Ironclad Armadillo

• Unevolved

  2

  3

  Ward.
  Last Words: Put an Assembly Droid and Repair Mode into your hand.

  Concept: Unification of shell and steel
  Subjects: All organisms who make heavy use of shells
  Mission: Development of an impenetrable substance
  —Domination Plan Proposal, Team Y

• Evolved

  4

  5

  (Same as the unevolved form.)

  Beasts were used as test subjects and made into steel amalgamations. Detractors claimed the researchers were exploiting the animals. But that could not be further from the truth. The beasts were exploiting the tech.
  —In Defense of Machines, Part 1