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  1. sketchley
    Translations of the Macross Chronicle SDFM episode articles: http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/MCRepisode/MCRepisode.php#SDFM
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    Macross Zero has a scene where the pilot tags incoming targets with eye movements before firing the gun pod and head lasers. Presumably something similar is happening with the micro-missiles. As for the quantity... RPGers have worked under the assumption that each missile launcher has a rate of fire (how many missiles can be fired per launcher per unit of time). However, that doesn't exactly describe what we see in all examples from the various series. So, my best guess at the moment is that it is like the firing selector on automatic firearms: single shot, burst (3–5 or whatever), continuous fire until trigger released—per missiles launcher.
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    Rodavan, that scan is from Variable Fighter Master File, and that book series is anything but canon. Aside from the stealth configuration of the panel lines/joints/etc, the shape of such things as the hump behind the canopy and the engine nozzles are quite different from what the OP is asking for. Aztek, as the VF-1X isn't visually substantially different from the initial VF-1, you could get away with using the original lineart from SDFM or DYRL. However, if you're looking specifically for materials related to the Bandai DX 1/48 VF-1X, they might be exceedingly hard to come by... Fingers crossed that someone who owns one will be able to enlighten us if the packaging came with anything!
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    The only thing that I recall along similar lines is that he wanted to do more dogfights in an atmosphere—as most of those were in space in MF. That is, of course, in no way saying that your memory is incorrect.
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    Funny you should mention that. Chisato Mita (the original character designer) is apparently mainly a game character designer... Ah... for the days of Risa Ebata... love or hate her work in MF, the characters were mostly original.
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    In short, the Inspection Forces (aka Supervision Army) are basically brainwashed Zentradi. Nothing really out of the ordinary about that. On the other hand... well, put it this way, a mere 7* of them destroyed 85% of the population in a galaxy-spanning civilization in just nine months! * The caveat is that the Protodevilun brainwashed Zentradi and Protoculture and formed the Inspection Forces, and the Inspection Forces assisted those 7 Protodevilun in all that death and destruction. But by how much? To put that into perspective: after the Protodevilun were sealed away, the Zentradi and Inspection Forces have been fighting for approx. 499,135 years without either side winning by the time SDF:M takes place...
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    The only reason it came to mind is while I was translating the relevant pages in the Master Chronicle, it mentioned that not only are there various sizes to the Factory Satellites (E.g. the one we saw in SDF-1 is one of the smaller ones, as it produces the Rigado), the largest—which produce the Mobile Fortress class of vessel used by Bodoru—are the size of small moons. Nevertheless, in looking up the relevant page, I kinda discovered I had already translated the answer to the question I asked in my preceding post. Old age... That said, I humbly recommend reading it... just for the sheer mind-boggling number of those things out in the galaxy (from Operation Record on the reverse side): http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/MCRmechanic/SDFMzent10aFactorySatellite.php
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    Technically they're "Powered Suits", and are quite different from Power Armour. In short, the torso is a cockpit, with the pilot's upper body and arms in it (the mecha's arms are fully automated), and the pilot's legs only reach down into the thighs of the legs (the lower legs are also automated). TV cockpit interior (note triggers and other hand operated controls at the front): DYRL cockpit interior (note depiction of Zentradi pilot seated in the cockpit in the bottom middle): And some size comparisions (note Zentran and Meltran body size in comparison to the Battle Suits):
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    Part of the reason is story: they needed an excuse to get the hero there in a way that sets up the situation on Uroboros. What better way than to ferry an old VF on its own (instead of transported in the belly of a ship that's part of an armada), and then immediately attacked upon arrival by a rival? The other reason is—if memory serves—something to do with the "experience" that the control AI in the YF-25 has accrued over the years.
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    It's hard to answer your question because a) the postal situation has changed over the intervening years (see Trump's actions and the 2019 Extraordinary Conference of the Universal Postal Union), and b) the Covid-19 affects on air travel and subsequent increase (and restrictions) on air transport. Generally, I'd like to say it's the same all over Japan, but aside from A and B, if you were ordering something shipped from one of the remote islands, I'm fairly certain the costs would go up (but things don't always make sense like that in Japan. For example, NTT charges the same rate for phone calls wherever to wherever you are in Japan...) On the flip side, Yamato Takyubin is in direct competition with Japan Post for domestic mail, so there is a great incentive for not only the post office, but also courier companies to keep shipping costs down... at least domestically (or for domestic customers sending internationally).
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    Well, they are actively seeking them... just not to destroy them—to exploit them for their own uses! Of course, due to age, a lot of them are breaking down. Not to mention being deliberately targeted and destroyed by the Inspection Forces (E.g.: the Guraji producing Factory Satellites have all been destroyed). However, the remaining question is: are there Factory Satellites making Factory Satellites? If so, have they already started breaking down or been destroyed by the Inspection Forces? Or were the Protoculture producing them themselves? (thus, no neverending supply of those things)
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    This is Animation The Select #11 Macross DYRL Pg 76. It's a Super VF-1 "accidentally" bumping into the forward glass.
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    I'd take whatever the Master File books say with a grain of salt. Aside from the disclaimer at the back of the books that they aren't part of the Official Setting (or 'canon'), they also claim that the VF-4A–F can NOT transform. There is nothing in the Official Setting that indicates that a) the VF-4A–F cannot transform, and b) the VF-4G is bigger than the previous models.
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    Erm... Pinpoint Barrier equipped Monster Destroids show up in the game "Macross M3". The Energy Conversion Armour that Seito's referring to is different. Instead of only protecting a couple of small areas, it makes ALL of the armour stronger.
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    Let's not forget the very first appearance of the Konig Monster: the VF-X2 game, where it is a playable VF (rotates slow as hell...) As for the VB-6 and Invid... I recommend you take a look at the opening animation for the VF-X2 game. It shows how it deals with pesky tanks... it steps on them! LOL (the VB-6 stuff starts at around 1:10. But you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't watch from the start! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GZIWmxMoJk )
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    Well, yes and no. The Protodevilun are a combination of energy life forms from the sub-universe and the Ehvil Series. The Ehvil series are basically the successor to the Zentrādi—thus they are "related" to the Protoculture. So, technically Macross 7 introduced us to: energy life form race Protodevilun (new race from the merger of 2 distinct life forms) AND a new variant of the Zentradi. Giving us: Zentrādi (TV series ver.; basically humans) Zentran (movie ver.; able to biologically join with their equipment) Meltran (movie ver.; essentially have fibre optics for nerves, among other things) Ehvil series (essentially forgo the need for external equipment—like Mobile Weapons and space battleships) And what about the other intelligent life forms? Like the Sharon Apple style AI, or the Galactic Whales?
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    Seto - what's your source for the movie version having EX-Gear?
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    Here's the Macross Chronicle article about the movie version: http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/MCRmechanic/TFnuns02aVF-171Destroids.php There's substantially more on the TV version VF-171 and the later-introduced VF-171EX in this TOC: http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/MCRmechanic/MCRmechanic.php#MF
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    All this talk of Fold Quartz brought something to mind: are we talking naturally produced, or artificially produced? I remember reading somewhere that while they could successfully synthesize fold quartz, it was of lower quality than the naturally produced stuff—which ties into the reasons why the Macross Galaxy Fleet (et al) were actively searching out the Vajra to get the high purity stuff (and there are at least 4 of those installed in the VF-29).
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    Details on the VF-24 are light, but one thing that has been said is that the ISC used in the VF-24 is superior to the version they shared with the Emigrant Fleets, planets, etc. How much of a difference? Even with EX-gear, the VF-25* doesn't come close. The VF-27, on the other hand, does. HOWEVER, the pilot needs to be a cyber-grunt (the Macross version of a cyborg) using BDI. And even then, my impression is that the VF-24's ISC provides even more G resistance. * that's 27.5 G for 120 seconds. So, the higher the G resistance, the sharper the Valkyrie can turn. In other words, there's a direct correlation between G resistance and sustained manoeuvrability (nevermind about the airframe incurring damage. Apparently the VF-19 can handle +35.5 to -20.0 G. The pilot... less than 1/3 of that! ) I haven't read anything about the VF-24 using fold quartz in other places outside of the ISC. The main limit on manoeuvrability for the Valkyries in the preceding generations was the G resistance of the pilot's body. I've got a list of the G resistance technology introduced in Macross here (keep in mind that green is official, black is best guess [made up]): http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/Stats/Statistics/Avionics/CockpitANDantiG.php
  21. sketchley
    There appears to be fold quartz in the widened tip of the VF-27's beam gun pod. What effect that has on anything is unclear (used in enhancing the discharge? extra capacitor space for charging the beam grenade? involved with producing/manipulating heavy quantum?), but it may be why the barrel is so long.
  22. sketchley
    Yes and no. Macross Chronicle glossary* suggests that he did some kind of modification to himself to enlarge his brain after the First Interstellar War. So, it's similar to the visual differences in the SDF-1 in its own way. * http://sdfyodogawa.mywebcommunity.org/MCRglossary/Glossary04a.php#203
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    With Gen 2, we have the VF-3000 Crusader and VF-3000B Bomber Valkyrie. However, they're both derivatives of the VF-1 with almost the exact same transformation mechanism. The transformation mechanism remains complex in the VF-4, VF-9, and VF-14 (the legs have to traverse the inner wing before rotating on a hip join in the 4 and 14, and the wings form the torso in the 9). One could say that the transformation mechanism doesn't start becoming simple across the board until Gen 3 with the VF-19, but the VF-22 has a needlessly complex transformation for the backpack/main engines section (not to mention lots of anime magic in general ). As for other ones with "detaching parts", there's also the OCTOS—losing the underwater propulsion unit when it transforms. But that's Gen 0 (or early Gen 1).
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    The overall trend (speaking in universe) is to simplify and speed up the transformation. While the transformation scheme doesn't appear to get simpler as time goes by, keep in mind that with the 1st generation VF-1 you have parts that need to be moved then detached from the parts that move them (ref: the migration of the parts that become the legs from under the chest to the nosecone). In later generations , while the twirling whirly bits looks visually complex, they're more or less rotating in situ, and hardly anything detaches after migrating to a different part of the airframe anymore (well, aside from gun pods). Apparently the introduction of linear actuators in Macross Frontier sped the transformation process up considerably, too. At the very least, it reduced the mechanical or engineering complexity, as parts that previously needed hydraulics to be moved merely slide along electrically charged rails (and so on) thereafter. So, I guess you could say that coupled with the faster transformation times, there was also a decrease in maintenance costs, as well.
  25. sketchley
    Which reminds me... Kawamori-san's name isn't in the credits. I see Ichiro Itano listed as a creative advisor, but no Kawamori (usually he's in some kind of overseer or creative director role)...
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