Macross SEED

[M Fnord]

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YOu need conventional drives despite antigrav, because the best antigrav can do is hold stable relative to the local well, rather than climb out of it - you can float, or you can go down, but for up you have to add an impulse with some kind of normal thruster.

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The would work. My suggestion would be that the Zentraedi ships & original factory-fresh Macross could use the antigravity feild for propulsion, giving them more maneuverability and greater total acceleration. (IIRC we don't see much in the way of visible engine spaces on the Zent cruisers, yes/no?) The human rebuilt Macross, OTOH, can't use the antigrav for much more than basic mass-cancelling and interior gravity - the scientists working on the black box figured that much out, but can't seem to shape the propulsion fields properly, so they ended up adding thruster spaces to a ship that, if rebuilt properly by the original designers, doesn't really need them.---
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