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  2. Papa Rat
    @nightmareB4macross so cool. Oh and that little trainer bot thing. Love it!
  3. nightmareB4macross
    I don’t believe we have. Good catch.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    There was definitely a push to impose new controls on the New UN Forces to ensure that its power couldn't be wielded so freely or unrestrainedly as it had been before. One of them being a new regulatory body to police the VF-X special forces, which had been used by Latence's supporters to crush dissent. Money's money, yeah... though there are some passing mentions to the fact that Xaos Valkyrie Works did economize where they could. The Macross Delta TV series suggests the VF-31 Siegfried's customizations were rather haphazard, and pushed the airframe to or past its design limit making it somewhat fragile and increasing its maintenance requirements. Master File, in its turn, suggests that the Siegfried's fold wave system was a heavily economized model that sacrificed output and the ability to self-start (requiring an external source of fold waves) to achieve a cost reduction sufficient to allow Xaos to manufacture multiple units. Yeah, at the very least I can reuse the most expensive part of the PC... that bloody RTX 4080.
  5. Shawn

    1/55's revisited

    Shawn replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    FYI Fixed a bunch of missing pics on the bottom of page 2 and 3 by grabbing them from the wayback machine (the comparison pics)
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  8. Seto Kaiba
    It probably could have been reworked as a good and hopeful story about the triumph of reason over fear, but only in a very different sort of Star Trek series. One of the (main) reasons it fell so flat with audiences was that the bleak and miserable 32nd century future after the Burn really wasn't all that different from the bleak and miserable 23rd century future Discovery had already spent two seasons showing us. The year on the calendar changed significantly, but little else did. Discovery's crew were miserable bastards who hated themselves and each other, the galaxy was still damned and doomed at the hands of alien warlords from TOS-era species, and the whole thing was one massive idiot plot (The Burn) built on a string of plot holes and continuity errors and orbited by a string of smaller idiot plots. It could have worked if it'd been done with a crew that had... y'know... actually believed in and embodied the Federation's ideals. Discovery's crew seemed to be no more than dimly aware that the Federation even had ideals, and certainly couldn't name them if you asked.
  9. Convectuoso
    Yes. It's an Earth bender this time
  10. Shawn

    1/55's revisited

    Shawn replied to kanata67's topic in Toys

    Did we do landing gear release tab color differences yet? We probably did, sure we did.
  11. nightmareB4macross
    Going to try and work on the Battroid controls, egress access panel/display for seat, and canopy hinges with frame. and more.
  12. Papa Rat
    I am also in the dark as far as the lore goes besides any translation I have read on the sides of the kit box(es). I am curious to find out more.
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  14. pengbuzz
    After the second unification war, I wondered if it was a larger motivator than I had first thought. Right; my take was that they were kind of lagging behind ones like SMS. Guess money's money. That's a royal pain and a half; I know eventually I'll have to upgrade my PC, but with this kind of issue, I'm very reticent.
  15. Big s
    Might want to be careful not to get them in trouble by repeating too much of what they say, but at least these have been rumored from other sources as well. I do hope Scorpion ends up cool. One of my favorite spidey enemies of all time. Hope he doesn’t let me down.
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  17. TM2 Dinobot
    There's also this one that I've been on the hunt for.
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  20. Thom
    I saw it as the Federation going through a Dark Age. A thousand years is a long time for anything to stay stable, much less in existence. If they had done it right, it could have been a very good and hopeful story of the 'light of reason' brushing aside the dark and the beginning of a new Age. Instead, we just got some pretty crappy stories.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    That may have been part of it, though I'm sure the primary reason was to give the individual member governments full control over their local defense forces. Even if the Xaos PMC division is a small-time operator as a PMC, it's still a division of a much larger conglomerate mega-corporation with vast resources at their disposal. It probably helped that Xaos didn't have to pay for the aircraft themselves. Yep. I had a fairly high-end rig and unfortuantely the time it takes to RMA those defective chips is so tediously long that it's arguably faster to buy a whole new PC at this point.
  22. lechuck
    Certainly not an impossibility, but this is Star Trek we are talking about, it is all about positive portrayal and message. The whole decaying organisation or failed state type of story telling is another one of those that floated around for years with Star Trek. I was never fond of this idea being explored, But it's one thing creating this depressing backdrop, it's another when you on top take the whole point of Star Trek – namely us humans – and portray them as crappy entitled beings with stupid infighting in their solar system that they are completely incapable of resolving themselves (what happened to 900 years of Federation experience?) all because it's not "easy riding" any longer. That might be a reflection of our current human society, but I want to see a reflection of how we can be much better. It would have been way more interesting to see humans still embracing the Federation, still being the explorers wanting to understand the universe and still being there to help others as much as they can. Exploring the human condition (what makes these 32nd century humans go on?) despite the current hardships and adversities of the Burn would have made for excellent stories. Instead we got very lazy and thoughtless writing, all for the sensationalism of making everything even more depressing and dark.
  23. Apok451
    If anyone wants a hi metal vf-19 fire Valkyrie, it’s $65 on Amazon. Wasn’t even looking for one. edit: well that went fast https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZQKGSQ6?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref=clp_aw_a_A3ACILMS0N8AEO
  24. Tking22
    My buddy and his wife have both been working with Disney for the last five years, all stunt work, and they've been a pretty solid source for rumors since they are both on nearly every new MCU and Star Wars project to some degree. Along with what I've been reading today, they've confirmed a few things for me... I never posted in other MCU and Star Wars threads about what they've let on to me about those projects in the past, but everything they told me came up as exactly true, with some background details as well, mostly on Brave New World as they had filmed tons of the cut content.
  25. pengbuzz
    The idea being that it's a lot harder to take over something that's not concentrated in one place anymore, right? I'm a bit astounded that Xaos could afford the customization parts (and attached increased maintenance needs ) for their fighters, given how cash-strapped they are. Hmm... I wonder if Xaos ever considered selling the plans to NUNS Central? The microcode glitch I've been reading about? I heard it's been hitting 13th and 14th gen chips.
  26. Big s
    Seeing how this is an unmanned unit, I guess it would make sense that it would be friendly to livestock. I honestly don’t know all the lore on Machinen Krieger and am kinda curious about how far the AI goes in the series since there seem to be several different types of unmanned units.
  27. pengbuzz
    Just don't hook the transporter up to the holodeck or you'll have some seriously messed up things going on...
  28. Seto Kaiba
    The central New UN Forces under the direct authority of the New UN Government itself are absolutely still humanity's Biggest Stick™. On the other hand, the quality of the various local defense forces that individual New UN Gov't member nations operate under the New UN Forces banner can vary wildly based on their government's priorities and resources. Wealthy emigrant governments like Macross Frontier or Macross Galaxy can afford to spend big on defense and thus boast large local defense forces with state-of-the-art weapons and well-trained soldiers. Others governments like the worlds of the Brisingr Alliance have to be more restrained and have smaller or less capable forces. It is theoretically a single entity, but it's a heavily decentralized one that's on a much tighter leash after the Second Unification War(s) due to the involvement several generals had in the coup attempt. Master File rather unfortunately glosses over the development history and circumstances of the production-intent VF-31 Kairos because the book is about the Siegfried custom and they only really want to talk about that. So instead of focusing on the domestic development of the VF-31 by the Brisingr Alliance they focus on Xaos's development of the VF-31S type. As I mentioned earlier, it presents an account that is somewhat at odds with official media in terms of its decision to depict the Siegfried as a low volume production unit meant for Special Forces use rather than the bank-breaking-ly expensive one-off Ace Custom machines made by and for Xaos they are in the Macross Delta series proper. That said, the central New UN Forces probably would want to produce the VF-31 Seigfried on a limited basis if they could get the plans. They put the YF-29 into very limited trial production for their special forces despite the insane expense, and even in Master File are maintaining actual squadrons of YF-29B and YF-29C types despite only being able to put together a few craft per year due to resource limitations. Not as of yet. I've been rather busy at the ol' day job and am currently between computers again thanks to having another 13th gen Intel chip fry out on me.
  29. Seto Kaiba
    Oh... oh no. Thank you for that horrible mental image that absolutely won't be haunting my nightmares now. 😆
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  31. lechuck
    Confirmed, our favourite psychopath is getting another GFFMC release. https://www.taghobby.com/archives/869952 https://tamashiiweb.com/item/15537/?wovn=en
  32. Captain Global
    Fst, thanks a lot for your responses, things seem to be a little more coherent now. I was under the impression that NUNS was still the preeminent military force on the galaxy. Fleets and planets could have their own forced but NUNS was still the main security provider. The fact that in most materials they refer to it as a single entity does not help much. But a more “EU” style of management seems to fit a post 2051 context. Regarding the VF-31 developments now it makes more sense. I thought that the relation with the Brisingir cluster came to be when Xaos became involved and wanted to move testing from Eden to Ragna, something that, according to the Master file, did not sit well with Shinsei and some NUNS officials. But if the Alliance is straight up funding the whole project it would make more sense. If this fact is noted on the master file please let me know in what page because I want to check if the machine translation omitted it. Also @Seto Kaiba Did you get to translating the rest of the Miracle of Foegal story of the VF-31 AX master file? So far I did not have any luck with my own attempts but from what I've been able to read it is pretty wild, with 25's and 19's advance.
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