>>5305804i kind of do think it was kind of very...convenient that iron was able to do that. BUT i could at least kind of understand it since most of the components for a station would most likely just be ship components in different sizes since stations are for the most part, just generally immobile ships with small things like orbit correcting thrusters being the only form of thrust it has. the station basically being the general body parts of the blown apart ships cobbled together with ducktape and slowly welded better and better together until it was able to call itself a new self contained system which was able to continue it's own existence.
with much, MUCH smaller stuff like these robots, there is a lot less leeway, since components have to have millimeter to 0.01mm tolerances in terms of size. with all of the pieces having to fit perfectly together since there isn't really a lot of possible ways such small pieces of tech can work other than their intended uses, while the station components could've likely just either been throttled or overclocked depending on what it needed to have done in relation to the rest of the components.
now, this of course wouldn't be a problem if we could just use already existing mechanical parts, but again that's...well as our QM said, it is likely we will just get an entire megacorp to try and get our asses if we are to rip any of their assets and produce our own variety of em. copyright laws are scary man.
