/m/ Writes threadtalk about your gundam au, your kamen rider oc, the sentai series you dream of, or anything /m/ you write or have ideas for
i like that gundam, it looks like it can take a punch
>>23435693SecondedWould like to see more of swole midge kidney puncher Gundam
>>23436447there's this rx-78 by the same artist
>>23436447and a zaku-like ms by the same artist
>>23434784For as much as I like OCs, I've never set down nd thought about a Gundam story. I think I got it out of my system back in the old /m/sv days.
>>23438512The closest I've gotten is coming up with an idea for the Federation driving Zeon out of the Southern US, mostly as an excuse to have fights in the Louisiana bayous and have the Zeeks surrender at Appomatox Courthouse. Because I'm a fucking hack.
>>23437395>>23437398Nice
>>23438541Tell me more about Federation amphibious mobile suits, anons. They'll need them in the swamp
>>23438894Basically I got the idea because the Gundam Local Type is an amphibious MS and I have a kit I snapped together years ago that looks like shit, so I thought making a diorama out of it fighting the Zaku I Sniper I have. But I think it'd also be a good excuse to have Aqua GMs and GM Sloeps show up as well. Then you could have more standard GMs that just have their joins water sealed like pic related to operate in the shallower water in deltas and bayous. So it'd be a mix of purpose made amphibious MS with field modified GMs.
>>23438918Who's the MC and who's the main rival? I'm intrigued.
>>23434784>The bad Life steals souls from the good Death using an awful power called Talking>Death sends his minions, the Masters of Death, to destroy the incarceration Life forces upon souls called flesh>Everyone is thankful upon dying knowing they are free from curses such as breathing and eating>Life is pissed at Death that she can't yamner on about whatever>Heavy emphasis on action and destruction, how freedom transcends entrapment>Probably something about robots idunno>Ends with everyone celebrating that they are free from Life>No woke shit
>>23438939No characters sadly, right now it's more of a concept than anything. I do want your usual rival pilot thing between the Gundam's pilot and a Zeon ace, but I can't decide what a good suit for him would be. Maybe a Gelgoog Ground Type or something. I did however have another idea: the Gundam pilot is a redd herring MC who dies in a mutual kill with the Zaku Sniper during a battle on the Mississippi River. Either way it'd be just as much about the commanders of the respective units fighting each other, I like that idea. This would be set in period between Zeon being driven off Earth and their official surrender, the Zeeks are stragglers and the Feddies are a thrown together Autonomous Corps to try and drive the remnants to surrender.
>>23434784I remember wanting some kind of cross between G-Saviour and Space Mutiny. Just a deep space colonial expedition with o'neill colonies and low budget cgi mobile suits.
>>23434784I've still got a Gundam AU I've had kicking around in my head for years and I develop a little bit internally every once in a while. The basic premise was an Earth-obsessed cult called Gaiabound attaining control of the Earth-based government and through false-flag operations sparked a rebellion in the space colonies, all to eradicate them and force all human life to return to and permanently stay on Earth in their belief that human souls are born from and must remain tied to the planet.One of the survivors of this war, Kuzey Ferris, accidentally discovered the truth at the time as just a young boy, and along with the few friends on his colony that survived swore they'd get vengeance. He grew up into a lone assassin trying to eradicate the cult's leadership while his friends went their separate ways - one become a billionaire Zaibatsu head secretly funding a new rebellion among former Spacenoids with the aid of a mysterious masked pilot, one joined the crew of the ship who saved their lives, and whose captain is trying to expose the cult's corruption, and another became an ace pilot in the Earth forces' ranks to try and spark change from within.Kuzey gets recruited by a woman named Melissa, running a terrorist cell called Newtype, with the goal of destroying Gaiabound, and helps him steal one of 13 experimental new Mobile Suits called Gundams - a skirmisher type dubbed the Yeoman suited to his style. But things change when Kuzey finds a young girl living alone out in a ruined colony with strange telepathic abilities, and he's forced to care for her as the war ramps up. He soon begins to suspect Melissa is like him, consumed by revenge and is after the destruction of the Earth itself.I could easily write thirty more posts outlining all the characters, MS, and subplots, but the basic gist from there is Kuzey weighing his own hatred and need for closure versus the well-being of this child, and what she represents.
You guys have no idea. Over 5,000 pages of madness and counting. In fact if my latest /m/-heavy draft pans out it'll be even bigger.
I have lots of loose ideas for a super sentai, something between hibiki's first half and the whole kiva past/present timelines. a story about growing up under your family's expectations and comparison to parents and older siblings
>>23434784> first world contries need a cheaper food source> start genetically engineering new animals> replace current stock animals in food industry> everything is alright> some new virus sweeps countries and infects animals and they mutate > they get angery and aggressive grow new traits> they escape into wild,get killed and infect local animals> the infected animals breed and mutate> mutated offspring are an invasive species that replace old> some get really really big and eat peopledecades goesyou are here> you work for a extermination company and handles these mutated animals that are destorying local eco systems and killing people
>>23434784Short series, gundam but it's Zulu. Feddy base gets cut off and encircled by zeon who wants to capture it. Supplies are limited and suits have to be field repaired with what they can. Titular gundam gets taken out in a surprise twist early on and spends most of the show as a wreck in no mans land, feddies have to push out to salvage it and other downed MS when spare parts run critically low, gets rebuilt as a frankenstein with GM and zaku components for the final fight.
Been tossing around an idea in my head of a post oyw story focused around a federation coast guard unit off in the gulf of mexico using a mix of feddie stuff and captured zeon aquatic suits. With the main threat being some zeon remnants rolling around in some subs with both old aquatic suits and hasty conversions of normally ground use units into underwater mobile units. Like using a zaku 1 as a worker grunt to tap into resources or pop up to the surface and threaten locals to give up their food.
>>23434784Got an idea for an IBO-verse fic. The MC is Theo Manus, formerly a Gjallerhorn member who was discharged after a mission into a cryovault on Mars went horribly. Think "Experimental unit stolen, two other pilots in the team dead" horrible. Probably set it in the timeskip for IBO, so Io frames can show up, among others.A lot of it will be trying to track down the missing experimental unit, giving the MC a Gerail or Graze based frame from some spacer contacts to start. Maybe eventually get him into a custom unit so finicky it gets a nickname about needing the pilot to fit the machine, like a glass slipper.
Whenever I use a real-world location things slow to a crawl because I map out almost every action in Google Maps. Hyper-realistic but extremely time consuming, like weeks or even months per scene kind of time.
>>23434784>It's UC 108>20 years after the Pezun rebellion, many of the technical files (save for stuff like ALICE's AI systems) and MS designs used during the event were declassified, with various independant groups and frontier Sides adopting those designs and used suits for their defense.Our main cast are a mercenary outfit, Reticule Precision Services, who's recently made it big with the fallout of the Mafty incident as security specialists and counter-terrorism operatives for hire.The plot would be something like a police procedural, with the cast tracking down the current episode's terrorist cell and taking them down, with an overarching plot showing that a Zanscare (or Jovian, considering Crossbone) underground group is agitating all these extremist groups (which go from crackpot apocalypse cults to extreme Spacenoid supremacists that make even Gihren sound reasonable and sane by comparison) into action, with the final episode hinting very strongly at F91.>Our main characters would be a brother-sister duo, piloting the MSA-0011X Sub-S Gundam, a "declassified" model of the original S, with most of the AI technology omitted and its functions replaced with a Weapons Systems Officer who runs the more exquisite gear, like the INCOMs. Also, this results in it having weaker performance, since there is now super advanced combat AI wouldn't be regulating the suit's various systems, and for ease of production, the Core Block system was omitted.>Highlights would include an infiltration of Frontier IV, where they'd face off against a group who'd act as the Crossbone Vanguard's Brownshirts, a very tense standoff against a Federation patrol over a reported sighting of one of the missing Unicorns, and a far-flung deployment in Jupiter where they're hired by a then-young Crux Dogatie to uncover rumours of Jupiter Fleet ships going missing after leaving for the Earth Sphere
>>23434784I'm writing a grimdark sci-fi fantasy story inspired by Gundam, Getter Robo, and Berserk. It is set in an alternate Gundam universe and explores a fractured Type 2 civilization torn apart by war.
>>23434784>>23437395>>23437398Is this fetish art
Still working on my endless fanfic multiverse, the inimitable Doing-Things. Here's some DT series teaser content for shits and giggles. For example, each individual Doing-Things series has a fun synopsis:>DTH>Tom Clancy's La Blue Girl StrikerS Destiny: Rogue Spear>DTHE>Tom Clancy's Allison & Lillia Flashback 2012: Lelouch Of The Galactic Heroes New Testament>DTHNG>Tom Clancy's Warhammer 40,000 Only: 4chan /tg/ Edition>DTHW (pre-Movie The 1st)>Tom Clancy's Sliders SG-1 GTS: Mezzo Overfiend of All Fears Edition>DTHW (Movie The 1st and onwards)>Tom Clancy's Red Storm Dynamite 7 Total Eclipse: Front Innocent of DarknessSo yeah, Doing-Things is the absolutely bonkers fuck child of /a/, /d/, /k/, /m/, /tg/, and a little bit of everything else. I can post more teaser stuff if anyone wants.
>>23434784I'd like to make a comic about sentient mechs, but I haven't come up with a solid idea yet. I'm considering just making it an episodic thing about a mechanic who repairs various mechs, but I don't know enough about (real) machines to come up with scenarios that make sense.Other ideas I've considered:>The same mechanic from the previous idea is conscripted to fight aliens or space ghosts or some shit, and he ends up piloting a repair-mech (a mobile repair shop or a field medic for other mechs, depending on how you look at it). >A prodigy pilot dies in her mech. Afterwards, the mech doesn't function for any other pilot (because her spirit is possessing it) except her civilian acquaintance, who is pressured into becoming the mech's new pilot because replacing the mech isn't an option (too expensive, one of a kind materials, or something). The dead girl (hopeless autist) is obsessed with the acquaintance (who was the only one patient enough to tolerate her) despite having barely known her. Her transformation into a machine is a metaphor for her disconnection from humanity.>Two robot soldiers who were created together, and were once best friends, end up on opposite sides of a war, one leading a robot army that seeks to cleanse the Earth of humanity, and the other trying to protect the remnants of humanity. The former thinks the latter is brainwashed by humans and is determined to "save" her. >An unwilling mech pilot is allowed to choose his own mech and, out of spite, chooses one that's old, obsolete, and needs extensive repairs before it'll be able to function. Once it's repaired, he finds out the mech has developed a consciousness over its long existence. It deactivated itself on purpose so it wouldn't be used as a weapon anymore, because the war it was created to fight, which has gone on for over 100 years now, is pointless from its perspective. The mech and the pilot share this view, so they try to end the war (somehow).
I always thought a retelling of 'Gundam SEED' from Flay's POV would be interesting.
>>23434784I've had several ideas I've never fully fleshed out.A couple UC ideas like a Ball ace's record of the OYW, late 0083/early 0084 Titans chasing zeek mercenaries.And a couple of my own settings, one with small mechs and a constantly changing protagonist. Originally it was a mech warrior in a penal legion but as of now it's an experimental test pilot in the backdrop of the space wars of the diodachi. And I've actually thought a few times about how things would be if this setting were actually a gundam AU. The other one is much less high concept, cyberpunk power armor police.
>>23454196>late 0083/early 0084 Titans chasing zeek mercenariesI need more of this
>>23439726give us some details>>23440143what kinds of mecha and evil organizations can I expect to encounter? Is there a group of Humans wanting to become monsters/kaiju?>>23444032oof, though I would encourage using Maps for people who have mecha/kaiju battles>>23446513always post more>>23452387>worrying about real machinesthat stuff is for the animators to worry about. What does matter is how it pushes a story forward.For example, for your episodic idea, the Mechs come in with damage that reflects the battlefield. Minor chips and damage to limbs in regular battlefields, coming back in pieces after being hit by the Protagonist BEAM©, adding jet packs and scuba gear when the real extraterrestrials reveal themselves.I do like the Two Robot soldiers on opposite sides is cool
>pallas and other large asteroids collide with earth during the orbital liberation war>earth's atmosphere and hydrosphere are stripped, and the debris kicked up decimates earth orbit>29 years have passed since then>it's liberation calendar 29, and the orbitals' life support is failing
I wrote out a tease for my story, but I got cold feet about posting. Not that my ideas are all that original, but it feels right to keep it on the DL for now. Suffice to say, I *am* writing.
>>23454463Give it to us in haiku form >>23454273Color me interested More stories need some kind of countdown mechanics, forcing the characters and the writer to always move forward.
>>23454492>Give it to us in haiku formoh fuck. I tried, and I can't.this is actually making me think about the point of my storyI can say it's a space opera adventure that examines the nature of fun and fearhow the two interrelate
>>23454237Oh you want more Doing-Things? Shit dude, I'm posting my series synopses copypasta for it in /tg/ right now, lemme see if I can get it posted here too. Also the other posts about 5k pages and Google Maps were me too, the latter being a bit of why my later DT drafts are sometimes slow to release.Doing-Things is always a trip. Hold on.
>>23454619You know what, I'm just gonna crosspost a link to /tg/ where I've already posted a lot of this stuff already. Hang on, lemme see if I still remember how to do this.>>>/tg/96344197>>>/tg/96344240
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Fuck it. I have writer's block. Still want to be vague, but I need to grease the brain wheels.Writing a story, which will be mostly SoL style for the first halfWill be SoL so I can take time to explore and describe real logistics of space travel. Story will also have an ecological sci-fi angle so I can get into ecology/environmentalist topics I care about. Second half of the story, everything gets turned on its head. Ayys attack.Three of the main characters turn out to have alternate identities - not who or what they say they are. Gets into some grotesque sci-fi horror, and ends with that style of half-luck optimism where you're not sure if the good guys really won or if the bad guys didSorry to be so goddamn light on the details. There's basically nothing I can say that doesn't feel like I'm tipping my hand. Have a 9000 word outline of the full plot. All that's left is to write the thing.Sat down the last two days trying to write the prologue sequence and could barely get anything on the page
>>23434784>talk about your gundam auOYW without Newtypes and MC's, who would really win and what would GM's look like without the Gundam's influence, surely the Federation defeated a few Zaku's with tanks and air strikes, then reverse engineered the Zaku to make their own version and fight back against ZeonHow would it turn out, would the Federation be too late in engineering their own MS?
>>23457691Part of that already exists in bits and pieces all over the UC>what would GM's look like without the Gundam's influenceGM is just whatever the Federation ends up developing as their best option for a budget MS. If there isn't a Gundam to base it on, then it'll be a Guncannon. If there's no Project V then it sort of defeats the purpose, they wouldn't have any mobile suits if they weren't going to try to develop mobile suits.>surely the Federation defeated a few Zaku's with tanks and air strikes, then reverse engineered the Zaku to make their own version and fight back against ZeonYeah, that's the Zanny. And the Dahle comes from similar situation, a mishmash of salvaged MS parts and put into service against their former owners.>How would it turn out, would the Federation be too late in engineering their own MS?Depending on the UC lore you subscribe to, the development timeline is already really compressed. The GM itself is probably mostly developed during the OYW, since the Gundam itself was still undergoing testing in September. If there was no Gundam, then they base it off the Guncannon or another available MS.IIRC Zeon develops the Dom in maybe 3 to 4 months after landing on Earth, and Zeon originally intended on winning the war entirely in space without needing to invade and probably didn't prepare many land (or marine) based MS in advance. So the Dom seems to represent how long it took for new development that was optimized for Earth combat.I'm assuming the GM started development partway through the Gundam's own development, so while they don't need to finish the Gundam to start work on the GM, there's going to be some rough overlap. And because Zeon has a head start on MS development over the Feds who are still learning, maybe the GM had 6 months of development?
>>23457633That seems like a neat story, good luck with it anon!
>>23434784>The Earth is fucked with pollution and everyone agree to migrate into space so that Earth can heal itself >Century later, Earth looks like it finally healed >Various of space colonies are now in conflict on wanting to control the Earth sphere
>>23457851Why would people care enough to fight for the Earth a century in? Surely, they have bigger fish to exploit.
>>23459647it's livable space that you don't have to build or terraform, there's also still plenty of resources to mine, farmland for crops, air to breathe. it's also the simplest option since it's right next to us. the only way for earth to be worthless from a monetary point of view is if FTL becomes a thing, but even then you would have to spend untold amounts of money to fund expeditions to other planets, survey them to figure out if it's habitable, if the local flora and fauna are usable\edible\tolerable\manageable\etc, if the weather is survivable, where all the mineral deposits are, it could take years or decadeseven then earth still has the advantage of being largely mapped and explored to a degree that it's possible to live there comfortable and easily
>>23452387>>23454237Seconding don't worry about the technology too much. That being said I am a robotics tech and will sperg about them for you. Some analogies: Oil is akin to blood. Actuators are muscles. Frame is bone. Fuses....uhh, well the wiring is the nervous system, but all electronics are going to have circuit protection either as breakers or fuses. Machines overheat just like people. Coolant is sweat. You know how a battery works, but considered that a damaged battery cell could mean running at reduced power and/or having a much lower capacity, basically how long the unit can run. You could add dramatic tension by having a hydraulic leak, basically adding a time limit to the fight as the protagonist's machine gets weaker and weaker before becoming immobile entirely, either on just one section or the whole thing. Bypassing damaged circuit protection can be done with scrap metal or scrap wire, but it's a gamble. The circuit will still work, but should you short or overdraw current, that piece is lighting on fire or melting or both. Coolant loss/pump failure can be similar to hydraulic loss. This can be mitigated if the environment is frigid enough to provide air cooling, or if you can transfer heat through something else like a liquid being sprayed onto the machine. There are rotational position sensors called encoders that could be used in joints. Have one of those go on the fritz and you won't be able to trust what position a joint is in. This would be akin to having a limb fall very asleep/go totally numb but still be usable. A consequence of this could be over travelling the joint, such as winning a grapple at the cost of an elbow snapping off or bending the arm frame and getting stuck. Also consider pilot accommodations like insulation from the power source's heat. An internal fire might ruin the insulation. Even if your character fixed the essential control wiring, now the cockpit might be inhospitable. Character limit reached.
>>23460142>>23452387Merging two of your ideas: the mechanic has been pulling parts from the deactivated sentient antique as new ones are on backorder. They're generic internal parts like circuit breakers, the generator, some control computers, encoders and sensors etc. Due to The Catalyst of the story, he must escape his workplace and has to jerry-rig the running gear from a crippled modern mech into the antique. He can barely get it running, for example he doesn't have enough circuit breakers to power the left arm, it's low on coolant so the generator is governed to 1/3 capacity, blah blah, and that would allow for physical growth/prowess to coincide with character growth as your story progresses. If you want to be REALLY sappy towards the climax, have a prominent side character wearing a religious symbol or something made of metal. When preparing for your final encounter, with absolutely zero spare materials otherwise on hand, somehow the necklace/ring/whatever can be shoved into the missing fuse slot, so now you're almost literally running on hopes and dreams.
>>23460146>>23460142For your short stories: Most technicians think most machine operators (clients) are retarded. Simple calls include resetting emergency-stop buttons, teaching them how to work the menus, or flipping a switch they bumped and didn't notice. Occasionally a veteran operator can show the technician a thing or two, or a unique quirk of their machine, such as having to set the language to french every startup to get it to clear its self-test for some godforsaken reason. This will vex the mechanic. Creativity is often required, and safety/common sense sometimes has to be ignored to get something unstuck or get to somewhere hard to reach. Have some inspiration. These will mostly be short stories about characters, not the problem your protagonist is actually solving, but these will let him demonstrate his knowledge.
>>23434784I've been having a niggling idea for something related to Build Divers, with a bunch of ridiculous custom MS or MA for protagonists/side characters/antagonist. Not sure what plot route to take with it, but I'm half considering just dropping the characters for it into the 30MM setting, what little of it there is
>>23434784>Super Sentai Redemptionger>basically Sentai consist of criminals who want to reform
>>23439887I miss having people to talk about sentai ideas and shit
>>23454492Not him, but this sounds like a fun challenge and I want to tryBrown busty tomboyRides Ghost Rider LazengannKinniku Buster
>>23434784Been thinking about some SRW type of fanfic lately
>>23434784OYW but Zeon Zum Deikun was never assassinated, titans are the antagonists, bask om is the main villain
>>23460142>>23460146>>23460155Your mind is so beautiful, Anon.I'm now even more convinced that I have to know things about robotics to write the story I want to write, because this kind of stuff is exactly what it needs.
>>23434784Got some more art for the MS in the Alt-UC game I'm running. The Zeon Civil War will be a fun, fun deal...once we actually get past Zeta and into ZZ when Haman will drop the facade of tolerating the current Earthsphere Zeon occupying Side 3.
>>23470712Another, being the mainstay MS used by said Earthsphere Zeon. Hizacks were captured en masse, got converted into something worth actually piloting with beam rifles made using old MMP-80s.
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I haven't written anything in over a decade. Every time I tell myself I am going to write I convince myself whatever I am going to put down is absolute cringe and not worth anyone's time. How do I get over this self sabotage? Just start writing even if I dont publish it anywhere?
>>23477982Just fucking do it and post it here, WE'LL tell you whether it's cringe or not, and if it is, what you can do to make it better
>>23477982>>23478022Do what I did, find a small group of friends who are willing to read your stuff, maybe get proofreading and feedback. Also, be willing to experiment basically all the time. Create a whole fictional universe/character group for that sole purpose and see where it goes from there. That's how I created Doing-Things, after all.
I bought a bunch of gunpla to make a custom zaku (a totally original and unheard of idea) and started imagining scenarios for such a zaku to have existed in the series in the gquuuuuux timeline as a clan battle participant
>>23434784An alternate timeline of where the war between Federation and Zeon continues until the years of UC 0179 thus called it One-Hundred Years War
>>23481205Exactly how I'm doing things, though also merging it with an online RP game.
>>23434784I once had an idea for Kamen Rider, the motif of the series is mythology/divinities:>protagonist's motif is Fenrir.>Secondary Suzaku/Phoenix rider is either a girl or a boy, couldn't decide, can control fire and shoot flaming knives that resembles feathers. >Tertiary is a female rider, Susanoo and Orochi inspired, and has a cool katana.Other riders include: >Archer inspired by Artemis and Princess Kaguya, wields a sharp bow that shoots magical arrows and can also be separated as twin blades>Spear wielding rider based on chinese god Longwang and Lu Bu, can control water and rain>Street fighter rider based on Thor and his goats with cool gauntlets that reminds of Mjolnir, can imbue his punches and kicks with lightningAnd a few others, but I could not think of a story besides a fucking Battle Royale.
>almost 30 years cooking ideas for mecha stories>no drawing skill, decide to write>no more than 10 pages or so of worldbuilding and spare notes in 15 yearsAt least I can hope none of that was good enough to begin with so it's probably better this way
>>23484868If you're too lazy to write it yourself, get a ghostwriter.
I've had an /m/ universe which I started planning years ago, originally as a Gundam AU, which completely changed into its own thing. I've gone a step further than a lot of people here and I actually have full novels written, though I really should get someone to proof-read them eventually. I also really want to find someone willing to design the robots with me, as that's something I cannot do by myself. A hundred years into the future, a global conflict has been raging for decades between the United Nations and a socialist state formed from a union between Russia and China. Obviously this war is fought with mecha, and while it is a combined-arms setting featuring foot soldiers and tanks with mecha, the mecha are the dominant combat unit, despite being unable to fly until much later in the timeline. They're transported around by giant wheeled battleships. The protagonist is an angsty teenager who winds up discovering that they have a special ability to avoid certain death when facing off against the enemy's stolen prototype mecha. I actually originally came up with the series by trying to come up with a realistic mecha control scheme that allows full control of the arms, fingers, legs, etc. rather than just handwaving that the computer does most of it. When I came up with that I decided to recycle story beats from the Gundam AU and remake it into a new setting.
>>23483146From a certain point of view this is already sort of canon. The 100-year war IRL between England and France wasn't literally 100 years of fighting and certain parts of the Zeon government never officially gave up/signed treaties up until the end of Zeon as a political project. Axis and even Mars Zeon are fairly legitimate-looking continuity states from a historical perspective so we might imagine that in UC 400 when this is all getting taught in school on a colony somewhere that the whole period is just referred to as the Zeon war(s).
>>23440143That’s literally just Sin and Punishment 1 with the Armed Volunteers as the focus characters
brainstormed some stuff with a buddy at work today, kinda sounded interesting after we put some thought in. i'm a sucker for the wasteland/cowboy/desert aesthetic, so i was thinking a wandering lawman in a gundam would be cool. that idea turned into him being a bioengineered savior kept in deep freeze until a post-cataclysm earth was ready to be revitalized for their return. sort of a mashup of gundam X, xabungle, an turn A with a little bit of fallout main character. it would probably end with a war bad reveal that the space race has been dead for ages anyway so it was all for naught or something like that. i wanted the earth mechs to be walker gear-like heaps of shit, like trucks with legs, while the MC's gundam (and a few others) would be more futuristic and capable of large-scale reformation. maybe nanomachines or something, a mass water purification system, something that could re-freeze polar ice caps, shit like that. that all sounded kind of deep too so that might be mostly a late-series reveal while most of the beginning is cool cowboy robot shootouts and robots with ponchos on and shit like that. probably some MC amnesia in there too so he can just be a cool wandering lawman for a while
