[RFC] Being You is Deculture

[Black Aeronaut]

Something I just remembered - Not sure if it's canon or just Robotech/Palladium bullshit, but the game books list rescue helicopters among the Macross's complement. This is stupid. Even when you're in atmo, load up a VT-1D with a centerline cargo pod like the one used for Jenius spawn #1 in the mission to the factory satellite but fitted like an air ambulance and have a medic in the second seat, and G can handle any VTOL needs while J gets you there and back fast, and you have energy-conversion armor and a possible escort of combat-fitted Valkyries to ward off further enemy action. In vacuum, well, I don't have to say anything about using helicopters there, I'm sure.

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Ah, yeah, the Siokorvsky Sea Sergeant - they only actually appear in Ep2, sent out to scout the battlepod forces and the one shown making contact getting shot down. The thing I remembered being a wallbanger was from a different fanfic set during the reconstruction, where the MC's wingman gets shot down and he loiters around fighting off malcontents but has to leave because rescue helis can't get through the hostile airspace, despite being in a variable fighter himself. Goddamn but did that ever make me want to strangle the author, considering the events of the very first episodes of Macross with Minmei first getting picked up by Hikaru and then the both of them in the nose of the 1D carried back by Roy. Judging one fanfic by another is of course silly, but please, please learn from the older one's mistakes.

Oh, of course.  For me, the rescue helicopters never really entered into the picture - I honestly figured they'd been dispatched from the airfield and not the SDF-1 itself.

Although I think that helicopters upgraded with Overtechnology would still have their uses - a lot cheaper than a Valkyrie, and cheaper to maintain and operate than older helicopters without Overtech.  I can see them still being used in a lot of civilian work.