimech, metal gear rex, darpa, metal gear solid, solid snake, goliath, UED, brood war, guild wars, think tanks, tachikoma, fuchikoma, dragoon, templar, dark templar, destroid tomahawk, zentraedi, broadside battlesuit, tau army, clone war
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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