I mean, technically Darth Vader is just a magical torso chilling in a mech suit

There was that little alien in a mech suit that defended the village from Hando’s pirates in clone wars

I think the general reason is, “If we need a Mech suit, why not just build a droid instead?” Cheaper and easier to just build a droid that does whatever you’d want the Mech suit for. Except for the Clone Wars era of course, droids could/would fill just about any role you might need Mech-assisted technology for. Heavy weapons? Spider droid/B2. Lifters/Loaders? Droids for that. Even droid space fighters and aircraft.

I think there's a misconception here between a mech and power armor. Power armor is a suit you wear. A mech is typically a vehicle you pilot, usually by yourself. So the AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-TE, and AT-RT would be mechs.

Star Wars also has a much higher percentage of Robots/androids in military usage compared to other series, and to be frank if they want mech-scale firepower, they'd just use a big droid. See the B3 "Ultra Battle Droid" in the old EU or the Skorpenek droids in Mandalorian. One could also argue that Walkers like the AT-AT are a form of Mech.

By the time you're in star wars, you may as well take the person out of the mech suit and just build a droid

Before Disney we had mech suits in Star Wars. The closest we have gotten to mass production were dark troopers which phase one and two were more exoskeleton. Phase three was an entire mech suit itself

"YOU ARE OUT OF UNIFORM SOLDIER! WHERE IS YOUR POWER ARMOR!" ~Sargeant Dornan

Before Disney canon we had the Spacetrooper corps in the old EU. These were basically Space marines used for zero G operations such as boarding enemy ships. It's interesting how that idea seems to have been quietly forgotten... Games Workshop perhaps?

The walkers: am I a joke to you

One of the old Jedi knight games had troops in mech like suits and they carried railguns

Seripas from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Bounty Hunters" had a mech suit. Although it wasn't all that powerful. Perhaps the logic is if you are going to design what is basically a large battle droid with room inside for a pilot and controls, why not instead use that space for more weaponry and advanced logic for the droid. If you send in a droid you avoid being in combat entirely. I think it's not that mech suits aren't possible, but that by the time you've invested that much tech into a machine, a droid is an even more effective solution for self preservation than going into battle yourself.

Rock solid question! And surprised we haven't seen more attempts at an equivalent. You know the jedi would train harder and hone spicy techniques if they had to throw down with mechs on the reg!

“Get in the robot anakin”

"That Jedi can deflect blasters!" 'Uh...ok' *PRIMES FLAMER*

They do exist, but it’s more internalized. Think less Iron Man and more Batman Beyond. With the invention of Grav Plates some people could carry weapons meant for turrets as HMGs. There’s some E-webs that hover allowing for mobile movements.

We gonna forget about that one bounty hunter from that episode of the clone wars where they trained a village to defend itself? There’s at least one mech suit in Star Wars

"Too advanced" yes cause having a planet sized Death Station that can just obliterate entire planets wasn't advandced or anything. Or did we forget that Vader is technically in one of these suits?

if we really stretch it then technically all Walker-class tanks are all "mechs" as well, if we just say Mechs need to 1) have legs 2) have armour 3) have guns ..but proper mech-mechs? Yeah no. You wont be finding those

The idea that Mech suits are too advanced for Star Wars. Technology is utterly moronic. They have the technology to build moon size battle station. They have FTL travel, sentient Androids everything I see about Star Wars demonstrate the technology is clearly advanced enough for that. Never mind that walkers exist which in and of themselves are in the way a midpoint between tanks and Mech suits. I’ve heard though I can’t remember where that Mech suits in real life would be impractical and I tend to think the same reasoning with apply to Star Wars as well.

Tell that to lego

I'd argue that the expenses outweighed the effectiveness of the mechsuit. Like it was said the Dark Trooper program was as successful as it was only because there were no more jedi to cut them all down (saw how Luke could cut through a whole platoon of them alone). There were just some situations where a mech suit isn't worth investing in.

I think the most likely reason why we don't see mech suit is simply the Galaxy hadn't bothered or thought about it. You have a civilization where robots are everywhere doing a wide variety of tasks. If there were any mech suits of any kind, i think they would be limited to industrial or a prosthetic for small aliens or someone with grievous injuries like Grievous and Vader. I think the Star Wars galaxy can start making combat mech suits if they are in conflict with a civilization where their standard army utilize it or elite units causing massive casualties. Alternatively, the Star Wars galaxy may be advanced enough to bypass mech suits and make power armor.

Spacetrooper disagrees.

While I appreciate the shout out, what you used as the Warhammer 40k example was Space Marine power armor, not a mech. 40k mechs range from the humble Scout Sentinel to the absolutely MASSIVE Warmaster Titan, the only ones Space Marines use are the Invictor Tactical Warsuits (with dreadnoughts _technically_ being mechs, though not really)

I'm inclined to think that, in a verse with "magic", some tech just wasn't made, but st least in Saga Edition D20 Star Wars, one such suit existed, in the battle frame, and Spacetroopers were basically flying around in bulky Iron Man suits, with sealed atmosphere, mag lock boots, rocket packs, and missile launcher weapons. One of my favorite Trooper variants!

There was technically the alien in force unleashed, the one with starkiller. He was using a mech suit.

Uhhhh, all terrain walkers? Y'know, like the AT-AT, AT-ST, AT-TE, AT-AP...

Like it said the dark troopers was a type of mech suit. But why spend the money on a suit for a person when they could just make druids or cyber inhansed person. Like Vader and grievous are example.

"Mech suits were too advanced or expensive" proceeds to show examples of mech suits in starwars

There are also space station suits for stormtroopers where they use the suits to repair the outsides of star destroyers

Well in the expanded lore there is Mech suites, specifically the droid battlesuits of the mandalorians of the past.

There were the war droid basilisk

If Darth Vader had a giant mech, he'd be teaching Char some lessons.

For the most part I think droids limit the necessity of mechsuits in warfare. But I'd be totally stoked if they added mechsuits into starwars I think there would be some really cool ways you could implement it.

Maybe because blaster shots are very afective against them or they are sucking battery very fast?

Couldn’t the ATST from the clone wars or the walkers from episode III be considered mech suits?

There was a Star Wars comic strip in late 70's early 80's that had one storyline being Han Solo teams up with a woman who wears a battlesuit from an ancient order. For the finale close quarters battle inside a imperial ship versus Storm Troopers where the pair absolutely ploughed through the Troopers, Han also wore a battlesuit - but he didn't wear a helmet as it was damaged or something. Which enabled the artist to draw Hans face into the action so the two battlesuits could be told apart. The battlesuits had blasters on each arm and blasters mounted on the helmet. Plus maybe some more like shoulder mounted blasters, but hey, it was 40+ years ago, and I was a kid reading it once in the Sunday Morning comic section lift out.

Based around the technology throughout the history of SW I’m sure mech suits could’ve been utilized, but depending on the era, the planets currency and resources, as well as the type of metal that was used they were sort of obsolete. That being based on ground vehicles, ships, and the massive armies of the different eras. Arming every individual with there own mech suit would’ve been crazy expensive not just to create but also to replace if some got damaged.

In WH40k, mech suits are either moving coffins or an extension of its pilot (princep) where he can feel the hits the titan tanks.

Star Wars: “Mechs are too advanced too make!” Also Star Wars: “Holdable Laser.”

What's fun is you can actually see a loader mech walking across the top of a Venator Star Destroyer when Anakin and Obi-Wan are talking before Obi-Wan leaves for Utapau in Episode III. They are there, just sitting as largely untapped potential. That, or if you want a big robot, you'd have it be a droid instead of having a person inside it.

The Lego Company since about August 1st 2023: *"We've got you covered!"*

Same reason that they don't have laser proof armor. It would make everything else trivial.

There were also zero-g clonetroopers in legends. They had "power armour" designed so they could fight in zero g, and had some weapons on par with starfighters

IG-11 and Grogu: Are we a joke to you?

Although not shown, Darktrooper Phase 1 and 2 is a mech suit with operator inside. The one we saw in Mando Season 2 is Phase 3 and fully mechanical droid

There is also during the clone wars animated series. There is an episode where obi-wan, Ani, and Ashoka crash on a planet. There they meet bounty hunters protecting crop farmers. One of the aliens uses a mech suit as well.

In the Mandalorian Streaming Series, Grogu was using the shell of IG-88 as a mech suit.

"Simply Being too advanced-" The Death Star series and Starkiller Base: Let me introduce myself

“Why is there no Mechs in StarWars?” Good guys: “Brother, that's exactly what we DON'T want!”

That quick cutaway from the absurd ebay price to the rom quietly downloading has me dead!

Siths: crumples like a paper

It's a lot more space efficient to either use soldiers without suita or just deploy droids.

Lego Star Wars mechs: Allow us to introduce ourselves

“The technology isn’t available” The empire with bases as big as a moon😳

Admiral Galak Fyyar in Jedi Outcast used an Mech-Suit made out of Cortosis

"We can't have TOO much badassery"

“Too advanced and expensive” The gigantic space station the size of a moon that can fire a laser powerful enough to literally blow up a planet:

There are some variations of “mech suits” in Star Wars, like the most common for big dudes like rayvis from Jedi survivor

The Imperial spacetroopers (stormtroopers in pressurized armor) did have zero-gravity exosuits that were used for sabotage. These were notably deployed by the Chimaera under Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Did everyone just collectively forget about walkers?

The Enclave hasn't been able to bring power armor to space

Mandos with Crush Gaunts: Am I a joke to you?!

The cheapest mech suits would be Armored Cores and the most expensive ones would be Gundams

It could be argued that the ancient mandalorian basilisk war droids could also be a mech, though not really a mech suit

I always thought of AT-STs as a sort of mech suit. It’s pretty much just a giant mech

The Ughnauts in Force Unleashed:

"Just too advanced or too expensive for mass deployment" Meanwhile the Empire : 25,000 STAR DESTROYERS

i deadass thought the thumbnail was just fallout power armor but star wars mod

Lego engineers for some reason a year ago: guess what

I guess there isn't much use for mech suits when you can build a droid that can fulfill similar purposes

I was in the toys department at Walmart and I saw one that was titled "Darth Vader's Mech Suit" and it looked like a thicker, chunkier, Darth Vader.

Talks about mech suits. Shows space marines in their armor. Me: HERESY!!!!

Those flying, flamethrower wielding clones were such a pain to deal with in Revenge of the Sith the game.

In universe: Expensive Out of universe: Not thought about until years later

In West End Games SW RPG they had mech suit storm troopers, looked like deep sea diver suts, there even were minis for them

A force user crushing the mech suit around the wearer until a goey metal orb just leaking all over the floor.

People act like the Star Wars galaxy must have every type of technology one could think of just because it's "sci-fi", but that's just not how technology works.

Vader, Grevious, Darth Maul 2, and all the walkers. Also chewy carrying C-3PO is like a reverse mech suit 😂

Bro... Imagine you're doing a sabotage mission for the rebellion, and you see a whole battalion of Phase III Dark Troopers outside of the facility 💀

There's also the Space Troopers who used an exosuit that provided better environmental protection and a jetpack for EVA maneuvers, and had a built in proton torpedo tube for taking on enemy vehicles. Unfortunately, they were lost in the Great Aquisition Purge of 2013.

The Penitent Engine standing in the corner

Not enough money to invest in mechsuits yet has enough money to build a planet sized moon that can obliterate planets

i’d like to think they were just too expensive bc not having the technology for that is just…

Grevious is technically in a "mech suit", he's a cyborg essentially with an exoskeleton

HUD and advanced systems were pretty common in Star Wars, Clone Commandos, storm troopers and clones are all noted to have advanced scanners and extra cameras in their helmets.

I have one thought. They "could" make armored cores in Star Wars. They have the tech for large mechanized walkers, and have anti-grav tech to make things fly around. Put those together and get and you get an AC.

dont forget that one bounty hunter from that one episode of clone wars that Obiwan Anakin skywalker and Asoka helped the farmer's defend from Hondo

Expense is the best reason. Trying to equip even just specialists across an entire galactic Army with powered armor would be mind-breakingly expensive, especially when advanced armor materials can keep a soldier alive, and heavier firepower and armor can be covered with Droids. As for not seeing it used by bounty hunters and the like, again economics answer. There's no economy of scale for powered armor production, so any suit will, again, be so horribly expensive to acquire and maintain that even the best of mercenaries and special forces just don't bother.

You could argue some of the walkers are mech suits, like the ATST being a giant mechanical chicken

Bro if you can make a bag of organs piloting a 4 armed robot body driving a 4 legged omnicycle, you should be able to make a damn mech suit

"too advanced" Palpatine building a literal *PLANET DESTROYER*.

Mech suits were used in the Open and Closed war (very imaginative name, I know), which was a minor planetary war. Thus it is unlikely that the mech suits are too advanced, but rather that mech suits are considered impractical for usage. The experimental mech suits used by the Empire and the Republic are more like Power Armour from the Fallout series than larger mech suits.

The star wars universe has access to weapons that can easily cut through most armour, which prioritised speed mobility and bigger stronger multiperson machines which is similar to what we see on earth with the invention of guns. Bigger single person armour able to stop lightsabers and blasters are too heavy and expensive and niche

You do have various things in the Old Republic and Tales of the Jedi era stuff, the Mandalorian Basilisk War Droids being one major example

Most of the walker type vehicles could be considered mechs. What you and the question seem to be referring to is called power armor. Things are only really mechs when they aren’t directly controlled by body movements and are a vehicle class rather than an armor class. The mechs from the matrix are a pretty good example since the arms while directed by the pilot’s arms aren’t directly linked to them. If the arm of the mech is blown off it’s entirely separate from the human’s arm.

Mechs and power armor are scarce because in Star Wars, blaster tech is cheap and energy shields are portable. Actual physical armor is impractical on a broad scale except for very specific applications. You'll note that everything big has an onboard shield generator: that's why. Tech is stagnant in Star Wars: everything meaningful that can be invented pretty much has been, and the ability to pierce armor has long-since eclipsed the ability to build better armor, and at this point, it's easier to just put a shield generator on something than to try and armor it. Weapons, starships, and personal tools have remained more or less the same for thousands upon thousands of years. The last big innovation was creating a synthetic version of the universal healing goo (bacta), so they don't need to rely on the previous monopoly (koltol) that was harvested from the marine life of a single planet. Besides synthetic koltol, nothing has actually changed much in ten thousand years. It's one of the things that makes Star Wars such an interesting setting: unlike Star Trek or other contemporary sci-fi settings, Star Wars FEELS old and worn out. It's not shiny or new. It's banged up and covered in rust.

Not tô mention about anime gundam were They dont only pilot giant mecha knows as mobile suit, however the was also mini Human sized mecha called petiti modules

Too advanced? We have a 1000 year old emperor still surviving on life support.