Macross SEED

[Valles]

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Wow. I like where this is going! Hmmm... Wonder if you would consider me submitting an idea for what a 'new' SDF-1 would look like and could do, neh?

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*leans forward* Do tell. ^_^

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I also have an idea for an Aerospace Interceptor Fighter based on the Yukikaze fighters in Sentou Yousei Yukikaze.

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*reminds self to see that some day*
Anyway, while I do think that having the 'conventional' military forces developed and detailed is a very good idea, I'm rather leery of allowing direct resemblance to other anime or fiction - ideally, if/when we finish the project up, I, at least, would find it personally satisfying if we had something that the original Japanese studio could look at and decide to animate with minimal alteration.
Erm. Going into the science bit I dropped last night, my thoughts essentially run to the terran forces using three distinct types of technology.
1.) Real-world, near-future type stuff. This includes all conventional military forces, most projectile and missile weapons, and the new series' answer to the original's ARMD platforms and other space gear. Newton's Laws apply in full, gravity comes from spinning things, and for god's sake, watch you remass guage!
2.) Stuff copied off the SDF-1. Self-perpetuating structural integrity forcefields (which allow things like the desdroids and Valks), 'Zero Point' power systems, beam guns (on which more anon), etc. Flashy and noteworthy, but by no means common.
3.) Wierd Black Box alien stuff. Fold drives, antigravity, artificial gravity, various other systems that are integrated into the SDF-1's structure.
Okay, about the quantum stuff. I'd suggest that the Valks and such use quantum taps (ie, pulling power out of the structure of spacetime) rather than fusion? Why, well, because it provides a justification for those beam-guns-which-act-nothing-like-real-particle-beam-weapons - they're not throwing particles, they're ripping a swath of dissasembled spacetime through a certain volume x meters long and y millimeters across, and that even is scattering off tremendous amounts of energy and random exotic particles - which, amoung other things, means that it's really bright. It's still not perfect, but it comes a lot closer to the way we've been shown that these weapons are supposed to act.
Ja, -n
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