Few galactic sporting events offer the sheer spectacle of the giant robot combats of Gogmagog. The humanoid robots are of unique design and tower anywhere from around 10 m to over 80 m. Mostly, they simply stand there; they may not move for years or even decades. Then, abruptly, they move to engage one of their fellows in hand-to-hand combat.
That’s when the bot breaker gangs go into action. They have to work fast to salvage what they can from the defeated giant before swarms of von Neumann machines skitter and crawl from their underground lairs to repair the fallen gladiator — and disassemble the bot-breakers’ tools and transport for raw materials. What the bot breakers can get away with they can sell to fringe scientists and inventors trying to duplicate exotic alloys or to wealthy collectors looking for an alien objet trouvé.