Mountain King

## Overview

The Mountain King was a titanic battle robot constructed in 2935 by the Imperial Advanced Combat Systems corporation for use in the military of the Galactic Empire. The Mountain King stood 129 meters tall, and weighed over 2,000 metric tonnes in total. It had multiple weapons systems, including a neutronium-spiked hammer weighing 100 metric tonnes, meant for crushing smaller battle robots and other combat vehicles, and a 610mm firearm cannon in its left arm, capable of hitting targets up to 75 km away with devastating solonite or plasma 610mm shells. The Mountain King was never actually used in battle, although the Union had obtained intelligence about its capabilities, and later leaked documents showed that the Mountain King was actually one of the major deterrents that prevented them from deciding to attack the Empire. The Mountain King was deployed to other planets or moons by a special VTOL carrier starship (Hercules S1-class heavy transport), with the crew already on board; upon reaching its target landing site, the carrier ship would release the clamps holding the robot and it would walk into battle, with a top walking speed of 15 km/hr. The carrier ship was always escorted in space by fighter spacecraft, and in the atmosphere by fighter aircraft. Only one Mountain King unit was built, costing approximately 7.5 billion credits. Three of the carrier starships were built, each costing 350,000 credits.

## Weapons systems

The Mountain King was one of the most impressive battle robots ever manufactured in terms of its weapons systems; of course, the sheer number of weapons systems on board was due in large part to its immense size. The on-board weapons systems included the following: one 610mm firearm cannon on its left arm, firing plasma or solonite 610mm shells, with a magazine of 150 shells stored in its upper left arm and, along with the cannon, largely protected by the "Bulwark" physical shield system installed on its left arm; one 100-tonne neutronium-spiked hammer in its right hand; 6 twin heavy (capital ship-rated) disruptor turrets on the sides of its legs with 180-degree swivel capability; 32 Scorpion Mk3 medium long-range rockets in its shoulder bulges (16 in each shoulder); 4 Morningstar heavy short-range missiles in tubes along the jaw section of its "head"; 4 specialized Dagger heavy short-range missiles in launch tubes under its arms (2 under each arm), a fully armored launch system on the back of the robot which was equipped with 4 IACS AD-9 "Wasp" attack drones, each equipped with an interception missile and 2 medium laser sniper cannons; an active point-defense anti-missile/kinetic weapon system consisting of 32 automated dual turrets, each equipped with rapid-fire kinetic cannons firing projectiles at an extremely high rate of fire (this point-defense system could also be used as a weapon to shoot down attacking drones or aircraft at close range).

## Defensive/auxiliary systems

The Mountain King was equipped with two specialized "Bulwark" shield systems, mechanical limbs that attached to its left arm and chest plate on one end, and a 15 by 10 meter shield of 1-meter thick steel with a 5-centimeter coating of neutronium on the other end. It also had a specialized passive point-defense small shield grid system, raising small shields in 32 different locations to protect highly vulnerable locations on the robot's body. Each point-defense turret from the anti-missile/kinetic weapon point-defense grid also had its own shield emitter, as did its 6 twin heavy disruptor turrets. The main armor plates on its body protected most of the other sections, and ranged from 30 centimeters to 150 centimeters thick. Its joints were constructed in a triple-jointed arrangement, with an articulated armor plate totally covering the entire workings of each joint; the joints' servos were each powered by their own microreactor to ensure maximum movement speed. The Mountain King also had a specialized radar and lidar scanning system capable of detecting starships, aircraft, speeders, ground vehicles, missiles, and incoming projectiles up to 2000 km away. The data from this scanning system was transmitted to the turrets and shield emitters of the active and passive point defense systems, as well as the Bulwark physical shield systems and all additional shield emitters, allowing the robot to achieve maximum defensive efficiency. It also had another defensive system, kept secret for its whole existence, an anti-EMP energy shield system, an entirely new technology which it took over 2000 years for another power to replicate, and which protected the Mountain King from EMP attacks, a commonly used tactic to cripple combat robots, drones, and androids.

## Service and legacy

The Mountain King remained on the Imperial order of battle from its construction until the fall of the Galactic Empire in 3506, although it was never deployed and was kept in a heavily defended facility for its entire service life. During the Perth War a special unit was formed to train with the Mountain King and was on standby to deploy throughout the war; if the Perth had deployed ground forces in any location in Mystic, the Mountain King would have been deployed to that location. At the time of the fall of the Empire, the Mountain King was hidden in a secure storage facility nearly 15 km underground on Lionus. It was officially rediscovered by a Bandorian civilian exploration team in 5035. After its discovery, it was placed in the Museum of the Galactic Empire on Lionus; a new building addition to the museum had to be constructed to house it, as none of the existing buildings were tall enough to accomodate the 129-meter behemoth. In addition, at the time of its discovery, Bandorian records were revealed showing that Bandorian Supreme Leader Mi Xinchiang had ordered research into the viability of reactivating the Mountain King and using it as a superweapon in the Twenty Years' War against the Asgardian Alliance and United Nations. Ultimately the Mountain King was dismissed as a potential superweapon, as Mi Xinchiang and her teams of strategists chose to focus on massive clone armies (the Luna and Helios Projects) as their main superweapon for ground warfare.