Talk:Martian emissary

So has the wiki reached an official conclusion on the Gaea = Earth thing then?

I mean-- it was a retcon, and it clashes with SO MUCH, but this is the second time Interrobang has removed reference which acknowledge the Gaea=Earth thing without fully commiting to it to replace them with 'it's Earth,' so did I miss a discussion while I was gone?

Man, I dunno that it's really a retcon. In the cartoon itself, the ruined Tokyo Tower is seen, and the manga describes it as the third planet from its sun. But, yeah, everything going forward from Lio Convoy's RM bio to the 2007 timeline, has treated it as Earth. - Chris McFeely 20:14, 15 February 2011 (EST)

Uh, what? I didn't put "Gaea is Earth" in this article because it didn't seem like a relevant point to make in this particular article. What does the "retcon" (more like explicit confirmation) clash with? —Interrobang 20:46, 15 February 2011 (EST)

You put "Gaea's neighboring planet is Mars", since apparently calling it mars-like with a link was insufficient. -Derik 21:02, 15 February 2011 (EST)

Maybe because the "Mars-like planet" is Mars and not a "Mars-like planet"? —Interrobang 21:07, 15 February 2011 (EST)

But we see an orbital map of Gaea's solar system, and it clearly shows a planet whose orbit takes it well above the elliptic plane! Earth's solar system has no such planet! -Derik 21:22, 15 February 2011 (EST)

Does Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity apply here? If so, Mars got blown up in Headmasters which is in continuity with BWII. --abates 22:23, 15 February 2011 (EST)

Yeah, but it apparently got fixed in Victory. —Interrobang 22:30, 15 February 2011 (EST)

As we note on the Mars page, it's fixed in victory, and the Headmasters dub (of all places!) adds a line saying Fortress Maximus intends to 'fix Mars' when he leaves. (It's nonsense, but at least it's consistent nonsense!) -Derik 22:32, 15 February 2011 (EST)

And in any case, couldn't any incongruity with the modern day solar system be explained away with "this is in the future"? If planets get blown up and rebuilt randomly, I don't think a planet with a weird orbit is really something that could discredit this as being the Earth. --Ascendron 23:03, 15 February 2011 (EST)

*sigh* No one recognizes a description of Pluto... -Derik 23:20, 15 February 2011 (EST)

I am shamed that no one else knows that Pluto has an irregular orbit. --65.60.213.194 23:30, 15 February 2011 (EST)