Soro:Baha can move into the next room to unleash fire breath.
Although right now Katherine is positioned surrounded by the marauders, so dropping an atomic attack there would imply friendly fire.
@osle: Just for clarity, wouldn't the drones have seen that hiding marauder get of out hiding before it attacked? She has drones in opposite sides of the area. Especially considering Mao cannot be flatfooted.
The marauder was taking care to hide out of all evident drone's lines of sight, Katherine spotted it because she herself was sneaking.
Still wondering about the scale/whether summoning an absolutely huge robot is appropriate.
So far the entire place looks immense. In every direction.
MU Gigantic. 128 times Medium. 768'/234m is always going to be a question of 'will it fit', as I'm pretty sure Deceptively Innocent Form/Monster Lord don't transfer over to mecha.
The areas you're in are roughly 300 feet high/wide, but the passages between them are more about only 30 feet high/wide.
And no non-mecha abilities that would change a mecha's size specifically don't work.
A bit late to this discussion but I would like to point out that in America there were multiple highly developed civilizations with neither the wheel or iron working.
Technically that has to for with the the types of animals that could be domesticated. North America had llamas which have very poor work loads which means no beasts of burden for agriculture or transportation innovation. And one of the side effects of that is not needing a heavy material's durability that can withstand such an animal.
The first war chariots in history were pulled by
donkeys. And iron/bronze was first used for cutting tools long before anyone started to think about adding metal acessories to big pets.
Also the mayans and incas had pretty developed agriculture and roads. And they built giant stone pyramids, so carrying around big weights was a priority for them.
And working out metalworking is a matter of luck.
Perhaps, how the hell people figured out the proccess to start with is a fascinating field of study, but it still supports my point. Some civilizations developed smithing millennia ago, while others didn't until the smithing civilizations arrived and stabbed/diseased them all millennia later.