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The chart continues. Every mech related to the Marauder... Mark... VI? I think so. Up to 507 entries, including battle armor, aerospace, protomechs, and even a space station.

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Simplified guide:

This is not every mech to ever exist. Some simply don't have connections to any other designs, some aren't properly cited, and some simply haven't been updated according to new publications. (Such as the Sidewinder, which has been featured in Shrapnel, but not been updated on Sarna as of yet.) There are also many mechs that share a visual similarity to others but no tangible proof of connection - such as the Hector looking like an early Marauder. Such mechs were intentionally left out.

Some of the connections made are rather tenuous as is, and yes, somewhat arbitrary, in service of feeding my obsession with The Chart. (Such as the Trebuchet and Centurion being often deployed together, but not being specifically designed to do so.) Not all tech development lines are followed up either. (I can't for the life of me find which protomech came first.)

I will, as is my habit, promise this is the final iteration of the chart. I did get started on my complete timeline of the sphere, but didn't make it out of the first century before deciding it needed to be completely reformatted. I'll still insist the illustrated guide to history will come out...someday.

It started a bit crazy and just when you think you saw all it had to give, it gives you the "THIS ISN'T EVEN MY ULTIMATE FORM" bullshit and all honesty, the closer we get to 2021 the more I am convinced that...

Beatrice and her beau, Nicky Valentino 💕

a time-skip from here | @ofscarsandmobs

A lot can happen in two months.... and somehow- the Wheelers made it out. Joey’s hospital bills had taken a sizeable amount out of their savings- no surprise there- and his ribs had been broken in two places but neither break had punctured anything. “It was due to his ‘Joey’ luck” was all that the blonde said about the incident and his recovery. But that luck didn’t fill their coffers, and Serenity’s surgery was becoming nothing but a pipe dream. 

Joey crumpled up the electric bill in his hands and pinched his nose in exasperation. He was getting tired of all of this financial pressure, but what could he do? The guy was already working shifts at the diner and the repair shop, not like he could work a full 24/7. Sighing, he smooths out the bill and uses a magnet to stick it to the fridge. Next to it was the sleek card he’d received from that guy... 

Joey had said he’d give him a call when he had healed, but the entire situation felt sketchy. But at the same time, he could really use an ‘opportunity.’ Only the name of the company, Catacomb Security, and a phone number was on the card, and judging from that, it was probably a high-end bodyguard service or something- he hadn’t really found anything online. Could he really do that though, be a bodyguard? 

He unhooked the wall telephone and brought it to his ear, the annoying cord brushing against him as he raised his hand to dial the numbers. Joey hesitated. Serenity was in the other room, listening to music while reading a book, her fingers drifting over the surface of the pages. It was going to be a while before her eyesight was completely gone, but she was already preparing for it...

Joey grits his teeth, punching in the numbers. It was just a call, it wasn’t going to hurt anyone. Typical ringing noises echoed in his ear before the audio blipped, indicating the call had connected.

Are they real? Like for real. Are they real? I have yet to meet one, and I feel like they’re part of a conspiracy theory that someone joked about and then the joke went WAY too far. The trolls jumped on that opportunity.

Or maybe, they were told and paid to act stupidly to distract us from what’s for real going on. Flat Earthers are part of the bourgeoisie.

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