>>5275568The main reason I am in favor of both large jointed arms + mechadendrites it seems to me more likely we are making our arms bigger and stronger than our mechadendrites. So for the purposes of punching, pushing, lifting and rending our arms are the "big guns" so to speak. Or comparing a hydraulic arm to a mechadendrite. On the tabletop Servo-Arm has strength X2, while Mechadendrite has strength +1 which leads me to believe arms scale up stronger.
Now, if you were to tell me that Talos could make it so that every one of his mechadendrites is the equal or the superior to his arm I would believe you and go for better mechaendrites. But then I would also ask why bother to keep our two arms in the first place if we can make a longer stronger mechadendrite.
Surely not just for aesthetic, because if that were the case we could wear them for diplomatic reasons but take them off and attach mechandrites going into battle and put them back on after a fight.
Arms for parrying and grasping and grappling with our brothers immense strength, mechanedrites to stab, jab, and shoot with blades and guns.
