Aurani Mech Designs
Aurani Mech Designs
(Everyday technology, not just war machines — built to survive their crushing gravity and define their society.)
1. Civilian Mechs — “Striders of Burden”
Purpose: Daily life, transport, construction, farming. Everyone but the very poor owns one, the way Earthlings own cars.
Design Traits:
Sturdy and broad: Thick, trunk-like legs designed for balance in extreme gravity. Slow-moving but stable.
Multi-tool arms: Modular attachments (claw, hammer, cargo lift, drill) swapped depending on profession.
Cockpit pods: Center torso is a reinforced pod with panoramic lenses and gravity-stabilizers so riders don’t feel crushed.
Aesthetic: Worn, patched-up, painted in family or guild colors, often decorated with charms or local crafts.
Height: 15–20 ft on average, towering over crowds but common as street traffic.
Cultural Note: Owning one is a status marker, but not luxury — it’s survival. Whole cityscapes are designed around mech lanes and charging stations.
2. Military Mechs — “Grav-Phalanx”
Purpose: Planetary defense, dominance in interstellar campaigns. Built to withstand the Javor Galaxy’s extreme conditions and project that resilience outward.
Design Traits:
Angular, shield-heavy frames: Limbs reinforced with layered plating, giving them a fortress-like silhouette.
Graviton weapons: Cannons and lances that manipulate weight and inertia, pinning enemies in place or collapsing fortifications.
Squadron tactics: Often link together via field projectors, forming overlapping shields — like a phalanx reborn in mech form.
Command crests: Officers have ornate headpieces resembling solar flares or geometric halos, doubling as comm-relays.
Height: 30–40 ft, visibly imposing, designed to dwarf civilian types.
Aesthetic: Matte metal with military insignia, glowing lines tracing grav-field conduits. They march with thunderous rhythm, embodying state power.
3. Religious Mechs — “The Oracles”
Purpose: Pilgrimage, ritual, and sacred defense. Mechs serve as mobile temples and symbols of the divine in Aurani culture.
Design Traits:
Monolithic and ornate: Carved with runes, sculpted like statues, cloaked in ceremonial fabrics that flow even in high gravity.
Floating relics: Small gravitic halos, rings, or shards orbit their frames — visual manifestations of faith in gravitational harmony.
Ritual implements: Staffs that double as grav-field amplifiers, incense burners built into their shoulders, voice-projectors to recite hymns.
Piloted by priest-engineers: Always a dual system — one to guide, one to chant and maintain the machine’s “soul.”
Height: Varies, some enormous (60+ ft) for processions, others human-sized exo-mechs for temple guards.
Aesthetic: Gold, bronze, and polished stone plates with stained-glass canopies. Every Oracle mech looks unique, as if hand-sculpted.
👉 The cool part: in Aurani society, all three mech types co-exist in public view. It’s normal to see a worker’s Strider hauling minerals while a Grav-Phalanx patrols above, and an Oracle strides past during a festival. Mechs aren’t just tools — they’re architecture, religion, and identity.