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-Ceremonial Machiroon Practices-
All Machiroons will have some form of contact with their Pilot due to various duties they must perform, but there are 3 guaranteed times where the Pilot personally blesses them: birth, adulthood, and death.
Newborn machiroons are taken to the Pilot in order to recieve blessings to be a healthy, strong child. They are significantly smaller at this stage but keep growing until the size of a basketball, which is generally where most machiroons stay at.
Young roons are drilled extensively in mechanical maintenance, electrical work, robotics, vehicle navigation and the like. As they reach adulthood, they are tasked with creating their own mechsuit before First Flight Day. First Flight Day is when all adolescent roons on the cusp of adulthood must don their suits to race around an obstacle course to reach the Pilot waiting for them at the end. Every roon that makes it is given a Flaykiss between the ears of their armor and a brief moment to speak to the Pilot before feasting on First Flight Day refreshments. The ceremony's length can vary depending on how fast each year's youth reach the finish line.
Death of a roon is never easy. The Pilot personally insists on attending as many funerary rites as he can. Dead roons are loaded into their suits one last time, given one last Flaykiss, and sent to fly into the vast abyss of space via rockets affixed to the suit. The resulting explosions are often wished upon like comets.
