Colossus By Design: Guardians & Sentinels

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[Personal Audio Log: Entry #117]
[Log Date: July 12, 2163]
[Log Ownership: Director Jiro Ifukube]
[Log Topic: Mass Production Stage Warmonger Replacement]

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Testing. Testing. Test--

Ah, forget it. I've done this a hundred and sixteen times before. It'll be fine. AHEM.....

(Clears throat)

That's better. This is the audio log of former Project Warmonger Director Jiro Ifukube. The last log, in fact, before I sign off. Permanently. I've decided to divulge some of the more classified information behind the Mass Production Stage of the defense unit series set to replace the Warmongers. After careful consideration with some of my associates, we decided to go with "Guardian Sentinels".

I believe the name came from a concept that never quite came to fruition in a famed multimedia science fiction series of some kind. No idea about the name specifically, just that it had something to do with Christian religious connotations.

Anyways....... Since the Warmongers were first introduced about a century ago back in the early 2060s, I've always wanted to streamline the manufacturing process, so as to allow for mass deployment. Unfortunately, we had to scrape by with the procedures and resources we had at the time. It certainly didn't help that P.E.M.F.s were coming out of the woodwork like it was no tomorrow, and we had the third World War happen just two years after the First Wave subsided.

However, I never gave up hope, and following the conclusion of Second Wave, we could finally start serious development on mass production. It proved much more challenging than expected, but we persevered, even through the advent of the Legion Invasion.

As it turns out, Gamera and Atlantis had even more to offer us than ever anticipated, what with the revelation that Orichalcum was the miracle material needed to make artificially-driven units utilizing Ki a reality. It took many more years of research and good old fashioned hard work, but we pulled it off.

With a little help from S-Death Materials' artificial muscular substitute that was used to aid Synthetic Ki manipulation, the armour systems donned by Civil Defense Forces and various private securities, and even the current generation of Guardian Sentinels, a whole new world was ready to be discovered.

Of course, I ultimately had the last say in the finalization of the designs that would be used to this very day. Originally, I had based the Guardian Sentinels off of the physical frame of Satoshi Yamane's platform, with the idea in mind of combining agility, strength, and adaptive malleability.

This does indeed hold true for the Blade Series. However, with the G.S. Blade, I also incorporated the more unusual additions from Feng Lee's platform to create a hybrid form between athletic humanoid and sharp, almost torpedo-like protruding structure. This resulted in a form that retained its speed, but had increased damage protection and strength, as well as more controllable flight.

I wasn't satisfied with just one design, so I experimented a bit more, this time focusing on combining the best traits of the platforms used by Karen Marais and Arthur Roy, bless his soul. The Artillery Series of Guardian Sentinel is a fusion of the long range capabilities and tall lanky build of Mr. Roy's unit and Ms. Marais's dug-in defensive enhancements to make the best overall support platform.

Although both unit lines are formidable, I felt we needed at least one more position to be filled, and thus we come to the Fortress Series of my brainchild. I really liked the strength of Dmitri Kalashnikov's daughter's Warmonger, but it felt a bit too bulky, and thus not quite agile enough. So, we once again turn to a combination of previous designs. This time, I decided to incorporate the stocky but impressive physique of Tzar Bomba V2 into the body shape of Thomas Scott's platform. Sure, this meant increasing the proportions slightly and making the unit much taller overall, but the end result is a strong, gung-ho Guardian Sentinel with great physical might and good maneuverability.

However, these designs were still not enough for me. They needed to be ready for any situation, and thus we come to the high degree of modular equipment they can be outfitted with. Pretty much every piece of armour plating can be swapped out with a different function, ranging from missile batteries and railguns to plasma blades. It helps that the grand majority of the underlying structure of the Guardian Sentinels is virtually identical to that of Civil Defense Force Synthetics, a skeletal mechanical foundation with muscular substitute material interwoven within this structure to form something akin to a human without skin.

Obviously, I couldn't let this be the end of it. I wanted to give these units even more adaptability, so I slapped on a bunch of RE-Pulsar thrusters across their body. Mainly, on their backs, shoulders, frontal chest plating, and calves. These thrusters can be utilized either for sustained flight in or out of atmosphere, or for stabilization and boosted agility in combat.

And that's about it. Not much else to say about the Guardian Sentinels. They're some of humanity's greatest defenders, and truly a breakthrough in modern engineering. I'm proud to have left the world with such a legacy. Unfortunately, my time in this plane of existence has come to an end.

Perhaps I'll seek out Gamera, see if I can join Laura Reed and leave behind my earthly possessions and needs.