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Old 2008-05-19, 16:08   Link #268
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Ozma will probably chew out Alto over this episode's events, but I doubt he'll be chewing very hard. The orders he gave in the last ep was "don't die", and Alto was just making sure Luca complied, here. Trading his vanilla Valk for the far more valuable ELINT model was just icing on that deal.

In fact, so far all of Alto's mishaps have been directly attributable to enemy action. The first mecha he even got into was busted to start; the second one was damaged because Alto was rescuing Klein (who needed it, even if she didn't think so); and this one was lost rescuing Luca and his much more valuable Elint model. In fact, in each case the damages have been in trade for something more valuable. That the situation has ended up requiring it three times in a row wasn't Alto's fault...

Also, exactly how many Valkyries did Hikaru manage to destroy during the original series? The VF-1D from the first ep was a total loss; there was the Full Armor prototype he mashed up during the Miss Macross contest; and he was caught by friendly fire the second time Misa used the Daedalus Attack. He also fried the VF-1S pretty thoroughly when he rescued Misa from the Grand Cannon base.

Shin from Macross Zero managed to mangle a Tomcat, a VF-0D and a VF-0A, at least, during *his* show, which was only five eps.

All in all, Alto isn't doing too badly... :-)

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