Talk:The Beautiful and Damned

Some toughts on the Tharsis and its new pilot
Oh holy crap that ability of the Tharsis is quite scary.

Here is what I believe it to be:

It is an extremely accurate "trajectory prediction program". It uses its many cameras to capture as much data as possible within the field of vision and accurately. Normally, such a thing is not possible (not at this speed anyways and neither at dat accuracy), but that changes if you use the technology of Aldnoah to achieve that. That would also explain the excessive amount of cameras on this kataphract- they are needed to capture every detail within its field of vison in order to provide the data necessary for the calculation.

Weaknesses:

It is overly dependent on its cameras, which means that ability won't work on attacks done outside of its field of vision. These cameras are vulnerable, if they get damaged the "trajectory prediction" should become significantly less efficient. Also, its effectiveness diminishes at close range since the pilot has not much time to react. The reason why Slaine got out of the assualt of 2 terran kataphracts unscathed was due to the pilots shooting like stormtroopers and not taking advantage of him showing them his back since they panicked about his evasive abilities.

Also, the pilot is too hot-headed. If he were to lose his calm, he'd end up disregarding the system's warning and getting shot down. Slaine is pretty much what shonen manga heroes are like:


 * Is initially super-weak, can't do shit. Then he somehow gets a shiny power (call it whatever you like) and is suddenly the hero of the good guys
 * Has a hopeless romance. He gets the romance flag going at the start and develops feelings for her, but then his stupidity keeps getting in the way.
 * Is stupid. Jep. Not much brains, just swing whatever weapon you have and hope it's gonna kill the enemy before the enemy kills you. Maybe some skills about how to put his equipment to good use, but strategic abilities and the ability to plan ahead? Hell no.
 * Also has a short fuse, is quick to act based on his emotions. Which means he is very easy to manipulate. Take his romance interest hostage/in danger and all his actions will be solely focused on his person of interest, ignoring all and any important matters aside from that.
 * Has a Nemesis which keeps being a step ahead of him, either due to said nemesis having the stronger stuff or due to him actually using his brain, as being the case with Inaho
 * Overly reliant on his shiny new ability. Take it away and he is as weak as before he got it. He gets back to normal (or a bit stronger) when he gets it back, but doesn't change the fact that he is like a retard in an Iron Man suit. Powerful one man army as long as he wears it, but once he is out of it, he's useless.

The Tharsis is a much better fit for Inaho (yes, I am aware that Inaho's selling point is his orange TERRAN kataphract) since he is a calm and analytical person who won't lose his cool. He could take full advantage of its "trajectory prediction system". How? He's a quick thinker with a very smart eye, he would be able to interpret the data much faster than Slaine ever could, is a genius planner and is very good at dealing with unexpected situations. Slaine lacks that. He is not able to deal with unexpected situations properly and neither is he capable of planning ahead properly either.

Also, him wanting to stand out is a means of psychological warfare. The orange color of his ride signifies the arrival of the "hero" who turns thing around, it improves the morale of the allies while it makes a dent on the morale of the enemies. Also, it draws attention towards himself, which means that the enemy ends up missing out on stuff going on aside from Inaho. One such example from history is the "Baron Manfred von Richthofen ", a well-known German ace pilot in WW1 who painted his airplane red for the same reason. This led to him being commonly known as the "red baron".