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Officially, the "Anti-Unification League" in Robotech was left high and dry by Robotech adapting Macross 's Unification Wars as the "Global War", save for the From the Stars canon comic depicting them attempting to sabotage UEG defense programs in what may have been a false flag...

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I have hesitated a bit prior to taking the time to post this... but since this conversation tries to judge Robotech, prior to its reboot full of missing pieces, with arguments using mostly the post-missing pieces 2nd edition canon; I felt I had to add my grain of salt. Take it as a What If scenario ...

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So... using a suspension of disbelief able to lift a plane carrier for a moment...
Sony could theoretically negotiate, with Big West, to offer them a cut over a Robotech Live Action movie featuring Macross stuff, right?
Thus making a part of the cake, instead of no cake at all?

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"Disney killed Star Wars, and yet... the horror show still goes on." Yes the horror show of more and more content that by all accounts is going to be excellent. The sequel trilogy not being as good as many fans wanted it to be does not a death make but by all means push that opinion if yo...

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...oh, and a good chunk of your "fan base" loathes HG and will probably pirate the film as much as possible just to hurt you. So you're saying ⋅ There are a huge number of Robotech fans eager to hurt sublicensors, with no other motive but to hurt them? ⋅ Sony knows thi...

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I see... The spanish explains why I hadn't found it.
Thanks. ^^

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Seto Kaiba wrote:Andy Muschietti, the last director they talked to about it, indicated the film was unlikely to ever get made due to the property's lack of popularity and inevitably high budgetary requirements in excess of $100 million.

Do you still have source on that?

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Yet there was supposed to be a switch of administration and a tighter relationship with Sony, starting this year. Some product and licenses stopping, other being in discussion. I doubt we'll see much before the end of summer, with the slowed down world and such. The movie is still "in discussio...

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Eh... it's possible, but the civilian populations took a drubbing at least as bad as what the military got and armed civilians weren't really seen except in the New Generation's Fist of the North Star-esque biker gangs. Perhaps, but it would not take "sophisticated" weapons for Terran Civ...

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Well... at least that's possible to do at the table.

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8. We have to consider that in the show they jump forwarded with plenty of time for the Refugees to have blended in physically with the people of Earth resulting in skin tones could be less pale due to exposure to sunlight, hair color might change naturally or the result of hair dyes (Scott and Lan...

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We know Zentradi can breed; why theorize that they can't? Well, the topic IS a kind of open-ended question and hypothesis about why human-alien hybrids are practically unheard-of in Robotech ... Blaming the source material only really works as an obvious OOC explanation. The Zentradi have an excuse...

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They may have genetically edited out testes and ovaries, so that cloning is the only way they can reproduce? If you look at Tirolians in general, they seem to be fairly androgynous, extremely similar looking, and don't seem to have the diversity necessary to have a large enough population to have a...

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i've generally assumed that the life support durations for large spacecraft are less about "how much air does it have" and more "when does it run out of food?" and i didn't see those entries, i'll look at those and try to figure out how it shakes out. Food is one thing, but then...

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Even "taking it over" might be a strong term, considering the "forever war". At best, they managed to convince the Perytonians to become a client state of the Tiresian Mercantile Empire, which would have been a profitable enterprise... to say the least. There might have been a ti...

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They can be hard to find though...
Or at least they were when I was building my set while Palladium was dropping the franchise.
Our "Genesis Pit" copy comes directly from the online store of an obscure Canadian comic book shop.
Don't be afraid to surf a few google pages before giving up.

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Well, if you want to use them together and have it be easy. AR of the armor minus the PV of the weapon shooting at you = the adjusted AR vs modern armor designed to protect against bullets. AR - (PVx2) = adjusted AR vs archaic armor because that armor sucks at stopping bullets. Any bullet that hits...

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glitterboy2098 wrote:this is also the best approach for the SDF-3
https://robotech.com/roboverse/mecha/sdf-3
(note that said page has some.. very interesting timeline information about the pioneer mission)

Sounds like we're in for an harder reboot this time around.
Oh well.

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The Tristar feels very lonely without it [...] How so? The UEDF literally doesn't use the Tokugawa -class, the UEEF explicitly doesn't use the Tokugawa -class if they can at all help it because it's rubbish as a warship. From the Master Saga p.94 : The UEEF even took a few Tristars on thier mission...

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To my recollection, the 2nd edition did not get around to stating the Tokugawa in either form. I concur. I had to reformat this one from internet scratches and other sources. In fact, the absence of the Tokugawa is one of the major factor that pushed back our game so that I'd build the missing piec...

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I came up with my own system and tweaked how AR worked in general allowing me to give it to everything if I choose. PV was problematic all the way back to HU revised when i first saw it. Yup. That's why I took the last minute job of creating some generic armour. I ran a few games with all of the op...

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So, long story short, we've just had our Gm and a player falling randomly on a copy of "The Compendium of Contemporary Weapons" . Since we're still in 1998, and with the GCW in full gears, they thought this would be a great addition. And for some of the stuff in there, it is. I'd wager it'...

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigator That's a good one, but I'd still stump for Ship Pilot: they both have three good skills, but I think Ship Pilot's are more conditional. A lot would depend on whether general science or spaceship operation is more useless. (Also, CSI is less silly, which may be a plus o...

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If you're stuck on Earth, Aerospace - Ship Pilot is pretty weak: one WP and couple of Pilot Related (but no small vehicle Pilot) Skills. Now that is an interesting point. It all depends on your Gm's style and if you'll be on earth, in space, on the Moonbase, mainly fighting invids, or rather human ...

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To be fair though, I kinda see what he's getting at. These pictures can be interpreted in lots of ways. The Alcubierre thing being as subjective as any other. Yes, there are the art book explanations, but that is authorial comprehension not used in dialogues. So that could change as science bust the...

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Seto Kaiba wrote:Get real, man. The one and only time that Robotech's space fold effect was diagrammed onscreen, the diagram was copied from a presentation on the Alcubierre drive...

They did? When?

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He did say something was supposed to happen between #4 and #5 in terms of release, if COVID-19 disrupted that it could have other impacts on the schedule. We already debunked this one a few posts back... Titan's Remix series had already missed two months worth of deadlines (February's and March's) ...

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Heck McKinney followed the RT formula better than Shadow Chronicles did. Arguably, he did "follow" the RT formula better than even the anime did. For all intents and purposes, being the only one(s) ever to produce a complete version of the story, one could even state they did in fact crea...

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If you're courageous enough to pass the wreck that were the first run of Titan's Robotech, I'll guess you might also like Remix then. It's been on hold for a while because one of the staff was hit by the pandemic, but there is some news starting to appear once more. Where is that coming from? There...

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I thought the material was solid and entertaining. I would of loved to see more about adventures about the new enemy and new worlds. I saw Shadow Chronicles and loved it; a new enemy, everyone being played and something that could take over the galaxy. Genius! What happened between my favorite game...

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I would think it a fair warning to say that the Robotech 2nd Edition PRG is an incomplete game. Having all the supplements (those that existed, not only advertised but never produced) is most likely not an option you want to miss. You might, also, at least want to track copies of the old 1st edition...

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You’ll notice a lot of the contributors in this thread focusing pretty much exclusively on ways that they can break the setting to make the Invid more of a threat. Well... We seem to have lost ourselves in pointing fingers here. I did suggest that protecting the continuity might become a problem in...

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Really? That was kinda anti-climactic. [...] … were you seriously expecting a different outcome? I was half expecting a fan-drawn, or otherwise taken from comics, unnamed ship then mislabelled by another fan. At least, there would have been some wrong to redress. But as it is... it's just a useless...

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Here's some images of the Zai-Zor; Line-art of the ship: https://ibb.co/K2RCgZt And here's a screenshot of the ship in action from the MOSPEADA series: https://ibb.co/yhLQDqW Really? That was kinda anti-climactic. How could you have been fooled by the enterprise and Picard identified as Kirk? Oh......

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Even just http://www.nishimizu.com gives nothing back, even on the wayback machine.
I sympathize with your pain. Loosing a source when someone calls for it is terribly frustrating.

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Obvious? How is the supposition, that the Regess would build biological empty shells in the hope of getting any data about their survival's potential, obvious? … that’s not even close to what I said. Per the show and the RPG, the Regess is interested in what form her people should take in their nex...

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Forgive me for saying so, but you've jumped to a conclusion here and ignored a rather obvious alternative explanation. We know, from modern scientific research, that the half-life of DNA is approximately 521 years and that the maximum age at which recoverable sequences can be detected and magnified...

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That assumes, of course, that a Genesis Pit's recreation of a particular biome is anything more than a macro-level approximation. The Regess didn't need that level of detail for her research, because she was only interested in finding the form most suited to life on Earth for her people to adopt. [...

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Nothing prevents the Invid to experiment on germs and viruses in their Genesis pits. Genesis pits don't work that way... they don't manipulate the evolution of a single thing, they're a pocket biome that replicates the natural world's evolution at an accelerated rate. With containment in the genesi...

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Didn't you say they Zentraedi are on drugs? Not too professional. Indeed I did… please refer to pages 223 and 224 of the RT2E Macross Saga sourcebook for the full details. The gist of it is that the RPG alleges that the rank-and-file Zentradi soldiers are kept in cryogenic stasis between battles, a...

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If the Regess can convert her ENTIRE civilization into energy and travel thousands or millions of light-years, what else can she do? As far as we know, that’s her best trick… and it takes such gargantuan amounts of protoculture to pull off that she can’t do it casually. She can speak telepathically...

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I thought the pollinators were the Invid. Plus your introducing non-robotech canon. If that was for me; I never said I was sticking to current canon... but the RNU were very much Robotech and still can be for an RPG game searching answers to the forever elusive "what were they thinking?" ...

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Zentraedi insanity table, pg. 10. That's from the Zentraedi Sourcebook, 1st ed. If you're going to argue with Seto, you probably want to send your reference clearly. Insanity rules have happily been restored to the fairy tales they came from with the second edition. I guess Palladium decided to wip...

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While we like to think the Invid as THE ENEMY of the UEEF, the Invid in reality may not be the only enemy the UEEF faces in this period. TRM saga (2029) hints at other factions out there like Space Pirates and micronized Zentreadi offshoots, then we have AotSC's history on Space Colonization (the p...

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I also have to disagree on the Regent having only one starfish class ship. There is at least two designs of the thing in the Sentinel comics, [...] You know I only consider official setting materials… he’s only ever depicted with the one ship, an oddly scorpion-looking affair, in official materials...

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Insanities do not negate discipline. A lot of soldiers suffer from insanity and have successful careers. Some would say a Soldier's Insanity is a job requirement. Depends on how you define "crazy" I guess. They certainly are taught to ignore some of their survival instinct, and they tend ...

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I did some more research on Mospeada and I found the Xai-Zora ship; now if you use that against the Zentraedi, their warship are doomed! ... the what now? There's no ship by that name in MOSPEADA . The Inbit only have one type of ship, the Shelldo, which is the defenceless clam-shaped thing from th...

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You do know that by destroying Unicron's physical manifestation, the Zentraedi would actually free it's chaos god essence and rupture the link between their universe and the rest of the multiverse though, right? Condemning themselves to a big crunch / fatal entropy cascade effect to their whole univ...

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The Invid's flower of life needs a G or K class star to grow on an Earth-like world in the HZ. that is total speculation, as the show says nothing of the sort, nor did the old comics (which largely took the stance that FOL would grow anywhere), neither did PB's RPG's make such a claim. Science has ...

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Seto Kaiba wrote:It made only slightly more sense when you needed the stuff to make giant robots work at all.

That is a line I never thought I'd read from you.

For the record... I still think it makes a whole lot more of sense with the plot.
Even if it is technologically dubious.

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