A government is only as powerful as it's police.
For the AUTHORITY, this police force comes in form of the Crowbots; 7 ton flightless iron golem crows. An iron fist in an iron glove, drifting beneath an iron dirigible. Subtle? Nope. Dangerous? You betcha.
I've had the idea for the Crowbots (apologies to MST3K - I wasn't thinking of Crow), a few years back when I was crafting a story called "Steam Crow". If you had a big steampunk scarecrow, you'd need some damn powerful crows for him to oppose. Naturally, I came up with dieselpunk automatons.
Though I sidelined the story, the Crowbots remained.
In any case, I knew that I'd want to bring these machine-soldiers along with me when I began the Monster Commute. It wasn't long before they were drifting though the sky keeping a watchful vigil upon the folk of Monstru. (THE SKY IS OURS!)
I probably like them more than anybody else, but that's just fine. They're yet another iteration of my "steam + crow" concept.
- Daniel
