Golem

The golem is a mythical robot or mech from Middle Eastern mythology. A golem is a statue or figure made from clay, then the word 'Life' is attached to it's forehead. This must be done by a mystic, and can either be carved into the clay forehead, or written on papyrus and sealed in a metal mezuza. Or either a piece of metal with the word engraved on it. After this is done, and instructions followed by someone with the right mystic ability and chi control - then, if G0D Himself allows, a soul (maybe a human's) would then enter the figure, giving it life and it's own intelligence.

At first, the golem is like a robot who takes any order given to it by it's creator, or the first person it encounters. But if a golem is left alone too long, it's AI begins to grow and the soul inside starts to age from a baby-like mind to a older mind that can disobey orders and follow it's own choices.

A golem is near indestructible, and the only way to turn it off and cause the soul to leave it's chassis is to remove the word 'Life' from it's forehead. Usually, only the rabbi or priest who created it can do this, but...sometimes not.

In Western fairytales, golems were given a more sad theme (Frankenstein and I, Robot are the most famous Golem stories to date). But in their older myths, Golems were made from huge, well sculpted statues of the Babylon/Canaanite style of sculpting, and then they were unleashed as weapons of war to protect the innocent from the forces of evil. Like goodly war mechs that could not be stopped by conventional weapons of the time.

Here, a golem protects the innocent from cruel invading forces.