regult
Zentradi alien one-man tactical aerospace walker mecha that first appeared in the Choujikuu Yousai Macross 1982 anime series.
The Esbeliben Regult is a lightly armored combat walker, but compensates this by having its maclone pilot equipped with a heavy armored spacesuit and by being armed with several energy cannons and other powerful weaponry.
The standard version is armed with 2 pivoting forward firing medium-bore electron beam guns, 2 forward and downward firing pivoting small-bore anti-personnel cannons and a self-defense rear aimed upper turret with 2 small-bore anti-aircraft laser guns.
While primarily designed as an all-terrain, ground based, motorized infantry and armored support unit, this mecha also has superior speed and maneuverability in space thanks to its high number of vernier thrusters. Very easy to produce, repair, modify and pilot, the Regult is usually deployed in very vast numbers and in massive attack waves to overwhelm, encircle and obliterate the enemy. It is the main attack mecha of all the Zentradi forces and is produced in the trillions in massive automated factories scattered across the milky way galaxy.
There are specialized variants of the walker, which range from light and heavy artillery versions armed with missiles to an unarmed version designed for Reconaissance and Electronic Countermeasure missions.
In real life the Regult was designed by Kawamori Shouji in the early 80s and its design was inspired by the T-34 tanks of World War II and the AT-ST from Star Wars. It was renamed as the Tactical Battle Pod in the Robotech adaptation.
