So, you say "gundam or a mecha or a super robot" basically all mean the same thing to you. I wanted to ask a little bit more about what that means to you in terms of theme and power.

Like, contained in the realm of "super robots" has stuff like "My super robot is the manifestation of my fighting spirit, and I can smash two galaxies together to make a new big bang to explosively birth a universe at you as a beam weapon" and in mecha there's also stuff like "this is basically a powered exoskeleton to allow you to lift heavier stuff, most practical of which is a nice gun that shoots bullets".

These demonstrate two scales of "Mechs the cool visual choice, but they basically run on magic." to "What if Mechs were a weapon of war? How would they work? What would be practical?", aka, "Hard Sci-Fi vs Soft Sci-Fi" as well as "How big and powerful and crazy are these supposed to be" of "Small Scale vs Big Scale". Those are not tied together as you can have Hard Sci-Fi that is powerful with supercomputers predicting the future or Magical Mecha that run out of power if you try and move too much too fast, but like, I'd like to know what you have in mind as far as these two scales go. Do you have a mech in mind for yourself that you could use as an example?

You seem to have mentioned some sort of VR style, but I'm curious, as you could totally make a hard sci-fi small scale tactical VR world, or a soft sci-fi explosive extravaganza VR world for your Mecha battles.  

[@Quasi]