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[78] One expects that pilgrimaging quarians get this a lot.

[235] Unlike the Gallant, which is only built to be used against vehicles in an emergency, the EP-37 particle beam rifle is a purpose-built anti-vehicle weapon, intended to give Cyclone riders the firepower to deal with light enemy mecha (such as GENOM's Invid Armored Scout). In this context it definitely qualifies as a bigger gun.

[275] Not literally, as in an anatomical term, but functionally bosh'tet is quarian for "asshole".

[507] The VR-038L Bartley Recon Cyclone is a lighter, faster model than the VR-052 Battler Gryphon has. In popular parlance it's often called a ladies' Cyclone, though in actual military practice as many male recon scouts use them. Unlike the Battler, it has no built-in ordnance.

[585] When I posted this sign to the Forum, you guys thought it was for something else, didn't you?

[609] Technically, it probably should be "counter-chukaba" - anti-chukaba would explode violently on contact with normal chukaba - but "anti-chukaba" trips off the tongue more easily. (Chukaba is sort of like chicken, although in this case, of course, it's synthetic.)

[615] I suppose it says something about my (the author's) priorities as a person that this was what I immediately thought of when I learned just how trapped in those suits quarians really are. My God, they must have no cuisine at all.

[657] Gryphon has presumably gotten fed up with the lack of a proper shyam hoop and made one in the machine shop by this point, but a) he probably doesn't have one made of Mordin's special metal and b) he could hardly expect Tali to know how to use one.

[709] This is something they only do in UF. In the originals, of course, Macross and MOSPEADA happened in two different universes, and in Robotech the Valkyrie had long gone out of service by the time the Cyclone mecha and its requirement for ride armor came along. But in the WDF, where we had all that stuff at once, Valkyrie flightsuits had a version of CVR available, as we've seen in a couple of other stories.

>[609] Technically, it probably should be "counter-chukaba"
>- anti-chukaba would explode violently on contact with normal chukaba
>- but "anti-chukaba" trips off the tongue more easily. (Chukaba is
>sort of like chicken, although in this case, of course, it's
>synthetic.)

I'm trying to think up with an antipasta joke here, but it just isn't coming together.

Polychrome

cf: Pratchett, Pyramids. antipasta: a real taste explosion.

"It's difficult keeping up with the cross-continuity, but I think Cosmouse just gave The Saturnian Scraphunter his Ultimate Pacifier to use against Galactapuss..."

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>[709] This is something they only do in UF. In the
>originals, of course, Macross and MOSPEADA happened in
>two different universes, and in Robotech the Valkyrie had long
>gone out of service by the time the Cyclone mecha and its requirement
>for ride armor came along. But in the WDF, where we had all that
>stuff at once, Valkyrie flightsuits had a version of CVR available, as
>we've seen in a couple of other stories.

As it happens, there's now something a bit like very light CVR in Macross Frontier. It's integrated directly into the Valk cockpit so it can automatically latch onto the flight suit when the pilot ejects, and is not much more than a light exoskeleton with wings.

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