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  1. guyxxed
    The yellow is an inspired color choice, amazing how different of a feel it gives the plane to the other schemes you showed. Nice work!
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    And we love you for it. 😉 Considering that Sheryl puts SMS's services on her credit card for an extended battle with the Quarter and full air support, it's probably not quite to the level you're thinking, but you're not wrong that it's got to be expensive. I can imagine that factory satellites and the infinite resources of space make ammo and fuel less costly than today's equivalents, even if the equipment itself is ballooning to small nation GDP levels. It's still an insane level of capability in the hands of privateers, though. Wonder how many go pirate like the SMS or Battle Astrea? I keep picturing Amazon or Google with nukes and deciding that Apple needs to go away. 😉
  3. guyxxed
    Funny you should mention that. 😉 When I started working on the Al Shahal map, I made this variant to go along with it, though I quickly dropped it since the local NUNS are probably too poor to afford it. I then switched it to a "Royal Guard" scheme as a private unit for a rich local family.
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    The amount of power private corporations wield in the Macross universe is frankly terrifying. SMS has a fleet of Macross class warships that it fielded in the final movie that wasn't acting on behest of the government, but just protecting it's own assets (granted, the needs of the government kinda overlapped, but that was largely incidental). Even as cash strapped as Xaos is in Delta, they still have at least three Elysion class ships. That would have been more than enough to take over the Brisninger Cluster by force (at least for a little while) if they so chose. What happens when the Macross equivalent of Amazon or Google decides they don't like the competition in some out of the way outpost? I'm sure the NUNS can mount an adequate response, but they still have to A) know about the incident, and B) be able to mobilize to its location by which time the damage is done. And if a few of these incidents pop up together, I think it wouldn't be long before NUNS is overwhelmed and a shooting war between corporate entities for commercial/territorial dominance is off and running. Whether Macross's creators think favorably or unfavorably about PMC's, the world they've imagined has let that genie out of the bottle and given it steroids, where it ends is scary to think about.
  5. guyxxed
    If you insist. 😉 Starts around here and continues across the next few pages. Also made some racer schemes, a Pixie Squad version of the 25, and then wandered off into some Delta alternate liveries. Some cool stuff by others posted there as well.
  6. guyxxed
    Thanks, the teal scheme has always appealed to me, Frontier fleet has a good sense of style. I won't spam it here, but I made battroid versions of the scheme and played with a number of other imagined liveries down in the Fan Works section under the "3D Collections" thread, if anyone's interested. My stuff starts around page 4, and some others have posted cool stuff there as well.
  7. guyxxed
    I actually agree with that sentiment, and it's what led me to start playing around with what a NUNS version of the VF-25 might look like. I get the idea that a screen full of "hero" valks is visually confusing, but I think the way Delta handled it with differently colored versions for protagonists vs cannon fodder was more than adequate. And, like you say, the original did just fine with everyone in the same plane.
  8. guyxxed
    Just adding my thumbs up to the line, really nice looking scheme and well executed. Nice work!
  9. guyxxed
    Really amazing work! This looks incredible! I've been messing with something kind of like it over in the 3D Collections thread and trying to build a "livable" version of the Al Shahal environment from Delta, but I won't ever be in this league. Great stuff and I look forward to what you do with it next!
  10. guyxxed
    I appreciate that they've thought even this much about it, and if they explore the implications even a little bit, like the inclusion of Johnson's troubles, then that also shows that the writers see it as more than just a handwave, which is nice. That detail puts Klan's repeated use of micloning throughout Frontier into a bit of a different light, especially given her "clumsy genes" issue. I'm sure the deformity issues weren't thought out too much at that stage, but hindsight now makes it look reckless. I guess we can chalk it up to youth and love drivng risky behavior, and maybe also gives a backhanded explanation for her size (being almost as big as commander types in adult form). Maybe that's a side effect of her repeated use and eventually she'll be as tall as Boldoza someday? 😉
  11. guyxxed
    I guess micronization is the Macross version of the Star Trek transporter problem. It was dreamed up to solve a plot/setting problem, but the implications of the technology start to break the setting (somewhat) if you think about them too much. And I'm of the breed that does nothing but think about things too much. 😁 Thanks for the confirmations, as extensive as the expanded universe materials are for Macross, it wouldn't have surprised me if there were explanations, but I guess I'm getting into "just go with it" territory. Or, at least, "Schroedingers Setting" territory, where it will only be defined when it becomes plot relevant.
  12. guyxxed
    That leads my weird brain to another rabbit hole of wondering. Can Zentradi (or anyone, actually) with cybernetics get micronized or macronized? The cloning tanks presumably wouldn't copy nonbilogical material into the new scale. Is that why Exodor was still big in M7? And does that mean that the captain of the Elysion in Delta (forgotten his name for the moment) got his prosthetics after humanitarian? Also makes me wonder why you wouldn't just use micro/macronization as a treatment anytime someone loses a limb or has grievous bodily harm. Their DNA still has all the right parts, just grow them up/down and they're good as new again.
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    This might belong more in the Short Questions thread, and if so I apologize and will move it. Was rewatching Frontier and the line in the recap episode where the Galaxy cabal note that Frontier was perfect for their plans in part because of their ban on implant technology caught my attention. While "implant" can mean a lot of things, it made me wonder if the rest of the galaxy is more like Grace and Brera and super cyborgs are the norm on Earth and Eden these days? Certainly Zentradi have a long history of cybernetics and it seems fighter technology has advanced to the point where you almost need to be enhanced to properly control one, so it would stand to reason. Just wondering if the setting materials give any hint to the state of "everyone else" in the current story years. Delta probably isn't a reliable gauge since it's out in the poor hinterlands of the galaxy, though the second movie seems to lean pretty heavily into cyber/AI bad guys so maybe that reinforces the idea. Is Macross headed towards a transhuman future, or has it already gotten there and all we're seeing are the lonely, left-behind luddites?
  14. guyxxed
    I'm in Baltimore (well, just south of it, in Laurel, but I consider myself a Baltimorean).
  15. guyxxed
    It's still mostly kitbashing from existing models, so not as bad as it seems, but definitely takes time. I keep telling myself the end result will be worth it. We'll see, got to get there first! 😁
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