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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Um... the first one was 24 years ago, mate. Delta would be the third, if it happens.
  2. Seto Kaiba
    Not everyone... Messer seems to think that Hayate's a reprehensible bellend, and Mirage seems to think he's a bit touched in the head too.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    Not really "new", but new to the website at least... for those who want this in print, it's also in the last issue of Great Mechanics G and the Macross Modelers pamphlet.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    She's not the only one... one of the waitresses at Ragunyan-nyan is clearly carrying a torch for him as well. (She's even shown watching him from behind one of the columns inside the restaurant in the OP. I wonder if, since it's owned by Chuck's family, that would make her his sister or something? Maybe Messer's not going for that because he respects the bro code?)
  5. Seto Kaiba
    It's not clear how much time actually passes in that training sequence, but we actually see Hayate attempt those exact same maneuvers early in the episode and the training AI keeps trying to stop him and force his aircraft back to level. Pretty sure Messer has taken it upon himself to ensure that Hayate either knuckles down or gets the hell out.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    All three modes.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    It's not just you. That evil smile of hers when she starts trolling Hayate from the comfort of her cockpit is adorable.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    ... with the smell of his lunch, anyway. You realize the implications of that, right? If Arad or Messer can't bring the bloody thing to heel, it may have a legitimate claim to being the show's top ace. EDIT: If the cat's name isn't Pugachev, I'm going to be sorely put out. EDIT 2: Or should it be Purrgachev?
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Point of order... what Hayate turned off was a training support/safety AI that was apparently built into the VF-1EX to prevent trainee pilots from crashing. The displays actually refer to it as a "Snap Guide Support" system, and it seems (entertainingly) to work much like the auto-level function in Ace Combat... overriding pilot input and pushing the aircraft back to level flight at a safe altitude if the trainee messes up and causes a stall or something else life-threatening. Had Hayate turned off the airframe control AI (presumably the same Brunhilde/ARIEL II system used by the YF-30?) then he would have crashed for sure because he would've cut off the entire control system and turned the plane into a brick. I'm actually vaguely annoyed by it, since the VF-31A is IMO far and away the better looking of the two VF-31 versions. It's always been a funny little in-joke that the -9 VFs have sword names and forward-swept wings... the sole exception being Rod's YF-29B Percival. VF-1EX apparently. VF-X was the designation of the first VF-1 prototype. Macross Pachinko Fever had some CG VF-1's animated in it, but this is the first time a proper series has done it.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    It's a cat, mate... cats are a-holes.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    The Chaos staff seem to think that Hayate has significant natural talent, and Arad's mission seems to be to round off the rough edges and beat the insubordinate attitude out of him through some intense training. Messer and Mirage seem to be his chosen instruments for said beating, though they seem to have somewhat underestimated the power of his intent to slack off on things he's not interested in. Part of it you could say is a calculated attempt to snare him by his passion for flight and use that to keep his nose to the grindstone. (To be fair, Hayate's attitude on the Elysion's deck would've disqualified him as a soldier... but Chaos isn't a military, and only dubiously a PMC. The organization spends most of its time shepherding civilians anyway, so they probably have a bit more patience than most.)
  12. Seto Kaiba
    Ok... my thoughts, recorded stream-of-consciousness style as I watch this episode:
  13. Seto Kaiba
    I admit I'm rather enthusiastic for more of Mirage myself... (Though are we not counting Sylvie Gena or Mahara Fabrio either?)
  14. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, the VF-11D is the two-seater version... though it's worth noting that we've never seen an unmodified one. The VF-11D units seen in Macross 7 as part of the Jamming Birds tactical sound unit's equipment were customized for increased performance and for spiritia warfare, and the one in Macross the Ride was similarly but less severely customized to help it keep up with the air racers it was filming. Similarly, we've never seen an unmodified VF-11MAXL. Mylene's was heavily customized for Sound Force use, though the VF-11MAXL is a very rare, made-to-order unit built in vanishingly small numbers for ace pilots.
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Thus far? We've seen five variants of the VF-11... the VF-11A, -B, -C, -D, and -MAXL, and various customizations thereof. The two most common variants are the VF-11B and VF-11C, the former being the variant that Isamu flew in Macross Plus and the latter being the cannon fodder fighter for the Macross 7 series that occasionally equipped the Protect Armor pack. The Macross Plus OVA/movie also showed some unmanned VF-11A units that had been converted into target drones for testing the Ghost X-9 (painted in high visibility orange).
  16. Seto Kaiba
    Seems like a safe bet that planet Ragna's natives are yet another humanoid species engineered by the Protoculture the same way Humanity was...
  17. Seto Kaiba
    The 991? I'm not sure you could say they're cheating their way out of the consequences... from the initial 911, they redesigned the vehicle several times and made modifications to the torque path calibrations in an effort to minimize the problem. In that sense, you could say it's more like what Shinsei Industry did when they put out the 2nd mass production type VF-19 with the redesigned airframe and reworked the control software to improve handling stability. The VF-31 is kind of like the 991 in the sense that, by the time it came out the problem had essentially been licked and further developments were focused on improving the agility and performance of the larger, more stable design instead. (Again, Porsche's not my forte... feel like I'm flailing around a bit with this comparison.)
  18. Seto Kaiba
    Sort of... well, I suppose you could say that's true of both Shinsei's VF-19 and General Galaxy's VF-22. They were their respective companies' unstable superstar designs that combined a bank-breaking price tag with skittish, overly-sensitive handling and monumental acceleration. (My brain keeps trying to go to Maserati or Viper in comparison to performance auto, but that's my day job talking...) I'm not sure there's a good comparison for the VF-31's FSW versions, since those (and, really, all 5th Generation Valkyries) are preserving that extremely agile, sensitive handling and merely cheating their way out of the consequences with inertial compensation.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    The Macross Frontier series itself glosses over the details of Mihoshi Academy's pilot training program, but the novelization of same indicates that the academy's pilots do conduct practical training using civilian market model VF-1 Valkyries. By that point, the VF-1's price through military disposal sales or direct sale to civilians had long since come down to the point where a civilian without a major corporate sponsor could potentially afford one. Considering that Shinsei's VF-19 was so expensive that even the military balked at the prospect of buying them in numbers, I doubt that even a wealthy vocational school could afford to train students with something like that. In 2058, private citizens were only just getting the opportunity to buy the VF-11 through military disposal sales (as Chelsea Scarlett did at the end of Macross the Ride, but she had to buy three to get enough parts to build one working VF-11). There was already a good deal of commonality thanks to the standardization of controls starting with the VF-4 and back-ported into the VF-1 via the Block 6 and later upgrades. EX-Gear was meant to improve the intuitive-ness and ease of variable fighter controls via a learning computer, electromyographic sensors, and force-feedback to produce the feel of "wearing" a variable fighter. More than that, the basic controls for Valkyries and other mecha has been semi-standardized for over half a century by 2067, so an operator with experience on something as simple as a Workroid or civilian-market Valkyrie could potentially apply that experience to operating something much newer without making a complete arse of themselves. A view pretty much explicitly confirmed in official sources... the difficult handling of the VF-19 was one of the chief factors in it being passed over for adoption as next main fighter. Too many smash-ups and losses of control in training. (Not helped by the price tag and tightened restrictions on arms exports to the emigrant fleets...) Almost twenty years later they're STILL tweaking the design in the hopes of making it something average pilots can handle.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Can't say I've ever seen/read anything to that effect... and I'm fairly certain that's not the case because: The VF-1X Plus Valkyrie didn't exist at the time Macross 7 was animated. It was "created" later, for the Macross Digital Mission VF-X game. Milia's VF-1 in Macross 7 still had the early-type cockpit (up to Block 5), the VF-1X has the upgraded cockpit from Block 6+. The VF-1X has the A-style monitor turret, Milia's VF-1 has a J-style monitor turret. Macross Chronicle identifies it as "VF-1J (Milia's craft)" on the Episode Sheets for Macross 7.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Fair enough. Macross Zero would've made a LOT more sense if that stuff had actually been in the OVA... seriously. This may not help the theory much though, as it seems to suggest the ancient Protoculture's genetic tampering with developing species actually reduced their ability to access and channel higher-dimension energy. There was a long gap between the Protoculture's initial stop on Earth to reengineer early homonids to sub-Protoculture standards and their return to leave the Birdhuman behind (something like a quarter-million years). I wonder if that means the Protoculture's second visit including rounding up a bunch of people who were sensitive to higher-dimension resonance or they reintroduced the trait to the population which already lived there through interbreeding with humans or something like transfusions from the Birdhuman (since the priestesses all have the same blood type which the bio-technological birdhuman does). Y'know... this raises another interesting theory. Is the violence inherent in the nature of Humans and other sub-Protoculture species the result of the Protoculture diminishing humanity's access to higher dimension resonance? Did they, by accident or design, stunt the emotional awareness and empathy of entire species by diminishing or removing their innate ability to connect to each other and communicate through higher dimensions? Is the emergence of the fold receptor factor a product of evolution undoing the Protoculture's genetic lockout on the ability, a result of increased exposure to higher-dimension energy via overtechnology, or an intentional part of the Protoculture's design for the species that would succeed them? Come to that, did they destroy themselves because their resonance ability was underdeveloped or damaged by their tampering with their own genome in such a way that it made it harder for them to unify as a species? This is potentially some deep deep stuff.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    Raizo Nakajima was the chief aircraft maintenance officer aboard the CVN-99 Asuka II during Macross Zero... he was responsible for the tuning of the VF-0's jet engines.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    It looks like it might be on a rail, which might mean it's got a flexible belt feed from wherever the ammo is stored. I'm gonna go look at the animation of the guns in GERWALK mode... because you're absolutely right that something looks awry. EDIT: On Arad's VF-31S, it looks like the gun is farther down the arm in battroid mode than that art shows...
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Ah, no... that wasn't a VF-1X of any stripe in Macross 7. That was Milia's old VF-1J from the First Space War (though likely equipped with modern ammo). EDIT: It's worth noting there are a few animation errors in 7 where, in GERWALK or Fighter mode, they accidentally draw it with a VF-1A head, but Macross Chronicle confirms it is indeed meant to be a VF-1J. WRT Master File, the VF-1X Valkyrie is described in the 2nd VF-1 volume (Space Wing) as an improvement from the 2020's, though it's a different model of craft from the VF-1X Plus (sometimes written VF-1X+) which is a later and more comprehensive improvement.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    Slight problem... the official chronology indicates that humans were engineered before the war with the Supervision Army started and that the ship that did the work was destroyed and never made it back to report on its activities. Also, we don't know when the Birdhuman-type mecha were developed, but they weren't introduced to humanity until hundreds of thousands of years after the war ended, after humanity had done some significant evolving. Considering the Birdhuman's underlying technology, it's likely it wasn't developed until long after the war ended. (Where in Chronicle does it say humans are ideal for maintaining bio-technology like that?) The genetic memory thing... there's been no evidence of that outside DYRL?, so that may simply be dramatic license on the part of the in-universe movie.
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