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    My read of it was that the operator would fly in and settle on some space debris like how Michel does, and settle in to watch a point in space for a period of time? I guess if you wanted to shoot a VVIP coming into dock and you had a couple weeks to set up. Some silly spy nonsense like that, I would say. I sorta read Supernova as being partly about suppressing dissent, to be honest. This was the ramp-up to the VF-X2 events, and there was skullduggery afoot. Maybe that's just me being too deep into technothrillers though.
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    Deniable wetworks is my first thought. It is a VF designed to precisely attack targets deep inside enemy lines without resorting to reaction weapons, after all. This sort of headhunter work sounds in line with SuperNova specifications
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    VFMF seems to have an obsession with capacitors in general, it feels like. I suppose so many energy hungry things live on a Valkyrie, so it makes sense.
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    That engineer took Casaba Howitzer a little too literally.
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    I...well, if you do have a sun in a bottle on tap, why would you not try to use it as a lasing gain/excitator medium somehow?
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    The consistency of Ernest and Grammier's relationship and history across all media is pretty remarkable, I guess it was a core part of the writing. Sad that
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    I think Seto has much better citations, but I do recall Isamu getting threatened with an assignment to the coal mines of some space colony. I guess they had the idea all the way back then.
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    Thematically, I can buy it. The VF-31 was a plane whose design program was initiated by a local government group trying to spark economic growth. I can believe them cutting the cost for that, maybe due to something like "not-invented-here" syndrome or a misplaced desire to save pennies on things like certification while wanting a big ticket bulletpoint for sales.
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    I thought the fold quartz particle source would still get expended from constant firings. The way Frontier always had it, it ended up being a bit of a finite resource. I'm now wondering if the Master File writers also had that belief about the MDE particle guns, and sorta followed up on that with the ammo-dependent particle gunpods. In the case of another Vajra problem you could just swap your magazine types, instead of getting hard-locked into an MDE-spec weapon. If traditional PBWs are funneling excess plasma from the reactor, it could be that there are some issues with trunking that stuff from the engine, through the hand hardpoint into the gunpod. Before Frontier the energy gunpod was a one-shot attachment for the Nightmare. The magazine system might also be a way to avoid that engineering choice.
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    A particle beam would still be throwing matter at a target, albeit extremely minute amounts at very very high velocities in collimated beams. So it sorta does make sense that it has a magazine, if you think of it as more of a tank of elemental gas. This would be in line with how the MDE Beam Matrices worked before I guess, as you would be loading up particalized fold quartz bits to use as your plasmified matter. My contention really was with the terminology of 'optical munition/stores', as peebees don't work like that. And yes, if we go by this assumption we shouldn't need to have a disposable capacitor cartridge to be our particle beam ammo
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    Maybe it's just the doctrinal name for energy weapons of that type. They're probably not dissecting whether it is a charged particle beam or laser they are shooting, it's just "beam". Having precharged rounds would mean less strain on the engine/powerplant and reduce power spikes in your electrics. I guess, not an EE.
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    PWAs are cool as an SF fan because they're kind of a realish way to justify desktop or ruggedized particle accelerators that don't need a crazy amount of length to get a particle beam moving. From what I understand though this means a more divergent beam coming out, I guess it's something to do with the instabilities in a plasma field. I hesitate to even speculate, it is way out of my wheelhouse. But the idea of a desktop particle beam to transmute things on demand is cool on its own. And the opportunities for storytelling...
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    They should just do it for every side story. No matter how spurious the connection.
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    Evil version of Delta, except they're evil in the moneymaxxing sense and make all their pilots have animated ads
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    Assuming I somehow survive the AUN conflict, I don't get waxed by a stray heavy converging beam or collapsing house when Kuala Lumpur gets turned into a hole, and somehow don't starve to death, it'd be nice to move to the Moon?
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    I've been using Macross 7 as something to watch while on the exercise bike. It's not bad for what it is, there's not so much fast dynamic movement and the character drama that's not about Basara is more engaging as an adult than when I watched it off of IRC rips in 2003. This Sivil arc though, it, uh...they put this on kids' TV show blocks?
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    I'm surprised that the fanon of the VF reclaiming fuel/remass from the atmosphere has been acknowledged in a fashion. I guess they were saying the same sort of thing over there.
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    Macross 30

    RangerKarl replied to Tochiro's topic in Games

    Hey all, just thought I'd document here that I was having a decent experience with emulating this on RPCS3 version 0.0.32-16875-3b36df48, which seems to be about a few days old. Functionality has gone up and down over the years, with some iterations breaking the game, so it seemed prudent to write it down somewhere.
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    Going to think that this would be a per-user limitation, forcing an entire fleet to talk galactically via the equivalent of a T1 line means you'd have to limit what you send out. But that helps to clarify what to expect. I guess within the fleet, no such restrictions apply?
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    Maintaining a comms network across the Milky Way? Sounds like titanic work in the most literal of senses. I think the name "Galaxy Network" reminded me a bit of how TV channels used to name themselves, which makes sense for the medium. Nice to know Kawamori did clarify that bit recently, though I bet you still get lagswitching hackusations in whatever passes for online gaming.
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    Comms question: We've seen real time communications across light years for military operations (MacF), strategic round-table discussions (Mac7) and intracluster news broadcasts (Delta Zettai Live!). With all that, do normal civilians living in emigration fleets or settled worlds have access to superluminal comms? e.g; some manner of Xaos!Discord or federated social media?
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    Re: papa Immelmann whitewashing Anyway I quite enjoyed it. It's no SnT but it'll do. Things I enjoyed were
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    I realize OTM is near magic, but the displacement for the Northamptons seems really off. At a 200m length with 1200 tonne displacement it almost feels like it's a bunch of Structural Integrity Fields pretending to be metal.
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    Life after Delta? Well I guess the ending ticked me off enough to make me go properly learn game engines. Might be I could do better combat choreo than the CGI dude. Or something. Uh, fairly sure the poster's talking about Love Live, the school idol franchise that Bamco is pushing.
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    Hey, so I just got this game last Sunday (family went on vacation to Japan, may as well take the opportunity) and have been bashing around the first three parts or so (got Mylene, just flying around doing missions). I'm getting a bit tired of the VF-S though, is Valkyrie progression going to keep at this rate?
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