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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Macross Chronicle refers to it as a warship of the New UN Forces... though that seems rather odd as it has no evident defenses of any kind. The Episode Sheet for that episode is the ONLY source I've found so far that refers to that ship at all. The Macross Frontier fleet doesn't appear to have a Three Star Heavy Industries factory ship.
  2. Seto Kaiba
    Well, it is a doujinshi... so a lot of the content is going to be dictated by what the author felt was cool/interesting/consistent/etc. Some of it is pretty "out there". Other things are pretty sensible. Some of it, like the stealth cruiser with the underslung Macross Cannon, are not technically unfeasible but sure are impractical looking.
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    Granted, fold bombs are a thing... but they work a bit differently from that. They're called Dimension Eaters, and debuted in Macross Frontier. They work by using the super-heavy quantum created by fold quartz to generate a super-intense fold effect that behaves like a short-lived miniature black hole, destroying everything in the blast radius with an ultra-intense gravitational field and pulling it all into fold space. Master File alleges that the idea for the Dimension Eater originated from a General Galaxy transport ship that was attacked in the 2040s and, for lack of suitable weapons, created a space-time distortion bomb by weaponizing a Valkyrie's fold booster.
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    Traveling by space fold doesn't entail any acceleration - or even movement - on the part of the folding ship. Fold navigation is essentially a form of teleportation. The fold system manipulates higher dimensional space using gravity control so that the volume of space containing the ship switches places with an equivalent volume of space at the destination. Ships typically don't fold into or out of a planet's atmosphere because the gravity well of a planet can mess up the folding process and you're either teleporting a chunk of atmosphere into deep space or creating a massive region of vacuum that'll collapse inside the atmosphere with very destructive effect.)
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    If I had to guess, probably a cargo ship given that it looks like a space big rig?. Could we perhaps be a little less vague?
  6. Seto Kaiba
    It's not bad, but it's not exactly memorable either. None of the tracks on the Macross Delta: Absolute Live!!!!!! soundtrack are very memorable. Nothing there really jumps out as THE song for Absolute Live!!!!!!.
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    It's from a doujinshi... that kind of goes without saying. One of the things that makes this doujinshi series so interesting is the artist frequently "shows their work" by drawing their concepts for ships or classes that are described in official material but never actually shown. The Takashi Hayase in that image is one of those obscure bits of official setting trivia. The first mass-production Macross-class ship was the SDFN-01 General Takashi Hayase, one of the twelve mass-produced Macross-class ships and one of only three of them to be named thus far. The other two are SDFN-04 General Bruno J. Global that appeared as a wreck that crashed on Gallia IV in Macross Frontier and the SDFN-08 General Vrlitwhai Kridanik that semi-permanently landed on Uroboros and was known as Vrlitwhai City in the Macross 30 game. (There is a fan theory that the General Takashi Hayase was the ship that was "cast" as the SDF-1 Macross in the in-universe movie Do You Remember Love?.) There are several other bits of fun trivia scattered around that doujinshi series like Zentradi ships converted for use as emigrant ships (which was what was done for short distance emigrant fleets) and the air defense and enhanced firepower versions of the Northampton-class.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    Well, this season is coming along nicely... the shows I'm following (Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, etc.) are all sticking fairly close to the original manga and remain pretty consistently well-executed. All in all, I'm quite happy... between this season's multitude of interesting offerings and Andor, I've got no shortage of things to watch. The Raven of the Inner Palace remains my stand-out title for the season. It remains consistently hard to pin down but inexplicably compelling in terms of character-focused drama with some elements of mystery, fantasy, and the slightest hint of romance. It's been a long time since a show grabbed me like this one and left me not just curious but genuinely impatient to see what happens next.
  9. Seto Kaiba
    ... I just realized it can't do a lengthy timeskip. The series started with not quite five years before Cassian's supposed to die in Rogue One. He can't serve a six year prison term unless he's actually two people,.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    ... actually, yes.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    It's the CIC. Macross Chronicle makes a big deal out of explaining the different acronyms used for it like CIC (Combat Information Center), CDC (Combat Direction Center), and C4 (Command, Control, Communications, and Computers) on its Mechanic Sheet. In the Macross Frontier TV anime and movies, the Battle Frontier's captain and commander of the fleet are the same officer (Brigadier General Pelliot) who seems to prefer to lead from the CIC rather than the bridge of his ship. In the novelizations, those two roles are divided between two separate minor characters. The equivalent to Pelliot is a general by the name of Kevin Backflight who serves as overall commander of the Frontier New UN Forces and Battle Frontier's captain is one of his subordinates named Jean-Luc Tarkovsky.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    All in all, I think we can/should probably resign ourselves to the fact that any future official explanation that's offered for the Megaroad-01's circumstances in the second Macross Delta movie will be at least as stupid and contrived as the circumstances themselves.
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    That'd raise the awkward question of "from where?". The SDF-2 Megaroad-01 wasn't a remodeled alien starship like the SDF-1 Macross. She was planned as a 100% human-made copy of the Macross-class and construction began on that premise, before the First Space War forced a change of plan that saw the partially-completed warship remodeled into a 100% human-made long-distance emigrant ship for the first long-distance emigrant fleet. She wasn't hiding any surprises. She disappeared just four years after launch without finding any inhabitable planets.
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    Oh, I haven't said she's dumb... I've been saying from the beginning that she's sharp. Meero's problem, until now, was that she was right for the wrong reasons. She was drawing incorrect inferences from reports on things Cassian did and using those as evidence of a pattern of coordinated rebel activity that did exist, but wasn't actually related to the cases she was investigating. The irony in Meero's stance in this latest episode now that she's been vindicated is that she seems to think the Imperial response is insufficiently harsh, because they're treating the Aldhani incident ONLY as a robbery and not as a statement of intent from the rebels. (She's arguably wrong about that as well, sinc it was a needs-must-as-the-devil-drives sort of situation where the rebels just needed the money.)
  15. Seto Kaiba
    With the near-total lack of information for Absolute Live!!!!!! at the present time, we can't quite say. As disappointing as the liner notes were, hopefully the Master File will pick up some of the slack.
  16. Seto Kaiba
    On the one hand, we'd have dialog that doesn't sound it like was penned by a writer who was only just starting to come down from a heavy dose of dental anesthetic. On the other hand, 15-20% of each movie would be protracted multi-cut sequences of the characters purposefully yet silently walking everywhere like they forgot their space bus passes and don't have enough credits for cab fare.
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    After listening to the uncut versions of the songs in the movie on the OST, I have to admit this movie actually has a few pretty good songs. Nowhere near as good as the few real bangers Walkure had in the main series, but a few actually-good songs that are just completely ruined by the movie's trash-tier sound editing. "Glow in the Dark" probably comes the closest to the higher standard set by the TV anime.
  18. Seto Kaiba
    OK... "Announcement". As a build-up to the rest of the series goes, this one's a bit hit and miss for me. I'd wager Roy's right that we're in for another timeskip... likely to right around the time... I guess that'll explain why the rebellion didn't... ... then, since he would have been out of reach.
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    Even the ones that do don't always have the resources to do it alone. Like in the Macross Frontier fleet, the local Shinsei office collaborated with LAI and the Macross Frontier Fleet Arsenal to develop the VF-25. Or in the Brisingr cluster, Shinsei's local branch there collaborated with three other companies in a joint venture that created the VF-31. Of course, developing your own new models of starship or VF costs A LOT of money and a lot of resources for manufacturing and infrastructure. Some governments just don't have that kind of cash, so it's easier to buy from someone else who does. When you get down to it, the bare fact of the matter is that there really are no two ships that are exactly identical no matter how exacting the manufacturer tries to follow the spec... and because technology is advancing all the time, newer ships end up having many differences from the older ones. The same is true for Valkyries, where the specification is revised frequently even during production in the form of production blocks that represent distinct "steps" in integration of upgrades, improvements, and refinements to the design that might or might not be able to be integrated into older models as well. The VF-1, for instance, supposedly had SEVENTEEN distinct production blocks and we've only actually seen a couple of the most visually-distinct ones onscreen (Blocks 1-5 as the "TV" type and 6+ as the "Movie" type seen in almost every subsequent work). So in essence, it's very true that there are a great many more sub-variants of Valkyries and so on than we see... or can visually distinguish, anyway, since many of those minor block improvements are not always something externally visible or easy to identify. The differences between the Macross Plus, Macross 7, and Macross Frontier versions of ships are more blatant improvements resulting from modernization of the design and various other perceived tactical or strategic needs... you'd probably call those subclasses of those classes. There are probably similar micro-level differences between them based on which shipbuilding firm built them for which fleet using what technological limitations or proprietary technologies, etc.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    That's the problem with fanworks... sometimes, the stuff that looks super cool doesn't necessarily work when you start thinking about the details. There are a few like that in the doujinshi series, like a stealth cruiser with an underslung Macross Quarter-class Macross Cannon that wouldn't be able to open the way it appears to be mounted. Of course, Fuso Katsumi also shows a lot of love for obscure stuff that's never gotten art like the air defense versions of the Northampton, that weird hybrid carrier only seen as a desktop model in Macross Plus, and the Daedalus II-class from the Macross II timeline. A few of the original ones they designed are compelling enough that you have to wonder if something like that DOES exist in the setting like the Kaga-class, a scaled-up Guantanamo every bit as structurally simple but with twice the capacity.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, my interactions with him have been limited lately for similar reasons... the Facebook groups he co-admins really went downhill and started banning people for many random reasons, like mentioning several of the people who worked on the official subs for Macross Delta. I gave up after being removed from that group twice for no clear or explained reason. Yeah, unfortunately I don't really have a good way to contact him except via Facebook. We did most of our previous interacting via Skype, but few people use that anymore. These days, I just keep the site running and the books I import are going towards my own projects instead. EDIT: That said, once I get my own project launched I'll be similarly happy to accept the same kind of details. Just gotta get the actual pages build first. XD
  22. Seto Kaiba
    He hasn't posted on here in quite a while. Come to that, I haven't spoken to him in a while either... I've been keeping the server going, but that's all I've been doing for it since I've been very busy with work and moving and a host of other nonsense since the start of the pandemic. I know he recently changed jobs and moved I think twice recently, so I assume that's probably something to do with it. Right now there haven't been any official specs for anything in the new movie, even the new movie's liner notes were silent on the subject, so all hopes currently hang on the Master File. Once I'm done renovating my home office, I'll be getting back to work on my own projects and only doing server maintenance on M3.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    ... so, it's not "very similar to" so much as "from". Fuso Katsumi is the author/illustrator of the four volume Macross doujinshi series Battleships of the Galaxy published by FANKY Planning, as well as similar books for other titles. Recently, they've been posting art pages from their Macross doujinshi work on their artist page on Pixiv, which is where Danbooru's users got it. Incidentally, you have to be a bit careful about linking to gallery sites like this one because neither they nor the ads on them are worksafe.
  24. Seto Kaiba
    That is a simple question with a complicated answer. It's "Yes" with a "but..." and "No" with a "it's technically different". You see, when the Earth UN Government and Earth UN Forces decided to adopt the VF-1 Valkyrie as their first main Variable Fighter in 2007 there were exactly zero manufacturers with the production capacity to meet that demand on their own. The Earth UN Government removed the production bottleneck by engaging multiple manufacturers to build VF-1's under license including the US's Northrom (Northrop) and Japan's Shinnakasu. Master File mentions a few others like Britain's Devilland (De Havilland). They were all meant to be used by the Earth UN Forces, it was more like decentralized production for a single armed force than production for a single member state. Northrom did a couple of special duty variants like the VF-1S, VT-1, etc., and Japan tried an improved mass production type that didn't catch on. So, yeah it was built under license but at the same time it was different because all the different licensees were building for the same government and the same military.
  25. Seto Kaiba
    General Galaxy sponsored the construction and mission of the Macross Galaxy emigrant fleet, but its day-to-day operations of their roving deep space company town are managed by the subsidiary corporation that General Galaxy established as the fleet's government and the chief employer of the fleet's population. Despite being a corporation, the fleet's still considered a New UN Government member state and the Macross Galaxy Corporate Army operates under the auspices of the New UN Forces. The VF-19C/MG21 is a product of licensed manufacturing. It's one of the two main ways that governments that don't develop their own military aircraft outfit their forces with new models as time goes on. They either purchase completed aircraft from one of their allies directly, or they purchase a license to have a manufacturer in their country build that new model of fighter. Until recently, licensed manufacturing was Japan's favored method for acquiring new fighters. The Japanese government purchased licenses from the US so its domestic manufacturer(s) (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) could produce a limited quantity of a particular variant of an American-designed fighter aircraft. The F-15J and the F-16-derived Mitsubishi F-2 are examples of this practice. The distances between the farthest-flung emigrant governments and Earth being what they are, building under license does appear to be the Macross setting's favored approach for new model VFs most of the time. Macross Galaxy reached out to Earth and bought a license to build their own VF-19C's domestically. That said, the VF-19C/MG21 is also a bit different in that the Macross Galaxy corporate government didn't buy that license because they actually needed the VF-19. They more or less did it to troll their parent company's rival Shinsei Industry by building a "better" VF-19 and showing it off at airshows as a taunt... a "we can build your aircraft better than you can" sort of thing.
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