Name: Ganesha Type: Heavy Support Design Spirit: Minerva + Everchanger Offense: 1 Defense: 3 Mobility: 1 Utility: 5 Description: Styled after an ancient Deity, the Ganesha has a very unusual body shape, resembling an elephant standing up on two legs. Additionally, the shape of its body is humanoid with four arms, yet has the head of an elephant, complete with a trunk, along with the matching tree-like legs and feet. Around its waist are numerous wide cables, with at least one of them usually held in one of its hands. Ganesha, the Deity, carries an axe and a lasso. The axe is for frightening demons, while the lasso is meant to capture difficulties and also stands for synthesis or reintegration. Ganesha, the Mech, also carries an axe to deter melee mechs and also uses its many wide cables for synthesis. These wide cables are used to connect the Ganesha with other allied mechs. These large cables are actually just sheaths for many types of hoses and wires concealed within them. The Ganesha can siphon heat away from allied mechs while also supplying them with more power. As a heavy mech with a wide gut, all of that space is used to house an immense reactor and numerous heatsinks. Even its large elephant ears are just shields for the radiators mounted on the back of them. Its wide feet also provide a large surface area for the Ganesha to dump heat into the surface of a ship it’s standing on. The inspiration behind the Ganesha comes from the Paracelsius Olympus and its power transferring technology. The rules of the big two prevent them from directly connecting their Mechs up to their ships, so the Ganesha is the substitute. It’s built with economy in mind, using cheap yet heavy armor and caring little for mobility or offense. It’s optimized to boost the firepower of energy weapon wielding Mechs by letting them fire more often. Given the limited slots on ships, why field one more Rifleman Mech when you can instead double the volume of fire for four others? Of course, this comes at a cost, as the cables have a limited reach and can be sliced through by a melee mech. Yet, for those mechs that are always deploying defensively and using a ship as cover, this limited mobility and vulnerability to Melee Mechs is negligible. The commercial variant of the Ganesha only employs Minerva as a Design Spirit, and the glow serves to increase the cooperation ability of the Allied Mechs it is connected to. The pilots will feel more in tune with the actions of their teammates, choosing their targets for focusing fire without any communication, or tightening their formation when taking evasive action. The Larkinson variant also includes the Everchanger, using its ability to handle any glow. Not only can the Ganesha transfer power and heat with its connected mechs, it allows them to channel their glow. The glow from three of the connected mechs could be transferred over to the fourth, giving it a far more potent spiritual impact. Additionally, if the actual Minerva takes command of a Ganesha, it can also influence the Mechs it is connected to with far less effort, using the Ganesha like a spiritual conduit.

Name: Titan Frame Type: Medium Cybernetic Hero Design Spirit: Ylvaine Offense: 3 Defense: 2 Mobility: 4 Utility: 1 Description: An offer is made that Ves would be foolish to refuse. He’s also given a chance to collaborate with a Cybernetic Mech Designer to build a Transhuman test bed. Along the way he realizes that the Ylvainian faith is actually Transhuman. They believe that all beings can rise up to become divine. They not only believe that humans can be elevated, but all beings can be, and their ceiling is much higher! Created as a commercial mech, the Titan Frame will spread the subtle influence of the Transhumanists by getting people used to the idea of being something greater. Inspired by Lufa’s angel totems and the flesh suit of the Everchanger, the Titan Frame is very different from most Cybernetic Mechs as it has its biological components on the outside instead of the inside. The skeleton, muscles and much of the interior is made of traditional machinery and exotics while the outside is sheathed in a very human-like layer of living flesh and blood. From the outside it looks much like a giant human. The downsides of this fleshy look are that the Titan Frame has no built-in weapons or flight pack. Instead it has to operate like a human would, carrying self-contained weapons in its hands, wearing a flight pack on its back, and strapping on external body armor. This makes it something of a modular mech, wearing heavy plate armor and carrying a shield to be a knight for example, but suffers in cost to performance ratio even more than other modular mechs. The upside is that its spiritual properties are similar to Gloriana’s solo ventures. Each mech is customized to externally match its pilot and with Ylvaine’s influence they feel like they are not piloting a mech and instead simply inhabiting a larger version of their own body. Since the Titan Frame does not call upon the Prophet’s predictive powers and only uses Ylvaine to help the Pilot feel at ease in this new giant body it can supply power for Ylvaine without wasting much in return. There’s no telling how much more Spiritual power its flesh can contain, but they’ll only know when the first pilot breaks through in a Titan Frame. By sticking to a human form, Pilots can use all the skill and nuance of their human body. Even the senses of the Titan Frame are merely enhanced versions of human senses, leaving out things like radar or motion sensors. The downside is they also suffer from pain when the Titan Frame is damaged, but it is the tradeoff for having touch receptors that allows for complex movements. It’s also far weaker overall than standard mechs since it matches the adaptability of the human form rather than seeking efficiency for a specific role. Yet, with most of the budget put into agility and muscle strength, they are still quite powerful in close range and a skilled pilot will feel like they are tearing apart opposing mechs with their own two hands.