Epoché

Epoché is the mech of Kleos. It is a variant of the Kosmos prototype developed by Columnar’s Zenith Fund and modified for melee combat.

It is a deep brown, triangular head, humanoid machine with gold accents, a faceplate made of brown stone, and heavy skirt plates to defend its upper legs/lower torso. A long, oval shield built onto its left arm, a pair of grappling hook launches on its skirt waist. Wields a guisarme—a spear that has a hook on the reverse side of the blade. There’s a rope inside of it, so it splits and you can spin it around like a ranged weapon.

The bottom of the weapon’s shaft is weighted with a dense metal to allow for heavy clubbing attacks, and since the guisarme is able to split into two, connected by a long electrified cable, both the blade and club are able to be wielded simultaneously. Kleos is known to spin it around in a disorienting fashion and wield either side as a ranged weapon, using the electrified cable to disable anyone who gets caught up in the chain.

Trivia

• Like several other mechs from Stel Apostolos, it is named after a Greek philosophical concept: in this case, epoché refers to suspension of judgement or assent.