@@squintyspade0025 By that logic, every tech priest would be too. A dreadnought is a giant murder coffin, whole Vader is a cyborg. Technicalities aside, though, it’s an amusing thought nonetheless, and one that I will absolutely repeat elsewhere. Heck, I’ll also suggest that you look up Sicarian Ruststalkers, which you may find to be relevant.
While I appreciate the shout out, what you used as the Warhammer 40k example was Space Marine power armor, not a mech. 40k mechs range from the humble Scout Sentinel to the absolutely MASSIVE Warmaster Titan, the only ones Space Marines use are the Invictor Tactical Warsuits (with dreadnoughts _technically_ being mechs, though not really)
They do have mechs: AT series vehicles can all be classed as mechs. Power armour also exists, we've seen it with dark troopers & Gideon's armour. The only thing we haven't really seen is humanoid mechs, and the reason is simple; star wars has droids for that.
on Obi-Wan and Anakin 4 there faction called Open that use mechs in literal name, also like isn't it like ATT etc is a mech, like there a lot of mech in starwars
I think an army of mech suit soldiers would be too costly when 1 force user would probably just push them away. While it'll probably increase the chances of slaying that Jedi, it isn't enough to justify the cost. Since they'll probably still need to pull the same surprise tactic of order 66 to kill a Jedi anyways. Those extra bits of technology will just be extra cost.
answer: it's not needed. make it a droid. armor is more efficient anyways, even expensive sets such as katarn armor, even resistant to light cannon fire
Mostly because droids are vastly cheaper and organics dont need to be put into harms way. There are power armor and mech suits in star wars and cyborgs are a thing. It just isnt needed as much. Medicial technology is vastly superior so cybernetic is only for the ones that want to enhance themselves or the ones that are truly fucked up, like Anakin. Power armor, some use it. A lot of the mando armor has some minor power armor like you said and a mech suit is there but not many would use it.
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I think the general reason is, “If we need a Mech suit, why not just build a droid instead?” Cheaper and easier to just build a droid that does whatever you’d want the Mech suit for. Except for the Clone Wars era of course, droids could/would fill just about any role you might need Mech-assisted technology for. Heavy weapons? Spider droid/B2. Lifters/Loaders? Droids for that. Even droid space fighters and aircraft.
I was gonna say the same thing. If you have mass production for AI that is subservient to the population, it’s far easier, cheaper and more efficient to build a droid for the purpose than to design a suit for a humanoid to pilot. Suits need chambers for the pilot, life support systems, emergency ejection, all sorts of amenities for the life form inside. Droids can drop all that and just use the sensors to go about the specialized mission. You can put the hud and other systems into the helmet of normal armor, you don’t need to be massive sized to get a basic HUD.
true but they never built any large droids either at least none that are halfway effective. as far as the movies are concerned droidekas are the pinnacle of effective droid design.
@@KT-pv3kl well, droideka models were more than overkill for the war, personal shield generators and heavy twin blasters plus exceptional mobility made them the deadliest combatants on the battlefield. And just because heavier droids like the spider droid or the hellfire tank were rare doesn’t mean they don’t exist, nor does a war unit constitute the only kind of droid ever made. There were many droid models that just did maintenance work which exceeded human size, and even without that, droids could be made to fly which made size irrelevant when you can reach any problem without having to be tall. The only reason to build a droid super tall would be if you wanted to equip it with a starship caliber turbo laser, and the power that would require is just impractical for a mobile unit anyways.
Star Wars also has a much higher percentage of Robots/androids in military usage compared to other series, and to be frank if they want mech-scale firepower, they'd just use a big droid. See the B3 "Ultra Battle Droid" in the old EU or the Skorpenek droids in Mandalorian. One could also argue that Walkers like the AT-AT are a form of Mech.
Heck, even the Droidekas are a pretty heavy duty bit of hardware. Highly mobile to get to an important location, after which they set up their shields and just barrage the enemy into submission.
I think there's a misconception here between a mech and power armor. Power armor is a suit you wear. A mech is typically a vehicle you pilot, usually by yourself. So the AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-TE, and AT-RT would be mechs.
This is why I always hate when people use terms like "mech-suit". Are you talking about walking vehicles, or mechanically enhanced suits of armor? That's an important distinction, because mechs and power armor are two very different things. So using such a generic term to talk about them is meaningless, and just makes it sound like you don't really know what you're talking about. Especially in this case, since as has been pointed out by other comments, both mechs and power armor do exist in Star Wars.
Before Disney we had mech suits in Star Wars. The closest we have gotten to mass production were dark troopers which phase one and two were more exoskeleton. Phase three was an entire mech suit itself
Phase 1 were droids only. Phase 0 were Clones in special mechanized armor (What we had in the original Star Wars Battlefront 1+2). Phase 2 armor was a better version of Phase 0 that could be worn by Phase 1 Dark Trooper Droids or worn by a real person. Phase 3 was just an upgraded version of the Phase 2 mechanized suit and had alloys that would allow it to withstand lightsaber attacks. We also had several proto-Dark Trooper designs/projects seen in The Force Unleashed 1+2 that were before they designated Dark Trooper phases.
Phase 3 were technically droids but could also be piloted. Either there was droid only variants or all of them are designed for real people inside with just a droid brain there to help id so desired @@Umbzard
Before Disney canon we had the Spacetrooper corps in the old EU. These were basically Space marines used for zero G operations such as boarding enemy ships. It's interesting how that idea seems to have been quietly forgotten... Games Workshop perhaps?
West End Games -- They were the ones with the powered space armor ("Zero G Assault Stormtrooper") used in boarding actions.....Showing my geek, I had to break out my Imperial Sourcebook: the armor (with a cutaway view) is on page 40, with the description on page 47....Another thing you don't really hear about is COMPNOR (pg 16)...REALLY interesting stuff, there. WEG did a HUGE amount of VERY good work.
@@Rendell001 Hmmmm -- I do not. I will have to scrounge a source....I do have all the main sourcebooks, though. I have a bunch of the adventures & campaigns, but I've almost certainly missed a few. WEG was almost as prolific as GDW was, back then.
The idea that Mech suits are too advanced for Star Wars. Technology is utterly moronic. They have the technology to build moon size battle station. They have FTL travel, sentient Androids everything I see about Star Wars demonstrate the technology is clearly advanced enough for that. Never mind that walkers exist which in and of themselves are in the way a midpoint between tanks and Mech suits. I’ve heard though I can’t remember where that Mech suits in real life would be impractical and I tend to think the same reasoning with apply to Star Wars as well.
@@РусланКучеренко-м3б So are hovertanks (against EMPs), but that doesn't stop all the factions from using them and price tag is a shitty reason because the Empire in Legends and "Canon" loves spending cash on all sorts of expensive projects/projects
Is very practical in both worlds. Its only cowardless of people, if peoples not been coward they can charce in enemy lines with speed and crush the enemy in the seconds. And if you can, it can be tactical so very usefull.
@@mortarion9813 I noticed that too lol. Some I noticed can’t even properly define what a mech is. The only two criteria for something to be a mech are that it walks and has an onboard pilot. I saw someone arguing that the AT-RT isn’t a mech because it has an open top. Like what? Where did he even get that from?
They do exist, but it’s more internalized. Think less Iron Man and more Batman Beyond. With the invention of Grav Plates some people could carry weapons meant for turrets as HMGs. There’s some E-webs that hover allowing for mobile movements.
Rock solid question! And surprised we haven't seen more attempts at an equivalent. You know the jedi would train harder and hone spicy techniques if they had to throw down with mechs on the reg!
Actually we have i forget what they were called but it used clones and they could take down a fortress or bust open its walls with ease. And they do use a kind of mech suit.
i dont really see mechs helping with jedi your armour would have to be besker or a meter and a half thick a type of spaced armour might work but be incredibly bulky
@@DoomStroller yea and funny enough its the background pic on this video before it starts. The picture of that clone trooper in that armour. Its a mech suit and they were called seige troopers. Nothing short of a cannon would stop them or overwhelming fire power/numbers
Seripas from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Bounty Hunters" had a mech suit. Although it wasn't all that powerful. Perhaps the logic is if you are going to design what is basically a large battle droid with room inside for a pilot and controls, why not instead use that space for more weaponry and advanced logic for the droid. If you send in a droid you avoid being in combat entirely. I think it's not that mech suits aren't possible, but that by the time you've invested that much tech into a machine, a droid is an even more effective solution for self preservation than going into battle yourself.
The villain of Iron Man 2 movie said it "Droids are better, suits make you vulnerable trust me doc, I don't want to copy Stark, even if you want me to".
"Too advanced" yes cause having a planet sized Death Station that can just obliterate entire planets wasn't advandced or anything. Or did we forget that Vader is technically in one of these suits?
Vader is a cyborg. His limbs got replaced and he's walking around with a life support suite. He's far more nimble than he's supposed to be capable of because he used the force to manipulate the limbs. Palpatine gave him the worst tech he could to make it as painful and difficult as possible
@mullerpotgieter OK but you missed the point. If you have the technology the create Cyborgs, and the Technology to create Planet destroyers. Then you have the technology to create battle mechs. Integrating Technology with life support systems and robotic limbs and having them function is a far bigger scientific and technological feat than just making g an Iron man style suit. You have to graft the robotic limbs into the nervous system in order to respond properly to your inputs. And even taking Vader aside and ignoring his Force abilities. General Grievous was more advanced and flexible than Vader was and he possessed no force abilities whatsoever. So the fact Grievous was such a menace to an order of force users by using just his pure brute strength and speed alo e speaks volumes for how advanced technology in star wars is.
@@jesseprice8919 Vader isn't really in a mech suit, he's just a torso with mechanical limbs and machine respirators attached to him; the limbs and machines being encased in shell plating and clothes. That's different from a robot designed to be piloted
if we really stretch it then technically all Walker-class tanks are all "mechs" as well, if we just say Mechs need to 1) have legs 2) have armour 3) have guns ..but proper mech-mechs? Yeah no. You wont be finding those
We gonna forget about that one bounty hunter from that episode of the clone wars where they trained a village to defend itself? There’s at least one mech suit in Star Wars
yea i thought of him aswell, although its funny you sayare we gonna forget about him but then call him that one guy from that episode not exactly a top tier character
@@michaeldayman682 they weren’t dark troopers though, that was dark forces. I think they were environmental troops. I’ll boot the game tomorrow and get back to ya.
@@thestørmcrier2024 might be - I don't believe they were actually named, but I thought they had some level of force powers - or had knock back when they physically hit you. I believe they resisted several force abilities - force push, choke, confusion type.
You're right, but there's two versions of the space trooper, even in the original Expanded Universe. The Zero-G Troopers, your common Space Trooper were basically flying tanks. You also had light Space Troopers, which just wore basic Storm Trooper armor with better life support systems....and those you can actually see in Episode 4, I believe when the Millennium Falcon is docking on the Death Star. They were in McQuerrie concept art for the scene, but actually made it on screen. Also as others pointed out, Phase 0, 2 and 3 Dark Troopers were also mech suits. Phase 2 and 3 could be worn by human or Phase 1 Dark Troopers(droids). Certain Hazmat Troopers also had mech suits. Things could be argued also for any of the walkers/tanks being Mechs.
Like it said the dark troopers was a type of mech suit. But why spend the money on a suit for a person when they could just make druids or cyber inhansed person. Like Vader and grievous are example.
I'd argue that the expenses outweighed the effectiveness of the mechsuit. Like it was said the Dark Trooper program was as successful as it was only because there were no more jedi to cut them all down (saw how Luke could cut through a whole platoon of them alone). There were just some situations where a mech suit isn't worth investing in.
I think the most likely reason why we don't see mech suit is simply the Galaxy hadn't bothered or thought about it. You have a civilization where robots are everywhere doing a wide variety of tasks. If there were any mech suits of any kind, i think they would be limited to industrial or a prosthetic for small aliens or someone with grievous injuries like Grievous and Vader. I think the Star Wars galaxy can start making combat mech suits if they are in conflict with a civilization where their standard army utilize it or elite units causing massive casualties. Alternatively, the Star Wars galaxy may be advanced enough to bypass mech suits and make power armor.
I'm inclined to think that, in a verse with "magic", some tech just wasn't made, but st least in Saga Edition D20 Star Wars, one such suit existed, in the battle frame, and Spacetroopers were basically flying around in bulky Iron Man suits, with sealed atmosphere, mag lock boots, rocket packs, and missile launcher weapons. One of my favorite Trooper variants!
@@thorn6070aren't a lit of necessity more drivable than wearable though? That's the main difference between them and power suits. Imo single man, 2 legged walkers like the ATRT def count as mechs
@@kyrogamingvt9716 I guess they can be classed as mechs in a general term, as in mechanized. But I wouldn't go as far as to say mech suit, as their operators are canonically referred to as drivers.
Star Wars ignores or at least barely acknowledges a lot of odds and ends that other Sci-Fi series woukd make liberal use of, even when such thing would 100% be possible in the setting… Halo has it’s Smart AI that can operate massive machinery like ships and entire facilities (which would have been PERFECT for the CIS), meanwhile there’s also Time Travel and The Multiverse and even “just” bog-standard teleportation (all of which only really show up in Star Wars when high-end Force shenanigans are involved, like The Mortis Gods or The World Between Worlds). If the entire Star Wars setting applied itself as much technologically as is could, EVERYTHING would be MUCH more potent. Darth Vader’s armor for example would likely be more along the lines of Tony Stark’s later MCU Iron Man Armors, flight and all (Imagine the horror of the guy that finally beats Vader in an honest dogfight, only for him to rocket out of the exploding wreak of his TIE without missing a beat and start shredding your ship with his lightsaber and force powers and even bare hands?)
There’s plenty of mechs, they’re typically rather “ineffective”. Sure, get in the big suit. Paint yourself the biggest target, and probably the first on everyone’s shitlist. Tech in Star Wars isn’t that bad at all. A mech suit wouldn’t help much if twenty soldiers with laser rifles looked your way. Personalized shielding might’ve helped a little, but not much. Crap like thermal detonators (aka; mini, localized nukes) are a common weapon (nearly every Storm Trooper has one). A mech wouldn’t live too long, by comparison.
"Advanced." Lol. Lmao even. Hyperspace travel is second in fiction only to warp travel (Star Trek, not 40K) in terms of efficiency and speed. Kolto and Bacta is capable of healing most injuries. Cybernetics and robotics are advanced enough to fully mimic human motor functions. I dont think its a question of "too advanced," but possibly more lack-of-need? More likely is that Writers dont see a need for it, or dont even contemplate the notion, hence why its scarcely appeared with the examples you mentioned.
We have the tech for mechs IRL (not necessarily combat ready ones but still) It’s just stupidly expensive for what is, essentially, just a humanoid tank Tanks are easier and cheaper to build, maintain and repair Possibly even pilot No amount of technological advancement will change that Power armor is another matter, though
Of course, the real meta reason is that that was never one of the inspirations of George Lucas...but now that he's out of the picture, SHOULD Star Wars be allowed to grow beyond his vision and incorporate the influences of the newer creators working on it? Many of whom grew up watching Transformers and Mecha anime...Would you be okay with seeing tech advance this way past the Sequel Trilogy era?
People act like the Star Wars galaxy must have every type of technology one could think of just because it's "sci-fi", but that's just not how technology works.
given the same technology level, it might be easier to just use a droid instead. A mech suit need to allocate t power and weight for life support function compare to a droid. Think of this way, a fighter airplane top speed is limited by pilot's tolernace for G force before blackout. A AI control airplane can go beyond such limit. So similarly, given the same technology cost/weight and power constraint, a mech suit will likely to be slower and heavier than an equivalent droid. or a droid remotely control by a user hidden some where out of danger.
Based around the technology throughout the history of SW I’m sure mech suits could’ve been utilized, but depending on the era, the planets currency and resources, as well as the type of metal that was used they were sort of obsolete. That being based on ground vehicles, ships, and the massive armies of the different eras. Arming every individual with there own mech suit would’ve been crazy expensive not just to create but also to replace if some got damaged.
I think its just about the fact that force users are better than mech suits and more importantly most big galactic governments already had a force wielder cult/order that it could use. In certain exceptions (like the Galactic Empire ) where there are only a handful of force users mech suits were present as the need arose (dark troopers to follow the example), but I think when you have the ultimate infantry its just not worth it. Basic Supply-Demand
I feel like mech suits just don't fit the mostly grounded aesthetic of war in star wars. Like yeah they use lazers instead of bullets and space ships instead of planes and boats, but otherwise war in star wars has always taken inspiration from old ww2 movies. EDIT: come to think of it, they also probably don't use mech suits artistically in star wars because it shifts the power fantasy away from the Jedi and Sith and over to being a soldier, when soldiers in most star wars media are mostly meant to be more relatable, humble everyman characters.
We’ll all the walkers are technically mechs no? About smaller power armor or so - I guess it’s just expensive, they use expendables in everything, expendable droids, clones, even more expendable stormtroopers Some elite dudes probably had some sort of power armor like Gideon had in latest mando season
I think its because it will be too expensive to repair. Blaster bolts will do alot of damage to it,unless i is made of a heat resistant material, which would make it more expensive,or even heavier. And it would also not be able to hide behind cover,because of its size. So the few existing for hunting jedi are more expensive because they are made of heat resistant material,probably have stronger parts or increased movement and support if weight. Think about it,why would you implement a huge piece of machinery that is guaranteed to take alot of hits,but is also very expensive to repair those hits, just to give one person protection? It wont even change a massive battle,as artillery and lots of shots fired consecutively is what matters,putting a massive target in the battlefield wont help,and furthermore,the republic had clones,which were already expendable,and the empire already dominated the galaxy,so making an expensive machine that doesnt help that much is not a great move. While mech suits did exist it wasnt very effective because of how the most common weapons found on the battlefield worked.
Expense is the best reason. Trying to equip even just specialists across an entire galactic Army with powered armor would be mind-breakingly expensive, especially when advanced armor materials can keep a soldier alive, and heavier firepower and armor can be covered with Droids. As for not seeing it used by bounty hunters and the like, again economics answer. There's no economy of scale for powered armor production, so any suit will, again, be so horribly expensive to acquire and maintain that even the best of mercenaries and special forces just don't bother.
Star Wars universe does have mech suits but they suffer from something I call "stick up the ass syndrome" meaning they believe they are better and do not use something that actually is useful. When Anakin was young him and his master Obi-Wan went to a planet to deal with the on and off faction yes that's what they were called on that planet they used slug throwers or guns on Earth and they had Mechs with miniguns. Obi-Wan thought it was a good idea to stop a bullet with lightsaber it didn't work out it shattered from the heat and hit his face. Bullets versus a laser the bullet always wins. I don't know if the comic is still Canon but I remember hearing about it.
Although not shown, Darktrooper Phase 1 and 2 is a mech suit with operator inside. The one we saw in Mando Season 2 is Phase 3 and fully mechanical droid
Mechs and power armor are scarce because in Star Wars, blaster tech is cheap and energy shields are portable. Actual physical armor is impractical on a broad scale except for very specific applications. You'll note that everything big has an onboard shield generator: that's why. Tech is stagnant in Star Wars: everything meaningful that can be invented pretty much has been, and the ability to pierce armor has long-since eclipsed the ability to build better armor, and at this point, it's easier to just put a shield generator on something than to try and armor it. Weapons, starships, and personal tools have remained more or less the same for thousands upon thousands of years. The last big innovation was creating a synthetic version of the universal healing goo (bacta), so they don't need to rely on the previous monopoly (koltol) that was harvested from the marine life of a single planet. Besides synthetic koltol, nothing has actually changed much in ten thousand years. It's one of the things that makes Star Wars such an interesting setting: unlike Star Trek or other contemporary sci-fi settings, Star Wars FEELS old and worn out. It's not shiny or new. It's banged up and covered in rust.
The star wars universe has access to weapons that can easily cut through most armour, which prioritised speed mobility and bigger stronger multiperson machines which is similar to what we see on earth with the invention of guns. Bigger single person armour able to stop lightsabers and blasters are too heavy and expensive and niche
Most of the walker type vehicles could be considered mechs. What you and the question seem to be referring to is called power armor. Things are only really mechs when they aren’t directly controlled by body movements and are a vehicle class rather than an armor class. The mechs from the matrix are a pretty good example since the arms while directed by the pilot’s arms aren’t directly linked to them. If the arm of the mech is blown off it’s entirely separate from the human’s arm.
There were mechs and there was power armor. Kotor had power armors such as light and heavy variants which increased strength of the player character. Then there were mechs like the at-st at-at att and so on. You just have to dive deep enough to find them and the reasons why they are or are not used anymore. Power armor was too expensive and didn't provide enough benefit. Mechs were still used just in different roles like construction and such.
For the most part I think droids limit the necessity of mechsuits in warfare. But I'd be totally stoked if they added mechsuits into starwars I think there would be some really cool ways you could implement it.
Y call it mech suit when it's called power suit, a mech is that mech warrior type of shit and power suit which mech warrior has the same but they call it a power suit because u can jump in and wear it like a suit and boost of power of bionics and cyborg nearly whole body but like the power armor of fallout 4 😐.
Theres alredy a lot of mechs in star wars, all or the walker vehicles can be considered mech, there is still many power armors in the universe but is not cheap and usually is just better to swarm the opponet with regular troops, thats exactly what all armies do in stat wars, everyone look to have rhe number superiority and that usuallt works
Maybe its because of the Force. The Force doesn't need to be hot enough to melt armor or be strong enough to penetrate it. A strong sith or jedi could use force crush to break the suit.
Most star wars tech comes from an ancient civilization that never developed it due to them having slavery and ever since then it's only had incremental advances
I mean, technically Darth Vader is just a magical torso chilling in a mech suit
True hadn't thought about that but there's not an army of them
Is… is Darth vader a dreadnought?
General Grievous: Am I a joke to you?
@@squintyspade0025 holy crap 😳 he's totally a dreadnought but more portable
@@squintyspade0025 By that logic, every tech priest would be too. A dreadnought is a giant murder coffin, whole Vader is a cyborg.
Technicalities aside, though, it’s an amusing thought nonetheless, and one that I will absolutely repeat elsewhere. Heck, I’ll also suggest that you look up Sicarian Ruststalkers, which you may find to be relevant.
While I appreciate the shout out, what you used as the Warhammer 40k example was Space Marine power armor, not a mech. 40k mechs range from the humble Scout Sentinel to the absolutely MASSIVE Warmaster Titan, the only ones Space Marines use are the Invictor Tactical Warsuits (with dreadnoughts _technically_ being mechs, though not really)
You mean Emperor titan?
@@voomvoom4522 no, I mean the Warmaster.
@@LordCrate-du8zm Emperor class is bigger.
@@voomvoom4522 only because of that cathedral.
@@LordCrate-du8zm bigger is still bigger. Plus the cathedral contains a bunch of powerful weapons.
In the Mandalorian serial Moff Gideon combine mandalorian armor & exoskeleton. That’s was so powerful…even black saber of Boka Tan can’t defeat him .
“If the empire had surviiiived😩🍷”
They do have mechs: AT series vehicles can all be classed as mechs. Power armour also exists, we've seen it with dark troopers & Gideon's armour.
The only thing we haven't really seen is humanoid mechs, and the reason is simple; star wars has droids for that.
I literally only got back into the game because of Falinks. My little army shall rule the Aeos Islands!
on Obi-Wan and Anakin 4 there faction called Open that use mechs in literal name, also like isn't it like ATT etc is a mech, like there a lot of mech in starwars
Exact opposite. Droid technology has advanced so far, they’re irrelevant.
I think an army of mech suit soldiers would be too costly when 1 force user would probably just push them away. While it'll probably increase the chances of slaying that Jedi, it isn't enough to justify the cost. Since they'll probably still need to pull the same surprise tactic of order 66 to kill a Jedi anyways. Those extra bits of technology will just be extra cost.
answer: it's not needed. make it a droid. armor is more efficient anyways, even expensive sets such as katarn armor, even resistant to light cannon fire
Mostly because droids are vastly cheaper and organics dont need to be put into harms way.
There are power armor and mech suits in star wars and cyborgs are a thing. It just isnt needed as much. Medicial technology is vastly superior so cybernetic is only for the ones that want to enhance themselves or the ones that are truly fucked up, like Anakin.
Power armor, some use it. A lot of the mando armor has some minor power armor like you said and a mech suit is there but not many would use it.
They seem like they'd be ineffective again force wielders. Slow clunky targets. Honestly a clone would probably have a better chance.
>droid armies
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There was that little alien in a mech suit that defended the village from Hando’s pirates in clone wars
Oh damn, i forgot about that guy!
Omg the bounty hunters in that episode are still legendary to me
Thank you I thought everyone forgot about my little green friend
Oh yeah, Seripas!! His suit looked so badass in that episode!
Yeah and we saw how clumsy the suit was. It could barely move. It's nothing compared to other mechsuits from other universes.
I think the general reason is, “If we need a Mech suit, why not just build a droid instead?” Cheaper and easier to just build a droid that does whatever you’d want the Mech suit for. Except for the Clone Wars era of course, droids could/would fill just about any role you might need Mech-assisted technology for. Heavy weapons? Spider droid/B2. Lifters/Loaders? Droids for that. Even droid space fighters and aircraft.
I was gonna say the same thing. If you have mass production for AI that is subservient to the population, it’s far easier, cheaper and more efficient to build a droid for the purpose than to design a suit for a humanoid to pilot. Suits need chambers for the pilot, life support systems, emergency ejection, all sorts of amenities for the life form inside. Droids can drop all that and just use the sensors to go about the specialized mission. You can put the hud and other systems into the helmet of normal armor, you don’t need to be massive sized to get a basic HUD.
true but they never built any large droids either at least none that are halfway effective. as far as the movies are concerned droidekas are the pinnacle of effective droid design.
@@KT-pv3kl well, droideka models were more than overkill for the war, personal shield generators and heavy twin blasters plus exceptional mobility made them the deadliest combatants on the battlefield. And just because heavier droids like the spider droid or the hellfire tank were rare doesn’t mean they don’t exist, nor does a war unit constitute the only kind of droid ever made. There were many droid models that just did maintenance work which exceeded human size, and even without that, droids could be made to fly which made size irrelevant when you can reach any problem without having to be tall. The only reason to build a droid super tall would be if you wanted to equip it with a starship caliber turbo laser, and the power that would require is just impractical for a mobile unit anyways.
Like in iron man 2 when whiplash made droids instead of suits
To be fair, it would be better to replace most soldiers with droids
Star Wars also has a much higher percentage of Robots/androids in military usage compared to other series, and to be frank if they want mech-scale firepower, they'd just use a big droid. See the B3 "Ultra Battle Droid" in the old EU or the Skorpenek droids in Mandalorian. One could also argue that Walkers like the AT-AT are a form of Mech.
as explained elsewhere, no the AtaT is classified as a walker.
@@quinnhasse9170 right. A Mech.
but clon army havent droids so they need mechs
@@starkillercz14 the Republic has droids of its own, friend.
Heck, even the Droidekas are a pretty heavy duty bit of hardware. Highly mobile to get to an important location, after which they set up their shields and just barrage the enemy into submission.
I think there's a misconception here between a mech and power armor. Power armor is a suit you wear. A mech is typically a vehicle you pilot, usually by yourself.
So the AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-TE, and AT-RT would be mechs.
can' t have a mechanical camel, mechanical chicken, mechanical turtle, or mechanical emu, without *mech.*
this is the Way.
This is why I always hate when people use terms like "mech-suit". Are you talking about walking vehicles, or mechanically enhanced suits of armor? That's an important distinction, because mechs and power armor are two very different things. So using such a generic term to talk about them is meaningless, and just makes it sound like you don't really know what you're talking about.
Especially in this case, since as has been pointed out by other comments, both mechs and power armor do exist in Star Wars.
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@@doubleddavid4968 Brainrot
A mech would be something like Evangelion
"YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM SOLDIER! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR!"
~Sargeant Dornan
THE TRUTH IS YOU HAVE LOST AN EXPENSIVE PIECE OF ARMY ISSUE EQUIPMENT
_"MY ARMOR IS CONTEMPT!"_
-Probably just some guy
By the time you're in star wars, you may as well take the person out of the mech suit and just build a droid
Before Disney we had mech suits in Star Wars. The closest we have gotten to mass production were dark troopers which phase one and two were more exoskeleton. Phase three was an entire mech suit itself
Was about to post this, you're right 😊
There's also the comic mech suits
Phase 3 were droids, by that logic 3PO is a mech suit
Phase 1 were droids only. Phase 0 were Clones in special mechanized armor (What we had in the original Star Wars Battlefront 1+2). Phase 2 armor was a better version of Phase 0 that could be worn by Phase 1 Dark Trooper Droids or worn by a real person. Phase 3 was just an upgraded version of the Phase 2 mechanized suit and had alloys that would allow it to withstand lightsaber attacks. We also had several proto-Dark Trooper designs/projects seen in The Force Unleashed 1+2 that were before they designated Dark Trooper phases.
Phase 3 were technically droids but could also be piloted. Either there was droid only variants or all of them are designed for real people inside with just a droid brain there to help id so desired @@Umbzard
Before Disney canon we had the Spacetrooper corps in the old EU. These were basically Space marines used for zero G operations such as boarding enemy ships. It's interesting how that idea seems to have been quietly forgotten... Games Workshop perhaps?
West End Games -- They were the ones with the powered space armor ("Zero G Assault Stormtrooper") used in boarding actions.....Showing my geek, I had to break out my Imperial Sourcebook: the armor (with a cutaway view) is on page 40, with the description on page 47....Another thing you don't really hear about is COMPNOR (pg 16)...REALLY interesting stuff, there.
WEG did a HUGE amount of VERY good work.
@@TheMajorActual I have the original sourcebook too!
@@Rendell001 I have all of the WEG 1st Edition books....Don't have a gaming group for SW anymore, though 😥
@@TheMajorActual did you have “the Far Orbit” campaign too?
@@Rendell001 Hmmmm -- I do not. I will have to scrounge a source....I do have all the main sourcebooks, though. I have a bunch of the adventures & campaigns, but I've almost certainly missed a few. WEG was almost as prolific as GDW was, back then.
The idea that Mech suits are too advanced for Star Wars. Technology is utterly moronic. They have the technology to build moon size battle station. They have FTL travel, sentient Androids everything I see about Star Wars demonstrate the technology is clearly advanced enough for that. Never mind that walkers exist which in and of themselves are in the way a midpoint between tanks and Mech suits. I’ve heard though I can’t remember where that Mech suits in real life would be impractical and I tend to think the same reasoning with apply to Star Wars as well.
Yeah, there are a few cases, but those are really expensive and not great against good old EMP based weaponry.
@@РусланКучеренко-м3б So are hovertanks (against EMPs), but that doesn't stop all the factions from using them and price tag is a shitty reason because the Empire in Legends and "Canon" loves spending cash on all sorts of expensive projects/projects
An Iron Man suit is practical in real life.
Well a lot of technology from starwars are reversed engineered from the Rokata.... Nvm just remembered that's no longer canon...
Is very practical in both worlds. Its only cowardless of people, if peoples not been coward they can charce in enemy lines with speed and crush the enemy in the seconds. And if you can, it can be tactical so very usefull.
The walkers: am I a joke to you
I was thinking that too!
Why did it take so long to find this. They’re literally mechs in every sense.
@@BorgronThe video creator and a lot of the commenters seem to not realise the differences between a 'mech' and 'power armour'.
@@mortarion9813 I noticed that too lol. Some I noticed can’t even properly define what a mech is. The only two criteria for something to be a mech are that it walks and has an onboard pilot. I saw someone arguing that the AT-RT isn’t a mech because it has an open top. Like what? Where did he even get that from?
@@Borgron I think the rule of mechs is that it has to be humanoid shaped in order to be a mech. Anything else is a vehicle.
They do exist, but it’s more internalized.
Think less Iron Man and more Batman Beyond.
With the invention of Grav Plates some people could carry weapons meant for turrets as HMGs.
There’s some E-webs that hover allowing for mobile movements.
The Mandalorian have a mech that is more similar in the Matrix that is exposed it's pilot but can fly to other planets.
Rock solid question! And surprised we haven't seen more attempts at an equivalent. You know the jedi would train harder and hone spicy techniques if they had to throw down with mechs on the reg!
Actually we have i forget what they were called but it used clones and they could take down a fortress or bust open its walls with ease. And they do use a kind of mech suit.
@@globenboopen9425 Sounds pretty rad
i dont really see mechs helping with jedi your armour would have to be besker or a meter and a half thick a type of spaced armour might work but be incredibly bulky
They would just squash the person inside or the suit itself with the Force.
@@DoomStroller yea and funny enough its the background pic on this video before it starts. The picture of that clone trooper in that armour. Its a mech suit and they were called seige troopers. Nothing short of a cannon would stop them or overwhelming fire power/numbers
Seripas from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Bounty Hunters" had a mech suit. Although it wasn't all that powerful. Perhaps the logic is if you are going to design what is basically a large battle droid with room inside for a pilot and controls, why not instead use that space for more weaponry and advanced logic for the droid. If you send in a droid you avoid being in combat entirely. I think it's not that mech suits aren't possible, but that by the time you've invested that much tech into a machine, a droid is an even more effective solution for self preservation than going into battle yourself.
The villain of Iron Man 2 movie said it "Droids are better, suits make you vulnerable trust me doc, I don't want to copy Stark, even if you want me to".
"Too advanced" yes cause having a planet sized Death Station that can just obliterate entire planets wasn't advandced or anything.
Or did we forget that Vader is technically in one of these suits?
Vader is a cyborg. His limbs got replaced and he's walking around with a life support suite. He's far more nimble than he's supposed to be capable of because he used the force to manipulate the limbs. Palpatine gave him the worst tech he could to make it as painful and difficult as possible
@mullerpotgieter OK but you missed the point.
If you have the technology the create Cyborgs, and the Technology to create Planet destroyers. Then you have the technology to create battle mechs.
Integrating Technology with life support systems and robotic limbs and having them function is a far bigger scientific and technological feat than just making g an Iron man style suit. You have to graft the robotic limbs into the nervous system in order to respond properly to your inputs.
And even taking Vader aside and ignoring his Force abilities. General Grievous was more advanced and flexible than Vader was and he possessed no force abilities whatsoever. So the fact Grievous was such a menace to an order of force users by using just his pure brute strength and speed alo e speaks volumes for how advanced technology in star wars is.
@@mullerpotgieterEarly Dark Troopers were cyborg clones too. AT-STs or their smaller variants were mech Suits.
@@jesseprice8919 Vader isn't really in a mech suit, he's just a torso with mechanical limbs and machine respirators attached to him; the limbs and machines being encased in shell plating and clothes. That's different from a robot designed to be piloted
too advanced for mass production
if we really stretch it then technically all Walker-class tanks are all "mechs" as well, if we just say Mechs need to
1) have legs
2) have armour
3) have guns
..but proper mech-mechs? Yeah no. You wont be finding those
Walkers are mechs. Look at Mechwarrior, much closer to Star Wars walkers than anime designs
You're thinking of mech*a*. The walkers definitely fall under 'Mechs', no stretching required.
We gonna forget about that one bounty hunter from that episode of the clone wars where they trained a village to defend itself? There’s at least one mech suit in Star Wars
yea i thought of him aswell, although its funny you sayare we gonna forget about him but then call him that one guy from that episode not exactly a top tier character
@@pearsegallagher9832 was he even named in that episode?
@@speauks_4667 seripas
@@speauks_4667 Think his name was Seripas or something similar 😅
Yes! Seripas!
One of the old Jedi knight games had troops in mech like suits and they carried railguns
Jedi academy had them - dark troopers I believe - could wade through lava fields.
@@michaeldayman682 they weren’t dark troopers though, that was dark forces. I think they were environmental troops. I’ll boot the game tomorrow and get back to ya.
@@thestørmcrier2024 might be - I don't believe they were actually named, but I thought they had some level of force powers - or had knock back when they physically hit you.
I believe they resisted several force abilities - force push, choke, confusion type.
@@michaeldayman682 their concussion rifle hit like a train, and they could melee you if you got close.
@@thestørmcrier2024 yep - they meleed real hard with knock back - off bridges and into lava - for distance. I love hated them. Good game.
Tell that to lego
i was searching for this comment lol
It could be argued that the ancient mandalorian basilisk war droids could also be a mech, though not really a mech suit
"That Jedi can deflect blasters!"
'Uh...ok'
*PRIMES FLAMER*
“Get in the robot anakin”
Since Annie love mech so much i can imagine if George Lucas added a manned pilot Mecha in first place.
Spacetrooper disagrees.
You're right, but there's two versions of the space trooper, even in the original Expanded Universe. The Zero-G Troopers, your common Space Trooper were basically flying tanks. You also had light Space Troopers, which just wore basic Storm Trooper armor with better life support systems....and those you can actually see in Episode 4, I believe when the Millennium Falcon is docking on the Death Star. They were in McQuerrie concept art for the scene, but actually made it on screen.
Also as others pointed out, Phase 0, 2 and 3 Dark Troopers were also mech suits. Phase 2 and 3 could be worn by human or Phase 1 Dark Troopers(droids). Certain Hazmat Troopers also had mech suits. Things could be argued also for any of the walkers/tanks being Mechs.
Like it said the dark troopers was a type of mech suit. But why spend the money on a suit for a person when they could just make druids or cyber inhansed person. Like Vader and grievous are example.
Force Druids demand a shrubbery as tribute for-passage through their territory
I'd argue that the expenses outweighed the effectiveness of the mechsuit. Like it was said the Dark Trooper program was as successful as it was only because there were no more jedi to cut them all down (saw how Luke could cut through a whole platoon of them alone). There were just some situations where a mech suit isn't worth investing in.
I think the most likely reason why we don't see mech suit is simply the Galaxy hadn't bothered or thought about it. You have a civilization where robots are everywhere doing a wide variety of tasks. If there were any mech suits of any kind, i think they would be limited to industrial or a prosthetic for small aliens or someone with grievous injuries like Grievous and Vader.
I think the Star Wars galaxy can start making combat mech suits if they are in conflict with a civilization where their standard army utilize it or elite units causing massive casualties.
Alternatively, the Star Wars galaxy may be advanced enough to bypass mech suits and make power armor.
There was technically the alien in force unleashed, the one with starkiller. He was using a mech suit.
Uhhhh, all terrain walkers? Y'know, like the AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-TE, AT-AP...
not a mech suit. those are tanks/weaponized terrain vehicles
@@LessTalkingMoreFishingThey are literally mechs.
@@mortarion9813 he said mech SUIT ignorant ass. mech suit meaning a mechanical suit of armor that resembles a human body that a human can fit into
ATTE and ATAT are definitely more tank then mech, I do think there is a solid argument for ATST, ATRT, and ATPT though
@@mortarion9813 in order to be a mech, it has to be shaped like a humanoid.
I'm inclined to think that, in a verse with "magic", some tech just wasn't made, but st least in Saga Edition D20 Star Wars, one such suit existed, in the battle frame, and Spacetroopers were basically flying around in bulky Iron Man suits, with sealed atmosphere, mag lock boots, rocket packs, and missile launcher weapons. One of my favorite Trooper variants!
Couldn’t the ATST from the clone wars or the walkers from episode III be considered mech suits?
No
Not really because it was a drivable vehicle and not "wearable".
@@thorn6070aren't a lit of necessity more drivable than wearable though? That's the main difference between them and power suits. Imo single man, 2 legged walkers like the ATRT def count as mechs
@@kyrogamingvt9716 I guess they can be classed as mechs in a general term, as in mechanized. But I wouldn't go as far as to say mech suit, as their operators are canonically referred to as drivers.
There were the war droid basilisk
Well in the expanded lore there is Mech suites, specifically the droid battlesuits of the mandalorians of the past.
Maybe because blaster shots are very afective against them or they are sucking battery very fast?
"Mech suits were too advanced or expensive" proceeds to show examples of mech suits in starwars
I would not say that it is to advanced if they have huge space ships that go much faster than light and have lightsabers
They do have them but it's more like heavy heavy heavy armor then a mec
Star Wars ignores or at least barely acknowledges a lot of odds and ends that other Sci-Fi series woukd make liberal use of, even when such thing would 100% be possible in the setting… Halo has it’s Smart AI that can operate massive machinery like ships and entire facilities (which would have been PERFECT for the CIS), meanwhile there’s also Time Travel and The Multiverse and even “just” bog-standard teleportation (all of which only really show up in Star Wars when high-end Force shenanigans are involved, like The Mortis Gods or The World Between Worlds).
If the entire Star Wars setting applied itself as much technologically as is could, EVERYTHING would be MUCH more potent. Darth Vader’s armor for example would likely be more along the lines of Tony Stark’s later MCU Iron Man Armors, flight and all (Imagine the horror of the guy that finally beats Vader in an honest dogfight, only for him to rocket out of the exploding wreak of his TIE without missing a beat and start shredding your ship with his lightsaber and force powers and even bare hands?)
There’s plenty of mechs, they’re typically rather “ineffective”. Sure, get in the big suit. Paint yourself the biggest target, and probably the first on everyone’s shitlist. Tech in Star Wars isn’t that bad at all. A mech suit wouldn’t help much if twenty soldiers with laser rifles looked your way.
Personalized shielding might’ve helped a little, but not much. Crap like thermal detonators (aka; mini, localized nukes) are a common weapon (nearly every Storm Trooper has one). A mech wouldn’t live too long, by comparison.
"Advanced." Lol. Lmao even.
Hyperspace travel is second in fiction only to warp travel (Star Trek, not 40K) in terms of efficiency and speed. Kolto and Bacta is capable of healing most injuries. Cybernetics and robotics are advanced enough to fully mimic human motor functions.
I dont think its a question of "too advanced," but possibly more lack-of-need? More likely is that Writers dont see a need for it, or dont even contemplate the notion, hence why its scarcely appeared with the examples you mentioned.
We have the tech for mechs IRL (not necessarily combat ready ones but still)
It’s just stupidly expensive for what is, essentially, just a humanoid tank
Tanks are easier and cheaper to build, maintain and repair
Possibly even pilot
No amount of technological advancement will change that
Power armor is another matter, though
Of course, the real meta reason is that that was never one of the inspirations of George Lucas...but now that he's out of the picture, SHOULD Star Wars be allowed to grow beyond his vision and incorporate the influences of the newer creators working on it? Many of whom grew up watching Transformers and Mecha anime...Would you be okay with seeing tech advance this way past the Sequel Trilogy era?
People act like the Star Wars galaxy must have every type of technology one could think of just because it's "sci-fi", but that's just not how technology works.
given the same technology level, it might be easier to just use a droid instead. A mech suit need to allocate t power and weight for life support function compare to a droid.
Think of this way, a fighter airplane top speed is limited by pilot's tolernace for G force before blackout. A AI control airplane can go beyond such limit. So similarly, given the same technology cost/weight and power constraint, a mech suit will likely to be slower and heavier than an equivalent droid. or a droid remotely control by a user hidden some where out of danger.
Based around the technology throughout the history of SW I’m sure mech suits could’ve been utilized, but depending on the era, the planets currency and resources, as well as the type of metal that was used they were sort of obsolete. That being based on ground vehicles, ships, and the massive armies of the different eras.
Arming every individual with there own mech suit would’ve been crazy expensive not just to create but also to replace if some got damaged.
I think its just about the fact that force users are better than mech suits and more importantly most big galactic governments already had a force wielder cult/order that it could use. In certain exceptions (like the Galactic Empire ) where there are only a handful of force users mech suits were present as the need arose (dark troopers to follow the example), but I think when you have the ultimate infantry its just not worth it. Basic Supply-Demand
I feel like mech suits just don't fit the mostly grounded aesthetic of war in star wars. Like yeah they use lazers instead of bullets and space ships instead of planes and boats, but otherwise war in star wars has always taken inspiration from old ww2 movies.
EDIT: come to think of it, they also probably don't use mech suits artistically in star wars because it shifts the power fantasy away from the Jedi and Sith and over to being a soldier, when soldiers in most star wars media are mostly meant to be more relatable, humble everyman characters.
We’ll all the walkers are technically mechs no?
About smaller power armor or so - I guess it’s just expensive, they use expendables in everything, expendable droids, clones, even more expendable stormtroopers
Some elite dudes probably had some sort of power armor like Gideon had in latest mando season
I think its because it will be too expensive to repair. Blaster bolts will do alot of damage to it,unless i is made of a heat resistant material, which would make it more expensive,or even heavier. And it would also not be able to hide behind cover,because of its size. So the few existing for hunting jedi are more expensive because they are made of heat resistant material,probably have stronger parts or increased movement and support if weight.
Think about it,why would you implement a huge piece of machinery that is guaranteed to take alot of hits,but is also very expensive to repair those hits, just to give one person protection? It wont even change a massive battle,as artillery and lots of shots fired consecutively is what matters,putting a massive target in the battlefield wont help,and furthermore,the republic had clones,which were already expendable,and the empire already dominated the galaxy,so making an expensive machine that doesnt help that much is not a great move. While mech suits did exist it wasnt very effective because of how the most common weapons found on the battlefield worked.
Expense is the best reason. Trying to equip even just specialists across an entire galactic Army with powered armor would be mind-breakingly expensive, especially when advanced armor materials can keep a soldier alive, and heavier firepower and armor can be covered with Droids. As for not seeing it used by bounty hunters and the like, again economics answer. There's no economy of scale for powered armor production, so any suit will, again, be so horribly expensive to acquire and maintain that even the best of mercenaries and special forces just don't bother.
Star Wars universe does have mech suits but they suffer from something I call "stick up the ass syndrome" meaning they believe they are better and do not use something that actually is useful. When Anakin was young him and his master Obi-Wan went to a planet to deal with the on and off faction yes that's what they were called on that planet they used slug throwers or guns on Earth and they had Mechs with miniguns. Obi-Wan thought it was a good idea to stop a bullet with lightsaber it didn't work out it shattered from the heat and hit his face. Bullets versus a laser the bullet always wins. I don't know if the comic is still Canon but I remember hearing about it.
Although not shown, Darktrooper Phase 1 and 2 is a mech suit with operator inside. The one we saw in Mando Season 2 is Phase 3 and fully mechanical droid
Mechs and power armor are scarce because in Star Wars, blaster tech is cheap and energy shields are portable. Actual physical armor is impractical on a broad scale except for very specific applications. You'll note that everything big has an onboard shield generator: that's why. Tech is stagnant in Star Wars: everything meaningful that can be invented pretty much has been, and the ability to pierce armor has long-since eclipsed the ability to build better armor, and at this point, it's easier to just put a shield generator on something than to try and armor it.
Weapons, starships, and personal tools have remained more or less the same for thousands upon thousands of years. The last big innovation was creating a synthetic version of the universal healing goo (bacta), so they don't need to rely on the previous monopoly (koltol) that was harvested from the marine life of a single planet.
Besides synthetic koltol, nothing has actually changed much in ten thousand years. It's one of the things that makes Star Wars such an interesting setting: unlike Star Trek or other contemporary sci-fi settings, Star Wars FEELS old and worn out. It's not shiny or new. It's banged up and covered in rust.
The star wars universe has access to weapons that can easily cut through most armour, which prioritised speed mobility and bigger stronger multiperson machines which is similar to what we see on earth with the invention of guns. Bigger single person armour able to stop lightsabers and blasters are too heavy and expensive and niche
Most of the walker type vehicles could be considered mechs. What you and the question seem to be referring to is called power armor. Things are only really mechs when they aren’t directly controlled by body movements and are a vehicle class rather than an armor class. The mechs from the matrix are a pretty good example since the arms while directed by the pilot’s arms aren’t directly linked to them. If the arm of the mech is blown off it’s entirely separate from the human’s arm.
There were mechs and there was power armor. Kotor had power armors such as light and heavy variants which increased strength of the player character. Then there were mechs like the at-st at-at att and so on. You just have to dive deep enough to find them and the reasons why they are or are not used anymore. Power armor was too expensive and didn't provide enough benefit. Mechs were still used just in different roles like construction and such.
For the most part I think droids limit the necessity of mechsuits in warfare. But I'd be totally stoked if they added mechsuits into starwars I think there would be some really cool ways you could implement it.
“Why is there no Mechs in StarWars?”
Good guys: “Brother, that's exactly what we DON'T want!”
Y call it mech suit when it's called power suit, a mech is that mech warrior type of shit and power suit which mech warrior has the same but they call it a power suit because u can jump in and wear it like a suit and boost of power of bionics and cyborg nearly whole body but like the power armor of fallout 4 😐.
Especially considering that George Lucas is a massive weeaboo. Super Robot Star Wars when?
My bro totally skipped Moff Gideon Beskar-made Power Armor 🤦🏽♂️
Theres alredy a lot of mechs in star wars, all or the walker vehicles can be considered mech, there is still many power armors in the universe but is not cheap and usually is just better to swarm the opponet with regular troops, thats exactly what all armies do in stat wars, everyone look to have rhe number superiority and that usuallt works
Ah yes, hyperdrives, jetpacks, and lightsaber.
Not as advanced as a mech suit.
the Astartes power armor is not a mech suit, that would be the Tau Crisis, Dreanoughts, Killa Canz or the Centurion Warsuit..
Mech suits aren't as helpful in a galaxy overrun with telekinetic space wizards wielding laser swords and lightning hands.
Saying “it’s too hard to develop this technology” is such a cop out move, they have ai robots, faster than light speed travel and giant space ships?
There are some variations of “mech suits” in Star Wars, like the most common for big dudes like rayvis from Jedi survivor
They're cool. But inefficient compared to just designing combat drones
Maybe its because of the Force. The Force doesn't need to be hot enough to melt armor or be strong enough to penetrate it. A strong sith or jedi could use force crush to break the suit.
Admiral Galak Fyyar in Jedi Outcast used an Mech-Suit made out of Cortosis
Same reason that they don't have laser proof armor. It would make everything else trivial.
The cheapest mech suits would be Armored Cores and the most expensive ones would be Gundams
Technology that's too advanced... Yet they have FTL drives. 🤔
Honestly i think Lucas just dont want to make mechs, or he think mechs will be cooler than jedis :D
I guess there isn't much use for mech suits when you can build a droid that can fulfill similar purposes
Most star wars tech comes from an ancient civilization that never developed it due to them having slavery and ever since then it's only had incremental advances
40k doesn't use mech suits, they turn powerfull soldiers who died into big robots
I think you are confusing mech suits with power armor
Mechs as big stomping walking tanks are a staple of star wars like the at st or the at at
Did everyone just collectively forget about walkers?
i’d like to think they were just too expensive bc not having the technology for that is just…
Me: because mechs only look cool and are completely pointless if you can just build a tank?
If they can do cyborgs, surely they can do mechanical suits
It's a lot more space efficient to either use soldiers without suita or just deploy droids.
The ATST is kind of a mech, it's just a mech with only legs and a gun.
It's too expensive and can easily be blown out by orbital bombardment
1)they do;
2)it's called Star Wars, not Land Wars.
I don't thinks its hard because they can literally travel the galaxy
The Enclave hasn't been able to bring power armor to space
Seripas is in a mech. Also the AT-ST and other walkers are mechs as well.