What ever happened to Automations and Magitech?

[Anonymoose]

So what exactly is the lore about this?

It was essentially the core of a mammet. On the off-chance it would work, the Ironworks rigged Maggie the Magitek Reaper to integrate with a mammet heart so that it could compensate for damage and regulate its systems without hard to obtain Garlean parts that couldn't be acquired in a time crunch.

Didn't they try to dissect it to see how or why it began operating by itself?

A lot of the Garleans are just footsoldiers trying to keep the war machine moving. The response to weird behavior from a single magitek would probably just be to patch it up, run some tests, and ship it out. It took a lot for Maggie to actually take to us in any way beyond simple input-response; she ignored us otherwise for a little while, at first. She may have just stayed dormant while the Garleans were doing tests and shipping her off to the Praetorium.

As for the broad implications, I've always just assumed that it was a special case - that Biggs and Wedge threw some weight behind a theoretically possible Hail Mary and, even though it worked out, it wasn't efficient, practical, or reliable technology.

Basis for future lore? ... Maybe! I've forgotten a lot of the mammet lore...