The cruel and calculating art of warfare has advanced once more. Drones and missiles that once ruled the battlefield are being swatted away by humanoid machines standing four stories tall. Advances in technology have brought these machines and their pilots into the spotlight. Countries hope to cut costs by having a miracle of invention replace their standing armies. While organizations, both unsavory and less so, hope to use these weapons to shake up the status quo. The future is uncertain and yet historic steps are taken each day. The stars of this new show are the pilots themselves. Will these pilots end up the authors of their own fate, or used as bloody steppingstones for their leash holders? Or, against all odds, will something good come of all this madness? [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]