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  1. JB0
    Yes! My hypothetical is mostly right! And lest anyone gets upset... I know it may seem like I'm being hard on the Valkyrie, but I'm not really. It acquits itself better in the vacuum of space than any aircraft has a right to. I'm just saying that it's operating outside it's designed optimum environment, and is in the realm where sacrifices were made(even ignoring humanity's general lack of space warfare experience when it was designed). ... Also, I think the Lancer looked awesome and I wish it had more than ten seconds of screen time in the history of the franchise.
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    Bingo. The first animated super Valk(codename: Booby Duck(irrelevant, but I wanted to type "Booby Duck)) deployment is the first super pack deployment in Macross. Whether they were invented on Earth or on the Macross, they were built on the Macross partway through the trip home(and personally, I believe that design didn't start until after the space fold incident). That's fair. Personally, I think they look pretty badass, but aesthetics are just that: personal. (I also think the closely-related strike packs are butt-ugly. People will fight me on this, but I stand by it.) Well, the design DOES feature concessions to the reality of physics. If you look, the main boosters on the FAST packs aren't pointed straight back. They're angled up, in acknowledgement that the boosters are off-axis and in a sub-optimal location. If they thrusted straight back, they'd send the Valk spinning instad of traveling forward in a straight line. But consequently, they lose performance because not all the thrust available is going into forward motion... which ties into my personal belief they were a kludge to fix the VF-1's deficiencies as a space fighter. Canon has nothing to say on the issue as far as I know, so what follows should be taken with a grain of salt. My personal take is this: The VF-1 is an all-environment fighter, yes, but it was an aircraft first and a spacecraft second, and it's consequently a much better aircraft than spacecraft. The poor, overlooked, unloved, neglected Lancer II was intended to be a dedicated space fighter, and is consequently studded with verniers and packed with internal missile launchers that the VF-1 simply doesn't have. When the Macross was unable to link up with ARMD-01 and -02, they lost their Lancer force. Unable to request a few hundred Lancers and trained pilots be transferred to Pluto, had to make do with what they had available, which was the VF-1s from the launch ceremony and Prometheus. So they flew VF-1s exclusively, and created the (relatively) simple Phalanx destroid to compensate for the loss of the ARMDs' defensive weaponry. As the VF-1's spaceworthiness was tested, it was found that it really needed more guided missiles and attitude thrusters, as well as just more thrust, if it was to be an effective space fighter. So they developed the FAST packs to augment the VF-1's space capabilities and provide it the features a dedicated space fighter should have. They rejiggered the transformation sequence a bit to make room for fuel tanks, built some rocket boosters and missile launchers, and strapped them on. And voila, a jack of all trades becomes a dedicated space superiority fighter. Anyways, I think the FAST packs make sense when contextualized in this manner. And, well, they DO add a lot of thrust, firepower, and attitude thrusters. There's a clear design goal there.
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    Tiny MP-2! Speaking of... Magnus armor on MP-2. You know you want it.
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    Drama like we haven't seen since MP Starscream.
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    Toys: serious business
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    You raise an excellent point. What if Kevin Bacon IS Luke Skywalker?!?!
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    It's totally Luke Skywalker. I mean, come on, it's OBVIOUS.
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    It does help! Given that one of the working hypotheses for why gravity is weaker, but farther reaching, than most of the basic forces is that gravitons wander through extra dimensions... Science nerd satisfied. ... Not that I would describe Macross as hard sci-fi yet(or ever). Oh, that's EXACTLY who you want to own a 20-gigaton bomb...
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    But he's STILL a better Magnus than the first MP Magnus was! Perhaps damning with faint praise, but...
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    That picture makes me so very sad. So I shall celebrate life with Nimoy driving cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs
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    Finally! A philips that won't cam out and destroy the driver and screwhead both! Awww, coulomb force would've been so much cooler. I do, however, grant that for an accessible science-fiction franchise, gravity is the more reasonable force to tap. The two words have a lot of overlap in weapons design. That's a LOT better than my proposed super-fission bomb. The only good thing about THAT was that everything involved decayed so rapidly. That makes a lot of sense. Not only do they not have a big wad of uranium or plutonium sitting in the middle of things taking up space(plus all teh elaborate parts that go into making a fission weapon work), they ALSO have a device confining the fusible material, so it isn't already being distributed by the shock wave before the fusion reaction starts. So much more of the fuel goes into the actual explosion(and depending on how long the GIC survives, possibly the next round of fusible components too). That's... a really big bomb, though.
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    YES! Two things: 1. I's nice to see the characters grow up. They're adults with actual jobs and crap when the third arc starts. 2. I personally consider that show's subtitle to be "And then things get worse". Just as fair warning.
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    No. I believe it to be an excellent tribute. May the great bird of the galaxy watch over you, good sir.
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    I had some trouble making a choice. The Super 1J and YF-21 gave the Q. Rau a hard fight. And the Stampede, but that really goes without saying. So did the VF-11 MAXL Mylene Custom, but that was my inner troll more than anything else.
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    Truly outrageous.
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    Oh, thank God. I was right, it was all parody of the industry!
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    I considered nominating the Macross Cannon, because overkill is underrated. But it just doesn't have the articulation I needed to call it a mech.
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    And in space, you start flying in a straight line on a constant speed from the moment your power cuts. And you're too hot to be mistaken for debris, so... can you say easy target? Which is WEIRD AS HELL. I just want to note that. I guess with overtechnology, they could have a field generator that dampens the coulomb force that make atomic nucleii repellant instead of any of the conventional ways to overcome that natural repulsion and FORCE a fusion reaction. That'd make "non-fuels" readily fusible, completely screw with the energy output equations that dictate practicality as a fuel... and makes as much sense as anything else. ... It'd also make for some interesting weaponry. Even if it's not a field which can be projected over a long range(an assumption I make for the simple reason that they HAVEN'T), you could stuff all sorts of heavy elements into the reactor, fuse them into super-heavy nucleii. To heck with U-235, you've just built a box full of crap like nobellium, darmstadtium, and the like, with half-lives typically measured in seconds if not picoseconds. All those ridiculously short-lived atoms held together by a single field generator that can be shut off oh... so... easily. The sudden restoration of normal atomic physics would result in a lot of violently unstable atomic nucleii in close proximity to each other(as if anything in this box NEEDS an incentive to fission). So just let nature take it's course, and you've got a super-fission bomb that's INCREDIBLY easy to make.
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    I too loved the terror that flaps in the night. Best dang show Disney ever made.
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    As long as life is still like a hurricane, and there's still race cars, lasers, and aeroplanes, I guess I have no complaints.
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    I care! I have nothing constructive to add, though. ... Not that it's stopped me before. I guess I just have nothing to add, period. But that's not the same as not caring! Those three ARE adorable.
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    Surely ecchi has far less penetration than hentai? ... What? Someone had to say it.
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    They should screw with everyone and do the next preview clip on April first.
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    Fifteen minutes to say "it's an M. Night Shamalama film"?
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    The Macross Quarter. C'mon, you know you wanted to say it too. Also the Q. Rau. I've got a long running affection for the thing.
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