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The question is... does it NEED explaining? Does anyone ever point at a pirate movie and go "How come Long John Silver only has one eye?" Same concept. well, when the whole idea of the space aliens is that they're some clone army without individuality and without placing importance on their lives.. to see unique individuals like breetai running around does kinda make me wonder why.... I mean, obvious he's damaged why wouldn't they just decant a new clone? A. He's not dead yet. It might not even be a particularly serious injury. It could just be a vanity plate so no one sees his big ugly scar(though I'm betting it isn't). B. Possibly life experience can't be easily passed from clone to clone. That makes it better to repair an injured experienced commander than to shoot him amd pop a fresh one out of the tank. And I thought individuality was quite present. Look at Millia. Everyone in the fleet knew who she was, what she was capable of. It wasn't "some QRau pilot blew something up", it was "Millia Fallyna blew up her xxxx enemy in her xxxx flawless battle!" And when her streak was broken, her commanding officer honored her request to be micloned for purposes of engaging Max in a duel to repair her damaged, but still formidable, reputation. And then there's Kamjin... He's got a reputation, but it's nothing but bad news. If they shot people for injury, I'm SURE they'd shoot Kamjin for being a royal pain in the butt, instead of just taking him off battle duty. Just 2 notable examples of rampant individuality in the ranks. I do grant that the importance of lives didn't seem to go very far. Though more skilled/higher ranking pilots seemed to get better mechs, perhaps in an attempt to extend the life of individuals who'd proven worth keeping around.

The question is... does it NEED explaining? Does anyone ever point at a pirate movie and go "How come Long John Silver only has one eye?" Same concept.

The Pong paddle knocked him into a Mig.

HAHAHA!

Answer to why Britai is built better than your average Zentradi: http://www.anime.net/macross/characters/k/...danik_vrlitwhai Commander-type zentradi. Okay, that confirms it. Zentradi are bred to their rank. Yay.We now return you to your regularly-scheduled thread.

Old but still good. Even the banner ads are fun.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Nightmare purely passive stealth? Releasing it without stealth would've meant creating a whole new plane. Not likely, if something as early as the VF-0/SV-51 has active stealth-lost technology or not it would have been regained by the time the VF-17 was engineered. The VF-17 probably would have both passive stealth structure and an active stealth system. I keep forgetting that active-stealth's been added to older planes now...

Mmmm,. I guess you COULD skip the RAM part.

Bad burns? I don't believe there's an official tale. We'll assume it covers some sort of old injury that didn't heal properly. And that said scar is a battle injury, because Britai isn't the kind of guy that loses an eye to his doorframe. Invid, supervision army, same thing... Well, not really... But with a simple substitution of villains, and removing references to mystical voodoo gasoline... Likely. It's possible(probable?) that zentradi are engineered to their general rank. Examples such as Exedol seem to support this assertation.

looks like flashback scenes from macross plus, probably from the movie version... I'm pretty sure that's it exactly. I really don't want to stick my crappy VHS tape in the VCR to check, though...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Nightmare purely passive stealth? Releasing it without stealth would've meant creating a whole new plane.

Ok... any word on just WHAT the Valkyrie uses for reaction mass? Not as far as I know. I don't think either fuel or propellant has ever been specified.

As I understand it, he bribed Yamato to make him a 1:1 VF-1S...

Shammy is Finnish, Vanessa is French, and Kim is from the "South Asia Federation". Now, where in the heck did you find that out? That just seems like it's too obscure to be common knowledge. http://macross.anime.net/characters/index.html I bet.

Just to back up what Nanashi has said....nuclear reactors would be the power plant for the Valkyrie. Reaction mass (liquid water maybe?) is still necessary to go from point a to point b as well as being used in vernier thrusters and so forth. No reaction mass and no movement. Furthermore, you also need something for the reactor to fuse. There's no reason for that to not be stored as a liquid, particularly since the cleanest fusion reaction uses helium and the easiest use hydrogen, both of which you will HAVE to liquify to get a reasonable amout of fuel in the tank.

Probably something done off the front line.... though you have to wonder what pilot would carry a three shot wonder into battle rather than their trusty GU-11.... One that needed more kick, but couldn't spare the added size of FAST packs? And I wouldn't think it replaces the GU-11. It's pretty small.

Likely. You have to remember that a gunboat is basically just a floating cannon. The larger vessels weren't intended to be used solely as big guns. So they didn't carry a weapon as large proportionately as a gunboat would. The Macross is overpowered for it's size because that's what gunboats are. Actually, the Nupetiet-Vergnitzs class has a huge cannon that is mainly used for combat again large mobile fortresses, while Millia's ship is a gun destroyer with a short range cannon because it is a special forces unit, while there is the heavier gun destroyer which has a long range firing cannon, like the Macross. There are different specifications because the ships serve different purposes. That's sort of what I was trying to get at. The Macross just SEEMS to be more powerful proportionately because it was never intended to be a general-purpose vehicle. They put a lot more of the ship into the gun, proportionally, then most of the other vehicles. Hence the notable lack of onboard anti-mecha weaponry. It's not SUPPOSED to defend itself, because it has escorts. Self-defense would just draw power from the cannon. The Vergnitzs cannon didn't seem as powerful proportionately as the Macross cannon did. If it was, the final battle of Space War 1 would've likely consisted of a single shot into Bodolzaa's Fulbtzs-Berrentzs from a distance, rather than the bold, audacious, and somewhat suicidal Macross Attack. Aside from a probable upper limit on or non-linear scaling(IE doubling the size of the cannon doesn't double the power output) of the technology, the Vergnitzs needed space and energy for other stuff too. It wasn't JUST a cannon. Unfortunately, it lends a false impression that the Macross is somehow more advanced, because it's got such a large punch in such a small package.

Looks reloadable to me. Just stuff more grenades in the front.

I aksed for one for christmas. Due to my poor communication skills at the time, I wound up with a "Alpha". The little one with removable wings, too.

IT IS ZENTRADI!

I've never seen a version without the Episode 4 in the text scroll. This includes televisings from before the non-special-edition remaster. The ones that had degraded so badly the sky was orange. Alas, I'm a tad young to remeber seeing the original in theaters, and the first home version I owned was the remasters(again emphasis is on non-special-edition). I'm the kid that was mildly shocked to find out the sky wasn't SUPPOSED to be orange. But personally, I think it was there, and just forgotten untill prequels were started. I KNOW it wasn't edited into the Special Edition releases like some people claimed.

But less than 2 years before the SE, he released the Original Trilogies on VHS, and it was supposed to be "the last time". I have the box. It says for the last time in it's original form. Perfectly honest bastard. And honestly, I LIKED some of the changes. I have 2 big offenses... 1. The infamous Greedo shot. It's sloppy, looks bad, and the timing is such that Han STILL shoots in cold blood, defeating the purpose of the edit(which is to make a hardened criminal like Han Solo into a retard that waits for someone to ACTUALLY try to kill him before he moves to protect himself, rather than act as soon as it is convenient). It also ruins one of favorite lines in the trilogy("I've waited a long time for this, Solo." "Yes, I bet you have!"). 2. That damn singer with the tentacle mouth in Jabba's palace. I did NOT need to see a 30-foot-wide alien lips. I furthermore believe those 2 changes are what most of the world holds against the special edition. They were by far the most offensive moments.

And as Millia engages Max in a duel to the death, the oft-slain Kakizaki comes up from behind looking for sweet revenge! Now it's time for someone else to get wasted from behind before they see it coming!

it prob has do to with anything japanese, but i see people dressed up like star wars people at anime expo so go figure i think anything is fairgame Add Battletech to the list. Yes, I've seen someone go as a battlemech.

I wouldn't be surprised if the 3 laws were already in there. The entertainment industry has a tendancy to throw them in there at random. I'v eseen them in books, movies, and video games with no ties to Asimov.