The Titan Rhea holds a special place in my heart because She is a reaction to Games Workshop Titans. Fully upright, and featuring decent armour coverage with modular weapon pods. It also has influences from Greek (Corinthian helmet) and Roman armour (Lorica Segmentata), as well as proportions somewhat like the Vitruvien Man.
She is named after Rhea, from the Titans that sided with the Olympians during the mythical Titanomachy. Interestingly, according to primary sources, Rhea and Chronos weren't the first Titan Queen and King of Heaven after the overthrow of Ouranus. They had won the throne via a wrestling match against Tethys and Phorcys, respectively.
Rhea is heavily armoured and shielded, able to both tank hits and sacrifice protection to scan the situation and maintain the initiative.
Rhea's primary configuration has a macro gun for both longer range bombardment and close quarters combat. She has a laser battery on a sponson mount over Her left shoulder for defeating enemy armour, with a hand for grappling and defeating shields. A pair of thrusters helps to make up for Her leg of raw speed or power.

Rhea's secondary configuration swaps out Her primary weapons for a plasma howitzer on Her right arm, a vulcan cannon on the shoulder mount, and a buzz saw for a left hand.
Rhea's tertiary configuration swaps out the thrusters for a second sponson mount and a second laser battery to mesh with Her primary configuration weapons.
Rhea's quaternary configuration doubles down on the guns, mounting paired macro guns and vulcan guns to dominate the battlefield. So far it seems that this configuration is undefeatable, able to flatten buildings, and to knock Titans out, or off the battlefield. In theory She is still vulnerable to lasers, to opponents who can exploit low angles, and no Titan does well coming under crossfire.
This is just as well, because Rhea is the golden god-queen, the self-styled Queen of Heaven and foremost of the Titans of Gaia. Her corporation controls the flow of shipping, both on planet and off, and it was Rhea that ordained both thay the Titans should return to Gaia, and that clearly they needed the opportunity to let off some steam.
By Rhea's wiles the great Hecatoncheires battle stations permit the Titans residence, and by Her might does She rule the Titans on Gaia. While Her ancient rival Tethys plots to overthrow Her, the Titans Styxx and Eos have returned to Gaia drawn by the promises of wealth and violence alike.
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