ExoTech Industries Aldebaran II, Block 17

(10% in the promoted mecha challenge, and the first mech I've won a badge for!)

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The ExoTech Industries Aldebaran II returns to the agility-based mech design ExoTech used before its Polaris went gangbusters and became ETI's premier mech line. The Aldebaran II excels at swordsmanship, unlike its predecessor. Its melee algorithms have been fine-tuned with petabytes of sword fighting videos and motion capture data.

Unfortunately for ETI, the Aldebaran II is plagued by the same strange rumors as the original. Its designer, Rohan Sharma, was present at the 2145 New India terrorist attack on Mars, in which over 600 people died. Since then he has had nightmares in which he is visited by the vengeful souls of the attack's victims, repeating a single word - grief. An Aldebaran II he was working on afterward supposedly began repeating "grief" out of nowhere; a system reset only partly fixed this. ETI has denied these rumors.