Eh, just call them the First Empire, or some kind of physical description - they're supposed to be Really Alien, right, so call them Pentapods or something... though I for one would be in favor of taking back "Protoculture" from the clutches of Macek. Antediluvians maybe?
As for the Anima Spiritia stuff - music seems as good a method as any to bring about the focussed state of mind to activate psi powers, whether the sound as such is important or not. What can I say, I like the concept of an electric guitar as battlefield equipment.
I'm opposed to doing away with Full Armor variable fighters, though - if anything, lose the desdroids other than the Monster (even the Monster, if you shrink the size/firepower and do a heavy-artilery FA GERWALK) and use Full Armors in their place, as in post-Plus original Macross. The weight of all that strap on stuff restricts them to the same space-only or jumpjet flight, while the ability to shed it and perform as an aircraft to escape or re-engage, and you already have to train any pilot for one as mecha-infantry as well anyway, and mecha-infantry with enough navigation and piloting skill to get around on space-based duty. A Spacy Corps of Engineers version with big tool and materials bays instead of armor and ordnance would also make sense - with the addition of one or two Shuttle-arm or 'cherry picker truck' type platforms for vacsuited humans to get in and weld or bolt or whatever while the mecha holds whatever big oject requires that much strength to deal with in place.
All that said... I'm really not behind the whole 're-imagining Macross' thing. I mean, they tried to do that with Macross II, and while I kind of liked the VF-2SS, flightsuit, and Silvie's character design, the rest of it was meh at best. The sad part, thgouh, is that tht's the least-offensive remake I can think of... though granted, I don't like Gundam mechanical designs, and so didn't watch more than a couple episodes of the original and didn't even bother with SeeD. Then again, being the kind of fanatical macross purist who doesn't even speak the name of Macek's abomination, I'm probably not the intended audience anyway... Though I admit like Solty Rei BECAUSE it has BGC-like hardsuits used by a sort of Knight Sabers-ish group, not despite it - the thing is, I like it becuase they don't try to hang familiar names and only slightly different character designs on these new people. I guess what I'm saying with this is that new names and faces are desireable, even if they are in similar situations.
- CD
Edit: Okay, now that's freaky - I originally posted this at about 6pm...That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
As for the Anima Spiritia stuff - music seems as good a method as any to bring about the focussed state of mind to activate psi powers, whether the sound as such is important or not. What can I say, I like the concept of an electric guitar as battlefield equipment.
I'm opposed to doing away with Full Armor variable fighters, though - if anything, lose the desdroids other than the Monster (even the Monster, if you shrink the size/firepower and do a heavy-artilery FA GERWALK) and use Full Armors in their place, as in post-Plus original Macross. The weight of all that strap on stuff restricts them to the same space-only or jumpjet flight, while the ability to shed it and perform as an aircraft to escape or re-engage, and you already have to train any pilot for one as mecha-infantry as well anyway, and mecha-infantry with enough navigation and piloting skill to get around on space-based duty. A Spacy Corps of Engineers version with big tool and materials bays instead of armor and ordnance would also make sense - with the addition of one or two Shuttle-arm or 'cherry picker truck' type platforms for vacsuited humans to get in and weld or bolt or whatever while the mecha holds whatever big oject requires that much strength to deal with in place.
All that said... I'm really not behind the whole 're-imagining Macross' thing. I mean, they tried to do that with Macross II, and while I kind of liked the VF-2SS, flightsuit, and Silvie's character design, the rest of it was meh at best. The sad part, thgouh, is that tht's the least-offensive remake I can think of... though granted, I don't like Gundam mechanical designs, and so didn't watch more than a couple episodes of the original and didn't even bother with SeeD. Then again, being the kind of fanatical macross purist who doesn't even speak the name of Macek's abomination, I'm probably not the intended audience anyway... Though I admit like Solty Rei BECAUSE it has BGC-like hardsuits used by a sort of Knight Sabers-ish group, not despite it - the thing is, I like it becuase they don't try to hang familiar names and only slightly different character designs on these new people. I guess what I'm saying with this is that new names and faces are desireable, even if they are in similar situations.
- CD
Edit: Okay, now that's freaky - I originally posted this at about 6pm...That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows