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Yeah, i also get depressed thinking about how long it took for Rome to fall.
Are you counting the Eastern Empire? There's an argument that our view of “Rome” is obnoxiously Eurocentric. The economic lifeblood of the Empire was mostly outside of Western Europe, and lots of wheat from Egypt.
No shit, I came here to point this out. Like, wtf does the WESTERN Roman Empire part really have to do with anything? I want to what kinds of Mechas the Byzantines and even various Caliphates could have eventually churned-out if their reigns hadn't ended as much as I begin to give a damn what various stages of Rome, specifically, would have done.
Same goes for Egypt, Ghenghis Khan and all of the African empires that time(and disinterest) has ground to presently un-known dust and rumor. Even random Greek city-states' offerings would at least be unique and not guided by OOP's/our misunderstandings about Rome's "super-marbled"/black-and-white-and-gold-and-red aesthetics.
Fuckers had "machine guns" in their day ... the miracle is that anyone else got a chance to show us something cool in the times since.
Sutton Hoo mecha made with Ulfbehrt steel. Unstoppable.