Hey Star Ranger, you mind being a used as a cameo pilot for the squadron? I'm running low on creativity for call signs...
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Light yellow is Miranda Rockwell, Sunbirds One, the darker yellow/orange at top right is Taiga Yuri (family name first), Sunbirds Two, the two largely inseperable since their first day at the Academy and easily mistaken for identical twins despite being from different planets. Or possibly reversed, depending on which version of the scheme I like better on the final transformable, which is somewhat visible if mostly in shadow behind S1.
Blue is Easy (because she makes it look easy, gets a little too excited in combat and treats "take it easy" as an order to attack, and as teasing for being the least likely member of the squadron to hook up for a one night stand,) with wingmate Screamer (tends to yell "Yeehah!" on launch, just as crazy in combat, most likely to keep everyone awake on liberty if the hotel doesn't have good soundproofing) in red.
Princess Leia in purple (Girly girl, solid fighter, had to be rescued once but will never live it down) and Poison Ivy in pink (with a green underside/seconary colors, unlike the greys of the rest) (specializes in doing weird stuff with the programmable energy attacks, like binding tendrils or mimicking an acid/poison with a persistent damage effect rather than just a blast or burn that hits and is done, and some kind of plant animation and control effect that so far has the experts baffled and seems to be specific to that formulation of focus crystal - some of that developed after exposure to/inspiration from the old Batman comics with the character whose name she got stuck with as a call sign)
Black and White are King & Knight, and the only details I have on them are that they're guys and are mid-high ranked competitive chess players.
Green I'm hoping will be Star, since it's the 4-color version of the scheme he liked before and I know that's his colors, with brown or grey as wingmate (no ideas, though if SR has a stock buddy like Yuri to my Macross Triangle Frontier pilot Miranda I'd happily include them as well. Insert puppy dog eyes here. Note that this is explicitly not set in Macross, but the characters can know of it as fiction just like Star Wars and Batman.) If not, these two will be Needle and Pinecone in green and brown, or colors for the generic mooks that fill out battle scenes.
The other one of brown or grey is an unassigned backup unit, in case one of the others is damaged or downchecked for some reason and they need to deploy anyway.
At 2/3 throttle and above, the main drive array at the back of fighter form leaves a ribbon of its characteristic color behind it like the drive trails in Macross F. This is bad for tactics but good for visual appeal, so I set it to only happen at high speed - and in combat, they'll be surrounded by glowing energy shields and spitting out beams anyway, so it really doesn't cost that much in terms of tactical advantage to have a tracer streaking after them at the top stops.
Not that I'm writing a fic or anything, I just like to have these sort of things sorted out in my mind...
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"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
Light yellow is Miranda Rockwell, Sunbirds One, the darker yellow/orange at top right is Taiga Yuri (family name first), Sunbirds Two, the two largely inseperable since their first day at the Academy and easily mistaken for identical twins despite being from different planets. Or possibly reversed, depending on which version of the scheme I like better on the final transformable, which is somewhat visible if mostly in shadow behind S1.
Blue is Easy (because she makes it look easy, gets a little too excited in combat and treats "take it easy" as an order to attack, and as teasing for being the least likely member of the squadron to hook up for a one night stand,) with wingmate Screamer (tends to yell "Yeehah!" on launch, just as crazy in combat, most likely to keep everyone awake on liberty if the hotel doesn't have good soundproofing) in red.
Princess Leia in purple (Girly girl, solid fighter, had to be rescued once but will never live it down) and Poison Ivy in pink (with a green underside/seconary colors, unlike the greys of the rest) (specializes in doing weird stuff with the programmable energy attacks, like binding tendrils or mimicking an acid/poison with a persistent damage effect rather than just a blast or burn that hits and is done, and some kind of plant animation and control effect that so far has the experts baffled and seems to be specific to that formulation of focus crystal - some of that developed after exposure to/inspiration from the old Batman comics with the character whose name she got stuck with as a call sign)
Black and White are King & Knight, and the only details I have on them are that they're guys and are mid-high ranked competitive chess players.
Green I'm hoping will be Star, since it's the 4-color version of the scheme he liked before and I know that's his colors, with brown or grey as wingmate (no ideas, though if SR has a stock buddy like Yuri to my Macross Triangle Frontier pilot Miranda I'd happily include them as well. Insert puppy dog eyes here. Note that this is explicitly not set in Macross, but the characters can know of it as fiction just like Star Wars and Batman.) If not, these two will be Needle and Pinecone in green and brown, or colors for the generic mooks that fill out battle scenes.
The other one of brown or grey is an unassigned backup unit, in case one of the others is damaged or downchecked for some reason and they need to deploy anyway.
At 2/3 throttle and above, the main drive array at the back of fighter form leaves a ribbon of its characteristic color behind it like the drive trails in Macross F. This is bad for tactics but good for visual appeal, so I set it to only happen at high speed - and in combat, they'll be surrounded by glowing energy shields and spitting out beams anyway, so it really doesn't cost that much in terms of tactical advantage to have a tracer streaking after them at the top stops.
Not that I'm writing a fic or anything, I just like to have these sort of things sorted out in my mind...
--
"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