This chronology fits the McKinney books #1-18 and the American Robotech TV series the best. It does NOT have "The Malcontent Uprisings" or "The Masters' Gambit"
Zentraedi commander-in-chief Dolza forms an uneasy alliance with Zor, who has by now become hopelessly addicted to the dried leaves of the Flower.
During a Flower of Life seeding attempt, the Invid takes knowledge of Zor's position and begins a raid. In the threat of the battle fortress falling into the Invid's posession, Zor sends his battle fortress to Earth, manned by a skeleton crew of Zentreadi loyal to him. Zor is killed and Commander Breetai is wounded during the same raid. Commander-in-chief Dolza orders Commander Reno to return Zor's body to the Robotech Masters on Tirol.
Interstellar war with the Invid, whose homeworld, Optera, had been defoliated by the Zentraedi, continues to chip away at the fringes of the Masters' galactic empire.
Dr. Emil Lang, after an initial recon of the ship (in the company of Roy Fokker, Henry Gloval, T.R. Edwards, and others), begins to unravel the secrets of an extraterrestrial science known as Robotech. Dr. Lang is accidentaly sujected to raw Protoculture, giving him a mindboost and making him an agent of the Protoculture. Macross Island becomes the focal point of Robotechnology; and reconstruction commences on the SDF-1.
The Denver Six Complex is built into the Colorado mountains for U.S. leaders in case of a thermonuclear war, but later abandoned.
Development of the reconfigurable Veritech Fighter.
On Tirol, Cabell "creates" Rem by cloning tissue from Zor. The Masters, too, have their way with Zor's body, cloning tissue for their own purposes and extracting from the scientist's residual cellular memories a vision of Earth--destination of the fortress and Protoculture matrix he has stolen and spirited from their grasp.
Roy Fokker and Claudia Grant become fast friends.
Lisa Hayes is assigned to the SDF-1 project on Macross, under the command of Captain Henry Gloval.
Tommy Luan is elected mayor of Macross City.
Formation of the Robotech Defense Force.
Lisa Hayes turns 24.
Rick Hunter joins the RDF.
The Battle at Saturn's Rings. The Daedalus Maneuver is executed to destroy the Zentraedi ship commanded by Commander Zeril. Rick Hunter's first mission.
Breetai calls up the Botoru Battalion, led by the notorious Khyron the Backstabber.
The Battle at Mars Base Sara.
Rick Hunter receives the Titanium Medal of Valor and earns the rank of lieutenant after rescuing Lisa Hayes from Base Sara before the destruction of the base. Ben Dixon and Maximilian Sterling are assigned to Rick's newly formed Vermillion VT Squadron.
Lynn-Minmei is voted "Miss Macross".
While on a recon mission, Rick, Lisa, and Ben are captured by Breetai and interrogated by the Zentraedi commander in chief, Dolza.
Minmei has her debut.
The Earth forces learn of the term "Protoculture" for the first time.
Under Dolza's orders, Azonia takes command of the mission to retrieve Zor's battle fortress.
Rick, Lisa, Ben, and Max discover that the Zentraedi are a race of clones and can be reduced to human size. Max disguises his battloid as a Zentraedi officer and breaks his friends out of their holding cell. They hide away on Azonia's flagship and steal an alien battlepod to return to the SDF-1.
Three "Micronized" Zentraedi spies--Rico, Konda, and Bron--are successfully inserted into the SDF-1 and meets Sammie Porters, Kim Young, and Vanessa Leeds.
The SDF-1 lands on Earth.
Captain Gloval submits his report on the disappearance of the battle fortress to the United Earth Defense Council and requests that the 75,000 survivors to be relocated from the ship.
Rick Hunter is seriously wounded during a Zentraedi attack on the fortress. Rick turns 22.
Roy Fokker is killed in combat during a raid led by Zentraedi Quadrono Leader Miriya Parino. Rick Hunter is promoted to the rank of Skull Leader.
After almost six months on Earth, the SDF-1 is ordered to leave by the UEDC and is refused to relocate the 70,000 survivors inside the ship.
The Battle in the North Ontario Quadrant. Miriya Parino is infiltrated by 2nd officer Kazianna Hesh as a spy aboard the SDF-1. She is in search of the one pilot (Max Sterling) that had bested her in combat and intends to kill him to restore her pride and honor as the Zentraedi's best fighter pilot. Ben Dixon is killed in the overload explosion of SDF-1's barrier system.
Breetai resumes command of the mission to retrieve Zor's battle fortress.
Small White Dragon is aired.
The three Zentraedi spies return to Breetai's ship.
The Minmei Cult has its beginnings aboard the flagship of the Zentraedi fleet.
Lynn-Kyle founds a peace movement aboard the SDF-1.
During an attack on the fortress, Rico, Bron, and Konda lead a group of defectors to the battle fortress.
Asylum is granted to the three Zentraedi spies and their defectors.
With Max's veritech escorts, Lisa Hayes returns to Earth to try to persuade the UEDC to have peace negotiations with the Zentraedi. Kyron becomes aware of the convoy and attacks. Rick Hunter comes to the rescue in the newly armored veritech prototype, never been tested in combat before.
Max Sterling and Miriya Parino battle it out at a video arcade game and then at the park.
Max and Miriya wed in space. First Human-Zendraedi mating.
Exedore arrives aboard the SDF-1 for peace talks.
The Zentraedi's main fleet appears in Earthspace and lays waste to much of the planet. Commander Breetai joins forces with the SDF-1. At Alaska Base, the Grand Cannon is fired at Dolza's fleet once, vaporizing perhaps a million ships. A retalitory attack by Dolza destroys Alaska base; Admiral Hayes is killed.
Rick Hunter falls into an early re-entry of Earth's atmosphere during the battle and rescue's Lisa Hayes from Alaska base where she was assigned to a new position by her father. Unknown to Rick and Lisa, T.R. Edwards sees them, but is left behind in the base; he swears for personal vengeance against them.
The severely damaged SDF-1 defeats Dolza's armada of four million ships with an assist from Lynn-Minmei's songs, and returns to the ravaged Earth.
Captain Gloval is promoted to the rank of admiral.
Lisa Hayes and Rick Hunter both are promoted to the rank of captain.
A period of reconstruction begins (2012-14), with Humans and Zentraedis working side-by-side.
The Robotech Masters lose confidence in their race of warrior clones and begin a mass pilgrimage through interstellar space in superluminal city-ships to Earth to recapture Zor's Protoculture matrix.
Captain Lisa Hayes is promoted to admiral.
The Robotech Factory Satellite is captured from Com- mander Reno by using baby Dana Sterling as a diversion and is then folded to Earth orbit.
Dr. Lang and Professor Lazlo Zand begin work on a secret project involving artificial intelligence. Zand takes a peculiar interest in Dana Sterling after undergoing a Protoculture mindboost.
Kyron's forces manage to steal a Protoculture Chamber, the device by which the Zentraedi can mironize themselves or resize to full stature.
Admiral Lisa Hayes is given the command of the newly built SDF-2 to go on a mission to Tirol.
The Destruction of New Macross, the SDF's 1 and 2, along with Khyron's cruiser; Henry Gloval, Claudia Grant, Sammie Porter, Vanessa Leeds, and Kim Young are among the casualties. The remains of the three ships are buried under tons of earthen debris dredged up from Lake Gloval.
End of the First Robotech War.
Captain Rick Hunter is promoted to the rank of admiral, and put in charge of ground forces.
Commander Max Sterling is given command of the famed Skull Squadron.
The Robotech Expeditionary Force is formed, for the express purpose of journeying to Tirol to make peace with the Robotech Masters. Aboard the Factory Satellite, construction begins on the SDF-3.
Rise of Monument City and Anatole Leonard's Army of the Southern Cross.
Lynn-Minmei takes on a partner, Janice Em, at Emil Lang's urging.
The Invid complete their conquest of Garuda, Praxis, Karbarra, and Spheris.
Privates Karen Penn and Jack Baker are chosen to be part of the Expeditionary Force.
Rick Hunter and Lisa Hayes are wed aboard the factory satellite with TV coverage by Sue Graham. Dana and Bowie are given over to the care of Rolf and Laura Emerson on Earth.
The SDF-3 is launched. Minmei and Janice are caught in the spacefold.
Rick turns 29; Lisa turns 34; Dana and Bowie, 7. Scott Bernard, Lang's godson from the recently completed Mars Base, 6.
The Robotech Elders, last of the Masters except for Cabell, leave Tirolspace.
The Robotech Expeditionary Force arrive in Fantomaspace and engages the Invid; the fortress's spacefold generators are damaged. (the REF is unaware that the fold has taken five Earth-years, and believe the date to be 2020.) T.R. Edwards and his Ghost Squadron capture the Living Computer, an organic, telepathic brain the Regent has left behind in Tiresia's Royal Hall.
Tiresians Cabell and Rem inform the Plenipotentiary Council that the Robotech Masters are on their way to Earth. They also reveal to Dr. Lang that spacefold generators require Fanotma's monopole ore.
Privates Karen Penn and Jack Baker are both promoted to lieutenant.
The Sentinels, comprised of Praxians, Garudans, Kar- barrans, Haydonites, Spherisians, and Perytonians, formed to liberate planets recently conquered and occupied by the Invid horde, arrive in Tirolspace on the ship Farrago requesting aid in their cause.
Tesla, Master Scientist to the Invid Regent, is a prisoner aboard the conglomerate ship Farrago. The Farrago is a superluminal starship by the Karbarran ore Sekiton, a peat similar to the Flowers of Life that works only by personal handling with Karbarran natives.
The Zentraedi contingent of the REF agree to be returned to full size (except for Exedore) to mine Fantoma for monopole ore to fuel a new fleet of warships. The last of the Protoculture Chambers, which mironize the Zentraedi, expires, leaving Exedore human-sized permanently. He does not mind.
The Hunters, Grants, Sterlings, and others join the Sentinels and leave Fantomaspace for Karbarra aboard the Farrago.
On Earth, Senator Wyatt Moran and the commanders of the Army of the Southern Cross consolidate their power and take control of the Supreme Council.
Zendradei left on Earth mysteriously die off, one by one.
Dana and Bowie grow up under the care of the Emersons.
T.R. Edwards holds secret talks with the Regent, and begins a personal campaign to possess Lynn-Minmei.
Telsa begins to follow the Regis' project in evolution, after discovering that mutated fruit from the Flowers of Life on the different planets will change his evolutionary genetic code.
An Invid simulagent in the guise of the Regent is sent to Tirol for "peace talks" and reveals to the REF that the Farrago has been destroyed. The Sentinels are presumed dead.
Wolff and Janice Em return to Tirol and are refused a rescue ship to Praxis to pick up the surviving Sentinels. The Invid Tesla murders the simulagent sent to Tirol by the Regent.
Wolff "steals" the prototype warship, the SDF-7, and arrives just in time to pick up the Sentinels before the destruction of Praxis. They continue on to Garuda. The SDF-7 operates superluminally with Sekiton drives.
T.R. Edwards begins to hold sway over the REF's Plenipotentiary Council. Wolff is accused of murder and piracy. Control of the Fantoma mining operations goes to Edwards.
Rick, Lisa, Rem and Karen are captured on Garuda and are interrogated and exposed to the planet's fatal atmosphere. Mistaken as Zor, Rem is taken to Optera for the Regent. Later, Rem is sent as a gift to the Regis on Haydon IV. With Garuda liberated, Rick, Lisa, and Karen are rescued and are rushed to Haydon IV for the only medication available in the known galaxy.
The Valivarre, under the command of Breetai, leaves Tirolspace (unauthorized) with the much needed monopole ore for the other fleet's warships. The SDF Escort-class warships Tokugawa and Jutland pursue. The Zentraedi have relearned how to repair, however, and a space battle ensues.
The prototype SDF-7 is christened the Ark Angel.
The Valivarre reaches Haydon IV and the Sentinels are updated on the situation on Tirol.
The Valivarre returns to Tirolspace escorted by the Escort-class cruisers Tokugawa and Jutland after the Sentinels' decision to continue their mission to Spheris instead of returning to Tirol to deal with the threat of Edwards to the Plenipotentiary Council. Edwards loses his grip on the council after troops sent out to hunt down the Zentraedi side with them instead. Wolff, Breetai, and Grant clear the Sentinels of all charges.
Max and Miriya remain behind on Haydon IV to help in the rebuilding of the planet.
Baldan II is "shaped" by Teal.
A new SDF-7 class warship under the command of Major Carpenter leaves Tirol for Earth and is presumed lost when the ship fails to report in to the SDF-3. (Unknown to Dr. Lang is an error in spacefold math- ematics which makes the ships lose five years in the spacefold.)
Edwards and his Ghost Riders flee Tirol on a hijacked SDF-7 class ship for Optera, taking Lynn- Minmei and the awakened Invid living computer from Tiresia with them. Lynn-Kyle is killed by Edwards during his attempt to save Minmei.
Spheris is liberated. Tesla leaves the Ark Angel for Optera to have it out with the Regent.
Aurora Sterling is born on Haydon IV.
Aurora sends a telepathic message to her sister Dana in warning of the spores from the Flowers of Life. (The warning is superluminal, not instanteous.)
The Tokugawa launches for Haydon IV under the command of General Grant. Exedore accompanies him with the council's peace proposal for the Regent.
Edwards arrives on Optera. Tesla is chased off.
Breetai and the Valivarre leave for Optera.
The Sentinels move against Peryton.
The Valivarre arrives at Optera and a battle breaks out between the Zentraedi and the Invid. Breetai and the Regent die together.
Tesla and Burak sacrifice themselves to end the curse of Peryton.
Edwards reveals to Rick and Lisa the personal vendetta he has on them.
Janice, in the guise of Minmei grabs Edwards, and both hurl in to the molten flames of the dying Genesis Pit. The home hive is destroyed and Minmei is rescued. Arla-non and Teal both die.
End of the Sentinels' War.
Optera slowly heals from the critical wounds the Invid have made on it during their wars.
Dr. Lang makes a series of shattering discoveries about the spacefold generators his teams have used in Carpenter and Wolff's ships.
Ark Angel begins a slow superluminal return to Tirol. The Tracialle returns the remaining Sentinels to their home planets.
Breetai's son, Drannin, is born to the Zentraedi Kazianna Hesh.
Roy Hunter is born in Tiresia. The REF and Karbarrans begin work on the main fleet ships.
Lang's Robotech teams develop an integrated system of body armor and reconfigurable cycles, known as Cyclones.
A new protoculture hand weapon is developed, the Mars Gallant H90 blaster.
The Robotech Masters arrive in Earthspace to retrieve Zor's Protoculture Matrix found in the SDF- 1 for the survival of their race and the Second Robotech War begins. The exhasted Robotech Factory Satellite is sent in an ellipical orbit to Pluto to keep it away from the Masters.
Dana Sterling is promoted to 2nd Lieutenant after ex-c.o. Sean Phillips was reduced to the rank of private after a run-in with a general's daughter.
Communications with Space Station Liberty, the only comline to the REF, has been cut.
Battle at Fokker Aerospace Base. Dana is promoted to 1st lieutenant after mobilizing the 15th (without authorization) and leaving their post to be a back up contingency to the forces already being defeated at the base. Dana has her first encounter with the red leader Bioroid.
Dana and Bowie sees Zor Prime (pilot of the Red Bioroid) for the first time at the site of the SDF-1. They are discovered and Bowie is captured. Dana leads an unauthorized rescue mission for Bowie disguised as a routine night patrol.
Louie Nichols of the 15th discovers a weakness in the Robotech city-ships and a mission is prepared. The Robotech Masters flagship is crippled and crashes near Monument city.
The Army of the Southern Cross converge on the fallen Robotech ship but all actions are harmless against the ship. Lieutenant Marie Crystal of the Tactical Armored Space Corp is wounded in battle and is rescued by Sean Phillips.
The 15th is ordered to enter the alien ship for a recon mission. The squad is separated and Bowie meets Musica. Dana and Louie discover that the inhabitants of the alien ships are not androids but clones. With the 15th together again, Dana captures a Bioroid which is examined with the utmost care by Professor Zand.
Another ship from the Robotech Masters' fleet descends to Earth and lifts its' fallen comrade back to orbit. Dana Sterling loses a GMP spy during the battle.
Major Carpenter's ships arrive at Earth and futilely tries to engage the Robotech Masters but are them- selves obliterated. Survivors are picked up by the 15th ATAC's.
Zor Prime is introduced to the 15th. Unknown to him and the 15th, he is used as a spy for the Masters.
Musica rejects her chosen mate Karno for Bowie Grant, whom she met during the crash on Earth.
The Invid Sensor Nebula comes within scanning range of the Robotech Masters's city-ships.
On Earth, Dana and Bowie go to the site of the old SDF-1 and witness the blossoming of the Flower of Life in the SDF-1's reflex engines. They see the First Matrix, but do not realize that it is decaying.
A second wave is prepared and General Emerson is to be the commanding officer of the mission giving a chance to the survivors of the first wave to return to Earth with their wounded.
Louie Nichols' Pupil Pinpointing System is integrated into the VT's weapons systems without his consent.
The ATAC's are ordered to break through the alien flag ship's defenses and attempt to destroy it from the inside. Zor, now under the power of the Robotech Masters, turns on the 15th and tries to capture the squad but the 15th scatters and separately explores the entire ship. Bowie finds Musica again and both fall in love. Eventually, the 15th is captured but are freed by Musica. Zor is taken to the Memory Management Lab to be reprogrammed. The 15th bursts in and interrupts the process during the reinstatement of his memory. Zor destroys the core of the ship's power causing the destruction of the ship and the 15th leaves the alien ship with their hovertanks with Musica. Somehow, Zor manages to escape unscathed. The Robotech Masters transfer to a different ship to continue their mission for the matrix.
General Emerson's flagship is destroyed and he, Lieutenant Crystal, and Lieutenant Dennis Brown are taken prisoner by the Robotech Masters.
Nova Satori of the Global Military Police orders the arrest and apprehension of the "alien" Musica for interrogation but is unable to find her; Bowie has taken her to the site of the SDF-1 to see the Flowers of Life. The 15th follows their trail, in turn Nova follows the 15th, and in turn again Zor follows Nova. Zor sees the Flowers of Life and his memory reawakens and he becomes the original Zor.
The Robotech Masters bargain with Emerson's party for Zor and Musica to be returned to the Masters.
The Masters flagship descends towards the site of the SDF-1, hoping to retrieve the Matrix before it mutates into the Flower of Life, then rendering the Matrix useless. The Flowers will also call to the Invid Senor Nebula, drawing the Invid to Earth in days.
All forces of the planet join at Monument City for a final battle against the Masters. In result, Monument City is leveled and there are no survivors. Commander Leonard and staff are also killed.
The Masters are killed by Zor and Dana - after touching the two leads of a Flowers of Life container from the Robotech Masters - has a vision of the coming of the Invid, telepathically communicated to her by her younger sister, Aurora.
The 15th, Marie, Dennis, and the remaining clone population of the Masters leave the doomed ship in transports and lands near the SDF-1 site.
Zor Prime's attempt at destroying the Masters' flagship results in the loosing of the Flowers of Life from the Protoculture Matrix concealed within the spacefold drives of the buried SDF-1; spores cover the planet and the Flower takes root, alerting the Regis's Sensor Nebula. The First Matrix dies.
General Emerson, Octavia (one of Musica's Triumverate sisters), Zor Prime, and Lazlo Zand die.
End of the Second Robotech War.
Max, Miriya, and Aurora Sterling arrive on Tirol from Haydon IV.
The Invid "disappear" from Tirol's corner of the galaxy. It is assumed that the Regis has begun her move against Earth.
Optera is fully seeded with the Flowers of Life and given over to the homeless Praxians, who rename the planet "New Praxis." The Flowers become the crop for a new Second Generation Protoculture matrix created by Rem, who has managed to tap his progenitor's--Zor's--memories. This Second-Generation Matrix is dissimilar to the First Matrix.
The Mars Veritech Group leaves Tirol with 18-year- old Scott Bernard aboard. Dr. Lang has been able to reduce the realtime in foldspace from 5 years to 2 years during the journey.
Jonathan Wolff's ship defolds in Solspace. An anti- Invid underground is established before the Regis arrives. Dana Sterling commandeers Wolff's ship after the fold drives are retrofitted with a device perfected by former 15th ATAC whiz-kid, Louie Nichols and folds to Tirolspace.
The Robotech Factory Satellite returns to Earth orbit from Pluto.
Lancer/Yellow Dancer and Rook Bartley are able to find and use prototype Cyclones from the underground resistance. Col. Wolff founds a city in the Western U.S.
Arrival of Dana Sterling on Tirol. With her are Bowie Grant, Sean Phillips, Angelo Dante, Musica and Allegra, and some of the Masters' clones.
Photojournalist Sue Graham develops an attachment to Admiral Rick Hunter, but Lisa Hayes-Hunter foils her.
Shadow Fighters and neutron "S" missiles are developed by the REF for the assault against Earth. Instantaneous spacefold becomes a reality for the new main-fleet ships.
Arrival and defeat of the Mars Attack Group sent by the REF.
Scott Bernard's fiancee, Marlene Rush, dies with the Mars Group flagship.
Scott Bernard crashlands on Earth in South America, but continues his mission: To reach the Regis's central hive complex, code named Reflex Point. It is located in what was once Kentucky in the U.S.
Upon crossing a desert on his Cyclone, he meets Rand, who has just discovered the fallen flagship from the Mars Group and was joy riding on a newly acquired Cyclone when Invid scouts appeared. Scott engages the scouts and destroys them easily with the Cyclone's configurable armor.
Scott and Rand approach Laacko City where they pick up Annie Labelle. The population of the city turns them over to the Invid Shock Troopers, but with the help of a mysterious red Cyclone rider, the Shock Troopers were dispatched. The red Cyclone rider disappears.
Scott and company enter a dust-ridden town and attends a club where they see and meet the famous singer Yellow Dancer. A brawl breaks out and Scott ends it quickly with a shot from his blaster. Here they meet the mysterious red Cyclone rider, Rook Bartley, formerly of a bike gang, the Blue Angels. Her, Lancer (a male Robotech freedom fighter in the guise of the female singer, Yellow Dancer), and William "Lunk" Benovitch (a former Robotech bio- maintenance engineer) join Scott on his journey to Reflex Point. Lunk provides Scott with a fully maintained and operational Alpha fighter.
Scott's team discover that the Invid can sense the presence of Protoculture emanations.
Scott's team makes a pit stop at Norristown, a pro- Invid city that is also an Invid Protoculture fortress. Using a Yellow Dancer concert as a diversion, the team makes away with a truckload of canisters of Protoculture--fuel for their Robotech mecha. Scott Bernard makes the observation that Invid Protoculture seems to be more powerful than Second-Generation Protoculture from Tirol.
One night, Rook returns to her home town to settle a dispute which has troubled her ever since she left. Unknowingly to her, Rand is curious and follows. She has a showdown with the leader of the Red Snakes who has harassed the town ever since her ex- boyfriend--Romy--had disbanded the Blue Angels.
The team approaches Roca Negra. Lunk tries to fulfill a promise to a friend by returning a book to his father, Alfred Nader, an intelligent man who spoke out against the Invid slavery, was killed by the townspeople in fear of him endangering the town.
The team encounters Colonel Wolff and his anti-Invid underground. For months, Wolff has been giving Robotech soldiers to the Invid in exchange for canisters of Protoculture and the possible release of his wife an son from imprisonment by the Invid. Realizing his grave mistake in his actions, Wolff, in Scott's VT, aids the team in a short skirmish with the Invid and is mortally wounded. Colonel Jonathan Wolff dies.
The Regis performs clonings in Genesis Pits (similar to those on Praxis) to acquire the ultimate form her Invid should take for their new life on Earth.
Scott, Rand, and Annie, while on a scouting mission, discover one of the Regis's Genesis Pits. The Regis observes them telepathically through Annie. During an earthquake, the Genesis Pit is destroyed with all the life forms evolved in it.
The simulagent Ariel (cloned from a female human body found in a wreckage of the Mars Division flagship) is birthed and is planted in the route Scott's team is heading.
The team approach Point K, a rendezvous for all surviving units of Scott's invasion force, consisting of close to a thousand veritechs, ground units, assault mecha, supplies, and ammunition. But instead of finding a base, they find a graveyard of ships. The Invid had already obliterated all forces at Point K. The team enters the area in search for ordinance but Scott goes in to seclusion. Rand and Rook scout the area and finds Ariel at a nearby town. Ariel, similar to a newborn child, has not learned to speak. Rand and Rook assumes her to be in shock. Lunk and Lancer discover two operational Alpha fighters and one intact Beta fighter among the wreckage. The group comes together to report their findings and Ariel is given the name Marlene by Scott for she is in the likeness of his deceased fiancee, Marlene Rush.
The team approaches a mountain range and is quickly warned by the nearby town, Deguello, that the ranges are constantly patrolled by the Invid fortress built there. A map of the secret routes to pass through the patrols were sold, but through Lancer's old time girlfriend, Carla, she reveals to him that the maps are fake and the citizens who buy and follow the map were going to their dooms.
To attack the fortress, the Protoculture sensor must be destroyed to prevent the detection of incoming Robotech mecha. Rand and Annie volunteer and find it is organic, a derivative of the Regent's Living Computers. Rand and Annie successfully explode the sensor and the fortress is destroyed nearly trapping Scott and his veritech inside before the explosion. Scott sees an Invid Protoculture Factory close-up.
The Regis loses contact with the simulagent Ariel in result of interacting with humans and their emotions. Ariel/Marlene had been unknowningly telepathically transmitting information on the team.
Rand, caught in a sandstorm, inhales pollen from some Flowers of Life and dreams of the real reason why the Regis is on Earth.
The team enters an Amazonian forest region once controlled by the Zentraedi during the Malcontent Uprisings. Micronian slaves were used then and the inhabitants now have been reduced to primitive levels. Lancer, mistaken as a woman, is kidnapped. The team rescues Lancer and rids the valley of Invid Shock Troopers. They make rafts to go down stream past an Invid hive but Annie stays behind as a jungle queen to Magruder, a young Tarzan.
The Regis transmutates two of her children into Prince Corg and Princess Sera, and designs a new kind of Invid body armor, called the Enforcer.
Scott's team enters an old abandoned city but are followed by the Invid. After taking refuge in an old subway, the Invid caves in the subway exits in hopes of burying the Robotech rebels. The team thinks about burnout. Upon escaping, Annie rejoins the team.
Prince Corg and Princess Sera are transmutated to human form and are ordered to go out and seek the simulagent Ariel for the cause of her disfunction. The Regis again creates new armor-craft, called the Retaliator, for humanoid Invid.
The team finds a few left over naval ships from the Second Robotech War to cross the Gulf of Mexico.
They set a trap for the Invid patrols and Rook is wounded in the battle.
The team takes a rest at a once beautiful beach resort. Lancer has a run in with the Invid Princess Sera and reports to Scott that the Invid are using human pilots for their mecha. Sera is disturbed by her first encounter with the human emotions in her created by Lancer.
Sera prepares an ambush for the rebels in a high mountain-pass near Baja California. Upon seeing Lancer's face, Sera hesitates a moment too soon to give the order to fire and the rebels escape. Sera encounters Ariel for the first time, and evokes racial memories in Ariel/Marlene.
Scott's team encounters one of the ships and its crew from Major Carpenter's defeated fleet from Tirol. The ship and crew boldly sacrifice them- selves in destroying an Invid hive. All crew are presumed dead.
The team enters the Rocky Mountains and finds the city of Denver (but really a secret underground shelter named Delta Six) buried beneath the ice. They resupply their team and explore the city. Scott and Marlene fall in love. While he searches for the rebels, Corg discovers them in the city and attacks. The team successfully escapes and self-destructs the power center in the city and buries the city once again. Corg encounters Ariel for the first time.
The team holds a surprise birthday party for Annie.
The team runs into Dusty Ayres, a human specimen the Invid captured to experiment on, replacing his entire right side with Protoculture-generated organs without the use of any anesthetics. His squadmates were unable to rescue him. He wages war on all Robotech soldiers and Scott rounds up a posse to hunt for him until the Invid attacks. With some encouragement from Rook, Dusty aids Scott in the battle and is killed by an Invid Enforcer.
The liberation of the city of Mannattan (formerly New York City). Sera encounters Ariel/Marlene again and asks her why she hasn't reported to the Regis. Ariel/Marlene is ignorant to the fact that she is an Invid.
A SDF-class starship is made by the Karbarrans for the Terrans to use as a command ship, similiar to the SDF-3. [Lisa Hayes decribes it as "boiler-like".]
The REF main-fleet ships (Saturn and Neptune Groups) are folded from Tirol to Earth under the command of General Reinhardt. He uses the Lunar bases to resupply his starships, and then attacks against Reflex Point in space and on ground. Scott's team join forces with the ground troops with the Shadow Fighters making up the main attack group in space.
Ariel/Marlene leads Scott and his team into the home hive to speak with the Regis.
Scott battles with Corg and is shot down. Rand is also shot down by Corg and wounded. Scott returns in the Beta fighter and kills Corg.
Upon seeing the REF defense lines crumbling, General Reinhardt orders the launch of the neutron "S" missiles. Upon seeing this threat, the Regis and her children take leave of the planet in the form of a phoenix of mindstuff, annihilating the remaining orbiting REF ships and its crews in the process.
The SDF-3 fails to appear in Solspace. Rick turns 40 (or 45 in chronological years); Lisa turns 45 (or 50); Roy turns 5.
Upon falling in love with Lancer, Sera remains behind on Earth. Marlene also remains behind.
End of the Third Robotech War.
During Yellow Dancer's final concert, Lancer reveals his true gender and identity.
Scott Bernard, in a salvaged Alpha-Beta fighter, leaves his past, his friends, and the Earth behind to return to Tirol to begin a search for the missing or lost SDF-3 battle fortress.
The Ark Angel has been spared the fate of the rest of the main-fleet ships and positions itself in orbit above the recovering Southlands. They meet up with Scott and he informs the Plenipotentiary Council on Tirol the results of the Third Robotech War and the SDF-3's failure to arrive.
Scott Bernard is promoted to the rank of colonel.
Various Protoculture-based Robotech mecha ceases to function all over the quadrant. Transportation is reverted back to chemical resources, museum aircraft are put into use.
Scott Bernard and Vince and Jean Grant commence a search for the missing fortress aboard the Ark Angel, which is the only functional starship because of its Sekiton fold-drives.
On Haydon IV, Veidt and Exedore are present at the reawakening of the planet's Awareness. Max and his family are also on-planet. Cabell is on Tirol.
The great god Haydon awakens in Haydon IV. Haydon IV leaves its planetary orbit, all inhabitants are forced into below-surfaced chambers and are guarded by Haydonites. The long awaited "Event" (a cosmic event that has altered the fabric of spacetime) has commenced; its beginning programs the planets' AI Awareness to action decreed by Haydron eons ago. Exedore and Veidt discover that somehow the universe has started to collapse.
The Karbarran fleet's command ship N'trpriz, attempting to rescue those imprisoned below the surface of Haydon IV, is obliterated by its own self-destruct sequence armed by the planet's Awareness.
Haydon IV executes a hyperspace fold to the Ranaath system, a black hole system and the receiving end of the energy pulse that accompanied the Invid departure.
Work on the SDF-4 nears completion for the mission
to the Andromeda Galaxy to see if the Intersection had had any affect in
that quadrant. The starship will be commanded by none other than Admiral
Lisa Hayes-Hunter. Mrs. Haynes-Hunter has recently finished her book, _Recollections_.
Newspace Haydon finds fulfillment as God in his universe. He spends his
time creating worlds and galaxies.
Two bubbles from the old universe alone exist. One is the prison for the
Robotech Elders, once again depleted of their Protoculture. The other,
foliated by the Flowers of Life, their Pollinators, and where the SDF-3
fold drives lies, is inhabited by two humans, Rem and Minmei, awaiting
the birth of their first child, and observed by the Awareness/Matrix. Minmei
plans to populate the mircoworld with her and Rem's children. Her first
child, because of Minmei's genetics, will be
closer to the orginal Zor than Rem is.
