Her whole job became converting the mechs from the war into farm equipment. Brackets that once held chainguns were refitted with plough blades, targeting arrays got new software which let the onboard computers analyse soil samples, and the vast reactors were extracted from their machine cores and used to power new aquaculture systems.
The only thing they couldn't repurpose was the artificial intelligence that drove the mechs. Their penchant for war was hard coded and couldn't be changed. They couldn't bring themselves to execute self aware machine life, so they left them in secure warehouses on a planet with no sun until their code degraded into a babbling mess, then faded to digital silence.
Paddy Dobson
21st July 2023