False Prophet wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:01 am
What kind of modifications they made to the ARMD, the Prometheus, and the Daedalus to attach them to the Macross?
In either case, the ship's stern had to be retrofitted with a docking mechanism to secure the ship in place and connect its systems to the
Macross's. I'd assume further modification was necessary to outfit the water-going
Daedalus and
Prometheus with artificial gravity, though
Macross Chronicle says they'd only required simple improvements as the ships were already airtight.
False Prophet wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:01 am
And had there been an estimation of the Macross's generator output? - I guess that an tremendous amount must had gone into the electricity to reinforce the armor under all that weight.
None, though as warships are generally using hypercarbon both for structural framing and the outer hull, they are INCREDIBLY tough stuff. With meters-thick hulls of a material a hundred times or more stronger than the very best armor-grade steel, energy conversion armor reinforcement probably wasn't all that necessary.
False Prophet wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:01 am
Also, was the Prometheus produced before or after the ARMD?
Well, that's a tricky question to answer... partly because it'd depend on what you considered the start of production of the
ARMD-class, and partly because they were produced at the same time.
Construction of the CVS-101
Prometheus began in June 2002, about nine months before the start of construction on ARMD/SCV-01
Harlan J. Niven in April 2003. That said, the
ARMD-class was in active mass production from that point on. The
Prometheus was completed in October 2005, while the much more complex
Harlan J. Niven wasn't launched until July 2008.
The technicality in the
ARMD-class's origins is that they weren't originally built to be spare carriers... the design that predated the start of production was for space
stations. They were conceived as the space equivalent of an airbase, bolstering orbital planetary defenses by allowing large numbers of fighters to be semi-permanently based in geostationary orbit or at the Lagrange points. When restoration work on the
Macross began in earnest, the idea was floating of using them as augment the ship's defenses, so they were reworked as space aircraft carriers. The record is slightly sketchy, but the L5 Frontline Station may be either the proof of concept for the space station design or it's the prototype carrier ARMD/SCV-00
Constitution converted back into a space station. In the latter case, we don't know when they built ARMD/SCV-00.
False Prophet wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:01 am
And was there any direct relation between the design of these two? I asked this because I want to know whether the Guantánamo-class and the Uraga-class had inherited the role of both the Prometheus and the ARMD, or was the Promethues made obsolete after the invention of the ARMD?
Not as far as we know.
Variable Fighter Master File non-canonically suggests there were plans to build as five
Daedalus and five
Prometheus-class ships for surface-based planetary defense. They were supposed to operate in pairs, with one carrier and one assault ship per zone. The map in the book points to Group 1 (CVS-101 & SLV-111) having responsibility for coastal defenses of everything between Sri Lanka and the Bering Strait in Asia, as well as Russia's northern coast up to the western border of the Sakha Republic. Group 2 had North America's northern coast north of Diomede in the Bering strait down around to the Gulf of Mexico north of Cuba. Group 3 had Central America from Cuba south around to Michoakan on Mexico's south coast as well as all of Africa and the western coast of Europe south of Britain, in thru the Mediterranean and down to India west of Sri Lanka. Group 4 had pretty much all of Europe from England's south coast up to Sakha's western border, and Group 5 had a fairly small slice consisting of just the western coast of North and Central America from Diomede south to Michoakan (basically the entire US western seaboard).
This defense plan apparently went to smash when the Zentradi showed up and revealed the futility of their surface-based plans to repel an alien attack, so the
Prometheus-class was apparently never revisited, leaving the
Prometheus and
Daedalus one-of-a-kind with no completed sister ships.
The
Guantanamo-class space stealth carrier inherited a LOT more from the
ARMD-class (TV) and
ARMD II-class (DYRL) space carriers it replaced... it WAS the next-gen ARMD. Literally. It's described as the
Guantanamo-class Advanced ARMD and at least in
Macross 7 it still retained the "ARMD" hull classification symbol until
Macross Frontier. The
Uraga-class is hinted to have come out of the need for a more versatile and higher capacity warship... not so much a spacegoing
Prometheus as a smaller version of a
Battle-class.