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  1. Seto Kaiba
    I'd call him more of a Villain Protagonist at this point... and he's not so much against the Empire as just Palpatine's most dedicated hater.
  2. Seto Kaiba
    OK, so... the key takeaway is that this is one for the "Another Bloody" file. Specifically, another bloody Dave Filoni Star Wars: the Clone Wars spinoff series set in the early years of the Empire in which a legacy character from The Clone Wars takes a young force-sensitive under their wing to keep the Empire from getting their hands on them. The same thing we've seen before in... Rebels, The Bad Batch, and several of the Tales short anthologies. This is truly the new management starting as they mean to go on.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, the lack of rhyme or reason was what threw me... since Dune Messiah is 3/4 the length of Children of Dune but that one somehow got published as a single volume where the others were split into anywhere from 2-4 pieces. I've been able to confirm that Toru Yano wrote for SF and that he did those translations in that timeframe for the same publisher. I just gotta find if there's a center to that Venn diagram.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Those early fleets likely had some war surplus Destroids (or the knowhow to make same) that could be adapted into the early model Workroids like we see in Macross 7. Not to mention some of those early fleets had Zentradi warships as part of their escort details, meaning they also had Zentradi crew who could assist with construction in lieu of such equipment in a pinch. My assumption - apropos of nothing in particular - would be that it would probably take a small fleet like that several years to build up a large town. They'd probably need to start with bulk manufacturing prefabricated housing units like the ones we see Hikaru living in after the war in SDF Macross and basic infrastructure like water treatment plants and/or power plants. (Though that prefab housing is said to have its own independent power systems via solar panels.) From there they could gradually scale up to urban planning with buildings for businesses, high density housing, and proper infrastructure. (Honestly, feels like I ought to refer this one out to someone who studied the growth of towns during the gold rush.)
  5. Seto Kaiba
    That's not a bad headcanon. I like that. Especially since the Lanthanite name is derived from the Greek λανθάνειν (Lanthanein, "to lie hidden"), referencing how they've existed hidden among Humanity on Earth for many thousands of years (allegedly). There were El-Aurians at least visiting Earth in 1893, and it wouldn't be surprising if there were some that decided to stay there permanently in years past. IMO, the main problem with how Holly Hunter's character is written is that Star Trek audiences are used to a certain level of professionalism from Starfleet officers and that's almost totally missing from her character. Pelia can kind of get away with it because she's one of the minor secondary characters on SNW and she's mainly there to be comic relief. Nahla Ake's overly casual attitude definitely feels out of place for someone who's supposed to be running the most exclusive and demanding educational facility in the Federation. Also, since Starfleet Academy is a service academy... shouldn't her title be Superintendent not Chancellor? In past series (TNG, DS9, VOY, etc.), the head of the academy had the title of Superintendent. (Such as Rear Admiral Brand in TNG.) Edit: Come to think of it, isn't her rank a little low for that job too? The superintendent of Starfleet Academy is usually an admiral. Depends on the species and culture, I suppose... the El-Aurians live practically forever and they seem pretty well-balanced throughout. There's a running theme with the two exemplar Lanthenites we have that they both seem ill-equipped to handle their incredibly long lifespans. Pelia's a little unhinged because she's constantly bored and thrill-seeking. Nahla definitely has a lot of unprocessed trauma that's leading her to blow things way out of proportion, like the whole Caleb business.
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    Lately, one detail I've been looking at is where the inspiration for certain bits of Macross technology came from. Ever since we discussed a while back how Studio Nue's in-house doujinshi circle SF Central Art and its monthly get-together were how Kawamori originally became acquainted with Studio Nue and ultimately what gave rise to a lot of Gundam and Macross's technical setting, I've been wondering what their inspirations were/are. One thing I've come to suspect, but need more details to confirm, is that a good part of Macross's technical setting was inspired by Toru Yano's Japanese translation of Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune that were published by Hayakawa Bunko from 1972 to 1979. Hayakawa Bunko are, not coincidentally, also the publishers of SF magazine, the same science fiction magazine that SF Central Art formed around leading to the creation of Studio Nue. The part I need/want to confirm is that Toru Yano's translation of the books was serialized in SF magazine in addition to being published in stand-alone multi-volume releases. (For some reason, Yano broke Dune into four volumes and Children of Dune into 3.) It feels a bit much to be entirely coincidental that both Dune and Macross have a set of interrelated technologies that allow reactionless flight/hovering, faster-than-light travel by folding space, faster-than-light communication through folded space, and energy shielding via spatial distortion. Esp. when the third Dune book was coming out in Japan around when Kawamori first started drafting Macross. They even have similar limitations, like the Macross's dimensional fault-based barrier exploding when hit with too much firepower or needing relays to retransmit fold communications across long distances.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    My standards are so low that I'll really take practically any Star Wars story that averts Filoni's tendency to have every established character meet, know, and have at least eight pages of backstory with every other. I'd like a Galaxy Far Far Away that feels a bit bigger than, say, Weehawken, New Jersey.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    There's a term for what you just did there. "Damned by faint praise"
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Considering he's been cut in half like... three times now? Yeah, probably. Eighty percent of his dialog is just him screaming "KEN-O-BIIIIIIIIII!" like he's off his rocker and the rest is him trying to persuade people he's totally sane and someone you should join or work for in the least convincing manner possible. That's what they said about Boba Fett, and we know how THAT ended.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Dave Filoni starting as he means to go on. Dave, this is the third time you've brought back Darth Maul for show and tell. Please bring something else next time.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Give it a couple projects... Filoni might not repeat whole plot references, but he'll repeat plot beats and characters to death and beyond. You'll be wishing for the Death Star Trench Run v3.0 around the time Rey is coming back from the dead for the fourth time with the help of the Mortis Gods to assist an aging Finn and Poe with the rescue the kidnapped granddaughter of Jar-Jar Binks (who is also force sensitive and a princess) from a resurgent Second Final Order under the command of Palpatine's forty-third heretofore unmentioned super-secret Sith apprentice assassin Darth Expy and his brutal gimp-suited enforcer Lzmp Stimpy. It'll be absolutely critical that the audience has read Star Wars: The Rise of The Fall of the Newer Jedi Order Part XIVI: Biflo Scrungus goes to Quiznos so they'll know Lzmp Stimpy is really a clone of Rey's long lost cousin's uncle's neighbor's ex-boyfriend's former roommate's biological son by sperm donation, that his real name is Ichabod, and that he turned evil because his mom divorced and married an elderly and abusive Sebulba. That's how Filoni writes 90% of the time. The man is deathly afraid of original ideas and wants to build stories around existing characters and set pieces whenever possible because to develop original characters and ideas is too much like work. He just wants to play with his action figures in peace. That's why the next series up is ANOTHER attempt to shake Darth Maul down for gangland drama. He's already been back to that well TWICE! Once in The Clone Wars and again in Rebels.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    As far as we know... not really. It's absolutely not the safest thing you could choose to do. Strong gravitational fields complicate the math for a fold jump (which is why ships usually fold into or out of high orbit or interplanetary space) and emerging so close to a planet's surface carries the significant risk of crashing immediately thereafter or ending up defolding into a terrain feature. That said, it doesn't actually create any significant negative consequences for the ship itself or its immediate surroundings because the fold system is exchanging the area of space occupied by the ship for an equivalent volume of space inside the planet's atmosphere. You're teleporting a chunk of the planet's atmosphere into the void, which probably is not sustainable long-term, but since the volumes of space being exchanged are equivalent it's not going to cause the kind of havoc that folding OUT of an atmosphere would, since in that case you're swapping the volume of the ship for an equivalent volume of vacuum and the ensuing collapse can get messy (as seen in the original series).
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Well, that'd depend on the size of the emigrant fleet more than anything. After all, the 1st Generation ones using Megaroad-class ships had populations in the tens of thousands. That's probably not a particularly tall order. The 3rd Gen and later ones that have populations in the millions... that could take a hot minute. Especially for a 5th Generation one like the Island Cluster-class Macross Frontier. That fleet had a population of ~10 million but the ship had capacity for 10x that. Building a city capable of housing and supporting 200 million people isn't gonna be quick. 'course, those City-class and Island Cluster-class ships are designed to basically be prefab cities you can just drop from orbit, so building a whole new conurbation probably wouldn't be the highest priority. I'd assume it'd probably be driven more be need than anything, so a slow expansion of a meticulously planned city over a course of at least a few years if not several decades as the population grew to require that extra space. If they really needed to with the quickness, those later ships could probably throw something together in a year or two given that they're equipped with massive semi-automated factories.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    Completely reasonable confusion. After all, the Lanthanites and El-Aurians are both sharing the hat "nearly immortal Human Aliens who have lived among Humans throughout history without revealing their presence". They definitely have different aesthetics, though. The El-Aurians tend to be confident, dignified, and serene and their reputation as listeners and advisers who give sage counsel from their centuries or millennia of life experience is such a meme even in-universe that Mariner disgustedly remarks that a 30 year old El-Aurian is "just a regular person". The Lanthanites we've seen (all two of them) seem to be the polar opposite. They're irresponsible, unprofessional, seemingly ill-equipped to deal with their own long lifespans, and tend to give off a sort of elderly ex-hippie vibe. This is completely spot-on, though.
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, her interview says she's not retiring completely. She's just getting out of the boardroom. She intends to continue her career as a producer.
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