![]() The character designer explained it, I believe, by saying, "Growing old is a state of mind. ![]() A funny little anecdote here: Max is 52 by the time Macross 7 starts but he looks like he's only in his thirties. Max Jenius is now the Fleet Captain of Macross 7 and the Captain of the Battle 7 carrier in particular. ![]() We see some old standbys from SDF Macross show up here. This fleet is the seventh of the New Macross-class colonization fleets, as the name implies. Seven main ships that fulfill different functions such as the recreation ship Riviera and the factory ship Three Star, and an entire flotilla of frigates and carriers to protect the fleet. The Macross 7 fleet in particular consists of the central colony ship City 7 and its escort battle carrier, Battle 7, The Megaroad ships, which could only hold about 25,000 colonists, give or take, have been replaced with the New Macross-class ships, which can embark roughly a million colonists. The colonization plan that we saw outlined in the last few episodes of SDF Macross and the launch of the first colony ship, SDF-2 Megaroad-01 in Flashback 2012, is expanded upon here. Instead of focusing on a single ship, Macross 7 is focused on the fleet of the same name. The YF-19 prototype is now being mass-produced and is the VF-19 Excalibur, although the older VF-11 Thunderbolt still far outnumbers the -19 in the fleets of the UN Spacy. As short as I can do this, the story takes place in the year 2045, five years after Macross Plus and thirty-five years after the end of the Space War in the first Macross series. I'm going to split this up into the story, the characters, the mechs and misc. Now what I'm going to do in this is no more plot summaries, at least not long ones. ![]() Released in 1994 at the same time as Macross Plus, M7 is a bit of a departure from what has happened in the Macross productions that came before. ![]()
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