Xenpurgis theory - nanomachine plague

[cyberfox096]

I have played through .Karma files, and I have come up with a theory for the XenPurgis. Since it is a rift Stakataka, and Stakataka is known for being perfectly modular, it wouldn't be a stretch to see it as a disease that sweeps through GDC. While it might be entertaining for there to be a giant mecha buldozing the entire city, it doesn't make sense to the design of GDC. You don't build a perfectly enclosed cage for a giant mech. Rather, in ancient times, invading armies would spread disease into walled cities to cause an epidemic and force a surrender, where the army would know they would never be infected because the city is walled in. This is how the plague started. It would make sense for XPurgis to be a nanomachine plague that would wipe out GDC. Plus, a mecha would take much longer to take out a city than 3 hours. Disease can do things a lot quicker. This is probably why governments don't research metal gears in the cold war as opposed to nerve agents. It would just make more sense as a plot device.

[dudeguyman]

This is definitely interesting.

A giant mech is also an obvious giant target, and that alone gives a city full of strong trainers, like GDC, a chance to fight back, but how are you going to fight something too small to see that's going to kill you before you even begin to understand what's happening?

But this also means there's not going to be a rift Stakataka battle, which, let's be real, there's definitely going to be a rift Stakataka battle.