Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Members/Iron Giants

The Iron Giants are an empire of Machines, with only 1 part of them remaining non-mechanical: the brain. They exist as brains floating in liquids that preserve them until the brain itself wears down. They live to be around 300 to 350 years old as brains, and reproduce before the age of 20 in order to continue the species.

The Iron Giants as a creature are rather simple. Called the Iggys, they are small primates with large eyes and no tail. They age swiftly, rarely living past 30 years, and so remove their brains and place them into their machines as soon as they have at least 3 children. They use tech to preserve and sustain the brain, as well as to hook it up to the machines they use.

Animal Bots
Animal Bots are the most generic of the Iron Giant bots. They use the naturally occuring forms of animals, which have evolved over millions of years, instead of trying to make something new. All the other bot-types have one of these inside of which the actual brain is located. They can fight, swim, fly, climb, and do almost anything else that the Iggys want. These are what most people see when talking to an Iron Giant.

Building Bots
Building Bots are sapient buildings attached to an Iggy brain. They can change their form and do pretty much anything they choose, even walk, but are planet bound. Weapons can be molded and attached for various things, and they exist solely to house the Iggy while they mature and reproduce.

Fighter
Fighter Bots are small, powerful Iron Giants, ranging from 10ft to 500ft in length. They use kinetic weaponry, photonic weaponry, and nukes on the large ones. Rail guns are common for them, though they have limited ammo if they do not land on a planet and restock.

Iron Giant
The most prestigious of the bots, the Iron Giants, are massive ships that average at 1 mile long, but can sometimes reach a full 8 miles in size. They use kinetic weaponry more so then anything else, but do have photonic weapons and nukes, as well as weather control systems. They are easily capable of interstellar flight, and are the only intergalactic ships of the Iron Giants.

Flowmetal Giant
The most difficult of the Bots to control, flowmetal is made of nanotech and flows like water, allowing it to take any form or shape, as well as allowing it to create and destroy thinks on contact. Very few can use this, as it takes absolute control.