Post by Robert Frazer on Mar 31, 2004 0:31:24 GMT
(As an initial incidental remark, Grimer the Poet, I'm quite confounded as to the identity of the source from which you conjured up the fantastically impossible notion of the Winged Fortress being three thousand miles long - if so, it would be compelled to adopt the planet's curvature to avoid thrusting itself into space! I think that a length of two to four miles is a much more credible dimension. It is a tactical strato-cruiser, not an orbital shipping platform!)
Continuing on, I perceive that a storyline founded about Sonic investigating the Winged Fortress would be exceedingly improbable within the context of the Mobian environment, quite convoluted according to narrative principles of credulity and feasibility, and thoroughgly undesirable as a method of evolving the realm of the comics!
We should remember that Robotnik has been deposed for many years now, and all of his technologies were eradicated by the Electro-Magnetic Pulse released by the Black Asteroid's detonation, so the Winged Fortress has now probably already either disintegrated through lack of maintenance, suffered some horrendous catastrophic fault in its reactors and detonated spectacularly, or else been subject to the displacement and subversion produced by Mobius's weather, and have crashed!
Furthermore, one of the factors which depresses me slightly about the condition Mobius is the sheer magnitude of cultural potential that has so far not been realised - most typical Mobians appear simply to be convenient hostages for Sonic to liberate. We appear to forget that the Zones are autonomous bodies with their personal politics, economies, nobles houses, militaries, international rivalries and so forth, and I believe that it would be a positive benefit to the environment of the comic to explore these avenues and apply some identity to the Mobians.
To that effect, I would prefer a storyline to demonstrate that the Winged Fortress was captured by one of Mobius's greater powers (it is tempting for it simply to be in the armed forces of the Earl Majestic of the Metropolis Zone, as that is one of the most ubiquitious focus of STC stories, yet what of other large centres of development in Mobius, such as the Corona Lord of the Starlight Zone?), and is now serving as an ostentatious element in their military, crewed by thousands of air-force staff.
It is both more logically credible and simply more interesting, and a precedent which suggests more potential development and evolution in the future.
To return to the topic of the Death Carrier, I suppose it will be necessary to qualify its complement of armaments. However, unlike those enthusing for a clichéd 'supreme cannon', I would attest that these weapons should be largely defensive. It is quite obvious that it retains some ability to launch fighter and bomber aeroplanes and assault craft, by the virtue of the fact that Echidna are incapable of flight.
I would judge it also to possess some extensive network of 'interceptor' turrets, probably laser-arrays, to dispatch approaching threats - for instance, why would the Mobians not simply eliminate the problem it presents with an I.C.B.M.? Some defensive weapons are required to destroy approaching retaliatory missiles, and this could perform the additional function of anti-fighter defences. The Death Carrier may also possess some offensive weaponry in the form of ranks of artillery batteries (I would be interested in witnessing a duel between the Winged Fortress and the Death Carrier, which the Death Carrier would defintiely secure victory in due to its greater magnitude) for fending off starto-craft or for bombardment of ground settlements.
However, despite this, I do ot think that this weaponry should feature prominently - the Death Carrier should be a nervous system for a new campaign of terror, not simply a glichéd gargantuan gun (view my initial post).
What do you think?
Continuing on, I perceive that a storyline founded about Sonic investigating the Winged Fortress would be exceedingly improbable within the context of the Mobian environment, quite convoluted according to narrative principles of credulity and feasibility, and thoroughgly undesirable as a method of evolving the realm of the comics!
We should remember that Robotnik has been deposed for many years now, and all of his technologies were eradicated by the Electro-Magnetic Pulse released by the Black Asteroid's detonation, so the Winged Fortress has now probably already either disintegrated through lack of maintenance, suffered some horrendous catastrophic fault in its reactors and detonated spectacularly, or else been subject to the displacement and subversion produced by Mobius's weather, and have crashed!
Furthermore, one of the factors which depresses me slightly about the condition Mobius is the sheer magnitude of cultural potential that has so far not been realised - most typical Mobians appear simply to be convenient hostages for Sonic to liberate. We appear to forget that the Zones are autonomous bodies with their personal politics, economies, nobles houses, militaries, international rivalries and so forth, and I believe that it would be a positive benefit to the environment of the comic to explore these avenues and apply some identity to the Mobians.
To that effect, I would prefer a storyline to demonstrate that the Winged Fortress was captured by one of Mobius's greater powers (it is tempting for it simply to be in the armed forces of the Earl Majestic of the Metropolis Zone, as that is one of the most ubiquitious focus of STC stories, yet what of other large centres of development in Mobius, such as the Corona Lord of the Starlight Zone?), and is now serving as an ostentatious element in their military, crewed by thousands of air-force staff.
It is both more logically credible and simply more interesting, and a precedent which suggests more potential development and evolution in the future.
To return to the topic of the Death Carrier, I suppose it will be necessary to qualify its complement of armaments. However, unlike those enthusing for a clichéd 'supreme cannon', I would attest that these weapons should be largely defensive. It is quite obvious that it retains some ability to launch fighter and bomber aeroplanes and assault craft, by the virtue of the fact that Echidna are incapable of flight.
I would judge it also to possess some extensive network of 'interceptor' turrets, probably laser-arrays, to dispatch approaching threats - for instance, why would the Mobians not simply eliminate the problem it presents with an I.C.B.M.? Some defensive weapons are required to destroy approaching retaliatory missiles, and this could perform the additional function of anti-fighter defences. The Death Carrier may also possess some offensive weaponry in the form of ranks of artillery batteries (I would be interested in witnessing a duel between the Winged Fortress and the Death Carrier, which the Death Carrier would defintiely secure victory in due to its greater magnitude) for fending off starto-craft or for bombardment of ground settlements.However, despite this, I do ot think that this weaponry should feature prominently - the Death Carrier should be a nervous system for a new campaign of terror, not simply a glichéd gargantuan gun (view my initial post).
What do you think?
So. A Mega Boomer now eh? 
Swine.
;D
