<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a6/ZentranCPO02_Macross2032JPG.jpg)  (https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5f/MaikaTorokMacross2032JPG.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>NPCs, Roj Gavon, Maika Torok<br/><strong>Date:</strong>March 10, 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Park / Copper Kettle<br/><strong>With:</strong>Kyclia, Open<br/><hr/>Maika was about to remark that she didn't need a history lesson, when Roj saved her from antagonizing Kyclia again.<br/><br/>"Their armor isn't that useful against advanced weapons. Trust me, weapons tech is my specialty, and weapons development is usually one step ahead of advances in armor. And when it's not, it usually catches up pretty quickly."<br/><br/>"Mobility is certainly a good defense," Maika agreed with the Chief. As an attack pilot she was supposed to fire her torpedoes from long range most of the time, but her squadron often trained for assaults at closer range. Air defense was part of her stock in trade – or rather avoiding it as best she could. "Mobility...," she mused, while Bethany appeared to take away Roj's empty bowl and provide Kyclia with a fresh glass of water.<br/><br/>"I guess that's one reason we only have a few Spartans and Tomahawks for emergencies. This base is a lot larger than the Macross, spread far wider. You can't shift destroids around from one critical point to another. That would take too long. And if you wanted to defend the hangars, spaceport, and civilian hangars with destroids you'd need hundreds of them – including hundreds of pilots."<br/><br/>Roj thanked Bethany as she cleaned away his used dishes, before he looked up to Maika on the balcony. "I heard rumors they are working on a more advanced, more mobile destroid. Maybe once those come on line..."<br/><br/>"There are always rumors like that, you know that, Chief. A new Veritech to replace the VF-5, phasing out the VF-1 completely, modernized armor packs for the VFs, upgrades to the Zentran pods and power armors. I'll believe it when I see it. Till then we do what soldiers have always done. We make do with what we got and do the best we can."<br/><br/>She sipped her cider again, wondering if peacetime would make the Humans abandon attempts at improving their war machine or not. Some of them were probably tempted to forget all about it, now that twenty years had passed since the last big war. But there was still one area where construction and technology had again begun to make progress.<br/><br/>"Lieutenant Halcyon, if you won't mind another piece of unsolicited advice..." Maika smiled down at the Meltran. "On thing that is not a rumor is the construction of the Megaroad Five. If you really want to fly a Rau again, perhaps you should volunteer for that mission. Might still be a year or so before they start recruiting, but if the last fleets are anything to go by, they will use Zentraedi ships in the escort fleets again. A recommendation from your CO here could well be enough to get you one of those positions."