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Guider Talk: Articulated Guiders

In order to provide more information about Guiders in their entirety, I'll be starting a smaller series titled "Guider Talk." This edition of Guider Talk will be focusing on Articulated Guiders.

As Guider technology advances, they've become more flexible. But even today, Articulated Guiders are noted as being extremely flexible, more so than today's Guiders.

Guiders are meant to reflect the locomotive they're connected to in many ways, such as fuel type, the railroad that owns them, etc. This applies to Articulated Guiders.

They're widely considered to be "double-jointed" or in simple terms, hinged. You can usually distinguish an Articulated Guider from a regular Guider by their ability to bend their limbs in all directions, even limbs that normal Guiders cannot bend in a specific direction. (Example: Articulateds can twist their head around 360 degrees, while normal Guiders can only turn their head 90 degrees.) You can also distinguish them by the hinge pins on their abdomens.

Even today, Articulateds are far more flexible than normal Guiders and even humans themselves. Their flexibility became a source of inspiration to make future Guiders more flexible and able to move around.

This concludes today's version of Guider Talk. Questions are always appreciated if you're curious about anything.