Star Knight Lore: Robeasts Are Ancient

A while back I made a joke:

Why do you have giant robots?

Giants.

If it worked for the greats--Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Macross--then it works for me.

I don't make a big deal of it in Reavers of the Void, but the past of Galactic Christendom involves wars against giants- and those giants were not stupid brutes with clubs and spears. These giants were the first post-Cataclysm resurgence of the Nephilim, arising in various places initially as false saviors against the global problem of the undead hordes.

The Real Robot end of mecha development went pretty much in a believable fashion: Powered Armor kept scaling up as technologies improved, exploding when the Church provided the information preserve from the pre-Cataclysm era that made such explosive growth possible, as the monsters kept getting bigger. Eventually as the giants became truly supernatural in stature and power, the Church would provide the first Super Robots and the Crusades would begin.

So we're talking anti-zombie armors becoming anti-giant robots over time.

This means that biological warfare and augmentation is a thing, and so are psuedo-biological technologies. I don't have them on deck for the next two books, but in the background that narrative structure will be erected, building on what I put down so far, and there's some big plot twists coming down the road but for now I'll tease it with this: the sins of the Watchers included genetic manipulation, their creations were not all destroyed in the Great Flood, and not all of them are just giant-sized men.

In short, the "Robeast" archtype of Super Robot shows is not that far-fetched or recent.