Why Aren't There Mech-Suits In Star Wars?

[Sciffymcgoo]

I mean, technically Darth Vader is just a magical torso chilling in a mech suit

[PolskaPrussia]

"Simply Being too advanced-"

The Death Star series and Starkiller Base: Let me introduce myself

[gatorman]

There was that little alien in a mech suit that defended the village from Hando’s pirates in clone wars

[shirosaki]

Meanwhile Grogu in his IG-12 Mecha: "Yes yes yes yes yes yes..."

[PandorableMae]

I think the general reason is, “If we need a Mech suit, why not just build a droid instead?” Cheaper and easier to just build a droid that does whatever you’d want the Mech suit for. Except for the Clone Wars era of course, droids could/would fill just about any role you might need Mech-assisted technology for. Heavy weapons? Spider droid/B2. Lifters/Loaders? Droids for that. Even droid space fighters and aircraft.

[venkelos]

I'm inclined to think that, in a verse with "magic", some tech just wasn't made, but st least in Saga Edition D20 Star Wars, one such suit existed, in the battle frame, and Spacetroopers were basically flying around in bulky Iron Man suits, with sealed atmosphere, mag lock boots, rocket packs, and missile launcher weapons. One of my favorite Trooper variants!

[MercenaryPen]

By the time you're in star wars, you may as well take the person out of the mech suit and just build a droid

[dausyahaya]

Although not shown, Darktrooper Phase 1 and 2 is a mech suit with operator inside. The one we saw in Mando Season 2 is Phase 3 and fully mechanical droid

[PizzaCatyhwh]

"YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM SOLDIER! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR!"
~Sargeant Dornan

[StarGazergaming]

I'd argue that the expenses outweighed the effectiveness of the mechsuit. Like it was said the Dark Trooper program was as successful as it was only because there were no more jedi to cut them all down (saw how Luke could cut through a whole platoon of them alone). There were just some situations where a mech suit isn't worth investing in.

[mattaffenit]

I think there's a misconception here between a mech and power armor. Power armor is a suit you wear. A mech is typically a vehicle you pilot, usually by yourself.

So the AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-TE, and AT-RT would be mechs.

[Cogglesz]

Lego has a pretty dope lineup of star wars themed mechs. Vader, Luke, Boba & Stormtrooper variants. It's an awesome cheap way of getting minifigs & a cool build in one! Giant bubble lego sabers are so cool with some LED lighting!

[Soundwave]

Star Wars also has a much higher percentage of Robots/androids in military usage compared to other series, and to be frank if they want mech-scale firepower, they'd just use a big droid. See the B3 "Ultra Battle Droid" in the old EU or the Skorpenek droids in Mandalorian. One could also argue that Walkers like the AT-AT are a form of Mech.

[Zminator]

I think the most likely reason why we don't see mech suit is simply the Galaxy hadn't bothered or thought about it. You have a civilization where robots are everywhere doing a wide variety of tasks. If there were any mech suits of any kind, i think they would be limited to industrial or a prosthetic for small aliens or someone with grievous injuries like Grievous and Vader.

I think the Star Wars galaxy can start making combat mech suits if they are in conflict with a civilization where their standard army utilize it or elite units causing massive casualties.

Alternatively, the Star Wars galaxy may be advanced enough to bypass mech suits and make power armor.

[tejimun]

Before Disney we had mech suits in Star Wars. The closest we have gotten to mass production were dark troopers which phase one and two were more exoskeleton. Phase three was an entire mech suit itself

[theguybehindyou]

Vader and Grievous: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU??"

[Rendell]

Before Disney canon we had the Spacetrooper corps in the old EU. These were basically Space marines used for zero G operations such as boarding enemy ships. It's interesting how that idea seems to have been quietly forgotten... Games Workshop perhaps?

[Guardian]

"Mech suits were too advanced or expensive" proceeds to show examples of mech suits in starwars

[DoomStroller]

Rock solid question! And surprised we haven't seen more attempts at an equivalent. You know the jedi would train harder and hone spicy techniques if they had to throw down with mechs on the reg!

[bruhnisher]

Having a droid companion who can be a mech suit that'll keep you alive in a vacuum would be awesome.