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Originally Posted by Wild Goose
Yes and no, in that physical impacts cn still get through the shields. On the other hand, you really need it to protect you from lasers, and once those are clear you can just rain death from above, so it would make the American doctrine a bit more practical.
IF the Americans were able to mass produce shield tech, I could see it being given to Wild Weasel F-16s for hunter killer teams: hunters scout the battlefield, looking for lasers and relying on the shields to protect them, while killers go low and jump the lasers when hunters find them.
Other bit of tech would be using trinium for AP shells to kill Destroyer-class from the front, and naquadah to make more powerful missiles/120mm shells. And of course once they launch Promethus and the rest of the BC-304s, you have a small fleet that can interdict incoming BETA hives and provide orbital fire support.
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If shield tech could be mass produced why couldn't the US just equip all TSFs with them? Also is there any mention of what TSFs are powered by in canon?
Regarding trinium, wouldn't it be smarter for it to be used for making TSFs much tougher, possibly being able to protect against lasers much longer due to trinium being 100x stronger and lighter than an equivalent amount of steel?
And what would be useful about how naquadah and potassium
react when put together?
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Originally Posted by novalysis
One of the main elements of Muv Luv that makes it so prime for Fanfic fuel is it's essential premise of transferring characters from a lighter, softer, more idealistic world and genre like Muv Luv Extra, into the grim nature of Muv Luv Unlimited and Alternative.
It is very prime crossover fanfic fuel. There are plenty of characters in animes with much more lighter themes, from Rom-Coms, Slice of Life and certain variants of Shounen, often derisively labeled moe blobs and Generic Harem protagonists. Placing such characters into the world of Muv-Luv extra would be a brilliant exploration of these characters- clearly, some would fare better than others, some may even do better than Takeru, while some would die very, very fast.
It would be an interesting exercise, for example, to imagine if the cast of Slice of Lives such as Yuru Yuri or K-on were a tightly knitted squad Eishi pilots instead, circa 2010, in a Post-Alternative Fanfic. And then, the bodies start piling up, one by one. Or, put a Male Protagonist of your choice, from the same genre as Extra as the sole male in the squad, surrounded by his harem, and imagine how character dynamics would change as a result of being born in the world of Extra.
Another interesting scenario would be to throw your pick of Harem or Shounen Protagonists into the world of Alternative in place of Takeru, and see how they fare, as a form of character comparison. Victims may include the likes of Makoto from School Days, who'd likely get Om Nom Nom Nomed, to the likes of even more competent protagonists such as Keima Katsuragi or Negi Springfield. In the middle of these two extreme scenarios would be the likes of Kodaka from Hagani.
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You mention that some protagonists would do worse than Takeru, but how? He himself started as a mere civilian who was average at best, with only having great piloting skills due to playing video games all the time. It's not like he had special powers or a well-trained body prior to Unlimited/Alternative like some protagonists have, such as Nasuverse protagonists, to name a few.
And what would make Keima or Negi more competent in Unlimited/Alternative when neither of them really deal with mecha? Would Negi be able to pilot a TSF well or something like Takeru was able to do?