The EDTO (Earth Defense Treaty Organisation) Space Fleet
Centred around the SDF-1 and light vessels would seem a requirement to keep things the way they were in Macross. Bases on the Moon and Mars. Probably only a few true warships (I like the 2001 design plan, but maybe have fighters launching from a hanger along the spine) but more utility ships that can be converted into weapons platforms or crude fighter carriers by bolting on weapon packs or fighterbays.
The Grand Cannon would probably be better as orbital weapons platforms, possibly powered from the surface or something of the like - having your big gun down where it can be ortillaried to death seems profoundly stupid.
The modular fittings for destroids sounds good (Battletech copied the look, so copy their omnitech back). Probably there would be a few chassis - a fast, light one for scouting, a mid-range one to take best advantage of modular functions and a big bruiser with lots of armour (might be an Armored Destroid like the Armored Valkyrie).
The VF-0 design looks a little wimpy compared to the VF-1, but if the VF-1 were protrayed with the same level of detail as in Macross Zero I think it would look fine. Modular fast packs like the Electronic warfare and the Super/Strike configurations from DYRL would keep the Valkyrie flexible and makes the Armour Valkyrie just a particularly heavy set of FAST packs.
The Zentreadi
I tend to agree with the basic arguements against the Regult - I agree that they're cheap and can be mass-produced but:
a) they don't take advantage of having giant pilots
b) they're ugly
The alternative that springs to mind is that the Zentreadi did apparently have some light body armour that had full life support and was in a similar ballpark to the Regult for resilience i.e. made of paper. Were it to look less dorky then a jump-pack could be strapped on and the zentreadi can simply carry a gunpod equivalent, or melee weapons or zentreadi-scale man-portable heavy weapons. And that's even cheaper than a Pod.
Power armour can be cleaned up and kitted out to the elite troops with Male and Female types. Fighter pods would retain a role for trans-atmospheric jobs and missions requiring their high top speeds.
I'd evisage the standard zentreadi warship being similar in concept to the ISD in star wars, enough guns to handle itself in a fight (but no spinal BFG), enough fighters (fighter pods) for a fighter screen and a large complement of troopers (zentreadi in light body armour). These exist in mind-boggling quantities. Rarer (but numerous enough for entire battlegroups) and far more powerful are the dreadnoughts that do have a spinal VBFG, shedloads of guns in all sizes but they don't increase the number of troopers proportionally. Power Armour aces ride on these. At about the same size are the command ships, which have much better defenses and a BFG but fewer guns overall. If the Precursors or Others were at a battle they rode these. Guess what crashed onto the Earth.No Quarter, NO QUARTER! You damn well earned your fate.
Give Harrington our compliments; we're sorry you are late.
- No Quarter, Echoes Children
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
Centred around the SDF-1 and light vessels would seem a requirement to keep things the way they were in Macross. Bases on the Moon and Mars. Probably only a few true warships (I like the 2001 design plan, but maybe have fighters launching from a hanger along the spine) but more utility ships that can be converted into weapons platforms or crude fighter carriers by bolting on weapon packs or fighterbays.
The Grand Cannon would probably be better as orbital weapons platforms, possibly powered from the surface or something of the like - having your big gun down where it can be ortillaried to death seems profoundly stupid.
The modular fittings for destroids sounds good (Battletech copied the look, so copy their omnitech back). Probably there would be a few chassis - a fast, light one for scouting, a mid-range one to take best advantage of modular functions and a big bruiser with lots of armour (might be an Armored Destroid like the Armored Valkyrie).
The VF-0 design looks a little wimpy compared to the VF-1, but if the VF-1 were protrayed with the same level of detail as in Macross Zero I think it would look fine. Modular fast packs like the Electronic warfare and the Super/Strike configurations from DYRL would keep the Valkyrie flexible and makes the Armour Valkyrie just a particularly heavy set of FAST packs.
The Zentreadi
I tend to agree with the basic arguements against the Regult - I agree that they're cheap and can be mass-produced but:
a) they don't take advantage of having giant pilots
b) they're ugly
The alternative that springs to mind is that the Zentreadi did apparently have some light body armour that had full life support and was in a similar ballpark to the Regult for resilience i.e. made of paper. Were it to look less dorky then a jump-pack could be strapped on and the zentreadi can simply carry a gunpod equivalent, or melee weapons or zentreadi-scale man-portable heavy weapons. And that's even cheaper than a Pod.
Power armour can be cleaned up and kitted out to the elite troops with Male and Female types. Fighter pods would retain a role for trans-atmospheric jobs and missions requiring their high top speeds.
I'd evisage the standard zentreadi warship being similar in concept to the ISD in star wars, enough guns to handle itself in a fight (but no spinal BFG), enough fighters (fighter pods) for a fighter screen and a large complement of troopers (zentreadi in light body armour). These exist in mind-boggling quantities. Rarer (but numerous enough for entire battlegroups) and far more powerful are the dreadnoughts that do have a spinal VBFG, shedloads of guns in all sizes but they don't increase the number of troopers proportionally. Power Armour aces ride on these. At about the same size are the command ships, which have much better defenses and a BFG but fewer guns overall. If the Precursors or Others were at a battle they rode these. Guess what crashed onto the Earth.No Quarter, NO QUARTER! You damn well earned your fate.
Give Harrington our compliments; we're sorry you are late.
- No Quarter, Echoes Children
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.