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How in the FUCK are these allowed on the roads? I saw one go by me with my own two eyes and it was the BIGGEST thing on a regular old road I've ever seen, hands down.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    The director of MadMax once said that the aesthetic they were going for is something like "Everything is scarce, and because everything is scarce everything is precious", and that's reflected in how everything, the cars, the weapons, everyone's clothes, they're all very detailed and customized. The machines are priceless and irreplaceable, so if one is damaged they don't throw it away, they expend as much labor as is needed to get it running again. And once they have it running they customize and adjust everything to be exactly how they want, so when the driver slides in to the seat the machine is like an extension of their body - The clutch handle is just the right distance to naturall fall in to your hand, you've added religious symbols and good luck charms, you've added decorations so other drivers will know who you are in a fight, you've removed all the extra weight and reinforced all the important parts.

    Sounds like pre-Clan invasion BattleTech.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, i think so. Same idea - the technology and industry to make these things is lost. There will never be any more of them, so each one is priceless.

      WH40k used to do it as well, with most space marine armor and weapons being priceless relics hundreds or thousands of years old. Warp-capable spaceships were irreplaceable, Eldar equipment was of great antiquity, the Tech Priests of Mars were hoarding every ancient thing they could get their hands on. Leman Russ tanks might be destroyed, retrieved, and repaired dozens of times. The massive baneblade tanks were truly ancient, and many of the titans are of unknowable antiquity.

      It can make for a neat aesthetic. Battletech used it to good effect to explain why the culture of the Mechwarriors is more like ancient knights than modern total-war oriented soldiers. Risking a mech in combat is a huge commitment, better to impose highly formal rules to minimize the risk to the machines, and with the nice bonus of reducing collateral damage.