In those days, those born under an evil star were made to live as weapons. They were called "Gundam" - a word which means "human who has ceased to be human"
Fun fact: Susan Kare was a mecha fan. Her shelves are lined with cool mecha toys, including this Destroid from Super Dimension Fortress Macross. That's right, as Robotech was first hitting the airwaves in the US, she had imported MACROSS toys!
more than 20 years since king gainer came out and “mecha anime op where the characters and then the mechs dance the monkey over a loredump star wars crawl and also they repeatedly just say the name of the show in the lyrics” has still not been beaten