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  4. Seto Kaiba
    Reality, it must be admitted, has terrible writing.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    We're not told exactly how much cloning was done, but it was apparently done quite extensively... enough that recessive genetic disorders became an issue within a generation, and that they were able to crew emigrant fleets by cloning personnel with essential skills and knowledge. Macross II: Lovers Again was, I think, the first Macross title to play with the idea of a post-war world where much of the population was at least part-Zentradi. They seem to be not quite as common in Macross Plus and other later titles, since most of the characters we see are standard Humans, but part-Zentradi aren't in short supply either. Humanity adopting some Zentradi technology doesn't seem particularly strange to me, or even connected to the population numbers. Earth got its hands on a LOT of pristine overtechnology thanks to the end of the war, the defection of a hundred-plus Zentradi ships, and the capture of dozens of Factory Satellites. It's only natural Humanity would be leveraging superior versions of the technology they've been copying where possible. There's that, yeah. Though we also see some in Veffidas's backstory where she's basically participating in Zentradi street fights, and Macross 7 Trash also involves the fighting instincts of the Zentradi being hard to control. I think the guys in Circle FANKY probably agree, since they included the Daedalus II-class in their Battleships of the Galaxy series devoted to main timeline Macross. It didn't... there are several intermediate designs. The DYRL-based timeline leading up to Macross II: Lovers Again has a very different course of events and technological progression. Quite a few post-war dates and events seen during the Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series still occur, but occur years after the war instead of months. For instance, the Megaroad-01 launches in 2014 not 2012, or Komilia being born in 2018. The pace of overtechnology development is a fair bit slower, and Earth only captures the one factory satellite seen in the TV series. But it advances nevertheless. The VF-1 is replaced by the VF-1 Kai Attack Valkyrie in 2018, the VF-4 is introduced in 2014 and upgraded c.2036, and then 2054 sees all the previous gen Valkyrie designs and ships get replaced en masse during a major tech boom following a massive conflict with a Zentradi main fleet out near Pluto. Earth's capture of a second factory satellite leads to a second overtechnology boom that gives rise to new classes of ship and a new generation of Valkyries and Destroids. They start with the VF-XX c.2060, then there's the VF-2 in 2072, the VF-2SS in 2081, the VF-2JA in 2086, and the VA-1SS Metal Siren in 2092. Not the one in Eternal Love Song, a Great Offscreen War in 2054 between the UN Spacy and a Zentradi main fleet that found the emigrant ship Million Star just a short distance from Sol. The fighting was so intense that a large portion of the Spacy's fleet is lost, but the factory satellite captured leads to the development of a lot of new ships and mecha seen in the OVA. Yeah. Macross II's official timeline is the first official mention of the UN Spacy mass-producing Macross-class ships... years before Macross Frontier established the existence of the Macross-class SDFNs. Exactly why they use a mixture of Macross-class and Megaroad-class ships for emigrant fleet missions is unclear, but they were launching them until 2054 at the very least. The 2054 Zentradi war is caused when a Macross-class emigrant ship stumbles directly into a Zentradi main fleet. You mean art reference or technical reference? It has its own section in books like Variable Fighter Designer's Note and Macross Big Encyclopedia. The technical writeup is in Macross Chronicle Mechanic Sheet F Movie SMS 04A/B. The actual writeup is pretty minimal, since the "Super Pack" is really just a small chemical rocket booster, a fuel tank, a laminated shield, and the fold wave projector/missile pods on the wingtips.
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  8. Duke Togo
    LOL
  9. Papa Rat
    @Big sthanks
  10. TangledThorns
    It's AI as the movie isn't in production yet.
  11. Big s
    Looks really great for such an old kit
  12. Big s
    And that would be due to poor writing Not necessarily. People that knew her wouldn’t have expected that kind of attempt at all. The propaganda from the empire over the situation wouldn’t even have been bending the truth very far , especially with all the living witnesses
  13. Papa Rat
    Well I think it’s done but I want to go back in for some weathering and a matte topcoat. Had a lot of fun with this one. Paint was sloppy in spots, but I just pushed on. Some Orguss M.Lover, ♥️♥️♥️
  14. Mommar
    It's still at ridiculous Japanese Media levels of over-priced but for the month of May Plus is at $134.99.
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  16. PixelatedShinobi
    Been poking around trying to find things - are there any decent references for the YF-29's Super Packs? Been unable to find any on the Macross Mecha Manual. Worst comes to worse I'll find the issue of Chronicle it's in and scan them myself, but was wondering if someone else has done it for me. I've been unable to find the specific issue the Durandal is profiled in too, so anyone who knows which would be immensely helpful.
  17. PsYcHoDyNaMiX
    Dropping an update... TLDR: I worked on the fastpacks a bit, reworked supports for existing parts, moved over to the higher res printers, reduced the layer heights, adjusted tolerances (some more), enabled AA and the results were great! I got the colors dialed in decently well (aside from the AAL Antennas, there's a reason, lol). I've realized I sunk quite a bit of time color matching. The good stuff:
  18. Old_Nash_II
    I also didn't like the Max Steel reboot, it strayed too far from the original. I hope that in the next version, they bring back what made the previous one what it was. As for He-man, the behind-the-scenes photos aren't really convincing me to like him. OK, I know that the initial plot is that he "lost his memory" due to a plan by Skeletor, and was sent to an "Earth reality", leaving Teela to go and save him. I think that even the plot of the film canceled by Canon (which later became Van Damme's Cyborg) would have been much better.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    The point is that they didn't have enough people to lock down the entire building like you're proposing should be easy. Anyone who actually knew her would know full well that she wouldn't hurt or kill anyone. Mind you, it doesn't really matter in the end. Those senators who are inclined to [believe in/support] Mon Mothma are going to question the Imperial official account of whatever happened no matter what and likely assume the Empire is lying or at least distorting the truth. Senators who are inclined to support the Empire are going to accept the sanitized Imperial propaganda version of events likely without question. Some of them have already seen one of their colleagues in the process of getting disappeared by the ISB, and are doubtless going to suspect that if Mon Mothma's escort did kill someone they did so in defense of their charge.
  20. Papa Rat
    So true. Those are some great examples
  21. Big s
    My daughter absolutely loved the old max steel cartoon. I can’t remember much of it, i think it was a cg show. But she loved it so much when she was only a few years old that she made me buy her the toy of him and she took it everywhere. I remember her disliking the movie though. She always did like the less girly shows even when she was younger. Anyway, this does already look like they’re butchering He Man.
  22. Big s
    I saw these on instagram, but was really skeptical about the source. The images kind of have that AI look and I haven’t found any information that they actually started shooting. That’s also a pretty full costume for just set pics in that last one. I’d love for these to be real though, but I’m gonna wait to hear from some better sources
  23. Old_Nash_II
    Spawn Movie first images I hope not some AI pics
  24. Old_Nash_II
    Another "Max Steel movie"
  25. shazam
    When you are given the chance to use an IP and your not really trying. 🫤
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  27. Big s
    I’m complaining because it was too easy the way it was done. It basically felt like it was barely an inconvenience. A better writer could’ve made a great escape scene while building tension because they couldn’t kill on the way out, or had to dispose of bodies to avoid ruining her fragile reputation I don’t see why anyone would side with her after seeing what just happened. She wasn’t disappeared, she murdered her way out. And others would easily have seen it that way. It basically makes the imperials actually seem like martyrs I can’t come up with one where it wasn’t under a riot situation. This was just three people in only two groups Looked more like she didn’t like her driver and had him murdered. And the witnesses barely cared anyway. They just were casually walking up to a guy that just got shot dead and the others didn’t even hear the shot fired and were casually walking on.
  28. TG Remix
    It does make me wonder how exponential the process of the mass cloning project bolstered up the human population prior to its ban. It didn't seem like it took them long at all to start, since it was initiated in May 2010. By the 2040's they seem like the majority, and then the Frontier and Delta era subtly play with the concept that a good chunk of everyone has some mixed heritage one way or another. It's always been such an intriguing narrative concept that even for a little bit, Zentradi was the majority of "humanity" during that time, to the point where their technology through ships, mechs, and cloning itself was widely adopted. I'm assuming you're referring to the Die Hard episode when Zentradi stormed the building? I was under the assumption that they only acted like that is because of Sivil's presence amplifying their instincts as a Protodevlin, like it was explained later on. We need more assault/landing ships in this franchise, I still think that there could've been room for a Daedalus successor in Kawamori's Macross if everything didn't heavily lean towards carrier based fleets, exceptions like the pre-Protodevlin Varauta Army and Critical Path Corporation oddballs notwithstanding. Always appreciated the remodeling of the VF-1s in the II timeline, though it makes me wonder aside from the obvious production reasons, how come it took over 7-8 decades for there to be a proper successor of the VF-1 there? iirc here was a large war with a Branch Fleet that caused the revamping? I'm not sure if that's Eternal Love Song's story or another incident with the timeline. So there was more Megaroads then the one we see launching in that timeline! Never get a feel of those exploration fleets since II and the PC-Engine games more or less stay in their Solar System bubble. Though I didn't know there was Macross ships made to be flagships for those fleets either, unless you're referring to the Macross Cannons?
  29. Seto Kaiba
    There was a really prominent example that happened in a major First World country about four years back... Oh, absolutely. The Emperor is the origin of the Empire's systemic arrogance and belief that they have everything and everyone under their control. He played the Republic so completely and so well that he has reason to believe that there's nobody who can pose a real threat to his rule. Mon Mothma's story arc in the Andor-adjacent novel The Mask of Fear is basically a longform explanation of why the Emperor doesn't consider Mon Mothma any real threat. Her outspoken pacifism and naive attempts to curtail the Emperor's power through Senate legislation unintentionally buys her years of being beneath suspicion as a possible rebel in the eyes of the Empire. The ISB was never able to link her to any rebel activity despite years of surveillance since she wasn't actually involved in any. That was all Luthen/"Axis". So when the ISB starts planning her arrest, they misjudge the situation quite badly because they think they're going to get no more than token resistance from a pacifist bleeding heart senator who would never hurt a fly. This is a person whose idea of political violence is a tersely worded letter. Odds are the Empire probably didn't consider her a real threat even after her escape was aided by a rebel agent. She was just an unpopular senator from a wealthy family. Cutting off her access to her family's money and monitoring her associates would be enough to render her powerless in the Empire's eyes. As a rebel leader, she'd be more hindrance than help due to her naivete and reluctance to take decisive action. They were probably more interested in using the knowledge that she had rebel ties to help identify actual rebels and arrest them than they were in bringing her in as a "rebel mastermind". You're assuming - without evidence - that the Ghorman Massacre is just the events that we see onscreen and not something that continued after Cassian fled town. After all, this is explicitly described as a worse event than the so-called Tarkin Massacre that killed 500 people. You're assuming the people in the story have the same omniscient knowledge the audience does. Bail Organa's guards - and the ISB agent infiltrating them - were dressed as civilians and using weapons smuggled into the Senate. What bystanders saw was some random lady try to grab Senator Mothma away from her escort, shout about being an ISB agent while brandishing a blaster, and then get shot as a rebel spy by the senator's own security. The bystanders are NOT going to have a clear picture of what actually happened there... esp. since the ISB is unlikely to publicly admit that the two people who died were ISB agents. Considering the Imperial reputation for gung-ho violence that recently saw a massive massacre on Ghorman occur, some of the public might assume that the people who died (e.g. her "trusted" driver of many years) died trying to get her to safety while she was being abducted or something along those lines. Audiences would be complaining that her escape was too easy if nobody got hurt. The senators siding with her weren't going to do so openly, for fear of being the next to be disappeared by the ISB. They would already have been skeptical of the Empire's story too.
  30. Big s
    I kinda did the same. I had a bad feeling that it was gonna be one of those permanently shelved projects. one of those jokes where nobody was laughing. Hopefully this ends up just as fun or even better than the first one.
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