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  1. Seto Kaiba
    On production and production-intent aircraft, the ISC is a lot more compact than the original engineering test article was so it's up in the nose instead. The prototype ISC was... bulky. On the original YF-24 it was quite large, and even on the early YF-24 Evolution prototype it was bulky enough back there to earn the aircraft an unflattering nickname like "Camel". Variable Fighter Master File: VF-25 Messiah specifies where in the nose it happens to reside... it's practically inside the cockpit, apparently being directly underneath the bulk of the hardware for the pilot's main cockpit display screen. It's number 3 on the cutaway on page 44.
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    The initial batch of YF-24s that were built in the 2040s were nameless. The "Evolution" name was picked up by the second batch of YF-24s built in 2055 that Shinsei Industry produced without General Galaxy's involvement using more mature versions of the linear actuator and inertia store converter technology that caused so many problems for the original series of prototypes. The first of the YF-24 Evolution prototypes was nicknamed the "Camel" because of the large dorsal bulge caused by the inertia store converter's placement in the airframe. AFAIK, a name has not been given for Shinsei's completed production spec VF-24.
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    It might've been less stupid that way, yeah... instead of these allegedly-amazing magical knights who can see the future blindly walking to their own extermination.
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    Until they remake it like ten years from now, anyway.
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    I vaguely remember reading something about their fleet having been orbiting said burnt-to-ash planet and consequently didn't fare too well when the planet blew up. As far as having someone in charge, outside of the original trilogy the Star Wars franchise has always struck me as having this odd pro-authoritarian slant where the heroes are always pro-democracy but democracy always seems short-lived and dictatorial rule always seems inevitable and the only stable form of government. Originality is a perspective issue when your main source of films for the longest time was adapting fairy tales, folk tales, and old novels.
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    Nothing says "we're here to save democracy" like Darth Vader's daughter rolling up in in her 7'2" asthmatic gimp daddy's old instrument of galactic oppression. (Really, I think we can rule that latter one out for the same reason Kawamori has generally kept the Zentradi ships out of the NUNS fleet shots... no sense letting audiences get confused about which one of the extremely similar-looking ships the good guys are on.)
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    Nah, the planet they're parked on just has REALLY uptight parking enforcement... Vader parked his fleet there and went for a soak, and woke up to find his massive armada had been booted.
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    A bad idea that was arrived at, IIRC, because the studio believed that general audiences wouldn't understand the Wachowskis original concept that the machines were networking the brains of their captive human population together in order to use them as wetware processors to augment their own computing power. Server farms, rather than power plants. If all you needed humans for was thermal energy generation, it'd be a lot easier to lobotomize them at birth. Not to mention it'd render the planet nearly uninhabitable in the short term, and actually uninhabitable long term with no photosynthesis going on to replenish atmospheric oxygen... accumulation of pollution and oxygen depletion would gradually turn the planet into a barren wasteland covered in unbreathable toxic smog. Come to that, a new Matrix sequel is going to be set in a pretty grim place unless it takes place in the actual Matrix. Who wants to be the slumlord of craphole county living out on the toxic, radioactive wasteland leftover from the war with the machines?
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    There's something on the trailing edge of the wing that looks like the kind of small thrusters the VF-25 had. No official confirmation that's what it is, but it's a decent guess.
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    Well that didn't take long.
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    Really, I suspect it was Revell. Why would the networks object to an anthology? Force Five was already a proven winner. Revell needed to promote Macross so they could make some money on their failed Transformers knockoff, so the goal wasn't "get a series on the air" so much as "make the part that we already have the rights to long enough for syndication". Harmony Gold didn't have a license to Dorvack, Dougram, etc.
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    The prequel trilogy was kinda going the other direction, TBH... Failure was the Only Option because the Jedi were mostly oblivious Lawful Good paladin types (what RPG-ers would call Lawful Stupid) up against a hyper-competent Lawful Evil antagonist.
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    Maybe they should... but only after spending fifteen minutes artfully posing, Jojo style.
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    Really, I think the first brick in the wall between Big West and Harmony Gold was laid when Harmony Gold decided to strip all the original creators names out of the credits in favor of a blanket credit to Tatsunoko Production only. Nothing says "douchebag" like taking an author's name off their work and claiming it as your own. Their best, most Big West-friendly way forward would've been to run Robotech as a Force Five-style anthology series, but (IIRC) Revell wasn't having any of it.
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    Really? I could've sworn I'd read something on TVTropes Palpatine being involved. Well, it's kind of hard for a character to NOT end up as one when their role in the story is to be The Chosen One, Ultimate Hero of Ultimate Destiny, Anointed Savior by the Magical Energy Field that Controls Fate Itself. That isn't just an unusually literal case of Designated Hero, it's about as close to an omniscient morality license as it gets. Let's be honest, if the Empire and First Order weren't holding an idiot ball the size of the second Death Star 24/7 this would've been a VERY different series... and recent films keep drawing lines under this fact like they've got stock in Bic. You kidding? Look at the evil intent seething in those dead, empty eyestalks... the malice in that horrible grin... The Jedi library's copy of Laser Swords, Sabers, and Staffs: A DIY Guide got wet in the rain.
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    The Rebellion was up against long odds in the original trilogy, but they had an actual war fleet in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi... enough to at least briefly hold their own against the Imperial Navy. From this teaser, it looks like they're set to attack a fleet every bit as big as the one from Return of the Jedi with a single beat-up light freighter, a diplomatic courier ship of a type that made its debut losing an entirely one-sided fight with a single old model Star Destroyer, a double handful of fighters, and a single infantry platoon. That's a TALL order even by Star Wars's standards... especially when the godmode chosen one isn't a fighter pilot this time. The older Star Wars movies weren't quite so blatant with the idea that "good will always triumph because evil is dumb". Isn't that basically how we got Anakin in the first place?
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    You came up with more or less the exact same answer that a thousand Robotech fans before you came up with when asked how they would have edited Robotech in accordance with more modern industry practices. No no no... this is when we get out our really good Sunday torches and pitchforks. Not our "wear around town" torches and pitchforks, the ones for special occasions. Which begs the question why you're energetically trying to assimilate the Kazon.
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    Flattery will get you nowhere. Huh. So that was a thing. I'm not sure what the takeaway from that was supposed to be, but it's certainly a thing that exists. If that shot of the sky literally filled with old-school Star Destroyers is any indication, there's going to be some next-level BS going on to allow the Resistance's meager handful of soldiers to win.
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    Max and Rick there look like they're on their first week at Rob Liefeld's gym.
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    Somehow, this sounds vastly more interesting than the actual plot of The Rise of Skywalker. It's like that brief aside in Evangelion where Shinji isn't a total wuss.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Gave Do You Love Your Mom and her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks a go... and dear sweet machine god this might actually be as bad as Isekai Cheat Magician. This feels less like an isekai series and more like a cheesy PornHub original setup for a hentai version of a stepmom movie.
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    Really? Then let me rub some salt in the wound.
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    For a lot of Robotech fans, I gather it's seen more as the opposite of a problem... there ain't much love for the old comics or novels except among the really hardcore fans. Really, I thought the Borg had standards?
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    Oh my that's pretty. I've always really appreciated the reference too... kind of a missed opportunity to not call it the Havock-class, like the HMS Thunder Child from The War of the Worlds it's named for. It would've been surprisingly appropriate, given that the ship's debut was against the Borg, who find chaos (havoc) distressing beyond belief.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Arson, murder, and jaywalking...
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