Advanced Weapon

An advanced weapon is the generic term used for vehicles that incorporate technology typically found in advanced armors, as opposed to conventional vehicles such as tanks, planes, and ships. The term "advanced weapon" can be used to describe any vehicle fitting that definition (such as advanced armors), but is typically only used when referring to more than one type simultaneously or when it is difficult to label a vehicle as a specific sub-type.

Types Overview
Most advanced weapons fall into one of four catagories: Ionized Suits, the source of the technology and the most simplistic type of advanced weapon; Advanced Armors (ADA), the most popular and iconic type of advanced weapons, and the refined source of the technology; Advanced Jets (ADJ), the larger non-human counterpart to advanced armors; and Transformable Advanced Weapons, which are capable of transforming from an ADA mode and an ADJ mode.

Advanced Armor
Advanced Armors (ADA) are the most popular and numerous type of advanced weapon. They are humanoid combat vehicles using the Zephyr System, a complicated series of sensors and translators that convert the muscular movements of the human body into the machanical movements of the machine, but after several updates to the system, the operating system relied on the pilot's brainwaves for direct movement of the mech. For the human mind to cope, the armor was made in a humanoid shape and given several joints to give the machine fluidity while in motion. Typically, an advanced armor is usually within a 40 to 60 feet height range, with a cockpit located in the head through a plug (however, the design of advanced armors improved with the movement of the cockpit to the upper parts of the torso), though it's not unusual for Advanced Armors to be bigger or smaller.

Though the exact process behind the creation of an advanced armor varies from each timeline, they are generally used for their versatility, with many models being usable in a wide variety of environments.

Days Century-3 Advanced Armors
In the Days Century-3 timeline, Advanced Armors (formally known as Mobile Mechs) were the result of the surviving humans residing in space trying to fight off the Eve at their size. Two technological achievements led into the possibility of creating advanced armors: the Zephyr System (named as it called a "subtle b" to it's creator) and the Infinite Mass Driver. The Zephyr System was developed with the purpose of fighting the Eve with a weapon that could copy the movement of a human.