There is, er, no shortage of those, I'm afraid, although the plan was always that most of them would get conclusions... someday.

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As far as I'm aware, that still is the plan! It's just that "someday" has "a few provisos, some quid pro quos..."

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Also, the last piece in each one wasn't on the Forum.

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Thank you for your input as well! I will consider this way of going about it. I think I might end up worrying too much about if I'm missing out on callbacks to earlier stories, but we'll see. Having more references to things I'm more familiar with is a plus to starting with the later stuff. I'll look into it.

In a similar vein, my advice is to start with the 4 'core' stories, then go back and read EVERYTHING else in the basic chronological order you see there. While they all were not written in that order (especially with the different authors) having all the, for example, Golden Age pieces in place will help when you move beyond Son-set into the Exile, and even more when you move past Core 4 and Twilight stories into the Future Imperfect (and beyond) stories. Don't worry if not all of these references make sense to you at first either, as the authors here gained experience they did an ever better job of making sure if something was obscure, there was a convenient NPC to exposit to.

If you see the speaker icon () by the link to a story on the main website, that means there's an audio version of that one. You should be able to get them by clicking the icon. If it's not there, I haven't recorded that one.

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Huh, I'm not seeing the icon next to any of the links. I checked the first Symphony of the Sword story, since that was a specific one that was mentioned, and the link for the audio version was within the story. I'm not seeing anything on the main website though. Is it that the icon is just blending in with the background so I'm not seeing it? Or is there some kind of error on my end preventing it from showing up?

Hmm, you should be. For instance, this is what the top of the list on the index page for Symphony No. 1 looks like on my screen:

(and so forth)

Note that there's no audio link for the second prelude, because for whatever reason I've never recorded that one, but everything else in S1 should have one. (Other areas have less complete audio coverage.)

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I see it now, goodness, sorry to trouble you. I forget sometimes when I'm not wearing my glasses, and it just blended together without me looking closely. Totally an error on my part.

OK, phew. I had visions of some weird config problem on the website, that's been there for years and no one's mentioned it before. :)

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Ah, thank you very much! I was hoping there was a list of everything in release order. Perhaps this is the best way,your explanation makes sense. I still have plenty of time before I finish the cores to decide which way to go about this, but I'll probably end up with this route.

I still curse drakensis for seducing me here.

In the past couple of days, I've read more in my free time, and I'm a little over halfway through the second Core. I'm really loving it, and I'll try to finish it tonight.

I've started watching Robotech, and I'm loving it. I'm almost done with the Macross saga. It's better than I could've imagined, and it's reminding me quite a bit of UF, which I suppose is intentional.

I really should get back to reading though, I certainly haven't lost interest.

--dbrandon

>Speaking only for myself, I am actually somewhat entertained by
>getting to hear the reactions of a new reader.
>
>--dbrandon

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Today I read the first third of the core volume four. I'll probably read a bit more tonight. Ideally I'd like to finish it tommorow, but I'm shooting for finishing it the day after.
I'm enjoying it thus far. I read the description for the Exile era a while back, and I assumed some of it would be detailed in the core stories, I was not expecting a time skip between 3 and 4, not paying much detail to what happened in between. With that, I think my first priority after I finish this, will be to read some of the Exile stories, because I'm really interested.
ReRob became one of my favorite "characters" somewhere in the third volume, and his introduction with the band at the beginning of this one was really nice.
On that note, I've been wondering how much all of the characters differ from their real life counterparts (personality at least, obviously none of them really build or pilot starships).
Also, some of the detailed descriptions of the science and machinery throughout these has been going right over my head, I apologize, though I do recognize the effort put into such passages.

Edit: Right after posting this, Iczer-2 came back. Someone is definitely going to die.

Edit: Nobody died

dbrandon

Heh, that conversation really happened (up until the part where Vaughn showed up), and as I recall, Rob and I shot that idea down pretty much immediately. :)

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I'd assumed that the other two ideas were also shot down until they happened, I couldn't be too sure if the third idea was actually shot down. But I'm kind of glad that it didn't happen.

Edit: Finished One Vision, I loved it, it was really nice and sweet.
Did The Stage ever get made? If so, where can I find it?

dbrandon

dbrandon

Today I finished reading Hammer Time Book Two. It was pretty great. Eiko is a cool character, spies becoming friends isn't a trope I mind. I wonder if her backstory is true, or fabricated memories. I believe it was addressed earlier on, or maybe it's just something I thought of, I'm not sure.

I can't decide if I want to move on to Exile and read Book Three, or if I should read the rest of the Golden Age. I'll definitely take suggestions. Chris Meadows is listed as an author for Hammer Time Book Three, should I read The Universe According to Chris first at the least?

A good plan. I've survived without watching all of the source material, but it does deepen the enjoyment.

>
>Today I finished reading Hammer Time Book Two. It was pretty great.
>Eiko is a cool character, spies becoming friends isn't a trope I mind.
>I wonder if her backstory is true, or fabricated memories. I believe
>it was addressed earlier on, or maybe it's just something I thought
>of, I'm not sure.
>

Nothing we've ever seen says her backstory is fabricated. At this point, it should be clear that she's been told lies.

Also, if you want to keep going down the rabbit hole of source material, Eiko is from Project A-ko. I've never watched it because the summary on the box didn't grab my interest, but my tastes are not universal.

>
>I can't decide if I want to move on to Exile and read Book Three, or
>if I should read the rest of the Golden Age. I'll definitely take
>suggestions. Chris Meadows is listed as an author for Hammer Time Book
>Three, should I read The Universe According to Chris first at the
>least?
>

I'd recommend reading The Universe According to Chris first. Chris and Katie are part of Book Three, and I think it would help to have the introduction.

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I don't plan to endulge in all of the source material, only things that interest me and aren't too long. I'll also definitely be checking out Bubblegum Crisis soon. I'm not sure if I'll end up checking out Project A-ko, it doesn't seem super interesting to me either.

The first one is very silly, and was originally scheduled to be part of a somewhat infamous Japanese series called "Cream Lemon" - the earliest hentai series, really - and then it got de-porn-ified. It's light fluff, and there's a lot worse ways* to kill an hour and a half.

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* Like some of the original Cream Lemon series! It wasn't good.

It is a series of movies, some are sequels to the first, (which stands alone very well), and others are a completely different storyline, (and setting), that happens to use the same characters.

In other news, I've started reading the Robotech the Sentinels comics, which I'm loving, and I've started watching The New Generation saga of Robotech, which I'm also enjoying. I got the Robotech Ace Pilot game, which I hesitate to call a board game or a card game, because it doesn't have a board, and barely deals with cards, but those are the only things I can think to describe it as. I've also gotten a cool SDF-1 shirt, which is specifically Macross rather than Robotech, which I suppose I should get around to watching eventually as well. Robotech has become an obsession for me, all thanks to you folks.

I started watching Megazone23 part 1 the other day, I watched the first 30 minutes and haven't gotten around to finishing it yet. I wasn't really enjoying it much, I think I prefer the versions of the characters in Robotech the Movie, but we'll see. With how well received it is, I'm sure it'll get better later on.

I have started the first Redneck story, which will no doubt take me a long time to read. I wasn't expecting it to be so long. It's longer than the first 3 Core volumes, and only a bit shorter than the fourth. Heck, it's longer than the first two combined. And those each took me a long while to read.
But at least I'm enjoying it so far, and it's well written.

to be honest JRZag, I found MegaZone-23 to be a real downer. Really kind of explains why UF-Zoner can be so given to angst, as UF-Gryph accuses him of doing?

EIther way I cant blame Zoner that much because I am having a really bad day, even if not as bad as Son-Set was for the UF Crew?

I still haven't gotten around to finishing MegaZone23 part 1, I keep watching other things. I haven't read much UF lately, I keep reading other things. I plan to change this soon.

>to be honest JRZag, I found MegaZone-23 to be a real downer. Really
>kind of explains why UF-Zoner can be so given to angst, as UF-Gryph
>accuses him of doing?

That is interesting, I wonder if it's an intentional connection.

>EIther way I cant blame Zoner that much because I am having a really
>bad day, even if not as bad as Son-Set was for the UF Crew?

I hope that things have gotten better for you since!

So I've really been struggling through Quagmire Project. I'm a very slow reader and it's very long. I've taken a break from it to read some shorter stories. I read Stolen Time which was heartbreaking...
I'm currently about halfway through Vocaloid Variations, I'm really enjoying it.

A few days ago there was this virtual panel for Robotech's 35th anniversary featuring the voice actors of Rick, Roy, Lisa, and Minmei. It was very nice to watch, somewhat insightful and fun. Again, I wouldn't care about Robotech whatsoever if it weren't for UF, so thanks a lot. In recent months I've spent way more than I should've on Robotech products, such as a signed hardcover of some of the Sentinels comics and all of the Sentinels novels. Robotech is taking over my life.

Fun fact about Macross: all the movies, tv series, games, and such? They're the in-setting dramatizations of the in-setting events! In other words, if you were actually in the Macross universe and you felt like watching the dramatized retelling of Space War 1, then you'd be watching the very same show you would here! (That being fist series, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross.)

Yeah, it's meta as all hell, almost to the point of being trippy. But it sure gave them a heck of a lot of wiggle room for creative license, though, and explains very much why the visual style shifts so much from one series/movie/game to another. (The utter outlandishness of the series, Macross 7, makes soooo much more sense in this context.)

You are (not) Alone. While the active folk might be less now than then, Yes, UF has made an impact on many, many, people.

Even if some claim it was a negative impact. (thinking that whole crypto lesbian thing... 5{?} years ago?)

(Bob Newhart hesitant stammer) More like... more like 20.

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...

Look, I know I'm reformed now, but I still get one Feel Old Dammit per quarter. =]

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now i just gotta send gryph 25 cents

I buy mine wholesale from Costco, it's the only way I can afford 'em. And canes, too. Back in my day canes for shaking at the kids on the lawn were free!

--sofaspud
--my kid was just barely too young to grok UF at the time. Barely.

When you get to my age, the Feel Old Dammit rises to once per DAY.....

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Amusingly, it was by putting "sunos undocumented features" into, um, I think it was AltaVista that was the state-of-the-art Web search engine at the time? I was trying to sysadmin with almost no training, in way over my head, and hoping the net.gods would bestow me some kind of Clue.

I didn't find what I was looking for, but I got hundreds of hours of entertainment (spread over the time since) instead. :-)