One of the problems faced by Saint Commander Casella Ingvar was that her importance vastly exceeded her ability to defend herself against direct attacks.
As a command unit and one that acted as the most powerful force multiplier of the Larkinson Clan, the Minerva Mark II always ranked high on the enemy's priority elimination list.
What truly vexed the Larkinsons was that despite the recency of her upgrade, the Minerva Mark II had yet to become a superdimensional mech.
She still relied on a good old transphasic hyper armor system to fend off attacks when evasion and energy defenses failed to keep the living mech spotless.
Though the Minerva Mark II's sacrifice ended up benefiting the Riot Mark III in a massive way, that did not change the fact that the ace command mech had become extremely vulnerable to quick takedowns in the current day and age!
As the failed arche sneak attack just proved, the native aliens made increasingly greater use of superdimensional armaments.
