User:NeloAngelo/KStuff/Bestiary/Gestalt

Gestalts, also known as Shapes are a sub-type of monster present in Kstuff. They are giant, mechanical beings invented and produced by the Bureau. Created as border patrol weapons, they are deployed as defense reinforcement of many sanctioned areas. While programmed with a set schematic to follow a predetermined sequence of operations or respond to predetermined instructions, they can also be commanded remotely with a Control Unit.

One may question despite Gestalt's potential, why is it not sent on extermination missions. Unfortunately, Gestalts themselves have a high production cost, and every core schematic they posses are highly delicate and fragile; without regular maintenance, the core can be easily corroded by atomosphere-Aether, overwriting their programming into a weapon unable to differentiate friend or foe. At that point, they are labeled as Rogue Gestalt, requiring Knights (and Hunters) to destroy/salvage them. Hunters generally doesn't like undertaking such hits because Gestalts doesn't really offer much unique materials. Oh, they also can't Style monsters, so there's that.

When fought, Rogue Gestalts are treated the same as any hostile targets on field, though with a few differences: they cannot be enraged, but at the same time, they have no fatigue state either. Support items such as flash bangs are also noticeably less useful against them.