It is fortunate that our world has abandoned the horrors of war, for the same is not the case everywhere in the universe. Somewhere in the galaxy, civilizations discovered genetic engineering beyond our wildest dreams before learning to live in peace with one another. Despite the strange assumptions of xenobiology, Darwinian evolution alone can not possibly explain the existence of as effective a natural fortress as the Stakataka.
It is easy to imagine a Stakataka as a castle's rampart, protecting an alien king and his most trusted bodyguards from swords, arrows, and the attacks of other ultra beasts alike. Yet Stakataka's thick, stout "roofs" leave them just as invulnerable to aerial bombardment, whether from flying pokemon, jet planes, or even meteors – and they can even function offensively in the form of siege towers! Their thousand robotic eyes, much as they disturb those needing to shelter within, are highly functional; they allow Stakataka not only to show their trainers when enemies are coming and when it is safe to leave, but also to collapse upon or quite literally kick out infiltrators.
Yet for all their bloodshed, wars do not occur unless the attacker believes there is something to be gained for their sacrifice, and it is in this capacity that Stakataka is hailed as a peacemaker. Wars in which both parties employed Stakataka often ended just like Stakataka mirror matches today: an endless stalemate. Wars on the Stakataka homeworld, as far as we can glean from the few who traveled through the Ultra Wormholes, ended not in revolution but in exhaustion. Ultimately, rulers preferred to use their Stakataka, constructed at great expense, in the sport of pokemon battles – for with no soldiers repairing them, at least that kind of battle would finally culminate in a winner.
As with previous event pokemon, I'm holding off on Zeraora's entry until its movie is available in English. While I wait (and likely for some time afterwards as well), I've started a side series based around Alolan forms.
