RE water - I meant impenetrable in the visual and radar sense, not literally - and I can't believe I left the n out of chunk twice.
As for the cigarette lighter in the powder room... maybe someone's got an itchy trigger finger in the orbital defenses, or maybe the Zentran just follow standard procedure and start blowing the orbitals away as soon as they fold in. Macross launches to try to assist, forms up with ARMOR-01 through -03, then the real difference in numbers sinks in. Everyone gets ready to die fighting to protect the homeworld, until the captain (Wait - the top slot on the SDF is also in command of three ARMORs as well, so it should be commodore or admiral, no? Yes, Global was a bigger wig than he let on, but I'd expect a clear chain of command to be laid out from the beginning, and as we've noted an ARMOR alone is bigger than any RL carrier. IIRC a carrier is an Admiral's slot IRL) or XO notices that they're suddenly drawing most of the attention, and they come up with the plan to fold to the far side of the fleet from the planet and try to draw them away. Not havng ever performed a fold before, obviously, they decide to go back down to where they did the preliminary testing, and have existing data from.
- CD
ETA: Having the SIF-BB a seperate ship also gives you a capship to blow up later in the series, without duplicating the SDF's abilities. 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 cigarette lighter in the powder room... maybe someone's got an itchy trigger finger in the orbital defenses, or maybe the Zentran just follow standard procedure and start blowing the orbitals away as soon as they fold in. Macross launches to try to assist, forms up with ARMOR-01 through -03, then the real difference in numbers sinks in. Everyone gets ready to die fighting to protect the homeworld, until the captain (Wait - the top slot on the SDF is also in command of three ARMORs as well, so it should be commodore or admiral, no? Yes, Global was a bigger wig than he let on, but I'd expect a clear chain of command to be laid out from the beginning, and as we've noted an ARMOR alone is bigger than any RL carrier. IIRC a carrier is an Admiral's slot IRL) or XO notices that they're suddenly drawing most of the attention, and they come up with the plan to fold to the far side of the fleet from the planet and try to draw them away. Not havng ever performed a fold before, obviously, they decide to go back down to where they did the preliminary testing, and have existing data from.
- CD
ETA: Having the SIF-BB a seperate ship also gives you a capship to blow up later in the series, without duplicating the SDF's abilities. 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