Pyre Project Breadth

The Pyre is a groundbreaking war machine which is a testament to manufacturing at a scale which wins hot wars.

The exoskeletons are physically manufactured on automated build-plates. Their internal infrastructure and hollowed internal spaces are 3d-printed in suspended nano-particle infused gel, which is crucial for a series of processes which "cure" the Pyre hardpoints, leveraging material science without compromising its muscle-like elasticity; in its more flexible biomechanical areas.

The Pyre features a central chassis which is flanked by two micro reactors, which heats a bioengineered mushroom resin, creating thick superheated plumes which drive the turbines within its shoulders to generate the raw horse-power needed for both heavy load bearing and explosive movements.

Pyres have various ports and slits for exhaling excess heat; in some places these act like pores helping with thermo-regulation-- which can be used offensively as well as defensively.

In the kernel of the Pyre lies its mainframe which regulates a lot of functions(for both P-AI and auxiliary hardware). A backup mainframe in tandem with a secondary set of generators; responsible for powering the servos and lower limbs, lays in the center of the pelvis. This helps to provide an explanation behind its field results.

Throughout the Pyre are sets of predictive sensors which help the user have bolstered situational awareness through VR like interface, even if the head isn't intact. If the pelvis is destroyed but the head and torso remain, the Pyre still functions through the chassis. If bisected from waist, pieces of the Pyre can and will still transmit sensory information.

The Pyre has high survivability in operations, as damaged parts can be readily swapped out; in cases of "mobility kills", and armed forces don't experience attrition from losses due to strategy which ensures the safety of a pilot operating close enough in theatre to change the the favor of battle, but far enough not to become a casualty.

A destroyed Pyre is replaceable-- that is their one of its competitive edges.

With the exception of the winged Arch-angel load out, Pyres do not emphasize flight insomuch they do placement-- many Pyre users prefer the additional protections of Earth fortifications, and employ combined arms tactics to seize the imitative on ground. Some pyres specialize in submersible roles over ground, some aerial over ground. This is practical, given Pyres don't move as individuals, but in concert as a Brigade combat team, which consist of Pyres which occupy specific niches in theatre.

Throughout the body, pelvis, and head of the pyres are additional protections-- varnishes which have super-hot, heat-phobic temperature distributing properties, increasing heat survivability. The very first iterations of pyres featured human pilots, but battlefield tactics of… cooking pilots alive, made Pyres a necessity.

The Pyre can use its heat expenditures offensively to eliminate soft and weaker hard-targets, boiling everything within its vicinity. When the Pyre is moving fast; like a Shinkansen Bullet train --(https://youtube.com/shorts/EYfsDl2hJOw?si=BWiEAtTeLCokgfFJ), -- it distributes heat from its areodynamic form and creates a "heat gust" which fries drones and misdirects; if not prematurely detonating incoming ordinance. The shapes of pyres forms are to scramble enemy radar signatures that seek to approximate where pyres are, and the sound signatures of every pyre is distinct, based on the Pyre model, meaning Pyre users can identify allied pyres on the battlefield; through P-A.I which is encrypted, by the unique signature they make in their heads up display, to separate friend from foe.

Pyres feature a neuro-linked biomechanical infrastructure, most prominently around its waist which unifies the pelvis and the chassis, this infrastructure moves and flexes like biomechanical muscle. Synthetic polymers absorb and distribute force through the whole Pyre, making it especially formidable against kinetic weapons. The infrastructural network is distinct from wires, and functions in the Pyre like mycelium, carrying encrypted feedback that can't be cracked by A.I, as beyond the encryption, the software functions like smart node trees. This is the P-A.I -- and as a system it, mirrors how mushrooms share information underground at quantum speeds. Its worth noting, that the Thinktanks behind the Pyres, a corporate entity called Shǒu Hù Sǎn, had engineers and material scientists which synthesized an artificial analog from an extra-terrestrial fungal lifeform which underwent intense scrutiny and rigorous analysis.

A chest puncture that would normally kill the pilot of a conventional mecha would not take a Pyre out of the fight, given its internal infrastructure, which leverages encrypted decentralization and smart node trees -- P-A.I, not to be confused with conventional A.I, as P-AI sentience is likened to a puppet that needs a digital ventriloquist.
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I've updated my Blog on "Digital Scratch-Building" for those who want a more thorough breakdown of my process. I've provided example files for users to follow along with: 
https://www.artstation.com/blogs/i50mmwarhead/G982L/digital