(I probably should have remembered to post this little tidbit as part of my riffs when the SDF-17 was first numbered, but oh well.)
Back in university, a fellow member of the science fiction (mostly RPGing) club once showed me a copy of a Macross II RPG supplement with SDF-1 plans in it. He said he would use them to role-play "the SDF-17, a copy of the SDF-1 where everything works." I hadn't read Undocumented Features at the time, so I missed the point of what he was saying. I just wonder nowadays which Wedge Rat he was planning to role-play, or whether he would just have had University of Waterloo students take over the ship...