josephddm wrote:[...] I want to know if there is any way of PB could do the effort to release fan made material from and for Robotech.
I doubt it... if there was, I would expect Harmony Gold to apply the same "You give up any and all rights to your work to us" policy they use for fanart and fan-fiction submissions over on robotech.com. I can't quite see Tommy giving the go-ahead to print a lot of fanon after going to such lengths to shoot down a fair chunk of it.
josephddm wrote:When someone tries to release a book with official and new artwork I think they must do in a more comprehensive way dedicated to impress the buyer and the fan of that book and that limited artwork for the spaceships [...] is a pity and a major, huge, immense [...] mistake.
Yeah, I agree with you there. If they're going to run with the spaceships book idea, they're really going to need to put in the time necessary to produce something halfway impressive, since not doing so in the core book and sourcebooks has been a pretty big disappointment for fans of the game. As I said before, I'd happily do the job myself, but as you can see in the responses by
Sgt Anjay,
Rabid Southern Cross Fan, etc., my approach of discarding all of the fanon that's accumulated over the sequel-less decades in favor of the official, verifiable data tends not to go over well with a certain subset of fans.
Unfortunately, only
Macross and
Mospeada really provide decent-quality line art for starships that'd make for a good showing in the spaceships book. It really would be a good thing to get the spaceships book finished and kicked out the door, to compliment the New Generation book if they don't intend to actually include starships in the sourcebooks themselves.
Sgt Anjay wrote:For one, I fail to see what the robotech.com stats on the Tristar prove.
That none of these
alleged other classes of ship are recognized as canon. As if that particular issue wasn't enough of a pain, there's no coverage whatsoever for those ships in the OSM, with little difference in the animation apart from the position of the nozzles on its stern. This, combined with the mechanical inconsistencies that crop up fairly frequently in the
Southern Cross series and a noticeable lack of any recognition from the authority figures for
Robotech, would seem to indicate that these aren't separate, deliberately different designs for the most part. If you have actual sources to argue for this being the result of a premeditated design decision by
Southern Cross's creators and not just a theory cooked up by fans, please don't feel any hesitation in sharing it.
Sgt Anjay wrote:Though why you're so keen on disparaging Tatsunoko and studio Ammonite by implying otherwise is beyond me.
It's not disparaging, it's a simple and honest statement about the series. If you choose to take the truth as offensive, that's your own hangup. It's just a fact of life that the original
Southern Cross series had some consistency problems with its mechanical designs. I'd guess that it was a result of not really bothering to sit down and work on the details of the designs, given the lack of detail in official publications and the fact that the writers of the uRRG and Infopedia had to resort to making it up as they went.
Rabid Southern Cross Fan wrote:apparently Harmony Gold isn't either
Right, cause the incomplete Infopedia means anything....
I realize you don't like it, and believe me when I say I sympathize, but Harmony Gold is the final and ultimate arbiter of what is and is not official and canon in
Robotech. They don't (and never have) listed these other alleged classes of ship as official, nor have the creators of
Southern Cross... there's really only one conclusion you can reach from that if you intend to follow the canon, that these are variations on the
Tristar-class spaceframe, not separate classes in their own right.
EDIT: Had an extra quote tag in there.