It was the convergence of all these factors that gradually brought the Titan project ultimately named the Punisher to completion, producing an STC master template for an autonomous bipedal weapons platform designated the Castigor-class. Beyond the Castigor-class, there was also a design proposal for a slightly larger model called the Castigoth-class, but the Federation collapsed completely before its master template could be finalized.
One hundred and sixty meters tall, humanoid in design, with two legs and two powered arms, its entire body was covered in thick composite armor, reinforced with double neutron armor. It had four Quantum Cores, multiple Gravity Regulation Devices, and weighed nearly forty-five thousand tonnes.
That was almost twice the weight of an Emperor-class Titan.
Compared with the Imperium's Emperor Titans, which carried cathedrals on their backs and hunched over like moving mountains,
the Punisher Titan had none of those bizarre growths.
Its powered spine was thick and straight, its frame symmetrical and elegant.
It looked more like a gigantic Space Marine wearing Power Armour without a helmet or power pack.
The reason for its astonishing weight was also simple.
The Punisher Titan's numerous power cores supplied tremendous energy, while its thick neutron armor could withstand immense physical punishment. It also had the same close-fitting shield system as a Destroyer Robot, along with nearly twice as many hypermagnetic Electronic Muscle Bundles as an Emperor Titan.
It might have been difficult to imagine.
But agility was a design requirement for this gigantic, forty-five-thousand-tonne war machine.
The flips, leaps, and nimble evasions of Aeldari Titans were precisely what the Punisher Titan had been designed to achieve.
Only by keeping up with an opponent's movements could it fight more effectively.
Machine bodies were the bodies of the Men of Iron, while wraithbone Titans were bodies driven by Aeldari souls.
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