Shaka_Z

when did he run away in ep 2? granted he did ditch the valk and ranka, but damn... she was safe, the valk's owners were going to be coming for it, and he had just been witness to something really really gruesome - it would leave most people with emotional scars and the need to retreat to deal with it. remember, Alto-hime isnt one to cower in fear from things when they are happening - he is actually a pretty quick thinking and decisive individual. dealing with the scars afterwards is his problem, and that is pretty normal. by the end of ep 2 he was demanding to fly a valk!

hmmm... I am thinking it is Alto running to find Sheryl. it is quite likely that klan will tell him about Sheryl's condition now that michel is gone - remember she wanted to tell Alto everything after Sheryl left them in the library in ep 18. I think that given her admonition to Alto in ep 20 that she would be highly disposed to force Alto's hand by breaking the silence about it.

this much goes without saying. I have to wonder though if the Zentran/Meltran were originally developed from ancient human stock or not, considering the whole 'interbreeding compatibility' angle. it would seem very likely. this idea is quite reasonable... one quibble though - using insects as an example is not the best idea, as fossilized remains of giant insects have in fact been found (dragonflies among others iirc). insect size is more dependent on oxygen levels in the atmosphere from what I remember, as they breathe through their traechea, which doesn't function very well past a certain size in modern atmospheric conditions.

good catch with the white toyota van... some designs are pretty much timeless.

i stand corrected... lol... dirty thought here - I'm gonna spoiler tag this, so be warned... naughty adult thoughts here ^^:

not identical, but much closer than we are even to the apes and chimpanzees - all the differences are effectively cosmetic, and frankly make your typical meltrandi female much more... physically endowed than the average normal human. not to mention they dont seem to lose their step with age... look at millia - 11 kids and still looks delicious... Max had to actually swear off that booty, cuz he just couldnt seem to be able to *not* make her pregnant. makes you wonder why humanity needed zentran cloning tech at all lol. sorry... i almost reverted to horny rapper speech there ^^.

lol no offense taken man - actually quite the opposite. I still am quite convinced of the 'Sheryl is a cousin from Sara and Mao's Dad's side of the family' vector... there are just too many things we know about Sheryl now, and here are 4 of the bigger points: 1. the Nome name - yeah grace could have named her... I know 2. the earrings - these little baubles are directly connected to Mao, we just dont know the chain of possession. 3. sheryl is fluent in french - a language that should be effectively dead by 2059, having been replaced by something much closer to an english based 'standard' language - lets face it, the vast majority of the population of Ataria spoke english, japanese and chinese. it was however a language the Mayans spoke (apparently the island was a french territory at some point). I admit this has some problems, such as why was Sheryl a street urchin on Galaxy, but she could have been orphaned by the loss of the 117th. hopefully we will see some more of her past, as it seems that Ranka and Brera aren't the only ones with amnesia. 4. her blood type granted, given the events of SW1, the likelihood of any such relations survivng is slim, and dependent on wether or not the relations moved to Ataria Island - given that the entire population of Mayan was likely relocated there, it isn't much of a stretch that if Mao had any remaining family they would relocate to wherever she was, given that she was only like 12-14 years old, and the UN wouldn't be very willing to let any mayan native have free roam of the world - too many potential leaks and political fallout.

well.. its' got something to do with those skintight mechanical pressure flight suits. they are probably far more effective at combatting G's than any suit based on gas pressure. I always envisioned them as being not so much skintight, but almost like an oversuit of synthetic muscle fiber, which could literally make a 90-lb weakling like Luca look like bruce lee at his physical peak (he was what... 5'7" and 130lbs of absolute muscle, many of which were in places where most people just don't have muscle)

well I never stated or implied that the earrings proved a blood relation between sheryl and mao or any other nome. all it really proves is that the earrings are related. I am still of the opinion though that sheryl is related somehow... wasnt it mentioned somewhere in Zero that mao/sara's uncle had left the island for the big cities... or was that just a general mention of the island population leaving for the riches of civilization? maybe she is a cousin from that side of the family (ie the uncle ended up in france and married there). that would certainly explain her lighter complexion compared to mao for example.

dude... Ive been saying this for the last 2 weeks and nobody's bothered to read my posts!!!

I second this opinion... I am really uncomfortable with the USAF's drive to UCAVs - they've basically all but stated that their objective is to all but eliminate manned aircraft in the future battlespace, and that aircraft like the F-22 are quite likely going to be the last of their kind. I certainly hope that our Pilots take that threat for what it is, and follow the example of Isamu - remember that he didnt go to earth to rescue myung (initially)... his intention was to kill the AI ghost fighter outright, in front of the entire military establishment, on the day of its' public unveiling (basically he was going to assassinate the damn thing). Guld was sent to stop him, as aside from the X-9 ghost itself, there was really nothing and no-one else in the inventory that stood a chance in hell of catching Isamu and the YF-19, much less killing him. it was really just a coincidence that the unveiling was set to be part of the Terran debut of Sharon, who promptly made her bid to take over the world, take myung hostage, and take control of the ghost. (ain't coinkidinks fun?) [edit]omfg... I just had an evil thought. it's known that the yf-19 and -21 were so advanced that they were operating right at the bleeding edge of a 'normal' humans performance limits. what would happen if say... SMS fitted a -19 with the Ex-Gear system?[/edit]

operative part of that is only known source. there is no evidence either for or against the idea that the beings who we know as the protoculture - no biological remains of one has ever been found afaik - did not either use, make or have as internal organs fold quartz crystals. it just hasnt been hinted at in the macross mythos before Frontier (Zero BD retconn notwithstanding). we may actually be witnessing the birdman himself (SK) doing something we never thought he would do - tying up the background story of the universe. some of this actually reminds me of Babylon 5, in that as the series neared its' end, the most fundamental aspects of what happened in the distant past were made known to all, leaving the younger races to 'make their own magic' (I loved that little exposition by Delenn). now that I thnk about it, there seem to be a number of parallels... I just can't put my finger on them atm. indeed... I wonder just how much SK is going to reveal, and how many more questions will be asked thanks to the revelations.

it doesn't necessarily mean the earrings were made by the protoculture. it means that somehow or another Fold Quartz was on the island... perhaps it is a crystallized form of the bird human's blood or something, that the islanders found at some point and fashioned into the earrings for the priestesses? it is one possibility, that might be borne out if Sara is shown wearing them. conversely, they might be cermonial.

he is definitely not full-blooded human. like I said earlier, given that fact I give him no more than the typical human time for surviving - about 5 minutes. this assumes that he would immediately be getting oxygen thru some form of direct blood infusion, as his lungs would be damaged far beyond any hope of repair at the 3 minute mark. Uninjured I have no idea how long he could survive given his genetics.

I hate to say it, but thats pretty much a small scale technology-based copy of what a planetary biosphere does... both are huge recycling centers - one is just a helluvalot bigger than the other.

one word... LAG that remote control setup likely is not very effective as range increases.

where are you guys getting this??? michel wasnt out to prove anything to alto or anybody else - he leapt without hesitation to defend klan, got impaled, and without hesitation leapt to defend her again, which got him sucked out into the void. thoughts of his own survival - not there at all. the only thing that mattered to him right then was protecting her. utterly selfless IMHO. Alto would have been right there with him if there weren't more bugs breaking down the door. all LUCA could do was stand there next to Ranka - he didnt even try to assist. I agree with others... Luca should have bought it instead. however, this only means that he now needs to atone for his inaction, and perhaps grow to be more than the namby excuse for a guy that he is. no wonder nanase doesn't actually see him. but then she has been little more than a footnote herself. By contrast, guld's descision to kamikaze the ghost was much more of a rational choice. to be perfectly honest, he didnt have to kill it.. all that was needed was for him to buy time long enough so that Isamu could get to myung and deal with Sharon, at which point the ghost would have dropped like a fly.

well... I posted this in the ep 20 thread... but it seemed to get ignored - twice, so here it is where it might be appreciated: I apologize for the spamming...

4 words to make a fortune in the macross universe... macronized meltrandi hygiene products 'nuff said

certainly looks like it... that doesnt surprise me in the slightest.

I swear nobody seems to have seen this post of mine back on page 18 lol, so here it is again!

indeed... my vote stays with michel for the same reasons, although Guld does come a close second.

new avatar??? hell no... I printed it to 24x32 inches!!! nice to have a large format printer at one's disposal

honestly... I dont remember where I found it... the original is 500x800 and while it doesnt look photo-realistic at that size, it still looks very good. I have a bigger one somewhere of a 19 on the ground that really looks realistic... I will try to find that one for you guys. here it is...

thing is, if you restrict things to fighter mode only, Hikaru would probably be #1 on that list followed closely by Roy and Isamu who would Tie for 2nd. although there is a possibility Isamu would be #1 in that case.