Bringing in an army base is kind of a throwback to my original concept, which would have had them on a base from the start. The military would have been using found super-tech to fight aliens or whatever, the magical girl was more a Clarke's Third Law girl, and the mech that came with it could only be piloted by some civilian guy because of reasons. The magical girl would have been fresh out of training but also the base commander's daughter for needless drama, and would have gotten together with the pilot at the end of the whole thing, probably after a lot of belligerent sexual tension. But I tossed all that out to convert it to porn, and I think for the better.