Unfortunately for Alister, the cannon had a hatch that closed over it when it wasn't firing, so his rounds did little more than bounce off the space alloy hull of the spherical Mobile Weapon. Returning to its original target, the Hades charged up a powerful energy shield around itself as Alister's finished his attack and charged at the Zero at high speed, hoping to take advantage of its proximity.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Anastasia smiled as the conversation turned from something she knew very little about to something she actually understood, sinking her feet into the sand as well. "That's hard to say. I think it mainly comes down to control, though. If you upgrade a mech past a certain point, a single person isn't going to be able to control it, so you're going to have to get multiple pilots in it or even install some sort of CPU assistant to make it work. At that point, it isn't a test of a single pilot's skill anymore, and it could unfairly balance things toward one competitor, so I wouldn't think they'd let things go that far. And even if some mechs are better than others, I don't think they can ever have ones that are just unfairly superior in technology, because that would take away the fun of competition."