Coleopteron The Jadoon, Bane Of Space Pirates

Biblically speaking, the largest land monster was Behemoth and the largest sea monster was Leviathan.  The largest air monster is Ziz.  A mecha which I encountered in deep space, Coleopteron was fearfully spoken about in fevered tones by drunk superstitious space pirates.  He is not one of these three fabled Biblical destroyers though. He is (merely) an enormous 90 ton beetle which would feed on ships unfortunate enough to wander into the asteroid field he'd chosen to reside in over the ages as well as your occasional stray mecha.

On each uppermost arm he's got a Black Widow Laser, and his body is studded with a bank of 8 Res Lasers that are capped by a Duboce Laser and Trident Beam.  The middle arms house three Chem Throwers each.  Six Heat Cycler engines ensure a smooth ride. Missiles are the Achilles heel of Jadoon so he has a Thiokol Delta shield as some insurance against them.  Arctic Delta mitigates the ice vulnerability created by his missile shield and stacked pair of Advanced Alloys in the Chassis.  Trample is not going to ruin our day either as Coleopteron is also equipped with Reinforced Plating among his shielding.

My preferred method of communicating with him is through interface via a Neural Recalibrator helmet (much less migraine inducing than the buzzing that is heard when using an aural implant alone).  Coleopteron uses his three Sensor Arrays to do sweeps and gather stimulus information which we then analyze.

In addition to the two Advanced Alloys in the Chassis, Coleopteron also has a Magnetic Aura generator and a set of Trilerian Sprockets to keep him nimble.

The last mecha I'd needed to reach Adept status in Beast Mastery, this ancient Jadoon adds some serious firepower at decent speed to my arsenal.  Now, to see if I can get him and my Beast mecha to be able to get along...

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