Steam City Mecha

Steam City Mecha were the various mecha that appeared in the 1998 anime series *Steam Detectives*. Steam City was the location used by the various mecha throughout the series. With few exceptions all mecha listed below were powered by steam engines fueled from coal.

## Megamatons

**Megamatons** (メガマトン) were various steam powered robots, rarely larger than 5 meters tall, that appeared throughout the events of the series in the year 1973.

### Goriki

**Goriki** (強力) was a brown Megamaton created by Dr. Zhou some time before the events of the series as a self aware machine that was not remote controlled unlike others of his kind. Very little is known about his history before joining the Narutaki Detective Agency during the events of the story. In the manga it was revealed that Goriki's self awareness comes from having Dr. Zhou's brain transplanted inside of the robot, but this was not indicated in the anime. Notably part of his engine contained an antique diode called a PD Diode Nagaoka SR Type 2. For traveling across Steam City Goriki boards an underground train called the **Chiryugo** (地竜号)

* **Height**: 5 Meters (although he is depicted half that size in most shots)
* **Weight**: 30 Tons
* **Internal Combustion Steam Engine**: GX-01Z Special Engine
* **Armor**: Polymer Metal R
* **Equipment**:
	+ A drill in both arms that can extend short distances
	+ A searchlight on the scalp
	+ A fan in the right arm
	+ A pair of launchable arms attached to a cable
	+ A throwing anchor with a rope attached

### Shadowbolts

The **Shadowbolts** (シャドウ) were a series of three black Megamatons created by Dr. Guilty to commit elaborate crimes.

* **Shadowbolt Mark 1**: Appears in episode 5. Height: 8 Meters (although he is depicted as only half that size). Weight: 55.5 Tons. Width: 5.45 Meters. Internal Combustion Steam Engine: RX-328-B Special Engine. Maximum Output: 16000000ps. Armor: Polymerized Metal. Powers include extendable legs, dual launchable nets in the right palm, launchable arms each attached to rope, and a disc filled with electric wire called the Magneto Net.
	+ **Reconstructed Shadowbolt**: Appears in episodes 9 and 23. It was the Mark 1 rebuilt by Narutaki that changed the torso stripe from gray to red, eventually being destroyed by both the Mark 2 and when Dr. Guilty hijacked Goriki. Powers include launchable arms attached to wires, and storing the Magneto Net in the torso.
* **Shadowbolt Mark 2**: Appears in episode 9. Height: 9.3 Meters/ 8.5 Meters (Block Mode). Weight: 82 Tons. Width: 7.45 Meters/5.6 Meters (Block Mode). Internal Combustion Steam Engine: RX-328-C special engine. Powers include burrowing, fast spinning that can form a tornado, levitation, and a torso torpedo.
* **Shadowbolt Mark 3**: Appears in episode 23. Powers include swimming, retracting into a spiked ball with a missile launcher in the body, a snake-like lower half for restriction, and dual mace hands.

### Criminal Megamatons

* **Disappearing Megamaton**: Appears in episode 1. It was a blue Megamaton with dual tanks on the back, a cylinder head, and smoke stack on each shoulder used for getting up if knocked over. Powers include emitting sleeping gas and three rockets in the right arm.
* **Snake Megamaton**: Appears in episode 2. A brown Megamaton resembling a snake. Powers include burrowing, twin mouth flamethrowers, a drill on the tail, and constriction.
* **Antique Megamaton**: Appears in episode 3. A black Megamaton with a spike for each ear used by Machine Baron. It has no known powers.
* **Extinguisher Megamaton**: Appears in episode 3. A blue Megamaton used by Machine Baron to steal the Press Megamaton. Powers include burrowing and dual shoulder hoses.
* **Steam Bat**: Appears in episodes 4, 21, 22, 25, and 26. A blue gargoyle-like Megamaton with twin horns on the scalp that used by Le Bled. Powers include flight, amachine gun in each palm, and launchable claws attached to a wire.
* **Goriki Clone**: Appears in episode 7. A red replica of Goriki with two tanks and smokestack on the back. It has no known powers.
* **Wrecking Ball Megamaton**: Appears in episode 11. A Megamaton with a tank-like lower half used by Crimson Scorpion to assist the Fog Dragon. Its only known power is having a wrecking ball for each arm. Noted for heavily resembling Getter 3 from *Getter Robo*.
* **Megaton Man**: Appears in episode 12. A white Megamaton with a brown collar and four back tanks whose control box was removed from the torso during transportation by blimp. Its only known power is large brown fists for punching.
* **Bank Robber Megamaton**: Appears in episode 13. A brown Megamaton with one red eye, lanky limbs, and a valve on the torso that was defeated by Narutaki using a wrecking ball from his pistol. It has no known powers and the users were nameless robbers unlike other Megamatons from the series.
* **Scorpion Megamaton**: Appears in episode 15. A scorpion-like Megamaton with three back tanks that was used by Crimson Scorpion to distract Steam City police during a diamond robbery. Its only known power was twin claws.
* **Kidnapper Megamaton**: Appears in episode 16. A gray Megamaton with ladder handles on each pectoral and a valve door on the pelvis that was used by Le Bled for kidnapping.. Powers include a capture cell in the torso and a pincer claw for each hand.
* **Seagull Megamaton**: Appears in episode 19. A white bird-like Megamaton with a cone-like head and high heeled feet. Powers include a missile launcher under each shoulder and in the bird beak-like mouth and an extra pair of arms stored in the shoulders capable of launching.
* **Assassin Megamaton**: Appears in episode 24. A gray Megamaton with a pair of yellow glass-like eyes and twin back tanks used by Night Phantom to destroy buildings around Steam City. Powers include burrowing, an extendable clawed right hand that launches cannon balls from the palm, and a launchable left hand on a chain.
* **Satan Megamaton**: Appears in episodes 25 and 26. A silver Megamaton with twin head horns and three red exhaust pipes on each side of the back that stood an estimated 25 meters that was used by Night Phantom to guard bombs with radioactive Demon Water. Powers include moving via a heavy black ball on the bottom of the pelvis, transmitters stored and released in each hand, and machine gun in each finger.

### Civilian Megamatons

* **Press Megamaton**: Appears in episode 3. A blue Megamaton used for an antique convention that was almost stolen by Machine Baron. Its only known power is having giant hands.
* **Mining Excavation Megamaton**: Appears in episode 9. A blue Megamaton that assisted by human sized bulldozer robots and was knocked over during a fault caused by Shadowbolt Mark 2. Its only known power was dual arm drills.

## Steam Vehicles

* **Blimp NC-108**: Appears in episodes 5 and 23. It was a gray blump used by Dr. Guilty to kidnap scientists and later used to control Reconstructed Shadowbolt after faking his death. Notably it had dual tanks on each side of the balloon.
* **Fog Dragon**: Appears in episode 11. A dragon-like vehicle with an estimated 10 meters long used by Crimson Scorpion to rob jewelry stores at night under the name Amanda Rose. Powers include emitting fog, a mouth flamethrower, and turning into a hot air balloon.
* **Progress**: Appears in episode 17. It was a black submarine that used a radioactive substance called demon water for fuel, developed by the Steam Navy when Night Phantom stole it. Powers include swimming and three torpedo launchers in the bow.
* **Narutaki's Submarine**: Appears in episode 17. It was a yellow submarine used by Narutaki to chase the Progress in Steam City's river only to be destroyed. Powers include swimming, dual claw arms, twin torpedo launchers, twin mine dispensers in each wing, and a frontal searchlight.
* **Stolen Train**: Appears in episode 19. it was a black steam train stolen by Crimson Scorpion to return the sword of a bronze archangel statue and to carry Seagull Megamaton.
* **Ling Ling's Car**: Appears in episodes 19 and 23. It was a white car used by Ling Ling that possessed twin jet boosters in the rear.
* **Decoy Plane**: Appears in episodes 21 and 25. It was a white plane modeled after Leonardo Da Vinci designs. It was first used by Lang Lang to distract the police and Narutaki and later rebuilt and piloted by Le Bled to save Narutaki from Night Phantom. Powers include flight and twin machine guns on the nose.

## Armored Suits

* **Steam King**: Appears in episode 14. Powers include six exhaust pipes in the back, a machine gun for each right ringer, and emitting electric shocks.
* **Justice**: Appears in episode 20. Powers include retractable claw in the right hand that also emits hot steam and fires a grenade launcher, a smoke bomb, and setting up trap bombs.