Gundam Officials points out during the OYW, most MS and space fighters use thermonuclear rockets. With an exhaust velocity of 9% of the speed of light. 0.09c...the exhaust is the plasma from onboard reactor? So they are not using nuclear thermal engines, right? Exception is listed, RX-78's Core Fig...

Mind you, this is a bit of a twofer in that what happened is modeled more on the Japanese government practices than the EU's, even though the Macross Frontier fleet government has a president instead of a prime minister. In Leon's case, the novelization offers indications that Leon's position was a...

The interview doesn't put it in quite those terms... they refer to the existing government before the decentralization just as "the old government", and that the reason for the reorganization was that the population was too spread out for that style of government to unite the people. When...

Nah, the first references to the "New UN Government" are in the original series' "two years after" arc. Kawamori himself specifically refuted the notion that the events of Macross VF-X2 were the cause of the government's decentralization into its present state in Macross Frontie...

The Kairos was intended to replace the Nightmare Plus entirely in the entire New U.N, right, or just the Macross fleets and the planets if they choose to? If the first is the case, then how expensive can a Kairos be, and how hard to learn using it? Because as I see it, the reason why the Nightmare ...

In my opinion, Space Colonisation can actually discourage war, or at least interplanetary wars. The reason is that unless you have jump ship and is confident on a quick victory, the cost of transportation, intelligence, and pacification would be too high to justify the profit. And, if you think abo...

Say, how important is it for Valkyrie to have hands? I mean, except the rifles and the knives, there does not seem to be many choice when it comes to hand-held VF weapons. So why will they not go a step further an intergrated the guns directly to the forearms? Some VF have guns on their arms alread...

Well, we know the Protoculture later went back to Earth and maybe other worlds they'd modified the local life on to leave protections against other species repeating their mistakes. I have a theory the Windermereans were the Protoculture's attempt to make a species that would have the necessary emp...

Because of the announcement of Moon Gundam, Masafumi Matsuura of 0099 Moon Crisis is doubting Unicorn is plagarizing Moon Crisis. https://kakuyomu.jp/works/1177354054884038373/episodes/1177354054884038397 Too lazy to translate the whole thing, have fun. He should say this a decade earlier, not toda...

And I have trouble understanding why wired ones cannot be used as all range attack. In reality, you really cannot see the wire that thin from a certain distance away. They are just connected, and only have a slight drag from the wire because of inertia of the wire, but apart from that, they are pre...

I'd rather have it wired so I can just pull in the wire when I needed it back and focus on the battlefield than to mind control it all the way, whether the technology is matured or not. The in-universe reason for Braw Bro is that it can also be used by OT pilots, so it is wired in case they really ...

Also, is there any example (in-verse and out-verse) for why the F-14 was chosen to be the base of the VF-0 and the VF-1? Other than that Northrop Grumman was a part of the development? I mean, yeah, the F-14 is the sexiest and most iconic jet fighter of the 80s (Top Gun and all), and the Macross is...

Well, there's no denying the VF-19A spec was hard-to-handle... that was the variant that killed the plans to adopt the VF-19 as next main fighter stone dead due to loss-of-control problems. That said, I don't recall Oscar Brauhitsch's VF-19A "Brauhitsch Special" being mentioned as being c...

False Prophet talked about VF-31 and YF-30, this reminds me the description from Hasegawa VF-31A Manual. One point draws my attention. "Instead of using rare fold quartz which are fitted on Delta Squad variants, VF-31A use fold carbon in the fold device." The introduction of the model ment...

's all greek to me... believe it or not, I've never managed to get all the way through Gundam SEED . Kira just irritates me for some reason I can't put my finger on. A decade ago, I saw SEED Series as the nadir. Only AGE came to save it...by being worse than SEED, A few of my friends are acutally r...

Is there anyway to read Macross Chronicle in English? I know nothing about Japanese. Also, how many Macross fleet are there? As many as the number of Macross carrier they could build? And is there a central organization to oversee the Macross fleets, or are they all given carte blanche? At least 29...

I've been saying that about the Master File staff since the VF-22 book came out... they've gone completely 'round the twist. The VF-4 book outright ignored the official variants and development history in favor of some oddball gobbledegook intended to tie into the ZOINKS VF-31 book and throw a half...

1. Which books should I read if I want to knows how the world of Macross works (politic, economy, etc)? Macross Chronicle. The novels can provide a glimpse of world that may not be mentioned in chronicle. 2. Is there an explaination for the Draken III's thruster? The Single Engine struck me as abno...

Inconsistencies and inaccuracies are pretty common in model kit and toy booklets, which is one of the main reasons they're not regarded as authoritative sources. However they are still the few things we got now, before Macross Chronicle is updated and reissued. The background in the manuals usually...

http://www.1999.co.jp/image/10472150/50/1 Just in, Hasegawa 1:72 VF-31A Manual. The background is quite different from that of TomyTEC. Is there really someone to make things consistent? Though we said there were NUNS federal and colonial force at here, the distinctions between them in the stories w...