I want to stress that I absolutely love the Pacific Rim movie. The first one. Only the first one. Mostly because of the sound track, but entirely because Guillermo del Toro achieved his apparent dream of having a movie that was about nothing more than massive robots beating the everloving snot out of massive monsters.
And it's a-maze-ing.
But as soon as you take even the /slightest/ step back from the visual and auditory spectacle that it is - and it is - then... well... some Kaiju comes along and rips the facade away.
And, as you will note from the photos in the video, OF COURSE the ITT isn't standardized, in any way, shape, or form. There's, like, five different versions of the blessed thing, because NOTHING in the Star Wars universe can EVER be standardized.
As much as I like to rip on the Mon Calamari for producing basically one-off capitol ships, the entire universe has completely buggered their logistics chain.
"Oh, you want parts for an ITT? WHICH ONE?"
I mean, I guess if your entire business model consists of, "Burn planets to the ground, and if your guys die, we'll just forcibly convert replacements from the available populace of the next planet," you're going to build some... interesting weapons.
They work well enough that even non-human advanced species are utterly terrified of them, though, so I guess there's that.
All clips and photos by way of The Chronicles of Riddick - https://amzn.to/3mZJr7j - and you really should watch the entire series of movies.
I have no idea why someone thought a massively overly-complicated, massive pain-in-the-ass-to-maintain monstrosity would make a good startfighter, but here we are.
At least it has a lot of guns?
Many thanks to Deputy Rust - https://twitter.com/DeputyRustArt - for developing the Tomboy Mandalorian.
