A new enemy for the Malta group.

Just something that occured to me this afternoon while beating up a Kronos titan. The Zeus titans are made of two Hercules titans combined. The Kronos in turn uses the same model as the Zeus, just scaled up and grey. It has the same extra legs folded away on the back that the Zeus has, thus one can only assume that it too is made of two smaller titans combined together.

Why haven't we seen those ones? Seems like a cool thing to put in as a Malta EB. Alternately, if the events of the DA personal story mission which I won't spoil go ahead, perhaps they could be the boss of an incarnate trial? Two smaller bosses which combine into one when they hit 50% or some such. I think it'd be cool.

It's just two grey Hercules Combined, they can repeat this indefinitely

It's because re-colouring existing assets is quicker than making a whole new model. *shrug*

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I actually pointed this out to my brother, his theory is that Malta doesn't actually make a Kronos titan, they make two ENORMOUS Hercules titans and they combine them.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

I believe the suggestion is to add those "in-between" Titans, regardless of whether they've existed before or not.

You don't need any special lore justification, since the Titans are just robots that Malta built (unless there's an obscure plot twist buried deep in some forgotten story arc that says otherwise) - and you can always build more robots. (Just ask Dr. Wily and Dr. Robotnik)

The only backstory you need is "This robot is more powerful than Zeus Titans, but less expensive to manufacture than Kronos Titans". They could even say that they redesigned the Kronos to be a combination of these two robots, thus bringing lore in line with the model used, or vice-versa.

Make it an Elite Boss (since the Malta Group doesn't seem to have any EBs currently), and there you go. In-between robot made.

I"d be down for this. More robots to shoot down is a good thing.

Also... maybe don't make it able to combine, because not everybody is up to fighting a Kronos, just in case multiple ones show up. Granted, I could see the benefit in making them able to combine...

Sounds good...but what do we call it?

What I want to know is why Masterminds can't make their robots combine. it's normally a heroic thing after all.

@Thunder
Actually, Malta Titans are referred to as 'cyborgs' due to the fact that they run on the brains of 'convicted convicts', as evidenced in 'a titan called joe', Malta will often trump up charges on people they don't like to get these brains.

@Kristen
one person had a similar idea to this, they called it was a "Hyperion" class titan.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

I was going to go with Hades personally, but Hyperion works as well.

[quote]As it is, there is nothing in lore to suggest Malta has any 'in-between' stage Titans. The reason the Kronos looks the way it does is highly likely to be purely for metagame reasons, i.e. it was cheaper/faster resources wise.[quote]

Perhaps worth noting, there's nothing in lore that I know of that specifically says the Kronos isn't made up of two smaller titans the same as the Zeus is. We've just never seen the smaller once since they don't currently exist ingame. I think they should, is all. Might've been just because it was easier to make the model in the first place, but I think they should run with it now that they've done it.

Why can't it be two Zeus titans glued together?