Drogn:
The MAXL sound booster is indeed much the right sort of thing - although *points to his last post* the Kai's equivalent, well, not quite so much, for obvious reasons.
The SV-51's boosters I was always sort of bothered by since the first time I saw them - their placement feels sort of like it's just asking for structural trouble - but that's really a little hypocritical in face of the whole 'giant robot' thing. As much as the flappy wings and mitre hat sort of don't strike the right note, it's certainly ideal for Ontario's needs... first and foremost since its conventional power plants mean that it costs, like, a quarter what a Valkyrie does for a goodly chunk of the in-atmophere performance.
A catamaran aircraft carrier has always struck me as an excellent, even obligatory idea, but, given the scale difference between, say, a Nimitz class and my proposed length for the SDF-1...
BTW, a scale model of the SDF-1 built for human crew (rather than Zentreadi), would come out about six times a Nimitz's length, and have a proportionally broader beam...
Invid clam-bays are pretty much what I was conceiving for the Zent. infantry jump-offs - instant launch without armor weakness, good design practice.
EML:
What I'd had in mind for the EDTO sigil would be the UN's globe over a shield divided slantwise between dark and light blue (sort of like the independant Babylon 5 logo), but the split kite might work as a seperate symbol for dedicated (rather than seconded from member states) EDTO military units.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
The MAXL sound booster is indeed much the right sort of thing - although *points to his last post* the Kai's equivalent, well, not quite so much, for obvious reasons.
The SV-51's boosters I was always sort of bothered by since the first time I saw them - their placement feels sort of like it's just asking for structural trouble - but that's really a little hypocritical in face of the whole 'giant robot' thing. As much as the flappy wings and mitre hat sort of don't strike the right note, it's certainly ideal for Ontario's needs... first and foremost since its conventional power plants mean that it costs, like, a quarter what a Valkyrie does for a goodly chunk of the in-atmophere performance.
A catamaran aircraft carrier has always struck me as an excellent, even obligatory idea, but, given the scale difference between, say, a Nimitz class and my proposed length for the SDF-1...
BTW, a scale model of the SDF-1 built for human crew (rather than Zentreadi), would come out about six times a Nimitz's length, and have a proportionally broader beam...
Invid clam-bays are pretty much what I was conceiving for the Zent. infantry jump-offs - instant launch without armor weakness, good design practice.
EML:
What I'd had in mind for the EDTO sigil would be the UN's globe over a shield divided slantwise between dark and light blue (sort of like the independant Babylon 5 logo), but the split kite might work as a seperate symbol for dedicated (rather than seconded from member states) EDTO military units.
Ja, -n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."