History Headscratchers / MacrossDelta

* Where did Mirage get her last name? Did Max and Milia have a son that was never even mentioned in any previous ''Macross'' series?

* Where did Mirage get her last name? Did Max and Miriya have a son that was never even mentioned in any previous ''Macross'' series?

[AC: Mirage's last name]]

How is Windermere able to mount any military operation? Yes, they're buying their weapons from Epsilon Corporation, but how do they ''pay'' for them? Windermere has an agrarian economy aside for the banned Fold Quartz exports (one of the reasons for their rebellion was in fact the ban on Fold Quartz), they just have next to nothing to pay for their equipment with.

* Moreover, in the updated scene of the Max and Miriya [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/macross/images/a/a5/Max_%26_Milia_in_Macross_Delta.jpeg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20160530025251 first meeting]] and later [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/macross/images/9/97/Max_Jenius-1_Milia_Fallyna_Jenius-1_Delta-5.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/640?cb=20160530031022 wedding]], shown when Mirage talks of her family history, Miriya clearly ''has'' pointy ears, meaning the whole thing was already {{Ret Con}}ned by that moment.

* We know nothing of her father. ''He'' might have them, for what it takes. That said, her aunt Mylene ''did'' have the pointed years, as does her other sister, Emilia, from the ''Macross 7 Movie''. In fact, about the only gals in the family to ''not'' have them are Miriya herself, and her eldest daughter Komilia, as they originate in the first series before the whole "Zentradis have pointy ears" thing started.

Why does Mirage have pointed ears? Even if the newer Zentradi clones have pointed ears, ''Miriya'' sure as hell did not.

** I'll also add that the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse has [[PrivateMilitaryContractors SHIELD]] doing most of the successful military operations.

** I'll also add that the MarvelCinematicUniverse has [[PrivateMilitaryContractors SHIELD]] doing most of the successful military operations.

* Why all this lionizing of PrivateMilitaryContractors, or, in old terms, mercenaries, while the NUN soldiers, who fight for their country and not for a paycheck, get worfed or treated as villains?

** Most of the US-produced wheat was sold through Canada, where the Canadian own production masked its origins and allowed both powers to save face. In Episode 9 Roid says that they similarly sell their apples around the cluster through the host of dummy companies, though here it's to genuinely conceal their origin rather than to avoid the embarrasment, because here the sales are intentional instead of being simply expedient.

** Most of the US-produced wheat was sold through Canada, where the Canadian own production masked its origins and allowed both powers to save face. In Episode 9 Roid says that they similarly sell their apples around the cluster through the host of dummy companies, though here it's to conceal their origin rather than to avoid the embarrassment, because here the sales are intentional instead of being simply expedient.

* For folks that remembered US-Soviet Economic Relationship during Cold War, probably Windermere still exports apple that is found to be desired by Brisingr Cluster in similar manner as US would dump their surplus on Soviet and not considering anything else.

* The import of the the apples is revealed to be completely deliberate, with the apples, branded as 'Galactic Apples', having an odd chemical makeup which, when used with drinking water used on many of the planets of the Brisingr Cluster, creates the key compound involved in Var Syndrome.

In this series the apples grown on Windermere have very characteristic marbling patterns on their skin, making it very easy to distinguish them from any other variety, and Windermere apparently exported a lot of them, from the amount of containers in the Episode 1. It's all well and good in the first episodes, when Windermere is still in a sort of the SpaceColdWar with the NUN, but we still see a lot of characteristically Windermeran apples even ''after'' they declare their war. Do they still continue to export them, or that's just remaining stocks?

In this series the apples grown on Windermere have very characteristic marbling patterns on their skin, making it very easy to distinguish them from any ther variety, and Windermere apparently exported a lot of them, from the amount of containers in the Episode 1. It's all well and good in the first episodes, when Windermere is still in a sort of the SpaceColdWar with the NUN, but we still see a lot of characteristically Windermeran apples even ''after'' they declare their war. Do they still continue to export them, or that's just remaining stocks?

In this series the apples grown on Windermere have very characteristic marbling patterns on their skin, making it very easy to distinguish them from any ther variety, and Windermere apparently exported a lot of them, from the amount of containers in the Episode 1. It's all well and good in the first episodes, when Windermere is still in a sor of the SpaceColdWar with the NUN, but we still see a lot of characteristically Windermeran apples even ''after'' they declare their war. Do they still continue to export them, or that's just remaining stocks?