

In _Knight's & Magic_
([MAL](https://myanimelist.net/manga/59087/Knights___Magic),
[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_%26_Magic)), Silhouette Knight
(mecha) development takes a long time, which is why Ernesti is making such
waves. However, it seems that commanders have more powerful units. For
example, Knight Commander Morten Fredholm's Haimerwort in episode 5. The
Earlcumber, and the King's unit also come to mind.

What makes these units special and/or more powerful? Could they possibly be
using

> custom ether reactors from demon beasts,

rather than the standard, mined, ones?


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What makes the hero/commander units better if development takes so long?


During the Casadesus Fort incident, the commander mentioned that the
Tellestarle had strenght equivalent to his own machine, but they were smaller
(Karrdator-sized) which gave them more mobility. So, and this is purely
speculation on my part, the commander machines (and the king's by extension)
probably have a bigger Ether reactor (made of better materials or whatever) to
support a larger frame, but this in turn means you can't mass produce them.

Quoting Skythewood's translation of Vol 2. Ch. 16:

> “Hmm, so this is the power of the new model, to think it could match my
> Hymerwort. Although I want it to be part of my Knights, it is a hindrance
> right now!!”
>
> The new models that fell into the hands of the opponents were troubling.
> With the size of a Karrdator and as powerful as the Hymerwort, it was like a
> bad joke.


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What I think that they mean is that developing a completely new Silhouette
Knight is long. Think about the time taken from the development of the war
chariot to the tank (I know it is not the best analogy but it works), but
developing small incremental updates is not so hard (think on different
variants of the same tank model).

This is where Ernesti is making a revolution, each of his designs is
completely new and he is creating a lot of new tech from the ground up.

Now let's tackle the commander units. The base soldier is given a standard SK
but commanders are given slightly better units, maybe a hunt provided some
better demon beasts so they have some custom ether reactors on hand, so they
make a more powerful version of the same unit, and they can carry bigger
versions of the same weapons. So basically they are the same unit but slightly
better (think a barebones car, and a full-equip one, they are the same, but
the full equip one, is more expensive and has better performance than the
barebones one)


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