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  1. Knight26
    This is all true. I see this kind of thing all the time. First launcher I worked on, the most modern one at the time, still used parts from old Trident Missile Launchers.
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    Arcadia VF-5000G

    Knight26 replied to daBlah!'s topic in Toys

    I'm in, this might be first primary market buy in a long time.
  3. Knight26
    That was a hard hit, like 'nam era hard hit and crash. Pilot clearly ejected, but I will say this, whoever leaked that video better be careful, there's a board in their future.
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    To add onto what @Seto Kaiba said, the ARMD were basically launch and recovery platforms that could maneuver. When you look at the original and movie ARMDs, the engines are basically just thrusters for station keeping and orbit changes. They were intended to operate strictly in Earth Orbit, or attached to the SDF-1, so it had minimal onboard facilities for engines, with probably a basic reactor, and needed near constant resupply. The later carriers were intended to function completely independently, or with with a fleet, so had full drive bays, large reactors, more fuel and extensive life support systems aboard, etc... All of that takes up more internal space.
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    I had several of those that my ex made me sell. I never knew that the 1:18 F-14 was ever released.
  6. Knight26
    Ok, so playing with my crew calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/0Bx9xl0H5s2WWT014TFpDTFRwSVk/edit?resourcekey=0-JBoPUxQUR6hxHHaeH1Vjqw#gid=2084902012 I am coming up with the following numbers for a crew compliment: Assumptions: 150 Valkyries 30 support aircraft (AWAC, etc...) 60 Destroids Just Crew: 1919 Airwing 1325 Embarked Troops 1161 Total Crew (true) 4405 Officers 792 Enlisted 3318 Civilian Staff 254 Total Embarked(True) 4405 I recognize that my assumptions may be off, but you are all free to play around and put in more "Accurate" numbers that better match canon, especially for things like emplaced weapons, numbers of troops, vehicles, etc...
  7. Knight26
    Those numbers definitely seem off, time to break out the Crew Calculator.
  8. Knight26
    I can hear all the phantom phans all climaxing at once at that video.
  9. Knight26
    B5 ships would get me to part with my money for sure. The only that would make me part with it faster would be ships from Spiral War: Liberators.
  10. Knight26
    MMM Has some shots you can stitch together, but good shots of the green VF-27 are hard to find. http://www.macross2.net/m3/macrossf/variant-vf-27-green.htm
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    Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but the song is fine and quite era appropriate.
  13. Knight26
    Submarine? That thing would not move quickly underwater at all.
  14. Knight26
    Interesting booster concept, I wonder what the text says.
  15. Knight26
    Apparently that intro was largely done in camera using practical effects. That alone bodes well in my mind.
  16. Knight26
    Not too unlike people who purchase warbirds and old tanks today. They are all completely demiled (except those used by private contractors at Red Flag and similar training events), and typically have a number of other systems detuned/downgraded for longevity and to meet FAA spec. But, as you said, most likely ended up as targeting/gunnery drones. Even the "purpose built" civilian models have something of a precedent, but usually in things like transports, light aircraft, and helos.
  17. Knight26
    I like it, make me think it is modified for human pilots (opened top hatch). The underslung cannon is definitely firing arc limited, but would be better protected and still useful.
  18. Knight26
    That would have worked much better, they go to sleep, wake up when the monters show, go back to sleep.
  19. Knight26
    It get somewhat brain twisting, but the ways in which Negative and Positive matter interact fits how we see Star Wars tech react, especially the lightsaber. Unlike magnets, neg and pos matter repel each other. If a lightsaber uses a core negative matter constrained by an outer cold plasma stream, it would be "safe" to handle and would act as seen in the movies. Light glance: burn and bounce away. Hard swing, slice through with burn and cauterization. The neg matter core "cuts" by pushing pos matter out of the way, the cold plasma then does the actual "burning." Moreover, how it reacts with other Neg-matter makes sense. Two sabers collide, bounce off due to the plasma sheath, but hit hard enough to penetrate the sheath and saberlock. Watch how saber locks are disengaged, not by pulling, but by pushing. Pulling at neg matter makes it more attractive to other neg matter, pushing forces it away. (I said it can get brain twisting). Extrapolating from there it all ties together: Repulsors use small, spun up, negative matter cores that create a repulsive force against the closest object, the ground, etc... while lowering its effective mass. DS Lasers, basically just big lightsabers that collect a massive amount of negative matter at the coalescence point and then release it towards the target, the negative matter is doing the actual destruction. Hyperdrives, dense negative matter fuel systems spin up to mimic a lower to no mass craft allowing a ship to jump to light speed, and then break the hyperspace barrier. The bigger the ship, the bigger the hyperdrive needed. How it works in Hyperspace is a slightly different matter, but it still works. How ships maneuver: given that all ships seen have at least repulsors, the lowered effective mass and particulars of how negative matter reacts would make proper Newtonian maneuvers difficult or even hazardous, hence more aircraft like movement. I could go on, but would like to find my old write up on it first.
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    I'll be curious to see what improvements/changes, if any are made to the toys before buying.
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    Bio Roid

    Knight26 replied to jorawar_b's topic in The Workshop!

    Yes and no, 3D printed items do still need to be sanded and filled based on print quality/issues. Painting is up to the builder.
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    I'm with you on the Midi-Chlorians, and really felt that they were mishandled. They could have been better explained as a parasite that exists in all things but prefer the force sensitive, and therefore are found in greater numbers in their blood. The sound in space and slow lasers yes, that is pure nonsense, but in the OT could be written off as part of the times. However, everything else could explained with a simple, theoretical, concept, Negative Matter. Not Dark Matter, but Negative Matter that has negative mass and is actually postulated as part of General Relativity, but is minimally studied for a variety of reasons. I went down the rabbit hole on researching it in college but ran into tons of dead ends so dropped it, until I played Mass Effect. Element Zero is basically a means to harness negative matter, though in universe they say dark matter. Thanks to the new Disney movies (R1 and Solo) we see almost definitively that the majority of SW tech is based around crystals (kyber, coaxium, etc...) and if they are somehow able to harness and utilize negative matter it explains pretty much everything, from why their ships maneuver the way they do to why light sabers don't immediately set everything on fire and their behaviors. Even the DS Super Lasers, and smaller combining lasers, using kyber crystals fits the system. Does it fix everything? No. But it does bring it more in line with proper, still softer, sci-fi.
  23. Knight26
    Probably close to the cost of the kit itself, lol.
  24. Knight26
    Except that the introduction of Coaxium (dumb name) as a fuel source is the bit of plotonium/unobtanium that could make star wars tech somewhat plausible and turn Star Wars back into Sci-Fi instead of Space Fantasy, especially when you take the treatment/usage of Kyber Crystals in Rogue and TFA into account.
  25. Knight26
    Finally saw it on D+, and well, I'm glad I didn't see it in theatres. It was probably the weakest entry in the MCU, and thus far seems like it has no impact on any of the others. The GotG movies on their own seemed to take place in their own world (which they kind of did), but this one had a freaking celestial start to birth out of the Earth followed by another showing up in orbit and the next two MCU movies make 0 mention of that, unless I blinked and missed it. Really, the biggest thing it seemed to do was setup Black Knight to become a regular in the rest of the MCU.
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