After my Aquasharks build I was thinking about what other old themes to revisit and had recently finished reading Armor by John Steakley.
It’s a sci-fi story of a soldier with an advanced suit of armor who continually is sent into battle against a relentless enemy, despite the physical and psychological toll it takes.
The combination of those two concepts led me to base my entry on the Exo-Force theme. Despite never owning any of the products, I loved the line and with my brothers built a whole army of mechs and robots inspired by the offical sets.
Getting these two within the 101 part count took some fiddling but eventually I trimmed them down to use just 99 parts.