Even though there`s like a hundred different businesses squeezed into this one section of this one wing of the convention center, there is a central display in the middle of the room that`s quite impressive. There`s a reason all the crowds of people are gravitating this way.

　　And that reason is mechas.

　　I completely understand why people are gawking at this thing. I`m gawking at this thing. Just look at it.

　　Thirty feet tall. Sleek white and blue, curved metal design. A head that looks like a regal prince, but actually serves as body armor. Those hands could hold a laser sword if they actually existed. The fact that ray shields do exist means that this thing could charge straight into a firefight, absorb a bunch of blows, and then swipe away all its enemies before it fires even a single bullet.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

　　Yes, the oft-promised super robotic machines, first prototyped over three decades ago, first shown off as early as 1988... are finally nearly ready for public consumption. By public, I mean mostly law enforcement and heavy physical labor corporations. We aren`t going to see people flying to work in their human-shaped rocket suits (yet). But for anyone as obsessed with the movie Robot Jox as I was as a kid, this news is phenomenal.

　　Mechadyne Systems has been working on various mecha prototypes since the Battle Dome days when the U.S. and Soviet Union did their Cold War fake-friendly tournaments. They were super unwieldy then, but now, all these decades later, they`re almost workable. Almost in our hands. Wow.

　　Mechas are almost real.

　　We`re almost living in the future.

　　No, this development is too pure to be related to the Ascendants stuff. I rule Mechadyne Systems as safe.