Quote:Valles wrote:Not sure how the telekinesis works, but I'm imagining the *all the knobs* hidden- either behind otherwise-unremarkable panels, or under the normal fighter-mode controls.
This also implies that the inside of a F1942 mecha is banks and banks of humming machinery - I've never seen so many knobs, which I find highly apropos to the dieselpunk side of the genre.
Why? Loose lips sink ships, y'know- better to make it look like just another fighter model, at first, then wave a "this is a transforming mecha" sign in front of the Hun's nose. With hidden controls, you could even have a normal piloting it in Fighter mode without a) jostling a mecha control accidentally, or b) realizing that they were in a mecha at all.
Of course, this would only be a thing at first. Once both sides are expecting mecha, there'd be no point.
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