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  1. Seto Kaiba
    It has a "blink and you'll miss it" appearance in Ep27 of the original series... in that pan shot of the hundreds of fighters flying in front of the Storm Attacker-mode SDF-1 Macross.
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    I doubt it, since that's also where the wing folds for high speed maneuver mode... but if so it'd give the VF-31 an advantage over the VF-25 in terms of total ordinance capacity.
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    Pretty sure there isn't... since Big West/Studio Nue own the Macross IP hands down, and plenty of material has continued to use the original UN Spacy roundel and "UN Spacy" markings.
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    All things considered, I'd have been floored if they weren't... even the VF-1 could do that.(I still suspect the VF-31A Kairos is supposed to have four hardpoints, though I've noticed the printed stats ignore the existence of the hardpoints altogether but consistently say the Kairos has missile containers where the Siegfried Custom has multidrone racks.)
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    Just a note, but in the novelization of Macross Frontier the VF-9 was still being used by Macross Galaxy in 2059. As the VF-9 isn't that much older than the VF-11, and the VF-11 was finally being retired from service in 2058 via disposal sales (noted in Macross R), it's possible those VF-9s are relatively recent acquistions sold off by the Spacy when the fighter finally was withdrawn from service. That, my friend, is putting it MILDLY.Max and Milia were the top aces of the First Space War, founded the UN Spacy's equivalent of TOPGUN, trained innumerable pilots, saved the galaxy a couple of times, helped General Galaxy make a name for itself in VF design and decided the final form of Shinsei's first few big sellers, and their romance is quite literally the stuff of history. The mark they made is arguably second only to that of Minmay herself.
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    That would be consistent with the published material, yeah... though it's worth remembering that the UN Spacy was not actually a space navy organizationally-speaking. "Spacy" is short for "Space Military" (Space Forces) or "Space Army". They just nicked Navy-style hull class symbols and squadron designations. That probably has a fair bit to do with the UN Spacy not having a proper space-capable ELINT or AEW/AWACS craft in its formative years. It had the ES-11D Cat's Eye recon plane, which is hinted to be a conventional aircraft converted for space use, but that clearly didn't cut it and they were forced to come up with something better suited to space combat... and, in that period, the gold standard was the VF-1. The VEFR-1 "Funny Chinese" from the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross series was every bit as improvised as the Cat's Eye, and the VE-1 refined the concept into a more production-worthy and modular form that meant with a little time and the right bolt-ons, a fighter could be converted into an AEW/AWACS/ELINT platform should the need arise. (Though, in the Macross II parallel world timeline, the VE-1 was ALSO an improvised design invented aboard the SDF-1 during its return flight to Earth created as a modification of the VT-1 Ostrich.)
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    There's very little information available on the operations of the VE-1 ELINT Seeker and the other VF-1 variants developed for AEW and recon use. The technical publications that go into detail on things like squadron organizations focus almost exclusively on the combat variants and neglect the support variants... and the oldest documents predate the VE-1 being a thing. Based on the minimal available evidence for that period of Macross history, the VE-1 units were organized into dedicated Space Airborne Early Warning squadrons (SVAW). The only one I can recall that actually had an identified squadron affiliation appeared in Variable Fighter Master File: VF-1 Valkyrie Vol.2... a unit from the SVAW-12 Praerie Dogs, a unit stationed on the ARMD-213 Altamira.
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    I know, right? I've made some of my weirdest finds that way, like looking for the comment about the VF-2JA's vernier count and stumbling across a bore for the Strike Valkyrie's beam cannon. Engrish can be a cruel mistress at times...(But here's me wondering why the UN Forces were apparently so invested in the idea of having ties to the Navy's Black Aces that they founded a Spacy equivalent squadron TWICE... once in the years leading up to the First Space War, and again after they copped it in said war along with the ARMD Ranger.)
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    I actually found the ship's name completely by accident a moment ago... CV-339 is identified in the back of This is Animation: Macross Plus as being the B.J. Gloval (sic.) (should be "Global"). The book has a VF-11C Super Thunderbolt from the SVF-41 Black Aces as the representative squadron from that ship.
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    Thank the machine god for small favors... They'll have to succeed or fail on their own merits... but since the music was Delta's single strong point, they at least have a good platform to launch from. I have a feeling the merchandise for the series isn't going to sell particularly well now that it's over, due to the mecha being more an afterthought than a proper part of the series.
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    What would I want a Macross Delta movie to be? 3. Cancelled. Seriously, the second cour of the series was such a train wreck that Macross Delta just doesn't DESERVE a movie. If I had my way, I'd quietly scrub the series from the continuity and pretend it never happened, like Sunrise did to G-Saviour. The only way I could consider them doing a film would be if they fired the writers of the series and hired someone else who could clean up the mess the current mooks made. Under new writers, I'd prefer to have a compilation-type movie in the hopes that an alternate version of the story by another writer wouldn't leave me wanting a refund.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    Depends on how official you want to be there... Variable Fighter Master File has shown the GBP-1S-equipped VF-1 Valkyrie with three gunpods. One mounted to each forearm, and one handheld. (It's in the Operation Bullseye portion of the second VF-1 volume.)
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    Maybe... though the normal VF emphasis on speed and evasion is more Dark Eldar territory. Perhaps that's why I like them so much... Now, whether the VF-31's forearm guns are actually in the same firepower tier as a proper gunpod isn't clear. The caliber of ammo they take (27mm on the military model, 25mm on the Xaos custom) is below what the nominal minimum gunpod caliber is (30mm), though since Ek still equals 0.5MV2 they could compensate with additional muzzle velocity... Your main point is bang-on correct though. The VF-31 may seem somewhat under-armed, but its weapons are actually pretty typical for a 5th Generation VF. It's got a gunpod, a pair of fixed-forward rapid fire cannons for fighter mode, coaxial guns on the monitor turret, and a fair amount of missile capacity. It's got less versatility in missile options than the VF-25, but the VF-25 kind of dominates in that respect by design with twice the number of pylons as any other 5th Generation VF. Yeah, but he had to stay in GERWALK mode or ditch one because he didn't have anywhere to put two.
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    I doubt "Make it Orky" is part of the average VF's design plan... (Well, unless we're talking the VF-X3 Medusa or SDP-1 Stampede Valkyrie... they both look like they're cobbled together from whatever was laying around, and the former actually was...)
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    Mostly that first one. Yeah, that's from The Show That Must Not Be Named... or, to be precise, the comic books that were produced for same. Those comics depicted some of the Zentradi characters as being quite old, hundreds or thousands of years old and effectively immortal barring combat injury.Vrlitwhai wasn't exactly ancient in the original Macross series... IIRC he was 38.
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    The range of movement of the ordinance container is somewhat limited... being handheld clears that problem right up. How many gunpods does one fighter need?(The current official recordholder is the VF-2SS Valkyrie II, which can carry three gunpods without resorting to hardpoints. Pseudo-official loadings also give the VF-1's Armored Pack and VF-25 the ability to carry three gunpods at once.)
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    It's been a while since last I saw Macross 7, but IIRC they say that a Zentradi is hardier than a human... not longer-lived. Milia had simply never caught a cold before and leapt to the illogical conclusion that she was dying, when all she had was the space equivalent of the common cold. By 2067 they probably have started to get a handle on what the Zentradi average lifespan is... but in 2045 that was probably still unknown. We've seen several Zentradi still hale and hearty enough to go about their business in 2059 while still being First Space War veterans... but that doesn't mean they're necessarily longer-lived than the humans they're virtually identical to on a genetic level. Nah, Max and Milia are actually probably one of the best parts of that show.The only real bad parts about Macross 7 are Basara's personality (he's an a-hole, no two ways about it), the repetitive use of the same handful of animated sequences in the combat, and the repetitive use of the same couple songs in the first half. (The budget wasn't huge.) The rest is actually watchable.
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    The emigrant ships are mostly self-sustaining, but not completely... and they aren't possessed of infinite endurance. Endurance has improved as ships have gotten larger and the recycling technology has gotten better, but the Megaroad-01 should be well over its planned service lifespan by 2067. So... a couple things...First, the loss of communication in July 2016 is what prompted the UN Forces to conclude the SDF-2 Megaroad-01 had gone missing, and the ensuing coverup... so they clearly don't have a cavalier attitude about ships going silent. Second, the time between the Varauta system being conquered by the Protodeviln and the start of Macross 7 is only two years (2043-2045). Third, I don't believe it's said that the Varauta system went silent after being conquered. The entire population was brainwashed, so it wouldn't have been any real challenge to fake routine communications to ensure the UN Government was convinced all was well.
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    The reason that Max and Milia look young is kind of an in-joke on the part of the show's creators. Namely, Max is a genius (or Jenius)... and growing old is a state of mind for normal men.
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    It's complicated. Fold waves are basically the fold space equivalent of electromagnetic waves... they're produced as an unintentional consequence of operating overtechnology systems that use super dimension spatial physics like thermonuclear reaction power systems, gravity control systems, space fold systems converging beam cannons, dimensional warheads, etc. They're also produced intentionally for technologies that leverage the faster-than-light propigation of fold waves in radio and radar applications. The Fold Wave System on the YF-29 and select later aircraft has two functions: By harnessing and amplifying fold waves using fold quartz, it enables the VF to draw energy directly from super dimension space in the same manner that the Vajra do. This enables the VF to use energy-intensive technologies which would otherwise be unusable in fighter mode like pinpoint barriers or energy conversion armor.It's not clear if the boost to engine power is from the engines not needing to divert energy from the reaction to the generators, or if it's the fold waves themselves changing the reaction inside the engine. The former seems the more likely one. The VF gains the ability to receive, jam, or amplify fold waves from other sources... e.g. singers with a fold receptor factor or v-type bacterium, Vajra songs, etc.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    A Uraga-class escort battle carrier.After 2041, considering there's a VF-19A. In the water. They didn't get much of a cooldown before the Ghost showed up to ruin the moment. There's a lot of Alaska west of Macross City... almost all of it, in fact.The maps in Macross Chronicle are not super-precise, but we know Macross City was built within eyeshot of Grand Cannon 1/Alaska Base. The Grand Cannon technology sheet shows a rough location for Grand Cannon 1 that puts it either due north of Central, AK and due west of Circle, AK, or due east of Fort Yukon, AK. Officially, the dogfight in the city took place in the outskirts of Macross City, AK.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    Probably not, normally when there's a capacitor system involved in a beam weapon's operation it's mentioned. I'd assume that's just the reaction chamber portion of the barrel where they produce the superheavy quantum that the gun excites with a resonance fold effect to produce the dimension eater effect it projects outward as a beam.The VF-171EX is using a pair of detuned VF-19 engines, so those may be tuned to reserve more plasma for power generation as a way of making the most of having to reduce the thrust output to respect the Nightmare Plus's structural limitations. The catch is that it only benefits the weapons of the YF-29, YF-30, and possibly VF-31 Siegfried.The YF-27-3, YF-27-5, and VF-27 didn't have a fold wave system, and the poor man's fold wave system (the reheat system) in the Sv-262 Draken III is focused on increasing engine thrust. Maybe, maybe not... we've seen in previous titles that some ships in Macross don't keep their entire hangar pressurized.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    Considering the Zentradi Army's 118th Main Fleet pretty comprehensively razed the surface of the Earth, there probably aren't too many abandoned towns out there. Macross Chronicle indicates the dogfight took place in the outskirts of Macross City, Alaska. The battle scene in the final episode of Macross Plus (either version) was definitely on Earth. There was a mocked up training area that was used for testing on Eden, including response time trials with paint ammo and also live-fire testing with gunpods, which appeared early on in the OVA and movie.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Presumably he just looked for a sufficiently large chunk of one of the satellites that Isamu shot down to cover his descent and took shelter in that. Myung actually explains this one herself... Sharon's personality runs on a computer model of the human brain, and prior to gaining sentience via illegal technology her emotions were all built on emotional data scanned from the brain of Myung Fang Lone.Initially, Sharon was attracted to Isamu because Myung was and Sharon's incomplete system was being operated by scanning Myung's emotional state in realtime. After being illegally upgraded/completed with banned technology by Marj, Sharon internalized the recorded emotional data from Myung as her own... forming a twisted mirror of Myung's own feelings for Isamu. (Remember, her final monologue to Myung has her state that she loves Guld but she loves Isamu more.) She tried to kill Isamu out of love, because she knew (via Myung) that Isamu's an adrenaline junkie always chasing that next reckless high and therefore tried to give him the ultimate experience in that regard. Exactly what she intended to do with the Macross isn't clear, though since she was tied into the ship's computers it probably shortly became her physical body.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Do you honestly think Big West would let go of a cash cow like this?At most, Kawamori might take a powder and leave the franchise in the hands of Hidetaka-san, whom he's been working with a lot since Frontier. If I had to guess, I'd say that he checked out of Delta early because it wasn't the show he wanted to make in the first place.
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