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    There is a caveat again. In fact, most present-day nuclear warheads are actually less powerful than older ones, and it has nothing to do with nuclear pacts. It has to do that 10 low powers MIRVs can destroy an area more effectively via carpet bombing than a large single multimegaton warhead that utterly destroys... a lot of sky and some ground. Do the math yourself, draw a megasphere, see where it intersects with ground level, then fill that circular area with 10 smaller spheres. See? Also, as ICBM precision improved, warheads needed a lower yield to destroy subterranean bunkers, as it could impact within ~50m instead of ~450m from the target. Or you can target the industrial area instead of razing the whole city. More survivors but also a lot of injured or radiation poisoned in need of treatment, while industrial capability is as gone as if razing the area entirely. There is nothing simple about nuclear weapons, all is MAD around those. Surface-to-air missiles to defend nuclear silos were canceled because for the prize of one system you could just build another silo. That in turn meant another aimpoint, which translates to the enemy needing to waste another nuclear head just to destroy another silo, and not some strategic industrial city. If you are targetting a 4Km long OTM marvel megaship, by all means, go crazy about megatons. But if you are using MDE, that no kind of material or technology shown has been able to shield against, a medium yield warhead turning the middle-aft of a megaship into nothing is as effective as an insanely large MDE yield engulfing one entirely. And you may target ten with ten medium yield where only one could have been targeted with a large one, so the above paragraph considerations about real world nuclear arsenals also apply in Macross. [Edit]: Sorry for the heavy editing. I commited a LOT of mistakes up there. Even writing air-to-air where it clearly meant surface-to-air.
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    It was lucky in more than a way that mishap happened. Not being able to fold again buyed them time to later be able to learn from the usual end users of all those toys.
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    I keep forgetting all the toys, even apparently simple ones, are way more expensive than those look. "Sound boosters. New. Rated to 2,000ºK. Now on offer: take four, pay three." That also means you can loose one on a pool of lava and still search for it with the hand of your mecha, take it out, remove most of the rock pudding before it solidifies and maybe it would still be in working condition. OTM just gained a whole new level on awesomeness.
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    That is the thing. Easiest way is achieving faster than orbital speed. Or again you are burning a LOT of propellant.Also, no. The thing was not about atmospheric reentry. It was about atmospheric reentry with four big sound boosters under the wings.
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    You have a point. I mean, the reason the shuttles and space capsules do is that having an ablative heat shield is cheaper than the amount of fuel you have to burn to decelerate that much, so you leave atmosphere friction do the rest. If you don't mind that, you can burn a helluva whole tank while still out of the atmosphere, while keeping some to not fall like a rock. Still, I don't entirely buy it. Keep in mind that 'leaving' a planet means 'flying' faster than orbital speed. And that there is no such thing as 'terminal velocity' outside the atmosphere. You keep accelerating toward the planet as long as you don't do something to oppose gravity. I'd rather buy folding inside the planet atmosphere, using pinpoint barriers as shields, or using a not shown reentry capsule.
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    In SDFM, the RMS-1 are causing nuclear-like explosions around Zentraedi fleet, making Exedore comment 'may... may that be the lost reaction weaponry?', as if it was a capability the Zentraedi lost long ago (most probably to production line decay).
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    ...and still those are shown taking a lot of punishment. No, we are talking about the one that has the VF-25 engine (ah... the 'C' variant), that is the VF-31A that has *two* pylons. However, the VF-4 had as much and turned to have eight, with a bigger payload than VF-1 impressive one. 6 UMM-7s, two more than VF-1. Macross sure has a tendency for IOC with less pylons, then adding more in later blocks. We have also seen optional VF-31 bigger shields using that hardpoint and adding rails for not one, but two RMS-size weapons. Those sure are HARDpoints.So... not so sure about passive stealthiness assumptions, given the bulkiness of all external payloads shown used by the VF-31. It seems more about atmospheric reentry payload capability. That in turn reminds me about Michael showing above Gallia-4 with those huge sound boosters, and I am not sure how he managed the feat.
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    Sorry, my bad: war emergency power would not be obsolete, ever. I should have been aware of that. Take care of your machine... unless not caring would give you the advantage. Then, don't. Hard-pressed indeed, but you can. Weight, performance and systems are about the same or the same, but in that weight, the VF-31A has double the arm shields, 6-8 micro-missile launchers (counting the upper 'no Cygnus drone here' as one per leg) and a modular pod/ bomb bay. And double the forks. I mean spoons. Or letter openers. All in the clean configuration.
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    OK, not the engine. The only thing that did me point it was the huge jump on efficiency, that could lead to unforeseen stresses over the design and materials of the engine. I am glad there is people here with proper experience with engines. Still, there is something fishy about how the VF-25 contract was handled. On that, we both agree. An idiot firing in his/her foot through a contract clause can't be discarded and points to bad writing, both in contracts and in score. But can't be assumed, either.
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    True. Completely true. That raises an interesting issue, though: still, they did. We can wholeheartedly think that has to do with poor writing (oh, do we...), but that doesn't preclude a rational explanation.Frontier bought those VF-25 and then leased them to SMS. VF-25 may very well be the expected main fighter in Frontier future. But the just mentioned fact and the aforementioned one point to some issue with the VF-25. If I have to make a wild guess (and I love those), I'd say it is premature engine wear. That would also explain why 10 years later the VF-31A have VF-25 performance (I am not counting YFs, because those are horribly expensive in maintenance by default). On a side note, i found interesting to compare VF-1 with the VF-4, that took maintenance nightmare 'overboost' out of the equation and integrated engines and VF-1 super parts in the base VF-4 design. Also interesting is to compare VF-4 with VF-25/SPS-25. And then, VF-25/SPS-25 with base VF-31A.
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    +1
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    Tobias Geller, GC V survivor. Seeing them working was kind of amazing, you know, those giants, those frakking aliens. They could bend steel beams bare handed or take almost anything to a third floor. It was only fair they aided in reconstructing what they had destroyed. But predictably they got lazy and quit. They owed us, big time, way more than their combat rations, and quit! I am glad we later switch to destroid labor. I couldn't care less about how they would earn a life then. Martha Blomkamp, GC III survivor. I couldn't understand back then. They almost wiped us, why we were letting them live? Seeing them was a constant reminder of all that they had taken from us. I lost family and friends to them. And no one was judged for that. I felt as conquered, humiliated, violated by their mere presence among us. I have seen some out there, waiting for the interview. How could you? I can't understand you! We won! We barely won, but did! How come no one of them, not a single one has been on trial yet, you traitors! We deserve justice! We deserve compensation! I can't forgive them, and I can't forgive you either, collaborationist!
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    Mikhail Buran in his VF-25G while talking with macron Klan Klang.
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    Probably not. My English is not that good. I think 'children' is the word I intended. Fixed. Thanks for noticing. It was also a Frontier reference, a macron Zentran and a manned destroid, talking and interacting. Also 'Mav' is 'Maverick', double reference to Edurne personality and to Top Gun.
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    Glad you liked. It felt a little too cliche for me (a Latina looking for a job overseas). I rushed the conclusion because I was already past the 'onscreen time' for the 'interview'. I also felt a little weird about most interviews till now do not reflect 'the ones that almost wiped us are now here and we are supposed to treat them as friends'. I fully intend to get 'not that positive, bitter and openly antagonizing' kind of testimonies as well. As soon as I get those, I'll update the main post, adding or mixing in between what I already have, to give a feel of progression.
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    MacRonald? (Macro-nald) Berger King?
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    I think I may be losing myself here a little. I envisioned shorts stories, straight to the point. Last one is a bit too long.
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    Edurne Etxebarria, GC III survivor I enlisted for the citizenship, was an air controller at the base. In seconds I had no longer planes to look out for nor a country to belong to, a woman without a purpose. I applied for patrol duty, maybe because destroids also lacked a purpose. You may think that was weird. We dealt at times with some Zentraedi gone rogue, like dealing with twelve meter tall inebriated brash pilots, but most of the time nothing happened. And then, nothing continued to happen. I managed to make 'Mav' dance, just to kill boredom. One day I noticed him looking through the bars of his cell at me making 'Mav' dance while on guard duty. Days later, someone called about 'one of those frakking aliens keeping him outside his business'. Him, in front of a truck loaded with scraps of metal, smiling at me as he gave way, took the metal in his hand and unloaded over a pile. In his cell, I asked him why. 'I was a warrior. Then a badly paid employee. I had no purpose'. He had his hand past the bars over 'Mav' hip as he said so, and I didn't care nor reported that. Two days later, at the end of my turn, he was right there, waiting for me at 'Mav's feet, micronized. We had four children, and now own a dance academy.
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    Ibrahim Ben Addi, SDF-1 survivor We panicked when we felt falling while in the bunker, we were certain to die. We didn't understand we were teleported into space. When again under gravity, Macross fake gravity, we felt as reborn. We acted kindly towards others: someone suggested to rebuild the town inside Macross. No one though 'why? it is batshit crazy!'. It was, but instead we thought 'why not? it is a fantastic idea!'. Lady Minmay reopened her family restaurant with combat rations. I painted the name of my old bookstore over my house front and rented my own personal collection. Neighbors provided some books of their own as well. It was... it was bad times, we were in great peril, but it was also good times, back then. I know I am not making any sense.
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    It wasn't nuclear. It was, however, lots of Macross-class cannons firing, and even bigger ones if any of the Nupetiet-Vergnitz present did also fire her cannons as in DYRL?. Think about MOAB bombs: not nuclear, but quite similar distinctive cloud. Not pretty. Not pretty at all. In DYRL? however, Hikaru states he had taken measures to de-irradiate a fish. Movie goof, misconception, a fish that barely survived being cooked alive in the ocean? Who knows.
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    A physical Britannica, a CD, Larousse or simmilar may indeed be found in some of the homes of Macross City. If it was the CD version, illustrations or even primitive video can be found there. It is very different, however, to read about the Sistine Chapel than seeing it. It is like seeing Sheryl interpretation of what a cathedral was. Or someone that had seen the real Budokan, inside the copy, noticing errors everywhere. About nuclear war: Internet was made to survive that. Mirrors of entire sites are exactly for that purpose. What no one could expect is something way worse than a nuclear exchange: (almost) complete craterization of Earth's crust. It doesn't matter how many mirror servers you had down there: all were destroyed at once. As space colonies are even more vulnerable (and limited in resources and physical space), the most you can expect up there are proxy servers, temporal caching to avoid lag. Sure the information there would prove invaluable, as paradoxically, it was the off-world sites the ones that survived.
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    I can imagine some kind of libraries in each of the off-world bases, maybe even on ARMD carriers. In those you can expect books about military history, a translated copy of 'Art of War', a Bible, a Quran and a Torah, selected books that instill leadership among the ranks and maybe some classics. If, and only if, a base doubles as military academy, you can also expect text books of any university career that has any use for the military, like engineering. But take into account we are nowadays fighting WW3 against Daesh/ Isil, even if we don't daily acknowledge it. We are just not suffering the major consequences. The UN-AntiUN war was depicted differently, but you can safely expect somewhat comfortable life if far from the conflict zones. Some kind of precautionary measure can be expected from the paranoids, but you or me have not taken any today. However, you are partially right, as there was at least a civilian space colony: Macross herself. South Ataria island must had some form of school for the children, and at least a library and bookstore, not counting private collections.
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    ...or they found a Google Maps node (*) before 2045. Think about this that way: a war could be expected. Complete annihilation, not so. That would have been unthinkable. Maybe occupation, a long protracted war, guerrilla ops, but not annihilation. Maybe some select content was kept locally stored in every vessel of the fleet, but radiation shielded storage is at a premium, and warships still need to protect their own weaponry systems. Most content can be expected to be downloaded, read, and deleted in a day-to-day basis as you and me are using now this forum. After all, Internet was made to survive nuclear bombing... ...but not methodical heavy orbital bombardment of anything bigger than a town. (*) Sorry, I may have been overly optimistic here. New Macross-class Cities onward mix easily recognizable fragments of cities of the world. Think about it: what does it remind you of? Exactly! A tourist travel guide and recommendations!
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    First transformation sequence took many lives as Macross City still wasn't planned with moving sections into account. I even step back to consider if depicting a man being decapitated by a metal wall was 'respectful' or just gory. I'll ask about metro survivors around the world. Even opening a poll if there is nothing on the issue. I feel somewhat as an archeology digger, somehow. Mao was still a teenager last time we saw her in Zero. She may be an adult by Space War end. I expect her, and almost anyone on Earth, to try and learn every scrap of knowledge still available. I am thinking about Raspberry Pi 3-like mesh networks, much like distributing radios in India for education. Oh, I thought Keiko was referencing FX department head, not series director. You may be right, though.
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    You mean 'Love, Live, Alive'? 'She' was Yellow Belmont, a guy, despite the looks.
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