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But that's armor. What they want to know what it's actually made of...

When Gamlin gets his VF-17 canopy shreaded by Sivil, he floats out in space with 2 tubes connecting him to his seat. And there is a slot for the backpack in the VF's seat. You can see this on the DYRL? VF-1 and the VF-11.

Maybe I missed that part just now. Do you remember when in the episode he says that? Episode time: 4m:17s. It's an ambiguous phrase (computers didn't exactly have the amount of attention in 1980 as they do now...) since it could me circuit board or software. But in either case, a program had to have interpretted the sensor readings as hostile and such, overrided a manual overide. So there has to have been some software running.

Actually, Keith is correct, to a point. Inexperience did play a role as they had no idea what would happen. Claudia even expressed her doubts about folding so close to to the ground. Global opted to go for it anyways. In "Global's Report", Global states that the SA's old software caused ship-wide malfunctions. And since the fold drive went missing afterwards, the answer is unclear. As we saw later, the energy field generated by folding is practically skin tight. Now if Macross's fold drive is suppose to act like that, why did it create a huge field where as in M7, the fleet folds from Rax and doesn't bring the lake they were in or when folding to Varuata in episode 48, why did the fighters have to land on M7, then fold, then launch again? Or better yet, why do fighters/vessels have individual fold boosters/drives? Why do they not have 1 fold drive generate the field to encompass all vessels in the group? The unfortunate answer is, we don't have the original Macross fold drive to run another test on. Keith may not be right, but he's not entirely wrong. But this is something for another thread.

No. The VF-1X also has the same. So do the VF-1A Block 12 designs. However, for it's time, the VF-1S (circa 2009) was an improvement compared the the 1As and 1Js. However, that would not be so afterwards.

Just cuz you don't see them carry any doesn't mean they can't. But one must remember, the VEFR-1 and VE-1 are not gunships. Their role is recon and electronic warfare. If they are fired upon, they get the hell outta Dodge. Their purpose is not getting into a gun battle. In fact, they stay as far away as they can.

Let's see... *looks at watch* Shawn opened the old forums back in Dec. 2000. I joined around January 2001...Geez...3 years and runnin....

They were their own flight group. After Hikaru permanently became Skull Squadron's commander, Max and Millia were given their own group within Skull squadron. In fact, Max was given his own group before the end of SWI. It was just a formality to get his 1A upgraded to a 1J.

Looks like Hasford is in tubes and a wheelchair....

Concerning Super and Strike variants. Both refer to the FAST pack types. Super uses 2 HMMP-02 mini-missile launchers where as Strike uses 1 HMMP-02 missile launcher and 1 Mauler RO-X2A high-powered double-action beam cannon. No where does it say that Strike is a squadron leader option.

I really hope it's something dirty. Jeez, she's 16 years old.... Nora is 25..

Meh, RT.com is just selling stuff in their store.

The 2nd Anakin pic is also photoshop as well. But think of it as concept art. It might as well be a good representation of what Anakin is suppose to look like at the end, before the armor.

Perhaps. I don't see anything. macross.anime.net is running off cached data. Might want to talk to the guy running anime.net.

Not exactly a newbie thread question as it doesn't relate to Macross..... Everybody has their own spot to order from. You might want to ask in your own thread.

Bleh, who cares about on-stage pics. Just look for the normal pics. http://www.maryu.net/tomo/ (pic taken at 11/2003 event)

Everything is working on my end. C:\>ping macrossworld.com Pinging macrossworld.com [66.98.160.20] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.98.160.20: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=48 Reply from 66.98.160.20: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=48 Reply from 66.98.160.20: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=48 Reply from 66.98.160.20: bytes=32 time=62ms TTL=48 Ping statistics for 66.98.160.20: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 62ms, Maximum = 94ms, Average = 70ms

Consider it this way, Nanashi's site may not be accurate or official, but at least someone is providing translations to all sorts of Macross material out there (and even some neat pics). Whether or not it's official, lets leave that to Egan to answer. Nanashi has also provided some pics of some rare stuff.

Blah blah blah. Yap yap yap. I still don't care if Macek gets an award or gets run over by a car.

SteelFalcon is RPG info. RPG info is not accurate as it works in the world of the game. Therefore, we don't use that info. We work off what we have from the Compendium.

IIRC, they are referring to the Gol Boddole Zer-class fortresses. Whether or not they also include the Lapramiz-class fortresses as well...I don't recall. http://www.anime.net/macross/feedback/index.html

In regards to the VF-17's gunpod attachment: http://www.anime.net/macross/mecha/united_...vf17/index.html In regards to the VF-4's armaments: http://www.anime.net/macross/mecha/united_.../vf4/index.html

Perhaps one should consider that the SV-51 also uses a 55mm gunpod with only 120 rounds.

I forgot which studio Mikimoto worked for but he was definitely not part of Studio Nue. That part I do remember. I don't believe he was part of Artland but I'll have to check.

*yawn* Didn't we talk about this a month ago?