The Swordsmachine are actually the owner of The Jackhammer?
I'm not delusional, no?
Both are yellow and they have the blue lighting and "coincidentally" have the maroon coloured thing. Not forget to mention that The Jackhammers are alternative of The Shotgun, and ONLY the Swordsmachines have The Shotgun as one of their weapons out of all enemies.
The theory is that The Excavator, the war machine you saw when getting the Jackhammer, might involved into Swordsmachines. That tells WHY we don't see or/and fight The Excavator.
Or instead of them involving into Swordsmachine, the thing before THE Swordsmachine we got might've killed The Excavator.
EDIT: Alright, heard enough. But listen...
The ORIGINAL Swordsmachine, the one we fight in Prelude, might be the thing killed the Excavators for their parts. They became so efficient that OTHER rogue machines, aka The Copycats, started to copy it's design.
But how does the Copycat got exactly the same colour scheme, the yellow plates, the blue lightings, the maroon partsl as The Original? Why can't they just choose more unique colour like The Agony and Tundra from 1-3?
That tells me that the "other rogue machines" or The Copycats we talked about were The Excavator themselves.
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