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Originally Posted by ReddyRedWolf
Well we do know UN Spacy or NUNS do reassign their personnel.
Miho Miho got transfered to the Valhalla III in Macross VF-X after the destruction of Battle 7 in Macross 7.
Also in Macross Dynamite 7 it has been shown that a Macross fleet has the capacity to build New Macross Class battleships.
Meaning Macross Galaxy may have the capacity to build a new Battle Galaxy in a years time.
Macross Class ships despite being an older design than the New Macross Class is more armed and more capacity for Valkyries and Destroids, more expensive looking at the mass tonnage.
Now there is also the Macross Quarter Class which does not consume as much resources in building like the other two. These aren't designed as flagships but a pure escort ship. Without the drawbacks of the Uruga, Guantanamo or Bolognese carriers. It has teeth.
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Do all Macross fleets have the ability to build them? Or is it more that some fleets are better equipped than others? Look at the differences between, say, Macross Galaxy and Frontier; if they all have the ability to build New Macross ships given the resources, then that would go a long way to explaining why the Galaxy group could've gotten away with effectively hijacking a New Macross-class carrier for their plans... and the UN Spacy's likely to have become paranoid about those ships getting into the wrong hands after the Vindance group absconded with one in 2051.
Given how long Macross Galaxy and Frontier have been in flight (at least 12 years for Frontier, 13-15 for Galaxy), it's conceivable that older fleets have the capability to build Macross-class ships... but at the same time, that type of technology is something that the UN Spacy has taken great pains to try to keep out of non-authorized hands, which is why Captain Aegis Focker and the Ravens were dispatched in the first place during the events of VF-X-2 in 2051. But at the same time, how long-term are these placements? As noted by Frontier, spacefolds aren't exactly a trivial affair once you get beyond the range of a solar system... and the farther you're going (as you would have to, for a military deployment) the longer it takes and the more energy it uses, as well as running the risk of an accident occuring. That's why, IIRC, they usually took small folds when moving the Frontier fleet from place to place until they had to flee the continuing Vajra assaults with the long-distance one.
Still, I can see a mix of options 1 and 2 for the deployment of an escort fleet: you have some ships who are assigned permanently to the colonization fleet but whose crews could be reassigned as necessary, being transferred on and off the vessels at prearranged layover points when the fleet stops to collect supplies or update Earth with regards to its status. There may be ships who are on temporarily attached duty with the colonization group from another colony which happened to be nearby and who return to their home colony after a period of a few months or years, and they hand off responsibility as they go along - and also in doing so keep open lines of communication with other human worlds as well as provide settled colonists an option for 'moving on' or for members of the existing colonization group a chance to stop somewhere that's already settled since the colonization fleet's within range of these colonies. Plus, it gives them a chance to trade between groups (music, local products, manufactured items which weren't available when the previous fleet left as well as the plans for making more).
As for the Quarter, I get the impression that class of ship in general's either very new or isn't deployed often; Lieutenant Glass didn't seem to know much about the capabilities of the Quarter until she was forcefully introduced to them by the rising restraint system and Bobby's GAR-tastic driving. Those ships seem to be designed less as escort carriers and more as 'strike' carriers for Special Operations groups - the sort of ship that an elite team of VF pilots like the Ravens would be seen on, and which normally would be dispatched from Earth or some other main UN Spacy base to wherever it was needed on limited missions. Ozma certainly hasn't been with the Frontier fleet all that long - no more than eleven years at most... and given that Cathy's only like 23-24 and how those two likely met, he was probably in the UN Spacy around the time he met Cathy since she didn't look 12 in those flashbacks in Episode 17.
I'm using that to set a limit as to how long the Quarter's been assigned to the SMS group with the Macross 25th colonization fleet. We don't know when Ozma quit the NUNS, but we do know that he was likely to have been involved with Cathy when she was 17-19, which gives us a period of six years or so for him to have joined SMS and for the Quarter to have been delivered, if it wasn't already with the fleet when it left Earth 12 years ago. However, if it was an older craft or one in common usage I would think that a NUNS staffer who was qualified with the type of radar unit recently installed in the Quarter woiuld know generally what classes of ships carried it... and she didn't seem to know a danged thing.