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    After the crossover comic, how could it not be?
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    They could make Sven's death trip to the hospital planet have some meaning. Instead of getting wailed on and dropped, he could get captured and turned into a robeast. ... Oooh, he could get brainwashed and replace Yurak partway through. That'd add some melodrama, and a great recurring plot thread, while being completely in character for the franchise.
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    I hope it isn't. I don't want to wait fifty-one years and two months.
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    OMG SPOILERS! (As if anyone on Earth didn't see that one coming)
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    Dictionaries are terrible things, dedicated to sucking the life out of a word and misleading people in proper usage.
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    As I recall, AKB0048 also had music being illegal. And I didn't watch past the first episode because it was so godawful terrible, mechs or no mechs. What can I say, I just had no interest in watching Revolution X: The Animated Series.
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    The good ol' sci-fi spacesuit, clinging to every curve since time immemorial.
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    Sheeez... we ownin' the shelves this year.
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    Fitting for the man who KILLED PRIME! NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET!
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    Yeah, basically it was a problem with inbreeding, not with cloning PER SE. Since the zentradi, prior to "culturization" weren't breeding, there were no problems with inbreeding.
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    It is the best approach!
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    Well, we also know from Macross 7 that at least one Protoculture facility was programmed to look for zentradi hybrids and grant access to the facilities only in the presence of one. Which means that at least one group of protoculture desired to see a reunification between the PC and their warriors. One would assume they carried a similar attitude towards other engineered races, since Mylene's status as a zentradi-human hybrid instead of a zentradi-PC hybrid was not an issue. So not everyone viewed them as simple breeding stock.
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    Robotech: The Abridgd Series! Coming to a theater near you for an extremely brief time in 20XX.
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    I, on the other hand, kinda prefer the stupidly young nature of the heroes in SDF, because when you stop and look at it, it emphasizes how screwed-up their situation is.
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    Remember, time flows slower* in a fold than normal space, and they've spent a lot of time in fold space over the years. Hours become days, weeks become months, and everyone winds up with a calendar age that's much larger than the time they've actually experienced. Basically, they're both quite a bit younger than their dates of birth would suggest. *Even after Frontier's big ugly retcon... it doesn't do much for Max and Millia, who have lived most of their lives in a world without fold quartz, dealing with fold faults and the associated desyncs. They have not lived a life with 1:1 fold-time:real-time** ratios. **And Einstein is rolling in his grave at the proposition that a universal standard rate of time exists. But much of science-fiction sets him spinning, so meh.
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    In this thread we learn that pseudo-Grig can't count.
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    More than you would expect, given I am often driving after midnight down the freeway and some dumb kids with more money than sense have pimped their cars and race them down said freeway, using the shoulder as a passing lane. Just sayin'... you need a helluva suspension to isolate the driver from that many jolts.
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    I'd like to take a moment to point out that EVEN IF an infantry attack is viable, the Octos doesn't land enough of them to be useful. Six men might be useful for an operation involving stealth and finesse, but not a major landing operation. And if stealth is a concern you don't land in a thirty-foot robot with a pepperbox missile launcher. That's pretty much the exact opposite of stealthy. (Seriously, why DOES the Octos have a six-passenger compartment? It makes less than no sense.) Ya know, thinking about it... riding a Tomahawk sprinting at 180 km/h has to be an insanely rough ride. I'm starting to appreciate the wheels on the Cheyennes more.
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    Including this one? One!
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    Thanks! That will be a huge help in restoring the poor guy!
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    That makes sense.
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    Yeah. The repaint is way too monochromatic for my tastes. ... Well, the whole statue is not to my tastes, but the original design has a much better color palette.
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    Now let's compare the Octos to the most relevant comparison. If it's only useful for coastal attacks in which it will be deploying infantry... then it should be compared to other amphibious vehicles and landing craft. So the question is... how many destroids and troops can a Daedalus-class landing ship carry? The canon answer is apparently simply "many", though one can infer from the Daedalus Attack that it's significantly more punch than an Octos. And a Daedalus is self-sufficient. It doesn't need another vessel to carry it to the combat zone, as I imagine the Octos does(size precludes it carrying extensive stores for vehicle maintenance or human biological necessities, or even really much in the way of sleep facilities). I could see an argument for the Octos being used to secure a landing site FOR the Daedalus. We shall assume for the moment the target has strong anti-air defenses so we can't just call in the air force to carpet-bomb the beach ahead of us. But one would think a Monster on the deck would do the job more effectively and more economically. And when a Monster is the CHEAPER solution to the problem, it is time to step back, take a long hard look at things, and seriously reconsider what you're doing because something has gone VERY wrong somewhere. In that perspective, the first thing I would do with a second-gen Octos is ditch the crew compartment entirely. It's bloating the size of the vehicle for no benefit. Put a missile launcher in there, a large beam cannon, or just excise it entirely and shave a third of the vehicle's size in one shot, making it smaller, faster, and more capable.
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    Sterlings. *runs and hides*
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    Easy answer: Luca has a brother AND a sister. He's the youngest of three.
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