Talk:Kataphrakt/@comment-25450485-20140922101746

I googled a bit recently and managed to dig up this beauty:



https://i.imgur.com/UTUBArm.jpg?1

A map of mars with the locations of each kataphract which got named already.

I am farly sure that the Orbital Knights named their kataphracts after the areas they were ruling and were also built specifically to match their own respective terrain.

The Hellas for example was meant to protect a huge empty plateu with no cover whatsoever. Combine that with being able to turn the fists into a single molecule then the Hellas would be perfectly suited to defend that area. It being able to turn into flight mode is most likely part of that in order to be able to shift positions there fast.

The Argyre area in mars on the other hand has more rough terrain, allowing for a lot more cover where the Argyre can unleash its full potential.

The Nilokeras area has a huge cliff which would allow Trillram's kataphract to corner enemies by driving them towards it. Also, due to the lack of cover his flying cameras can see everything without trouble.

The Tharsis area is one full of volcanoes which is advantageous for a fast moving melee kataphract.

As for the laser kataphract mentioned a few posts below...

He was obviously built to defend a large area from an elevated postion such as a big mountain. It might for example be Olympus mons, the largest mountain in the solar system. The laser kataphract would be perfectly suited to defend that particular area of mars and might be called "Olympus" or something like that.

Sorry for the long post ;)