| (Preface,
which is revealed through flashbacks and story
telling throughout the series.) Long ago in a distant
quadrant of the galaxy, an explorer and scientist
from the planet of Tirol named Zor explored the
planet of Optera. On Optera there lived a hive
species called the Invid, which fed and depended
on a native plant called the Flower of Life. The
Invid had a male leader, the Regent, and a female
leader, the Regis. From the Regis, Zor learned
that the Flower of Life could be used to make a
remarkable energy source called Protoculture. By
working with Protoculture, Zor created a new type
of technology called Robotechnology. Zor
introduced Protoculture and Robotechnology to his
planet’s leaders, the Robotech Masters, who
became corrupted by the power it gave them. The
Robotech Masters genetically created a warrior
race of giants called the Zentraedi and seeking a
monopoly on Protoculture, ordered the Zentraedi
to defoliate Optera. The Invid were forced to
fight for their survival and became a race of
fierce warriors which battled with the Zentraedi
and the Robotech Masters.
Zor became
disgusted by the way his leaders used
Protoculture and Robotechnology and vowed to
undermine them. He built a powerful ship and hid
in it the Protoculture Matrix, a vast
Protoculture resource, and dispatched the ship
and died. The Robotech Masters, who needed the
resources of Protoculture the Matrix held to
maintain their empire, dispatched the Zentraedi
to find it.
(This portion is
based on Super Dimension Fortress: Macross)
In the year 1999,
an alien ship crashes on Earth on a small Island
called Macross bringing an end to a civil war on
Earth. The people of Earth unite and rebuild the
ship, which they name the SDF-1. During the
reconstruction, a large city named Macross City,
rose up around the fortress. From examples
recovered and information learned from the SDF-1,
the Terrans learn about Robotechnology and apply
it.
It takes ten years
to rebuild the SDF-1, but in 2009 it was finally
done. On the launching day of the SDF-1, the
Zentraedi arrive and the First Robotech War
begins as they try to reclaim the fortress and
the Protoculture Matrix it contains.
Rick Hunter
becomes one of the pivotal characters in
Robotech. He starts as a civilian, becomes a
fighter pilot to follow in the footsteps of his
older kid-brother Roy Fokker, and becomes the
leader of the SDF-1’s fighter group in
Roy’s place after he is killed. The
SDF-1’s First Officer, Lisa Hayes, falls in
love with Rick. Rick, however, is in love with
Lynn-Minmei, a young singer and popular icon in
Macross City. Later Rick and Lisa realize their
love for each other.
During the war,
the Zentraedi in the fleet sent to recover the
Matrix are exposed to Terran culture and emotions
for the first time. They refuse to fight and wish
instead to abandon their war-dominated culture to
join theirs. One female Zentraedi, Miriya Parino,
and a Terran pilot and friend of Rick, Max
Sterling, marry and have a child, Dana Sterling.
At the war’s
conclusion, the ships of the Zentraedi fleet are
summoned to Earth for a final showdown against
the SDF-1 and the renegade Zentraedi which allied
with them. The Earth is bombarded and its surface
is all but sanitized of life. The entire fleet of
the enemy Zentraedi is destroyed although
remnants of it survive on Earth and continue to
fight a brief guerrilla-style war. At the
conclusion of First Robotech War, the SDF-1 is
destroyed and plans are made to send a force to
Tirol, the home of the Robotech Masters, to
prevent another war from coming to earth.
(This portion is
based on what consistent information on the
Sentinels is available)
The Robotech
Expeditionary Force, comprised of Rick, Lisa, Max
and Miriya and the SDF-3 leaves Earth for Tirol.
They join forces with a rag tag group of aliens
called the Sentinels who have had their home
planets conquered by the Invid. The Terran
Robotech soldiers and the Sentinels liberate the
home planets of the Sentinels.
(This portion is
based on Super Dimension Calvary: Southern Cross)
Fifteen years
after the end of The First Robotech War, the Army
of the Southern Cross is the defender of Earth.
Dana Sterling, the daughter of Max and Miriya, is
a soldier in the Army of the Southern Cross and
becomes the commander of a hovertank unit, the 15th
ATAC. The Robotech Masters arrive and ignite the
Second Robotech War to recover the Protoculture
Matrix from the buried corpse of the SDF-1.
Dana falls in love
with Zor Prime, a captured warrior clone of the
original Zor who is an unknowing spy for the
Robotech Masters. Zor Prime eventually remembers
his past and tries to fulfill his plan to
undermine the Robotech Masters. At the end of the
Second Robotech War, Zor and the Robotech Masters
are killed and the contents of the Matrix are
released which caused Flowers of Life to grow.
There is a sense of impending doom as the savage
Invid are summoned to where ever the Flower of
Life takes root.
(This portion is
based on Genesis Climber Mospeada)
The Invid, led by
the Regis, conquer Earth and waves of fleets from
Admiral Hunter’s expeditionary force
dispatched from Tirol attempt to liberate it. In
one of these fleets is a pilot named Scott
Bernard. Scott’s fleet is all but wiped out
and he believes himself to be the only survivor.
On Earth he continues his mission, which is to
destroy the main hive of the Invid on Earth, a
structure called Reflex Point.
During
Scott’s journey, he collects a rag tag group
of freedom fighters who are dedicated to help
destroy the Reflex Point with him. By the time
they reach Reflex Point, the largest portion of
Admiral Hunter’s fleet arrives for the final
attempt at retaking the Earth. Admiral
Hunter’s flagship, the SDF-3, mysteriously
fails to arrive with the rest of the fleet.
During that battle, the Regis utilizes all the
remaining stores of Protoculture to raise herself
and her race to a higher plane of existence,
leaving Earth behind.
(Prologue)
What happens to
the SDF-3, Rick, Lisa, and friends is only
concretely addressed by the Robotech novels,
which some fans accept and some do not.
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