Mechanomicon: Big Fighting Machine (BFM)

[Mech Technology]

This category encompasses all those Mechs with 90 to 100 tons. While technically the 105 ton Mechs are universally recognized as the top of the BFM, Mechanomicon has created for them the 'UFM' category (standing for Upper Fighting Mech).

Usually, a BFM Mech has a height above 9 meters, requiring the largest form of an icosahedral envelope rather than the tetrahedral envelope in a gateway.

The category name is said to have been assigned by the test pilots of the Jadoon, the first Mech belonging to this category, a crystal giant Mech of Forerunner technology, found on an anonymous planet during prospective mining activities by the Star Factories. The manufacturer soon began their study by reverse engineering and their subsequent production.

Apparently the exclamation of the test pilot was “What is this... Big Fucking Monster?”. The Engineer Team Director in charge of the project, quickly turned it into “Big Fighting Machine”. Despite the fix, many pilots and technicians like to keep using the original designation for BFM.

In the Mecha-warfare of the 34th century (3300s) there is not elite commander that were not leading an almost full BFM deploy in their squad.

JADOON

Release year: 3282
Tons: 90
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Most Esteemed Brotherhood of San Lorenzo (SoCP) / It is common belief that Star Factory produce this Mech, but in fact it is a creation of the Hermit Engineers.

ANTITHESIS

Release year: 3282
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Dr. Drake Novum
Manufacturer: Gothan Industrial - Oversight by the House of Aurelius (Hegemony)

IGNIS

Subcategory: Forerunner Mechs (aka Dinomechs)
Release year: 3285
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner Technology
Manufacturer: AlphCorp (Shogunate)

ASPIS

Subcategory: Forerunner Mechs (aka Dinomechs)
Release year: 3286
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner Technology
Manufacturer: House of Strategoi - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

REGIS

Subcategory: Forerunner Mechs (aka Dinomechs)
Release year: 3287
Tons: 90
Tech: Niode
Designer: Attributed to Forerunner Technology
Manufacturer: House of Aurelius - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

MAGNUS

Release year: 3290
Tons: 90
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Rowe Incorporated (Clarke Federation)

BOREAS

Release year: 3291
Tons: 95
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: AlphaCorp (Shogunate)

YALLAN

Release year: 3291
Tons: 95
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Most Esteemed Brotherhood of San Lorenzo (SoCP) / It is common belief that Star Factory produce this Mech, but in fact it is a creation of the Hermit Engineers.

ANUBIS

Release year: 3294
Tons: 95
Tech: Niode
Original designers: Otto von Bismarck & Dr. Drake Novum
Manufacturer: Gothan Industrial - Oversight by the House of Aurelius (Hegemony)

GLACCUS

Release year: 3296
Tons: 95
Tech: Crystal
Manufacturer: Schwarzbär Collective - Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

CAMERON

Release year: 3334
Tons: 95
Tech: Niode
Manufacturer: Star Factories (Illyrian Hegemony)

100 tons BFMs

At the release of the first 100 tons BFMs, the available gear was very poor as to make from the 100 toners really competitive Mechs, but with the course of time, this situation has drastically changed with the creation of extraordinary and optimized exclusive equipment modules to improve the structural capabilities and firepower. This situation repeated with the release of the 105 Tons UFMs, as the manufacturers started producing very poor equipment, turning it for most of the pilots a non viable Mech Class.