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I'm bothered by this as well. The show has hit the half-way point in the season and I'm not too clear about where this show is going. I'm getting a feeling for the characters but I'm not feeling a main plot for this series. Maybe something will show by the end of the season but I really want to know what they want to do this season; what they want to accomplish before they move onto the next season.

I don't think those 4 made it to the final game IIRC.

The Ghost in MF probably does not use the same programming that the Ghost X-9 uses. While the design structure of the Ghost X-9 may have been a proven choice, the programming behind it may have been experimental and deemed too experimental for mass production. It very well could be based on the Sound Jamming system from VF-X 2. Unfortunately, we are still over 3 months away from knowing. The individual bugs didn't seem to give off that jamming while the unknown ship did.

Probably not. It may have the same influence that "Star Mirage" had on the VF-5000. Unofficially added for the game. The jury is still out on that one.

The VF-X 2 Visual Guide lists only the VF-22 as the model used.

I'm sure the Ghosts can have their systems bumped up in protection, it was just a case of "we didn't know". Odd though, the interference was only close to the unknown ship. The bugs seem to use decoys against the missiles. So maybe the electronic interference was localized to just the ship and not the bugs.

-I think you should watch it again because it is very clear about Isamu surviving or not. -They were fighting rogue Zentradi. -The Ghost X-9 only appears in M+. However its design legacy is found in Macross Frontier and VF-X 2. -Have you considered watching the movie version of M+? You should if you want more M+. Although it is essentially the same product. Please use spoiler tags instead of putting in long breaks. And is question really belongs in the Newbie thread-> http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=140

The VF-19A was derived from the YF-19 prototype. The model for the VF-22 was indeed the same one used in M7, only colored in more YF-21 colors....kinda (I believe they used a darker color blue of the "Max" paint scheme).

No name yet.

We knew you could do it. Issue resolved. Topic closed.

Yes. The variable cross section of the wings was experimental and never meant to be part of the Super Nova competition's final submission. Both companies probably tested many things on both the YF-19 and YF-21 which would never make it to mass production due to cost and implementation issues.

The canting of the wings in high-speed mode and the expanding/contracting cross-section are 2 different things.

Next episode listings. Take it as you will, maybe with a grain of salt. And now the Thrones (names need to be Romanized properly so those are not the correct spellings)

Anybody gonna bet that the nuke won't work?

You might as well have said Palladium RPG books. MMD is a RPG website. The stats there are designed for an RPG game. And even MMD doesn't say the BCS/BDI was made for Zentradi.

Where does it say this?

That's an accessory. BFGs are not standard equipment.

Perhaps. But we know it reacts to their blood so we know AFOS responds to a certain genetic marker. As for the actual mechanics of how AFOS translates the user's signals, well...that's Protoculture technology.

The VF-22 does have beam cannons.

VF-7000 THUNDERHAWK, if you cannot cite where you obtained this information that the BDI/BCS was a total failure, then I suggest you refrain from making a that statement (hence opinion). The kids here will eat you for breakfast. And in a poll that says "The Ultimate Macross Variable Fighter", leaving out the MII fighters is probably a bad idea.

Ugh...should have ended this topic last night.

Now that I think about it, the X-Gears system reminds me very much of Kawamori's original concept or a guy in a power suit/exo-suit.

The Nome family have genetic markers (perhaps everybody on that island...) which make them "special". The Nome family are the "pilots" of AFOS. The can interface with AFOS. And AFOS reacts to them. Now, in AFOS's cockpit, there are a series of tubes that wrap around Sara. What those tubes are doing...I leave to your imagination, but Sara was very much "plugged in" to AFOS so it reacts to everything she sees, hears, feels, etc.

Again read the legal thread: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=153 Big West owns the creative rights to Macross in Japan. Tatsunoko owns the SDFM animation. HG owns the license to SDFM through Tatsunoko. Macross 7 carries a very large music license bill which many companies do not have the capital for.

The YF/VF-19 may have been where you have 1st seen wrap-around imaging, but it's not the first place where it has existed. The VF-17 has had that feature before the YF/VF-19, even if limited in use. I imagine it wouldn't take much to just turn on the rest of the screens on a VF-17, then making them standard in a VF-171. Heck they probably turned them on back in M7.