It should be noted.

That all known uncontacted settlements where in fact in North America. (I think their was even a joke about how the ones in America talked/joked about holding a presidential election now that a chunk of America is under human control).
I believe the joke was from shortly before the Antagonists invaded, though it would certainly fit now as well.
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In somewhat more amusing news, although unconfirmed, it is said that the discovered enclaves are already conspiring with each other to host a long delayed election for the 45th president of the United States of America.
 
I believe the joke was from shortly before the Antagonists invaded, though it would certainly fit now as well.
Thinking on this, it would be kind of hilarious if all the settlements in the former US already had elected presidents to lead them, then once UN finds them and they regain contact, the presidents just kind of stare at each other. They can't all be president, so they have to fight amongst themselves until only one remains as the One True President.
 
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Thinking on this, it would be kind of hilarious if all the settlements in the former US already had elected presidents to lead them, then once UN finds them and they regain contact, the presidents just kind of stare at each other. They can't all be president, so they have to fight amongst themselves until only one remains as the One True President.

They are now demoted to governors and a new president of the entire group is elected with a new parliament as well.

Federations are scalable like that.
 
Slight correction, but Anna only has 4 HPP's in her frame. She lost 5 fighting Sehkmet and gave 1 to the UN. I know this a page or two late, but I wanted to make sure nobody ended up confused.
 
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No, the rifles were said to be too big, so the gear is just armor. How can you say "it's resized to fit her size" and then followed by "still can't hold it"?
and on the other end Anna might as well think "I have to grow" to use the equipment instead of "it has to shrink" as you said.
1)If it was just armor, they'd have said just armor. The use of gear in particular suggests rather more than that.
And the only other things I can think of are weapons.

2)It said, and I quote:
When the town started coming under attack, you integrated riot cop gear. It wouldn't have fit, but your Core resized all of it for you. That would be the base layer as understood by the UN today. The AR-15s couldn't be comfortably held by your hands so they ended up on small turret like mounts that would fire over your shoulders.
Not "still can't hold it."

3)Anna's HPP is the length of a Ford-class supercarrier, and possibly three times the mass.
If she was growing in size to be able to use her weaponry the way you are suggesting, she'd be the size of the first boss character from Asura's Wrath.
:p
I suspect what we are seeing is that STRATNET did not know Anna's HPP are capable of this kind of long range shooting through the earth technique. At which point Anna's strategic value had to be recalculated again hence the long delay as it ran countless simulations regarding her new capability. Those simulations revealed just how insanely useful such an ability could be during it's initial deployment and decided keeping Anna secure was far more important.
I suspect we'll see the HPPs receiving yet another jump in security clearance and even more funding.
Makes sense.
After all, they only had one functional gun. They had no way of knowing that without being told, or having produced a second sample with which to run field tests.

I'm not sure Anna can re-fold them. The complexity got taken back up by Omni-sensors and a terawatt fusion reactor. Plus some for the newer weapon systems (HyV Cannons) and a bulking up of the surviving HPPs with bits from the ones that got broken.

Deadliness is arguably increased for any fight that continues past the recharge time of her previous HPP. Since the aforementioned fusion reactor lets her charge the HPPs up without spending Impeller or batteries to get power. Trading burst damage for sustainment.
*shrug*
For all we know, her Core has been treating them not as different copies of the same weapon, but as components of a single weapon system, only 40% of which is undamaged and in her storage space, carving it out a large chunk of reserved space for the missing parts.
Might even be doing the same thing for her three (!!!) overclocked terawatt-class fusion reactors.

We do know that either the overall capacity of her storage space, or it's efficiency at integrating or storing multiple copies of the same thing, seems to have increased as of the latest update, when she went to load up on drones and barely felt it, despite carrying more drones than the rest of Samhain. Combined.

Anime convention does suggest that Plot didn't go out of the way to tell us that her HPPs have multiple configurations we haven't seen yet, including a 10 in 1 configuration, without there being plans for it to be a significant milestone in the anime.
It's basically a shiny Chekhov's Gun hanging over the mantelpiece.
 
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No, "most democracies" are specifically "Parliamentary Democracies" which are a very specific subset just as the American one is.

Words MEAN THINGS and using words in places they don't belong renders the word meaningless and thus useless.
I understand precision in language dr Peterson but come on, this is dumb as fuck.
If we back up to the source of problem perhaps a more constructive use of your time would be explaining the difference between Congress and a Parliament and saying the correct word to use instead. You know rather than just telling people off for not knowing the specifics of America's weird as hell elective system and accusing them of destroying language.

Also you're factually wrong about words. Thats why this sentence is valid according to dictionaries: Literally is literally the only word that is literally its own autonym.
I'm pretty sure at least :V:V:V
 
1)If it was just armor, they'd have said just armor. The use of gear in particular suggests rather more than that.
And the only other things I can think of are weapons.

2)It said, and I quote:
Not "still can't hold it."

3)Anna's HPP is the length of a Ford-class supercarrier, and possibly three times the mass.
If she was growing in size to be able to use her weaponry the way you are suggesting, she'd be the size of the first boss character from Asura's Wrath.
Honestly, I'm more used that gear is something you wear, not carry. So helmet, goggles and harness I would count as gear.

If it's resized for her size, why would it still be uncomfortable to held that it needed to be turret mounted if not because it's still too big for her?

And I said she needed being bigger until she got good enough to make size irrelevant for her. She got her HPP after years of improvement of other weapons and shit.
Unless you're saying that's how her weapon progression were, from 2 AR-15 and then 10 HPP with no inbetweens.

We do know that either the overall capacity of her storage space, or it's efficiency at integrating or storing multiple copies of the same thing, seems to have increased as of the latest update, when she went to load up on drones and barely felt it, despite carrying more drones than the rest of Samhain. Combined.

Anime convention does suggest that Plot didn't go out of the way to tell us that her HPPs have multiple configurations we haven't seen yet, including a 10 in 1 configuration, without there being plans for it to be a significant milestone in the anime.
It's basically a shiny Chekhov's Gun hanging over the mantelpiece.
All Avalanche said in the matter is that if Anna's going to build them from scratch, it'll take longer than the scope of the quest.
Considering that HVC is also a new weapon for the Valks and having two of them is already something noteworthy, I'd say getting replacement HPP from UN would be pretty slow.
Although at least she should have priority.
 
If it's resized for her size, why would it still be uncomfortable to held that it needed to be turret mounted if not because it's still too big for her?
Well, we know that smol!Anna was a cinnamon roll, so it could very well just be that she wasn't quite comfortable with holding a gun like an actual gun - having it be mounted on a back turret helps trick her brain into distancing itself from the trauma that is being a child soldier without sacrificing tha combat capabilities desperately needed to protect people from the Antagonists.

All Avalanche said in the matter is that if Anna's going to build them from scratch, it'll take longer than the scope of the quest.
Building from scratch here means integrating some AR-15s (or maybe a generic particle beam assembly) and waiting for Durga to work her magic upgrading them again. Presumably working with the UN to figure out the HPP design well enough to build an HPP (using more conventional techniques than Valkyrie space magic) that Anna could then integrate would go much faster.
 
Scope of the quest....

Like how changed would Anna be if we do an Uber time skip and restart when Anna graduated?
Assuming we continue playing the way we have so far and nothing significant happens in the plot(unlikely), she'd have probably completed her wave force project and at least her basic Target Rich Environment. I think the UN would receive a huge boost to productivity through her construction efforts. As a person she would also probably be much more mentally healthy and closer to her friends. Beyond that, it really depends on how the plot goes, and what exactly she spends her time on. Maybe she would continue working on Target rich environment or some other ability we uncover. Maybe she would improve her normal Valkyrie skills. Maybe she would focus on her friends. There's a lot that could happen.
 
Anna doesn't really have much left to improve on that front. Especially since she's arguably only bad at making a Gate (Advanced Impeller skill) and group Impeller stuff. The latter of which we don't know why other than "probably psychological."
She does have some weapon and advanced impeller skills she could improve. Extreme range HPPs, teleportation, and gate are probably this most notable ones.
 
So I was thinking
This doesn't deserve just an anime
I want to see Valkyrie Core: The Game.
(Funded by Gilgamesh again, of course, no need to worry about silly EA or other publisher shenanigans)

Genre: Mecha TPS, like Armored Core, with RPG elements.
Features: Massively multiplayer co-op (offensives), PvP matches (tournaments), and small-squad co-op for regular missions.
The Offensives would be huge-scale battles with thousands of players versus hundreds of thousands of AG at a time. Would probably need to delay release for a few years (or decades) for the hardware to become available, though. And Gilgamesh's funding again, for the servers.

RPG elements would include full customizability, of your stats, loadout, and looks. Could allow for either full frame customization or lighter customization but opening the door for user-created base frames, as sort of a 'made by the community' thing.

Stat increases and loadout options would allow for many different styles of play and dakka flavors, from melee focused builds capable of taking down elite Types to builds that focus on More Dakka and auto-targeting to clear the skies of enemies.
Teamwork would be heavily encouraged in offensives, with overlapping shields making it much easier to survive against swarms, and other formation bonuses.


Goddamn, I want this game now :(
I know that's a hella timeskip to be replying to but I think you'll be interested in Em-8ER (pronounced Ember; name was changed because there's like 12 games already out that are called that). The development is currently at the point of developing a demo for the kickstarter. Discord link: Join the EM-8ER Discord Server! (this is the hub of activity for it) :Ü™
 
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