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They're not just a different color, the FAST pack that comes with the 1j bundles have the TV series style forearm armor as well.

the only one other than the DYRL set (blue) is the stealth set (black): http://www.tmpanime.com/index.php?main_pag...d2c3babc5f47734 They're sold out as far as i know.

wow. looks like the new gundam series is going to be a giant mash up. Gundamn versus virtual on versus battletech...

Tell us what you expect us to look at Sketch, pointing us to a google search, whose first hit is to point us back at us is hardly helpful. If you're referring to the posts @ macrossRPG.com, that's all speculation as well. They don't know anything more than us. Though apeman007 feels the same way I do, that "thermonuclear" in the macross universe has little or nothing to do with a real-world fusion engine after which its named.

Since we know really nothing about the operation of the "thermonuclear" engines in a valk, it's pretty much useless to conjecture about what the fuel source would be. If it's a fusion reactor based on real-world technology, the fast packs would just be carrying, essentially, water. Shooting them, or rupturing them, may cause an explosion of water, as the tanks maybe kept under pressure in order to hold more fuel for the engines. Or, the thermonuclear engines maybe of some sort of super efficiency and not require an additional fuel source, in which case the FAST pack may contain some sort of combustible liquid that is injected into the heat output of the fusion reactor to provide thrust, which could explain why FAST packs go boom. Or, the explosions could be due to the type of munition used, or they could be due to the warheads in the micro missiles exploding. Or, as Dante pointed it, it's a cartoon. And like cars in movies, these things just blow up for no particular reason.

ah! thanks for the answer

Yeah, I noticed that too, was that explained in the book or the comics? Or is it something to look forward to in T2.

they're fine once they defrost, which I'm sure happened when plumetting at mach 23 through atmo.

heehee, mechwarrior: giant bipedal war machine? check. fusion powered enginge? check. neural interface? check. Air Conditioning for the pilot? What's this air conditioning you speak of?

I'm done with the VF-0 line as well, except for the reactive armor, should it come out. While I'm glad everyone is reporting their shin type to be happy and problem free, I'm just not keen on spending another 200+ for another vf-0s. MAYBE, I'll get the VF-0d when it comes out, if only to have a delta wing valk.

Well, you can always deconstruct things down to the point that we're at now. In the end, any fictional people will have some aspect of a real people group or experience behind it. Most story-tellers don't create their characters out of thin air, but draw from shared histories, experiences and cultures. But I think this loses the point of the original argument, was if whether the PC could be so cold as to exterminate an entire planet in order to keep violence from spreading. To that end, the PC, imo, are specifically portrayed to evoke the parable of the atlanteans. Even to the extent of the submerged city as s001 pointed out.

yeah, i'd be pretty sweet to have a chronology of the M&M valks.... mmmm... vf-22 goodness.

nice Dante, I like 1 and 4 the best.

"hurt my soul" is not warning enough. It's like being run through with a pike and calling it an "ouchie"

I hate you. That was the very definition of psychological warfare.

too cool. This is going to be my first non-transforming vf-1 purchase.

aaajin, graham said that those were supposed to the 25th anniversary valks, but because they were universally reviled and despised, they became one-offs. I added the reviled and despised bit. but they were unpopular.

agreed, the whole point of the PC is that they are a flawed culture. They're not like the ancients in star gate, or the myriad other progenitor races portrayed in sci fi. These are a people who's technological achievements surpased their moral judgement and were eventual destroyed by it. In mythological terms, the PC are the people of atlantis

The 0a shoulders are better than the 0s shoulders, since they probably won't be glued together. My advice, take the replacement arm apart completely. check all rubber gaskets for flashing and trim. Re-assemble the arm on the body, starting with the shoulders, then the bicep/elbow and then the arm.

no, there are gas molecules in space. but they are so few in density as to be practically negligible and for the purposes of conducting heat, completely worthless. The word atmosphere has very specific usage. 1, it means the body of gasses surrounding a planet or celestial body. The other usage that would be applicable to our conversation would be the physics definition, which is: A unit of pressure equal to the air pressure at sea level. It equals the amount of pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 millimeters high at 0 degrees Celsius under standard gravity, or 14.7 pounds per square inch (1.01325 × 105 pascals). The amount of gas molecules in space are so few and far between, they exert no measurable pressure, so your usage still fails the physics definition of atmosphere. Again, space is for all practical purposes a vacuum. It does not conduct heat.

space is cold, but it has basically no density, so you're not able to conduct heat. This is the reason hot water cooks faster than hot air. Water is more dense and is able to retain much more energy than air, which is less dense. This means in space, you're not able to control temperature through conduction, which means technology like heat sinks are worthless. Heat in space must be dealt with, primarily through radiation. You also need to consider, that because there's no atmosphere or other medium to diffuse heat, when you're sunlight, the part of the vessel hitting the sun gets VERY hot while the parts in space would be very cold. This means less the farther you get from a star, but it would be an issue if you were fighting around the Earth.

Dante74 is right, the 1/48 was yamato's first CAD design. Can we please stop derailing every yamato thread with crap from previous/other releases. The yf-19 thread has like three threads now, all of which have devolved into non stop bickering. The VF-0 has/had four threads now, devoted to the shoulder issue.

Max and milia would only be in their fifties, and it's not uncalled for to look youthful into your fifties. And in the colony ships, you see plenty of older citizens. Besides, I would imagine there's a certain anime fudge factor at work when it comes to aging characters appropriately. If there was a way to restore DNA in the clones, there's no reason why cloning would result in hereditary diseases. Accelerated aging is one of the major stumbling blocks in real-world cloning. And with careful management, a healthy breeding stock of some 150 individuals should be enough to rebuild a population. And more than that survived space war 1.

Well, you have to remember with cloning, you're usually taking from an adult cell, and DNA has already had age related damage. So the clone, maybe biologically one age, but the amount of damage done to his DNA is already pretty advanced. This would mean that if you have two clones breeding, especially if the mother is a clone, the risk of genetic linked diseases increases. Likely, clone x clone populations probably saw an increase in the births of children with downs syndrome and other non curable ailments. Seeing as characters in Macross seem to age normally, it's unlikely that they've created ways to restore age related DNA damage.