Ascension

Defeat the overlord holding your next body and you can Ascend: upload into the next of twelve incarnations (Scrap-Bot → Biped → Exo-Frame → Walker → Quadzilla → Titan → Juggernaut → Leviathan → Colossus → Bastion → Metropolis-Frame → Dyson-Frame). You earn Cores, your run resets (Scrap, Chassis level, wave), but your MechMaxxing, Parts, Components, and Cores persist, and the re-climb is far faster. Each Ascension also grows the Mech Core another power output. See them all in the Mech Gallery.

Spend Cores in The Core tree for permanent boosts (global damage, Scrap, drop rate, Components, Weight capacity) that apply across every run.

At the top of the ladder there is no bigger body, so Ascension becomes Reboot: reset the run for Cores while keeping the Dyson-Frame. Reboot is gated by Star Harvest, one reboot per satellite launched, then unlimited once the swarm is complete, so Cores keep stacking forever.