Talk:Landing Castle/@comment-98.154.223.128-20140912062027/@comment-67.52.123.228-20140913201454

I do really like the idea that the landing castles were initially colonization machines but I don't know if it makes that much sense. For one thing, they're Aldnoah powered which means they were built natively on Mars after the rise of the Vers empire. If so, the only place that they would possibly be sent to colonized originally would have been Mars itself, where they would have been completely overengineered for the task.

I do agree however that they were not purpose built as war machines. They are very much meant as transports and mobile bases for the Orbital Knights perhaps repurposed from a drawing board proposal rather than modified after construction. In fact they're closer to being the Martian equivalent of a space going amphibious landing ship. But because Earth's space capabilities are so underdeveloped, they didn't need to bother ever developing actual space warships to defend them.

Also, the Sky Carrier being unlocked isn't actually that strange. Modern fighter aircraft don't have any keys or special passcodes to turn them on. In an emergency you might need to have a pilot sortie in a plane he wasn't assigned to and you can't be screwing around with things like passwords at times like that.

Instead, military planes rely on the fact that they are housed on a military base and require a team of a dozen technicians and a certified pilot up to half an hour to prepare them for take off. What Slaine probably did was just access the hangar maintenance computer and looked up if any sky carriers were prepped for departure. It was already in the launch cradle when he stole it after all.