I thought I said I liked Southern Cross on several occasions.
I just don't like rabid fanboys who think their own conjecture is fact. Honestly Dave, would you care about this fighter if those bits of dialog didn't exist? Would you have any reason to believe it can?
As I've said before, you can point to a lot of sci-fi plane designs out of Japan that have just as many or more details that you would interpret as "evidence of transformation."