SM-5 Rom-Kar

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The SM-5 Rom-Kar is the first Turian mech model ever constructed.

## History

After first contact with Humanity in 2157 the Turians witnessed the awesome power and effectiveness of what the humans called "Titans," 30+ ft tall towering Mech's that decimated and out maneouvered tanks in battle. They also saw the potential in what such a weapon could do against a Cybertronian threat. With a need to even the playing field with both humanity and, possibly Decepticons in the future, the Turians began scientific development into there own one-manned walking tanks.

What came from that is the SM-5 Rom Kar, this prototype was finally constructed in 2183 with hopes for mass production.

Competing alongside the Ceaire and the Cyrax the Standard Machine 5, the Rom Kar was selected to act as the Turian militaries first ever mass produced mobile suit. Having the honour of being the first ever standard issues ezzo suit, designed from the ground up as a fusion of human mobile suit and existing mass effect technology it was during its initial debut it was one of the most powerful mobile suits available due to its armour and speed and had the luxury of being very cheap to manufacture.

With speeds that left most mobile suits of the One Year war in the dust, initial dampers, high powered mass effect fields and extremely heavy armour, the Rom Kar was a sight to behold… for about three months. Once the humans started rolling out their own Mass Effect mobile suits glaring issues began to appear in the Rom Kar’s design, while it had a high speed it had low manoeuvrability and while its ezzo core made it very light, its inability to compensate for the recoil of its own weapons meant they became very jarring to use when using very high recoil mass accelerators. As such it was only really good at going in a straight line. Also Palavan Command under the assumption that the Minosky reactors would be phased out due to their sensor scrambling side effects saw that most early Rom Kar’s were not fitted with Minosky reactors  and as such could not use beam weapons. After a year as the humans began to produce their new suits it became a subpar machine, but still saw extensive service right up until the Reaper war, seeing numerous retrofits thanks to its adaptable design.

However its durability is what won it its reputation early on, as it was found during testing with shields set to max strength the suit would withstand 6 standard beam rifle shots to the chest plate (however many reports fail to mention that the cockpit entrance situated right below the primary chest piece could be shot through with just two). It was also the first suit that required near no recalibrating for when transitioning from space to land, thanks to on board V.I’s.

## Design

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## Trivia

The Rom-Kar is an original vehicle created by The-PBG for a Gundam-Mass Effect crossover story, inspired as a hybrid of Gundam and Turian design, in a similar fashion to the Normandy.

Amalgamation100 decided to create the vehicle as a 3D model to practice his modelling skills, and could subsequently use it in his artworks for the Amalgamation universe to which The-PBG agreed.

Despite being influenced by Gundam, in the Amalgamation Universe, this mech was created to answer the "Titans" from the Titanfall series, though Amalgamation100 has talked about Gundam mobile suits possibly making an appearance in Amalgamation down the line as an upgrade to the Titans.

In the Amalgamation universe the SM-5 Rom-Kar is the first fielded prototype of mechs the Turians invented, this is not the case for The-PBG's fiction.