chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
They'd have less economic shortages if they stopped spending everything on giant robots.
Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu)
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DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
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- San Diego, California
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- He/Him
Anna - just wanted to make a pillow fort.
Everyone else: SHES MAKING A FORTIFIED POSITION D :
Anna: : (
Too bad those giant robots are just made of metal foams inside and are cheaper than tanks.
More like
Everyone else: SHES MAKING A FORTIFIED POSITION. Quick, build a nuke pumped laser!
Doesn't Anna eat lasers or something?
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- Lost amidst hungry sheep
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- They/Them
You forgot the important part:
Everyone else: SHE'S MAKING A FORTIFIED POSITION. Quick, let's have children build a nuke pumped laser!
sabreFather
Dr Pepper is the flavour that I savour
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- Land of Bears and Loggers AKA Oregon
And that shit is why I dislike Gundam. Pretty much everyone is committing Warcrimes except the reasonable underdog, who winds up paying for the hubris of thinking they could get away with not committing crimes against humanity.
EDIT: Except Turn A and G Gundam. The Warcrimes were the exceptions in those, and they paid for it dearly.
EDIT: Except Turn A and G Gundam. The Warcrimes were the exceptions in those, and they paid for it dearly.
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This is the most important trait.
ltmauve
"Excuse me?"
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- Earth
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- She/Her
I mean, yes, but I also can't think of a reason that'd she just not zap the facehuggers with her lasers, or corrode them or something right away.
If you say it loud enough, maybe the characters inside the series will hear you.
Here, borrow my megaphone.
A GM or other mass-production MS might be that cheap, but even something used by a secondary cast member who survives is going to be more expensive.
And don't forget about the cost of R&Ding those super robots into existence.
Final point on mecha causing economic shortages: opportunity cost, and the compounding effect of reduced infrastructure.
Dwight David Eisenhower said:
I really like that quote. Haven't seen it used by anyone in a long while.
Especially the sarcasm looming behind them, when you stop to consider that the whole debacle managed to prop the US economy back on its feet, and served to employ people who had, up till then, been completely unemployed and reliant on charity.
Not to mention that the people happily agreed to wartime taxes ,bought bonds and accepted shortages, all for the sake of "victory".
Kinda like the situation on Gundam Earth.
Makes one wonder how this looks on BAHH. Whether people really care about the AG's in regions that never saw them (other than the whole atmosphere fiasco), and if they are willing to make sacrifices of any kind towards an overall victory.
Or is it just the UN and AI overlords forcing people to fight and make sacrifices.
I don't think such people exist and if they do they'd be in fairly small numbers. Remember in the instructor's lounge there is a counter since the last Antagonist attack on Perth:
Now consider that the closest Hive listed on the map to Perth is the destroyed Minor Hive somewhere near the Caspian Sea and that is around 10,000km away. After that the destroyed Minor Hives in east Turkey (~11,000km) and Chad (~11,500km) are probably the closest.
With roaming ranges that far literally nowhere on Earth is safe. Or at least no where on Earth would have been safe in the earlier days of the war. With the various destroyed Hives and the front lines being pushed back there are safe regions, like Perth, but odds are pretty much everywhere with a notably population has been attacked by the Antagonists at some point during the war.
Alphaleph
The Firstiest of First
No such thing.
As Uber above me said.
And there's this:
Edit: There's also Abraxas who roams in orbit and other AG orbital units.
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Nope, in worse versions of this setting, from -3 on, the UN would be lying about the idea that humanity isn't on an general days to total human death. The UN for the most part is better then most (If not all) total human unified governments in fiction.
al103
Grumpy Russian Bear (SV edition)
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- Russia, Krasnoyarsk
She just plain can assimilate Mobile Suit in Durga... with time.
ltmauve
"Excuse me?"
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- Earth
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Seriously, Anna is already faster and packs more firepower than most MSs already. There isn't going to be a benefit to adding in that much mass, and it'll just slow her down and make her use more impeller for defense and mobility.
And she won't want Minovsky particles, since those would interfere with her lasers.
But it would invite glorious, hand to hand, face to face, melee combat. So she can become a true champion of the battlefield.
sabreFather
Dr Pepper is the flavour that I savour
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- Land of Bears and Loggers AKA Oregon
If we want Anna to face that, we may as well throw her into Warhammer 40k. I'm sure her incandescent Fury won't rival Rincewind wielding the Chicken Knife, right? Wait, the galaxy has just been dismembered...
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- Frozen Winterland
Pfft. Glory? Melee? What is this, knights jousting in the skies?
Anna, what do you think of something like that?
"While the Adversary is attempting to lure a Valkyrie or command unit into open conflict, the most expedient measure would be to use the long-range quadruple-link Heavy Particle Cannon to render its body into monatomic vapour. After all, if it wants to be a target, it can be treated as one."
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uhmm
When the CQC expert of the group states that fighting Anna at close range is suicide I would ask you who would survive getting into melee range with her?
If the point of the conflict in question is to subjugate someone, and not kill him, but also ensure that he does not become a problem in the future, then defeating him on more or less equal footing would be the go to solution.
It would certainly fit Anna more to resolve it without a pointless death, even if it requires her to engage in, from her point of view, pointless sword waving.
It would also serve as a good way to expand on peoples personalities and character building. Even if BAHH Anna lacks such a personality right now, the realization through failure (repeated hostilities for similar reasons) of a dimensionaly displaced Anna, could serve as a catalyst to pick up a blade a smack faces.
It would certainly fit Anna more to resolve it without a pointless death, even if it requires her to engage in, from her point of view, pointless sword waving.
It would also serve as a good way to expand on peoples personalities and character building. Even if BAHH Anna lacks such a personality right now, the realization through failure (repeated hostilities for similar reasons) of a dimensionaly displaced Anna, could serve as a catalyst to pick up a blade a smack faces.
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Righttt.
I disagree. You crush someone completely and then build them back up, that does not at any point require for you to lower yourself to their level.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Are you an Anti-Spiral or something? That's not how that works.
Its the kind of mentality that results in most stories in a (comical for viewers) situations where the "silly knights" go a N'th time to slay the "evil wizard", only to get their clothes and armor blown off by a gust of wind.
Comical and good.
Except they always come back. Or if finitely killed, are replaced by a new group.
Because nobody learns better as the scope of abilities against them, makes them disregard the danger of a confrontation and pursue it.
Just remember melee combat has different meanings for a Valkyrie. Anna's melee Halbard has a range of ~100m after all and she is actually quite good with it:
Basically; Anna is a murder-blender regardless of which range you engage her at.