Macross SEED

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

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Ditch the whole 'Battle Pod' bullshit! After all, if the entire point of having Zentradi be that big is that they can fight mecha hand-to-hand, why throw that advantage away by putting them in a vehicle rather than a powersuit?

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The point of the Regult system was its massive cheapitude. Nothing but simple propulsion (land and space), life support system, and minimal sensors--the bare minimum to support a weapons platform. No armor worth speaking of, easy control setup. They could be churned out in the billions and handed over to an equal amount of barely-sapient grunts fresh out of the cloning vats.
Sheer. Overwhelming. Numbers.
There was only one Regult factory left in 2009, and it was still just enough to keep what was left of the Zentradi armada supplied. Imagine the numbers they must have been able to throw at their enemies back in the day.

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eventually bred back to baseline human (kind of like how fancy koi end up looking like ordinary carp after a few generations)

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Unless these Zents are radically different from the originals, I can't quite see this.
The only explanation for Zentradi-Micron conversion that makes any sense to me (at least in the original series) is that Zentradi bodies aren't really human--not even in biochemistry; probably have boron and silicon substituting for calcium and iron, like the dragons of Pern--but that their genetic code can be translated into human DNA. So the Micron chambers create a human replicant of the Zent and the Zent's mind is fed into it, and the original body broken down; or vice-versa. (This does match what little we saw of the process--the big body fades out and a tiny one fades in within the lower tank.)
So unless the refugees held on to micronization tech, or unless it's a seriously different situation...
Other thoughts:
-Can we please, this time around, say "Space Navy" instead of "Spacy?" God, "Robotech Defense Force" actually sounded better.
-The spelling "Zentraedi" is unique to Robotech. Pure Macross, it's either "Zentradi" or "Zjentowlaudey" (or something like that).
-Do the Zentradi ships still look like biotech, without actually being biotech? (A friend just the other day reminisced about Breetai's flagship as a "giant green space turd.")
--Sam
"Do you remember the moment... when our eyes met for the first time?"