Liberty Prime, the pinnacle of pre-war propaganda and American Imperialism, is used to wipe out the last trace of the U.S. government instead of purging commies.

It's even funnier than that because it has about as much combat effectiveness as a tank, but it's bigger, slower, and represented decades and decades of labor to get it working in the first place. And what does it do? It smashes some unsupported infantry who lacked anti-tank weapons (with the added irony that they're fighting for the remnants of the pre-war US's fascist government and ruling class), then was summarily destroyed by a glorified artillery strike.

It seems like it should be absolutely perfect from a narrative standpoint: you have this ridiculous high-tech boondoggle designed and partially completed by a fascist hegemon who despite having much more functional and effective ground weapons platforms between power armored infantry and tanks still wanted to build bigger and more excessive weapons, it consumes massive resources and labor from a technofascist cult who spend literal decades slowly getting worn down and splintering while trying to get it working, and then its entire active service consists of stomping on unsupported infantry before dying the literal second it comes up against combined arms tactics. It's a perfect parallel for the sort of high-tech military fetishism the US does where they use billion dollar planes that consume hundreds of hours of mechanical labor for every hour it spends in the air to drop hundreds of thousands of dollars in missiles on a handful of unsupported light infantry with a few hundred dollars of rifles between them, and they still get shit like the planes just crashing on their own or a stealth bomber getting shot down with fucking flack cannons of all things.

But they royally fucked up the presentation given the takeaway so many people have is literally "wow cool robot" and unironic worship of liberty prime.

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