I wanted to build a mech. Not design one for a game or draw one for fun. Actually research what it would take to build one. So I did.
I TRIED TO DESIGN A REAL COMBAT MECH Here's Why We Need 100 More Years A love letter to the future that refuses to be built yet I wanted to build a mech. Not design one for a game or sketch one for fun. Actually research what it would physically take to build one — the power systems, the materials, the AI, the structure. I wanted to know where reality ends and science fiction begins. It started, like most things in my life, with Batman. Specifically the Batwing — that sleek, impossible aircraft that somehow feels real even though it shouldn't. Wayne Enterprises feels like an actual defence contractor. Every panel and thruster has internal logic. I wanted to find the line between that kind of grounded fictional engineering and what we can actually build today. So I spent weeks researching. Not sketching cool designs. Digging into materials science, fusion energy, bipedal locomotion, AI architecture, and aerospace engineering. I wanted to answer one question honestly: if someon...