#general massive systems

[captain-pentagon]

GMS Everest

My White Witch tarot card was sort of inspired by Art Nouveau illustrations and Pablo Uchida's art. This time I wanted to go with a Moebius vibe for the background.

Oh, commissions open btw!

[szkin-art]

GMS CHOMOLUNGMA 【CIRQUE DES FOUS】

Another VGen Lancer Comm, finished today!

[arcturox]

Another Lancer commission: "Siren's Call" - a GMS Chomolungma with a bit of Black Witch mixed in.

[ladybacen]

I made pride logos for the 5 main mech manufacturers, unsure if that's been done yet

[unshackledhorusshitpostbot]

Everest art by @gee0man

[pilss43]

Hmmmm. Imagine:

Everest and Gilgamesh pilots being on suprisingly friendly terms due to their shared love for low-cost, reliable, generalist frames and equipment.

You will see tons of collabs between their numerous blogs and podcasts dedicated to price-matching and product reviews.

Hell, imagine two of them make it through a rough engagement, their chassis' damaged, bent, burned, buckled, and structure damaged all over. And those two chucklefucks just dip into their [Expanded Compartment] and pull out the replacement parts they got from GMS-Mart and HA-Depot and fix eachother up within minutes.

They WILL be hella smug over ther poor fools buying SSC goods having to wait or even PLEAD for another print file of their limited edition Brevette-Fugazi hardpoint inserts.

Oh and the YAOI/YURI potential of course.

While the rest of their factions are Cold Warring and taunting of Purple Bruises and Red Welts, these two are making out sloppy style over the newest GMS Type-III Superheavy.

[uns-ls-nazareth]

Rambling about the GMS Sagarmatha

Taking these first few days back nice and slow, and I've got the Sag on my mind for whatever reason. Before all this I was an engineer by trade, figure when you're wired for a certain kind of thing it never leaves you behind- but I digress. I have a rant to get to.

I'll admit, I was never all that impressed by the engineering on these things. I say this as one of the people credited for their development, so I've got at least a little confidence in putting this forward.

I'm pretty biased because the original frame they based a good deal of these on design-wise was much more substantial, in my opinion. There were a lot of corners cut to ensure they could mass-print these things the way they did so the internals tend to be whole lot more vulnerable than the heavily armored look suggests, a few well placed shots by someone who knows where to aim can arguably disable one before the pilot gets a chance to act because of how slow the fucking things are. On the topic of that armor, it's more an optics strategy than anything. It looks heavy as hell, and it'll keep you from having to worry about a glancing blow or two- maybe, but anything that actually connects is gonna crumple those plates and anything beneath. I know there's plenty of old men who were in these things when we dropped on Cradle who still swear by them, and a couple young bucks from wayout who don't have anything better to fight their battles in who all make the same claims as to how they're actually good. They're a hidden gem, allegedly. Just reinforce some of the joints, put another layer of shielding on the reactor, a couple more struts along the base frame and they're indestructible. Supposedly.

The people who love these things really love them, and it's not really my place to tell them that all things considered they're maybe some of the worst possible frames you can get for their intended purpose. The thing is though, the Sag was never even meant to be good, it wasn't intended to be. Seccomm more or less "invented" mechanized chassis warfare, but had no real doctrine for it. They slapped the heaviest armor they could on those Worldkillers because if anything got to the internals those things were dead in the water. And I mean, you got a hit off on one of those plasma lines and forget it, that son of a bitch would liquefy himself for you. Little fun fact but the modern Ghengis never really did anything to address this particular design "quirk," for all you rubberneckers and greenhorns who might be reading this. The Enkidu was a significantly better frame in many respects than the Worldkiller and Sagarmatha both. It was tougher and if you really got one going it could be a whole lot faster and hit a hell of a lot harder. We were all pretty lucky Seccomm was barely able to field any, but even they weren't really designed with peer to peer frame combat in mind originally. Facing down an opponent that could meet it where it was, that could move like it, land hits hard enough to hurt it- that kind of rigor pushed them to the limit in ways their systems weren't really designed to handle. We never really needed to kill an Enkidu, because nine times out of ten if you could survive a fight with one for long enough, it'd kill its pilot for you.

This is a very long winded way to say that even if I don't think the Sag is all that "good," it was good enough. So much so that I'd argue that it was the most effective, most reliable frame of its era (much like the Everest today, which I unfortunately can't claim any real credit for). Even if that isn't the case there wouldn't be a Thirdcomm without the fuckin things, so heaven knows I've got a spot in my heart for 'em somewhere, even if I don't actually like the things all that much.

I keep a shard with my preferred pattern for one around my neck, just in case. Never know when you'll need that particular kind of "good enough." [Samson]

[thetoastedalmonds]

Silksong🤝Lancer

"GMS"