No, it's explicitly dieselpunk.

they are ::: meat mecha, just like in attack on titan :::

Quick rec for an amazingly good book I read recently. 'Moonstorm' by Yoon Ha Lee. It's a futuristic sci-fantasy where young 'Lancer pilots' fight on behalf of a paternistic empire, in a setting where the gravity of colonized worlds and the very laws of physics are governed by the laws of society and the people that comprise them. This phenomenon is so prevalent that rebel factions live out in a segment of space called 'the Moonstorm', where anarchistic and communal values lead to an erratic and unpredictable (but undeniably beautiful and free) cosmos. In the Empire, authoritative dogma and rigid social hierarchy leads to 'normal' (to us) gravity and 'predictable' (to us) celestial body movements. Gravity is a very heavy-handed metaphor for unity and national identity in the story, and it's brilliant in exploring the divide between an oppressive imperial autocracy and an anarchistic society with just the raw backdrop. Also, techno-psychic sapient mechs and massive freaking gravity-powered railguns.

Oh you’re right

40k This mech is a church.

Combustion engines are used in industrialmechs. Hypothetically they could be diesel guzzling.

Mine was... "There's still room in hell for your sorry carcass" "Look on the bright side kid... You get to keep all the money."

!beetlejuicing@lemmy.zip?

Unless you count Power Rangers, Gundam Wing was my primary mecha media as a kid. Loved that shit!

> where the gravity of colonized worlds and the very laws of physics are governed by the laws of society and the people that comprise them. Yoon Ha Lee really likes this sort of thing. Is this set in the same universe as the Machineries of Empire books?

A really dumb mecha book is NecroTek by Jonathan Maberry. Because we needed undead giant robot pilots fighting the elder gods of the Cthulu mythos. Ok, that actually sounds awesome, but the writing is fun but meh. The elder gods don't actually show up, they just send armies of shoggoths piloting transforming combiner mechs.

And this cathedral is a warp capable starship

Hey nice to see Titanfall getting some love. I personally really enjoyed Titanfall 3.

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

Does 40k actually have machs? I see no reason why they wouldn't, I've just never heard of them. But then my only engagement with the setting has been the *Rogue Trader* crpg and the occasional video.

Maybe. I'm not sure, I haven't read those yet.

Titanfall 3 was definitely my favourite game of 2023, it should've gotten GOTY.

I'm sure one of Horus's mechs is just a weaponized rumor.

I grew up with Robotech, which was just a 4chan Memelord's reinterpretation of various low budget animes. Why yes, I am a Horus fan, why do you ask?

The [Imperial Knight Houses](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Imperial_Knight), [Chaos Knight Houses](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chaos_Knight), and [Titans](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Titan) for your stereotypical mechs. One could argue that [Tau Battlesuits](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Battlesuit), [Space Marine Dreadnaughts](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Dreadnought), [Chaos Dreadnaughts](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chaos_Dreadnought), [Hellbrutes](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Helbrute), [Killa Kans](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Killa_Kan), [Deff Dreads](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Deff_Dread), [Wraith Lords](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Wraithlord), [Paragon Warsuits](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Paragon_Warsuit), [Mortifiers](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Mortifier), and [Penitent Engines](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Penitent_Engine) are just smaller mechs.