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"So, Millia, you want to be a miclone?" "Yeah, there's this human pilot that's totally hot, I mean that nearly shot me down. I'm gonna sex him up, I mean knife him to death." "Whatever. Here's a laxative." "Beg pard?" "You've got turds in you larger than a miclone. You're not going anywhere until you take a good long dump."

To be fair, the YF-21 is bigger and more complex. Probably not 25x more, but...

... I DEMAND a pop-rock Global to be animated NOW.

Yah. Itano Circus is the missile cloud. And no worries. We were all newbies once. Sheesh... How exactly did bandwidth caps die in the US and survive everywhere else?

Reminds me of when Classics ended. I was lamenting not just buying a pile of Starscreams and Ramjets to repaint. Of course, the problem with that plan was that I've got no paint experience. I'd probably spend as much learning to paint 'em right as I would if I'd bought the Botcon set. And the Botcon set was too rich for my tastes anyways. On the other hand... Japan isn't doing Thrust, it seems. So I'm STILL out in the cold.

Nope. I can't read japanese. The retrofit comes from Macross Compendium, at macross.anime.net I don't recall where I got the non-transformable.

As I understand things, the Megaroad is non-transformable. It has similarities to the Macross because it was a retrofit design. It makes use of the half-completed SDF-2 laying around on the Moon after Space War 1 ended(why's it called Space War 1 when there's never been a SW2? IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYBODY.).

But I own VFTF1, and am redistributing souls. Though he just kinda threw them all in a big pile, so I can't guarantee you'll get YOUR soul back. But you'll have SOMEONE'S soul.

US has more than income tax. There's state-level taxes to consider as well. Property tax is the first thing that springs to mind.

AND shoot other jets! I've got a pair of Powerjets(one was my sister's originally). Really wish I had the Phantom Striker, though. Bad guys get all the cool hardware.

http://klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7335 There's at least one. Not that it has a lot of plot. I don't know enough about the PCEngine CD games to peg them as anything more than non-canon.

Or rely on reports(or lack thereof) from local law enforcement to determine where to send the zentradi. Actually, a combination of approaches makes a lot of sense. Each megafleet has it's own sector, and each sector is subdivided into hundreds or thousands of smaller units, with splinter fleets making regular patrols through given subsectors. And in the old days, before the empire collapsed, reports across the existing communications network would help them find hot spots between patrols. But by the time of Macross, things would be a lot less organized. The protoculture empire is gone. Most of it's people are dead, and the survivors are isolated in the middle of nowhere, so to speak. Most of them are probably colonies established after the communication network broke down, and there's no records of their existence anywhere. The remnants of the Supervision Army are the zentradi's primary enemy, and they're engaging in the ultimate guerrilla war. Most likely hiding in uninhabitable systems or interstellar space(maybe even the voids between the galactic arms), striking at the zentradi's known waypoints and travel routes. Flushing them out would be the zentradi's primary concern. The regular patrols would be small, and dedicated more to ensuring the dead stars stayed dead than anything else. A lot of what he DID bring wasn't destroyed. When they smashed his flagship, everyone still alive folded off to who knows where. ... Hmmm. I wonder how much the other ships knew about what was going on. With large portions of zentradi history being classified, they can't just up and say "We found a protoculture settlement and we'er sterilizing it so they don't corrupt our pure warrior badassitude." Either way, with all the runaways, I think I was wrong when I said the zentradi don't know anyone's there. Unless the fold coordinates were deleted immediately after departing the Sol system, they know SOMETHING is there. ... Of course, they might all be viewed as culturally contaminated by high command, in which case every last escapee may've been executed as soon as the first debriefings came in. Or the bosses just went "Oooookay.... we can't afford to replace any more motherships, so let's just hope we never run into these guys again." There's just not enough information about the zentradi and supervision army. Seven didn't run into a patrol, though. They ran head-on into a superfleet's home base. I can't imagine the motherships are moved around for routine patrols. And the patrols weren't good enough in some serious respects. Nobody noticed the multiple visits to Varauta by both the humans and Varuatian army. Despite the planet being a VERY important tactical location. Unless the zentradi intentionally stay away from that part of the galaxy to hide the sealed Protodeviln from the Supervision Army remnants(And consequently missed all the fun when the darn pesky humans let 'em out again. Just think how much worse Operation Stargazer COULD have gone!). Of course, with the fall of the Bodol fleet, the segments would need redrawing. So trusting the old maps could be dangerous. But it could easily be centuries, even millenia, before they get everything redrawn and redeployed. The size of their bureaucracy... I can't even imagine it. Anyways.... back to the newb questions!

Oh. Then... you could do it with some extension cords? Original Megaman looks like he does because that's how Capcom wanted him to look. Even in the japanese art(and art at the time VERY RARELY matched the game). I could point to a slew of NES characters that aren't chunky and SD. And X looks almost identical without armor. The forehead has a large red crystal instead of a blue rivet. HUGE difference. WITH armor... I think most X designs are somewhat overdone. The X1 armor is the only one I really like.

A skull with a fu-manchu. The gun makes me think of Captain Power for some reason. ... Of course, I think I'm one of 2 dozen people that ever saw the show.

There's supposed to be some 2 thousand Bodol-style fleets. There's possibly 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. This ignores interstellar space, which increases the volume that needs to be monitored massively. And police work is easy. You KNOW where you're looking. Since no one ever showed up to clean up Bodolzaa's mess, we can assume he didn't tell the others what was going on. The zentradi high command, or whatever, doesn't even know anyone's alive this far out in the middle of nowhere. So odds are pretty good that nobody's looking for a human colony fleet. Even if they WERE looking... they knew what heading the ASS-1 left on and it STILL took them a decade to find it. With nothing more to go on than "Humans are in space. They suck." any encounters will be random chance. "Needle in a haystack" doesn't even begin to cover the difficulty of finding something by pure chance.

The Lensman series had powered armor in the later installments. It also got an anime adaptation at some point, though I've never seen it. And I know ONE sci-fi novel series with mechs in it... STAR WARS!

I haven't heard anything about TV region issues. I wouldn't be surprised if the different refresh rate caused some issues, but the PS3 has no region-coding on games. PS3 uses standard hard drives. You can fit a terrabyte in there if you're so inclined.

It's always a possibility, but it's so close to zero it doesn't really matter. Space is almost incomprehensibly huge. Assuming it's canon, Fleet of the Strongest Women represents, statistically speaking, the ONLY chance encounter with a zentradi fleet they'll have for a few centuries.

I think they just said Hasbro wouldn't do it. Takara was always held out as a possibility.

Nope. Miclone is a zentradi term. It refers to zentradi which have been made smaller through the micloning process. It's also used to refer to races of "little people" when they aren't being mistaken for the protoculture.

That or it was a matter of perspective. Or an animation error. The poor guy Max jumped in the restroom was oversized too. Though we've yet to figure out how they got the uniform to hang believably on his 1A regardless of sizing. http://www.new-un-spacy.com/scalecharts/sizechart-1.gif Note the representative zent standing on the far right. Image jacked from http://www.new-un-spacy.com/forfansonly/fo...only-index.html Originally scanned from Macross Perfect Memory Alternatively, consider that the VF-1 size next to the Reguld and Glaug. A battroid is too big to fit the cockpit area of either mech. Therefore... a battroid is larger than a typical zentradi soldier.

A little bigger, actually. The "same size" argument(which is Rawbootech canon) comes from the brawl with Britai when Hikaru, Kakizaki, and Misa were captured. But Britai is larger than the average zentradi, so being his size makes a VF-1 larger than a zentradi soldier. </nitpick> Now everyone back to ogling Klan.

'Sa bit long for a filetype. 3-character extensions rule.

It IS implied by the term.

That was my assumption too, actually. Good thing she died, huh? (I largely stayed out of the Zero threads. Don't remember why anymore.) Well, it's a lot easier to do DYRL prequels, since DYRL has so much less in it. I'm pretty sure that's why the TV series was used as the core of the timeline. Of course, DYRL itself assumes you've seen the TV series. I don't think it works well as a standalone story. *chuckles* Now I'm remembering the PS2 game pre-release hype. They were claiming it would contain the "definitive" version of Space War 1... and it wound up with the TV and DYRL story arcs co-existing in the same game, on separate irreconcilable paths.