Halcyon Description

“N-no way…!”

“Shit, it’s massive…!”

Someone’s gasp of disbelief leaked into the Resonance. Even the Eighty-Six, seasoned veterans that they were, were struck with fear and awe at its unbelievable size. The stout contours of its round, hill-like back were reminiscent of a wild boar or a hedgehog. It stood forty meters tall, and its overall span was roughly seven hundred meters wide. It was like a gigantic, quill-less porcupine. Even a Dinosauria felt like a gnat compared with this massive form. The Halcyon was originally a Weisel, so every time it touched the earth, it revealed holes in its underbelly. Those were meant for rolling out newly produced Legion units, but they only looked like pinholes now. The Halcyon was dotted with optical sensors, which were there as if to cover for any of its large body’s countless blind spots. Along the center of its back was a fanlike structure reminiscent of a fighting fish’s dorsal fin or a peacock’s tail—a row of heat sinks, which all the Legion employed. This indicated the unbelievable fact that even this monster wasn’t a simple production plant but an autonomous combat machine capable of movement.

It was like seeing a behemoth resurrected in mechanical, clockwork form. Like the multiheaded dragon of Revelation. But instead of seven heads, it was crowned by five 800 mm railguns, each of them swerving and turning in search of the headless skeletons hiding in the shadow of the ruins’ rubble.

    - 86 Volume 9