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  2. aurance
    Okay? So 2500 ships supposedly match your lower bound limit of main fleet ships of N00,000 Zent ships. There’s a whole huge range between that and N,000,000, for which I would think evacuation would be the best option. Unless they get lucky with some kind of protoculture shock again.
  3. m0n5t3r
    Honestly, this scene (and others like it) is the only thing I remember about Astrotrain. Even as a kid, I was probably bug-eyed and scratching my head. I mean, Jetfire was already a stretch, Astrotrain is just ridiculous .
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  5. Big s
    Do they make action figures or only vehicles and weapons?
  6. Big s
    I feel like there was more of a surprise wit from dusk till dawn. I remember the original ads never showed anything spooky or monstrous. It just kinda looked like it would be an average Tarantino Rodriguez style heist gone wrong movie. I remember after work one day since a theater was less than a block away we all just walked over got our tickets and got all caught off guard when it turned into a vampire movie. Sinners kinda showed the surprise in the trailers and it became more of a dark titanic where you’re just waiting for the ship to sink. Although definitely better than titanic ever was. I definitely feel that Sinners was a good movie, but definitely not worth all the nominations. As far as big creepy films of the year, Weapons was far more entertaining although maybe not all that Oscar worthy either. Just a better overall movie than sinners. Critics and academy voters always have too big of a soft spot for musicals
  7. Seto Kaiba
    He is, but he's also a culture war grifter so accurate reportage is not exactly his thing. 🫤
  8. Big s
    To be fair, he is drunk
  9. Big s
    You can keep plugging that one if you don’t judge me for plugging the movie Hundreds of Beavers for the hundredth time
  10. Big s
    That’s only if you think about it being fueled by liquid fuel. These are powered by energon and the high amounts of cocaine the writers were snorting
  11. Seto Kaiba
    He often does... with highly questionable accuracy at the best of times.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    That's depend on the size of the main fleet... they run from a few hundred thousand to a few million ships. Variable Fighter Master File: VF-19 Excalibur relates the story of an encounter with a 120,000 ship main fleet in 2037 as part of the VF-19/VF-22 development backstory. After losing a colony in the Alpha Virginis system to the Zentradi 1,534th Main Fleet the New UN Forces rounded up every ship and Valkyrie within 300 light years of Earth and proceeded to throw them all at that main fleet spamming pretty much every thermonuclear reaction weapon they could lay hands on until the much-reduced enemy fleet was driven off. Emigrant fleet defense forces of a few hundred ships are meant to be enough to run off or wipe out a Zentradi branch fleet. 2,500+ ships won't run off a Zentradi main fleet the size of Boddole Zer's ~5 million ships, but it will absolutely bring enough hurt to drive off or destroy smaller forces that are more typically encountered.
  13. Big s
    A friend is f mine had a couple of these that he scored at a swap meet before they became temu junk stops. I was always a little jealous that he found them
  14. Big s
    He’s got something to say about everything, right or wrong, but always plastered
  15. Big s
    Can’t wait to see this dinosaur brought back to life.
  16. Seto Kaiba
    Presumably it varied a bit depending on how similar the technology in question was to what we already had or whether they were simply practical versions of technology that already existed in theory. After the establishment of OTEC in 2000 and the Earth Unification Government in 2001, the investment in OTM research was both global and massive. Human-made imitations of at least some OTMaterials were available as early as March 2001 (after about 2 years of study), and once they solved certain core principles the dominos started falling faster and faster with a crude OTM thermounuclear reactor being brought online by November 2002, etc. Practical laser weapons seem to have also been developed quite quickly, first seeing use in the mid-2000s. That is a bit different, IMO. Scotty didn't hand the formula for transparent aluminum to a multinational research organization with unlimited funding backed by a world government. He handed it over to a material scientist turned plant supervisor at a small plexiglass manufacturing company in 1980s San Francisco (or Burglingame, per the script). What little information we have on the subject indicates that both US and Russian-made "legacy" fighter designs like the F-14 and Su-27 that were improved with OTM were mainly receiving structural improvements/reinforcements using early/crude pseudo-OTMaterials to make them more durable and slightly stealthier. At least where the F-14++ Tomcat is concerned, it's often mentioned that these were old/retired/mothballed airframes being rushed back into service with whatever improvements could be thrown together quickly due to a critical shortage of viable aircraft. Such improvements were typically limited to replacing certain parts with harder-wearing ones made from early OTM composites, avionics modernization, and newer model engines. Master File opines that the experimental SuX-27 Flanker its writers invented for backstory purposes also received a prototype laser cannon similar to those that would one day be adopted by the Octos and VF-0. We see that MiG-29 deploying early infrared-guided micro missiles, and Master File suggests that those and early hybrid-guided longer-ranged missiles like the OTM-based hybrid guidance AMRAAM2 were also on the table. Since VFs with active stealth had yet to really make their presence known, most of the weapons used were conventional NATO and Warsaw Pact hardware like the AIM-9X, AIM-120D, etc.
  17. aurance
    I feel like even 2500 ships of various sizes wouldn’t stand up to a Zentraedi main fleet. I wonder what types of mass evacuation strategies they have created for the population of Earth itself to survive, other than the existential colony fleet plan.
  18. Bolt
    Very nice! Though the pilot must be more reclined to sit in the cockpit, it seems.
  19. TG Remix
    I went through a personal journey of going through Variable Fighter Master File for the VF-19, and I came across it's detailing on how Earth orbital fleet is structured. Of course it's not official per se, but it's a nice perspective regardless. As of 2050, Earth's defense line has up to 17 task force fleets (excluding special and 30 patrol fleets), including the reserve fleet, and each of them has an average of 150 ships. That's a whopping 2550 ships between Earth's orbit! Much bigger then any fleet we've heard of. It certainly felt that big when we saw it in Plus, they really don't want another repeat of SWI, huh. Interesting how it points out Jupiter and Mars being the second and third lines of defenses with two fleets each. Makes sense due to their positions, but aside from the Jupiter satellite cities, I'm not aware of the planet itself being noteworthy like Mars is with its cities and Apollo Base. Each fleet is described to be composed of an amphibious command flagship, an amphibious assault ship, a guided missile cruiser, an Aegis destroyer, a stealth frigate, an aircraft carrier, and auxiliary vessels of the logistical support force such as supply ships. Fleets on the first and second defense lines may also be accompanied by beam gunboats and jamming stations. The composition seems a lot more varied then what animated material gives us, mostly being carrier based with frigates and the odd cruiser (exceptions like the Varauta Army notwithstanding.) The amphibious command ship I'm assuming is a Uraga, the frigates and carrier most likely the Northampton and Guantanamos, the amphibious assault ship I'm not sure if it's supposed to be either of the Zentradi or Meltradi types, but it'd go with the MF's notions of the remaining Zentradi fleet being deployed as the Solar System's first line of defense, and VF-X2's utilization of the latter type as both cargo and combat ready ships. I have no idea what the guided missile cruisers would be, much less the Aegis destroyers. Doesn't seem like it'd be the transforming Destroyer in VF-X2, but the mention of beam gunboats could allude to the Atlantic-class Vandal from the same game. I always wondered, what are the differences and additions OTM technology would give to regular aircraft? Certainly not the transforming limbs, unless you count the F-14's wings lol. I'm not aware what would OTM-based munitions would be, unless they were laser based weapons.
  20. electric indigo
    Pochiwan0183's custom designed & printed VF-2SS
  21. Yesterday
  22. Major Tom
    For the Mandalorian in you
  23. Papa Rat
    Phase 2 of operation Jurassic model in effect. Putty applied. We wait to see if it has any effect. Hold on to your butts. Every piece has a seam. This is going to be quite an adventure. I was too preoccupied to see if I could and didn’t stop to see if I should … make this build work
  24. Sildani
    How long did it take to reverse-engineer the OT that was found? Materials science and understanding of quantum mechanics certainly took a couple of orders of magnitude's leap; but how long would that have taken to become anything practical? I recall Star Trek IV when Scotty showed the chemical arrangement of transparent aluminum: "It'll take years to figure out the dynamics of this matrix."
  25. Valkyrie Hunter D
    The Critical Drinker has something to say about all this:
  26. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, it's one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments. It doesn't get discussed much because we know basically nothing about it and the Macross Zero CG model(s) for the MiG-29 aren't detailed enough to identify which variant of the MiG-29 is even being used. Even Variable Fighter Master File: VF-0 Phoenix, which goes into much more detail, barely mentions Mikoyan Gurevich's designs in passing since it has almost its entire focus on Sukhoi since they did a lot of the heavy lifting in the Alliance's VF program. (The only MiG it really mentions is an OTM testbed called the MiG-2000 that appears to have nothing in common with the real/proposed MiG-2000, and which is itself mentioned only in passing in a section about a Sukhoi transitional model that rejoices in the uninspiring designation of SuX-27.) The only book I know of that actually mentions this aircraft is the first volume of Tenjin Hidetaka's Valkyries artbook series. On page 43, in a note on the box art for the Hasegawa 1/72 Macross Zero MiG-29 Fulcrum kit from 2002, a brief mention is made that a canard-equipped version of the MiG-29 appears in Ep5. Presumably this unknown MiG-29 with canards is a lukewarm/early OTM adopter similar to the UN Forces F-14++ Tomcat Double Plus that was being used to both return an older model aircraft to service and evaluate some technologies being developed for future use in Variable Fighters. Using the SV-51's missile pod/drop tank units isn't terribly surprising since the SV-51 is backwards compatible with Warsaw Pact hardware and given how ineffective the F-14's weapons were against the active stealth-equipped VF-0 they'd probably want some OTM-based munitions so they could actually fight the Asuka II's VF-0s.
  27. TangledThorns
    The season finale was shorter than expected but it also felt like satire with its musical choices that took me out of the GoT universe. I don't like it when they do that.
  28. danth
    Could be! I figured it might be some bootleg from who knows where. I do specifically remember it had the thigh armor as a separate piece. Which seemed too engineered for a capsule toy.
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