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    Master Dex replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I figured. I did the VF-31A DX pre-order with my card and it basically acted like normal where it did the reauthorization once or twice over the months before release but once it shipped then I got charged. Worked pretty well for me. Good to know. My points will basically amount to about $10 off but hey, every little bit, lol.
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    Master Dex replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I didn't know it was a thing... but it had 300 points listed for that... it was the first of my birthdays since that account was made.. so maybe it's a one time thing?
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    Master Dex replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'm logged into HLJ and CDJ. Those are the two I've trusted and have worked before. I still have points at CDJ from my 31A purchase and birthday apparently, lol.. so it might be worth my time to order there. I know if you do paypal it is up front at CDJ but if it is by card is it also up front?
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    Master Dex replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'm likely gonna wake up 10 minutes ahead of this, get my pages ready on my tablet, do the thing, and confirm without even getting out of bed, lol. Almost how I ordered the VF-31F when it first released, heheh.
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    I didn't really give a reason actually. I was also talking in over simplistic manner. I know there are people who can better answer things and give details, like you and Seto especially.
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    There is really only limitation in space when it comes to fuel and operating time. In atmosphere, a VF-1 can run for months without refuel since it uses it's fuel to super heat intake air for propulsion, which is all around it. So in atmosphere, it is indeed up to pilot endurance and mission time. Most VF's could circle a planet several times over in the time it would take to burn off all it's fusion fuel. It is only limited by aerodynamic drag at that point, and the fact that the pilot will need to rest (and eat and dispense as ya do). Space is a different story though. No atmosphere means no free propellant. One might think they'd have to find an extra source beside the fuel, but it turns out Thermonuclear Reaction Engines are so stupidly powerful thanks to overtechnology that they can just run them at a high output/low efficiency mode and use the fusion plasma as propellant. This means they don't need a separate propellant to replace the air used in atmosphere. The downside is it eats up the on board fuel. Really Fast. I don't know the exact figures (that guy comes later), but the VF-1 for a baseline example with no packs has a few hours of operating time or something to that effect.. maybe less. The FAST packs exist entirely to increase operating time in space by adding more fuel and additional booster rockets (which apparently, somewhat amusingly, are OTEC hybrid rockets, not fusion engines themselves.. which explains why they get tossed away so haphazardly since they are super cheap to make being based on real world modern day rocket tech with some sci-fi improvements). There is actually a rare mention of this in Delta episode 6 (a rare time Delta bothered with useful details) where Arad tells Hayate to be mindful of his fuel. He never mentioned it before because this was their first sortie in space. Low and behold inexperienced pilot Hayate flew about haphazardly and ran out of fuel in short order in that episode. Though at least he had a decent amount to start with, those Drakken III's barely have much at all. Later VF models improved all of this for space, to the point where future Super parts were more for adding armament and fuel rather than extra engines since the main engines of later craft were good enough. Notably, the VF-25's packs did add extra engines though, price you pay for an all regime fighter I suppose. Note the VF-4 is a space superiority fighter, it is designed to work there, and thus doesn't really need extras to operate (it is more like it has FAST packs built into it), but it wasn't as good in atmosphere. UNS/NUNS likes to go back and forth on how they made fighters for specialized regimes or jack of all trade styles. The latter seems to be in vogue as it was for the VF-1 and VF-11 days. The VF-19 and 22 weren't so much specialized for a regime though as a mission type and since neither ever really became a main line fighter (plans aside) that's somewhat irrelevant.
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    Unless they are aiming for one of our satellite cluster galaxies (like Sculptor or the Megallanic clouds) that would be a very long and lonely trip even with modern fold tech.
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    Master Dex replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I'm all for this, regardless of the color. I just want to own a VF-4 in any size and I missed out on the Yamacadias plus couldn't afford them (getting 3 different Delta VFs doesn't help, I know that is small numbers for people here but I am not that rich, lol). I actually like the VF-4G colors more but I have no issue with the Skull coloring.
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    Master Dex replied to joppewo's topic in Toys

    I've never been able to afford a VF-4 toy. I'd prefer the VF-4G but anything will do! I'll aim to get this to finally have one. Not been following HMR releases like the DX, will this go through normal sites like HLJ and so forth?
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    I still feel the desire to help you with that project after we spoke at SDC... but I really don't know what I could offer you. I think I just want to be involved in things, lol.
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    I think it's actually quite a distance away in fact. Remember everything is on the way when you have a space fighter. I do recall always thinking it was a ghost city though some distance away. A rarity of buildings that wasn't vaporized decades back, but radiation likely made it a tough place to stay.. or it was built later but then people didn't stick around for some reason. It's never fully explained, but the area looked a bit sparse for Macross City, which is often seen in post-SDFM material to be quite dense. As others have already stated, Basara is an unusually good pilot. It's likely Ray taught him the basics, but Basara seems to have a natural affinity for it (and seriously, being praised by Max himself is nothing to scoff at). This goes so far that in Dynamite 7 he flies an old VT-1 by manipulating the classical controls by pushing them with his acoustic guitar. Basara can handle the VF-19's gimmicky nature (also who knows how the guitar control system altered the flight avionics and control systems anyway).
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    The top pilot spots are all Jenius family members, followed by other honorable mentions... Except maybe Mirage. I love her but she did not get the gene. Makes you wonder about her father, lol.
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    There is some details about him, but Seto knows more than I do (I think it was only short blurbs of information really, likely from the blu-ray liner notes). Essentially he got chained to a desk by the UNS/NUNS over time because of course they did that so he got out eventually and SMS offered him the flying career he always wanted. I think he was involved in YF-25 testing perhaps but don't quote me (There was never a physical YF-24.. except maybe for a Federal Forces test model). I also know he got the VF-19E/F made basically to match the flight difficulty of the YF-19/VF-19A but with modern improvements despite being built on a 'Colony grade' platform.
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    Mix of both canons as it often is with SK's "Canon is an abstract concept" philosophy. Alto can reasonably be believed to have returned though. As for their time after the show up till Delta.. well yeah Sheryl and Ranka are galactically famous. Freyja knew of them and she is from a culture that ignored outside culture for 7 odd years (their music was likely pretty available there before the war). Freyja even has a rendition of Ranka's Seikan Hikou she sang as a child. Alto staying in SMS is a decent bet. It's likely he got more serious with Sheryl. TV canon left that ambiguous but the movies blatantly stated Sheryl won the triangle (and in the TV series they were technically even more close... especially physically, heh). I'm sure though all three are still good friends. Ranka will grow up and get over it eventually after all. The real question is, is Michael alive or not? Maybe we mix both the show and the movies and say they recovered his corpse from space and made him a zombie, lol.
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    But there is a lot of growing between ages 14 in 2045 and age 36 in 2067 when Delta happens. She could be a very different person.
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    I wasn't sure if any would be using IR sensing, but I suppose it would make sense with those engines being a pretty distinct heat source. That's interesting info! If overtechnology makes it easier to combine more than one sensor type in a micro missile and still make it economical, then I can see them doing just for the hell of it if anything else (it fits with their rather liberal use of reaction engines in space.. they have the power, lol).
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    I don't have the exact answer in canon for this.... But where I work handles stuff for systems like this so I have insight. It could easily be all of the above with overtechnology... That said simplicity is key and micro missiles are a bit of a low risk weapon (for the user). This is clear in that they're fired in swarms to maximize likelihood of a hit. I'd suspect the VF handles the targeting since they are also low to mid range missiles and the AI translates the eye tracking data we often see and tells the missiles to follow their arcs. For larger non cluster missiles they might use a blend of this with active missile guidance such as on board radar. This is all my best guess though. LED searchlights for yours. As for GCPD, Wayne Enterprises probably holds contracts there..
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    I have a theory but I know the facts guy will get to it soon enough heh. *lights the signal*
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    Well, heh. I guess I stand corrected. I guess I just didn't want to make too many assumptions about the power rating of the purported VF-24 (which sounds like it might be over 9000 after all, heheh).
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    I wouldn't say the YF/VF-24 was meant to make all fighters obsolete. They'll still run others for specific need. Federal special forces apparently use modified VF-1s to great effect against unsuspecting foes, lol.
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    Not a single one no... and not a main fleet. A single Federal Forces VF-24 with a short distance fold booster could cut the head off of a branch fleet's main ship with some reaction weapons dumped inside the ship as it folds in and out of there.. which supposedly was one of the selling points Shinsei had for the YF-24 initially. It would not take out an entire branch fleet without a squadron of buddies though.. and even then, it's mostly just trying to disorganize them by taking out the lead. Main Fleet though... frankly New Macross class ships in combo are best hope if there is no refurbished Grand Cannons anymore. This is all super speculative of course, since no actual stats of the VF-24 exist.. but Master File apparently implies it is a beast of a thing.
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    Mirage is criminally underused... but not sure she should be an ace. It was a refreshing idea in the first half of the show that she was a Jenius who wasn't automatically exceptional and her character arc would be how she dealt with that and overcame her limitations... but she didn't have a character arc at all in the end.
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    I don't have the specifics Seto usually comes in later with, but I think in Frontier's case a lot of smaller ships rode in Island-1's fold envelope (which might have been shared energy from the entire cluster). In Macross 7 is looks like ships individually fold though, so it probably depends on size. Island 1 is a lot larger than City 7.
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    If listed individually yes. Though Fleet of the Strongest women combined all of that wonderfully, lol.
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    At least until Basara finishes the song Holy Lonely Light, lol.
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