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Sliding Scale of Mech Appreciation

  • 0: They suck. Just give me a tank, dammit.
  • 1: They are very impractical. For the same weight I could be far better armored. I'll pass.
  • 2: They're alright.
  • 3: I kinda like 'em.
  • 4: They are my preferred means of going through a battlefield.
  • 5: They can be very heavily armed and very fast if equipped right. I can't get enough.
  • 9001: Ultimate Dakka? Check. Ultimate Beam Spam? Check. Numerous missiles that can all be launched at once? Check. Rocket Punch and Chest Blaster? Check. I'm all set in this walking beast of mass destruction.
Sliding Scale of Mecha Size
  • -XXXXX: I requested a mecha for a large man! Not a large quantum string! Why did you make my mecha a planck length in diameter! How are we even supposed to find it?
  • -XXXXX: A mecha designed such that any atom dwarfs it, made to be piloted by a quark
  • -XXXX: A Mecha that is still smaller than a hydrogen atom, but can fit a proton in the cockpit.
  • -XXX: A Mecha the size of a water molecule, to be piloted by a sapient atom
  • -XX: A mecha made to be piloted by a mollecule, that is smaller than any DNA
  • -X: A mecha made for a single celled organism, barely visible to the human eye
  • -2: A mecha for a bug, so small you could step on it.
  • -1: A mecha for a mouse or gerbil, that you can easily lift.
  • 0: Human-sized powered armor
  • 1: Larger Powered armor
  • 2: Mini-Mecha
  • 3: Small House sized mecha.
  • 4: Kaiju sized mecha
  • 5: City Sized mecha
  • 6: Mountain-Sized Mecha
  • 7: That's No Moon It's an anime teenager in a giant robot.
  • 8: A mecha the size of a planet.
  • 9: A mecha as big as a star.
  • 10: A mecha the size of a solar system
  • X: A mecha the size of a galaxy
  • XX: A mecha the size of a galaxy Cluster
  • XXX: A mecha the size of the universe. Yes, mechas this size do exist in fiction
  • XXXX: A mecha the size of the multiverse
  • XXXXX: A mecha bigger than everything that ever could exist, as each atom of its being contains infinite sets of infinite sets of infinite multiverses

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