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A large alien spacecraft bursts through hyperspace and enters Earth’s atmosphere, crashing on Macross Island in the South Pacific.

The nations of the world, who are engaged in a global war at the time, call a cease-fire to assess the alien threat.

Official investigation of the derelict alien spacecraft begins. The crash site on Macross Island is designated a UN sphere of jurisdiction.The global war officially ends, though the terms are not satisfactory to all parties.

According to the first top secret report of the study of the alien spacecraft, it is discovered that the ship is military in nature, and its crew are on average, six times the size of human beings, with exceptional individuals exceeding fifty feet in height.

Terrified by the all too real prospect of invasion from deep space, a campaign is initiated to unite the Earth under one unified government.

A large alien spacecraft bursts through hyperspace and enters Earth’s atmosphere, crashing on Macross Island in the South Pacific.

The nations of the world, who are engaged in a global war at the time, call a cease-fire to assess the alien threat.

The construction of the Super Dimension Fortress-1 (SDF-1) is formally announced to the world, though the true nature of its underlying alien technology is kept “top secret”.

Framing plan for a united Earth government is officially proclaimed.

Construction of the first permanent base on Mars, named “Sara”, begins.

Civilians begin to emigrate to Macross Island, to work on the SDF-1 project.

“Project Excalibur”, the first attempt at developing a Robotechnology-based weapons system is begun. Designed for ground combat, this project eventually leads to the development of the Destroid mecha.

“Project Valkyrie”, a proposal for the development of a variable configuration, all-purpose Robotech combat system is introduced.

Construction of the first Earth Defense Command Center begins in secret in a remote area of Alaska.

Construction of ARMD (“Armor”) series of space carriers begins in low Earth orbit.

United Nations of Earth government is officially established.

Intensive flight tests of the VF-X-1 are conducted by ace test pilot Lieutenant Roy Fokker.

The MBR-04 Destroid Tomahawk, the first successful combat-ready mecha resulting from “Project Excalibur”, enters service.

Variants of the basic chassis of this Destroid are also developed, resulting in the Destroids “Defender” and “Phalanx”.

Mass production of the Veritech VF-1 series begins.

VF-1 series begins operational deployment.

Usage is limited to fighter-mode configuration only in order to maintain absolute secrecy surrounding the true mission capabilities of the Veritech.

Official launch ceremonies celebrating the maiden voyage of the SDF-1 begin on Macross Island.

A Zentraedi fleet, led by Commander Breetai, arrives near lunar orbit.

The main guns of the SDF-1 automatically fire and destroy two approaching Zentraedi scout ships.

A malfunction of the ship’s fold system results in a hyperspace jump, taking the SDF-1 and Macross Island to the orbit of the planet Pluto instead of its intended target near the moon. Malfunction also results in the complete disappearance of the fold system.

First Robotech War begins.

Recovery of civilians from the safety of the Macross Island shelters is successfully completed. Supplies and resources, along with much of Macross City, are also transferred inside the SDF-1.

The Prometheus and Daedalus are attached to the SDF-1 as mecha carriers and begin to conduct flight operations.

Reconstruction of Macross City inside the SDF-1 commences.

The main guns of the SDF-1 are found to be useless after the power conduits between the generators and guns were lost when the fold drive vanished.

A modular transformation of the ship is initiated, allowing for the SDF-1 to fire its main guns, resulting in the destruction of an attacking Zentraedi force.

The SDF-1 engages a Zentraedi force in the Battle of Saturn’s Rings.

The “Pinpoint Barrier System” and the “Daedalus Attack” are employed for the first time.

While attempting to collect supplies from the abandoned Mars Base Sara, the SDF-1 is rendered immobile by a Zentraedi gravity mine trap. Khyron’s forces launch a vicious attack, but the SDF-1 is able to escape when the reflex furnaces of the base are detonated, destroying the gravity mines.

Lynn Minmei is crowned “Miss Macross”.

On a routine patrol, 3rd Lieutenant Rick Hunter takes a prototype Armored Veritech into combat and destroys a small Zentraedi Cyclops reconnaissance scout ship which was monitoring the Miss Macross Pageant broadcast.

Despite the loss of the intercepted transmissions, the Zentraedi scouts report their findings back to their commander, Breetai.

While the SDF-1 hides in the asteroid belt, a Zentraedi ship under command of Khyron fires on the SDF-1’s command tower, destroying its long range radar.

SDF-1 Operations Officer, Lieutenant Commander Lisa Hayes and the Vermillion Group (Flight Leader - 2nd Lieutenant Rick Hunter and Corporals Max Sterling and Ben Dixon) are captured by the Zentraedi while on a reconnaissance mission.

The human prisoners are taken back to the headquarters of the Zentraedi Main Fleet, where they are interrogated by Dolza, the Supreme Commander of all the Zentraedi.

During their captivity, the human prisoners manage to escape. Following his failure to recapture the fugitive humans, Breetai is relieved of his command, and his replacement, Commander Azonia, is put in charge of recapturing the SDF-1.

Upon her arrival in the solar system, Azonia leads an attack on the SDF-1 as a decoy while sending her top ace pilot Miriya Parino to insert micronized Zentraedi spies into the SDF-1 undetected.

The escaped prisoners manage to pilot a stolen Zentraedi battlepod into space when the SDF-1 comes under attack. They are soon rescued by Commander Roy Fokker and the Skull Squadron.

The SDF-1 punches through the Zentraedi blockade and returns to Earth, landing in the Pacific Ocean.

Captain Gloval and Lieutenant Commander Hayes fly to the Earth Defense Command Center in Alaska, and petition to have their civilian passengers to be allowed off the ship. The request is flatly rejected.

Against Commander Azonia’s orders, Khyron launches unauthorized attack on the SDF-1, which is successfully repelled using the Daedalus Attack.

During the battle, 2nd Lieutenant Rick Hunter is injured by inadvertent friendly fire.

Zentraedi ace pilot, Miriya Parino, launches her first direct attack on the SDF-1. She meets defeat at the hands of Veritech ace pilot, 3rd Lieutenant Max Sterling, but escapes, vowing revenge.

Commander Roy Fokker, leader of the Veritech fighter squadrons aboard the SDF-1, dies as a result of wounds sustained in battle.

Rick Hunter is promoted to 1st Lieutenant and returns to duty as pilot of Roy Fokker’s veritech fighter and the new Leader of Skull Squadron.

Desperate to force the united Earth government to allow him to resettle the civilians aboard the SDF-1, Captain Gloval begins low flights over North American cities, while broadcasting his demands over uncoded frequencies.

The city of Toronto, in the Ontario Quadrant, agrees to receive the citizens of Macross City.

During an attack by Zentraedi warships on the SDF-1, the ship’s omni-directional barrier defense system overloads, causing complete destruction within a twenty-five mile radius.

Permission to resettle the refugees is immediately withdrawn by Ontario Quadrant.

Commander Breetai arrives back at Earth to recapture the SDF-1 with command of the one million warships of the Imperial Class fleet.

Commander Azonia is relieved of her command.

Zentraedi spies return to Breetai’s fleet. Human culture soon begins to contaminate the Zentraedi.

The SDF-1 leaves Earth’s atmosphere under orders to sortie away from the planet.

“Small White Dragon”, the first movie produced in space, premieres on board the SDF-1.

The Grand Cannon is completed at the Alaska Base Earth Defense Command Center.

Determining the micronian humans to be a significant threat, Zentraedi Supreme Commander Dolza begins to formulate a multi-stage plan to deal with and eventually destroy the micronians.

The Zentraedi launch a major assault against the SDF-1, taking advantage of the Daedalus attack to infiltrate the ship. Macross City is badly damaged in the fighting.

During the battle, numerous Zentraedi soldiers, enamored by the culture of the micronian humans, take this opportunity to defect to the SDF-1.

Upon examination of the Zentraedi defectors, it is found that they are genetically indistinguishable from humans.

Captain Gloval and his staff, armed with this new evidence, attempt to convince Earth’s leaders to pursue negotiations with the Zentraedi.

In an attempt to exact revenge for being humiliated in battle, Zentraedi ace Miriya Parino attempts to murder her rival, human ace pilot Max Sterling. Miriya’s quest for vengeance awakens emotions deep inside her that exist within all Zentraedi. These emotions lead her to fall in love with Max and their historic wedding is broadcast to the citizens aboard the SDF-1 and to the nearby Zentraedi fleet.

Alerted to the wedding, and to the recent defections of the Zentraedi to the SDF-1, Dolza orders his fleet commanders to assemble in order to deal with the “micronian threat” once and for all. Breetai is immediately ordered to destroy the SDF-1. However, due to their exposure to human culture, many Zentraedi refuse to fight. Faced with the threat of mutiny, Breetai orders a withdrawal and unilateral cease-fire. Soon after, Breetai sends Exedore, the Zentraedi Minister of Affairs, as an emissary to the SDF-1 to conduct negotiations.

Despite Breetai’s attempts to pursue negotiations, Dolza has mobilized the Main Fleet in order to destroy Earth and its human population, before they further contaminate the Zentraedi. Faced with their own destruction, Breetai and Azonia decide to join forces with the humans aboard the SDF-1. Concerned with saving his own life, Khyron refuses to join the fight against Dolza and the Zentraedi Main Fleet.

Dolza and the Main Fleet of over four million Zentraedi warships arrive in Earth orbit. Simultaneously, the fleet begins their devastating attack resulting in the destruction of over 70% of the planet’s surface.

Despite heavy damage, the Grand Cannon manages to fire, the resulting directed energy blast results in the destruction of a significant portion of the Main Zentraedi Fleet, clearing a path for the SDF-1 and its allies to launch their counterattack against Dolza. Using the Omni-Directional Barrier, along with the singing of Lynn Minmei to disrupt Zentraedi communications, the SDF-1 succeeds in destroying Dolza’s flagship along with most of the enemy Zentraedi fleet. The victorious SDF-1 returns to Earth, marking the end of the First Robotech War.

The United Earth government is reestablished.

Reconstruction efforts formally begin, including the forced assimilation of the remaining Zentraedi population.

Dana Sterling, the first child of a human and Zentraedi pairing, is born to Max and Miriya Sterling.

Rioting by Zentraedi the world over begins. Patrols begin for the sake of maintaining law and order.

Admiral Henry Gloval, now Supreme Commander of all Earth Forces, orders the forced relocation of the Zentraedi to where they can be monitored more closely.

The Robotech Masters conclude that Dolza’s Zentraedi fleet has been lost and prepare to depart for Earth to try to retrieve the protoculture factory for themselves.

Further genetic studies by human scientists support the hypothesis of a common origin between humans and the Zentraedi

Zentraedi Lord Khyron, hiding out in his wrecked vessel in the arctic, becomes aware of Zentraedi dissatisfaction, and sets about to gather all refugee Zentraedi willing to fight.

A combined Earth-Zentraedi force succeeds in capturing an immense Robotech Factory and transports the facility back to Earth.

Rebel Zentraedi forces, led by Lord Khyron, capture a protoculture sizing chamber and begin macronization of Zentraedi disillusioned with life on Earth. Khyron’s ranks swell and armed resistance by the Zentraedi breaks out all over the world.

In a daring attack on New Macross City, Khyron’s forces capture a protoculture storage matrix and escape to their base in South America.

Battle of New Macross City - Zentraedi rebel Lord Khyron is killed in a suicide attack, successfully destroying both the SDF-1 and newly completed SDF-2.

A large alien spacecraft bursts through hyperspace and enters Earth’s atmosphere, crashing on Macross Island in the South Pacific.

The nations of the world, who are engaged in a global war at the time, call a cease-fire to assess the alien threat.

A large alien spacecraft bursts through hyperspace and enters Earth’s atmosphere, crashing on Macross Island in the South Pacific.

The nations of the world, who are engaged in a global war at the time, call a cease-fire to assess the alien threat.

The Robotech Expeditionary Force launches its first large scale assault on Reflex Point. The attack fails miserably, resulting in heavy losses for the REF 10th Mars Division.

Lieutenant Lance Belmont (aka. “Lancer”) of the 10th Mars Division crashes to Earth and is rescued from Invid collaborators by Carla Morales, who nurses him back to health.

Lancer joins the shattered resistance in the Americas. Travelling under the guise of a female singer, “Yellow Dancer,” Lancer travels as a covert courier for the much-weakened resistance network, gathering vital intelligence and information along his travels. Yellow Dancer’s music becomes an instant hit, with the promise of hope, and slightly subversive message of resistance. Yellow Dancer’s recordings spread throughout the Americas.

The 21st Mars Division arrives at Earth as part of the second Earth Reclamation Force. The fleet is intercepted before its troops can begin their atmospheric insertion, and is quickly destroyed by the Invid.

Lieutenant Commander Scott Bernard survives and crash lands in South America and begins his quest to reach the Invid “Reflex Point”, forming a potent resistance group along the way.

Geological disturbances destroy an Invid Genesis Pit in South America, just as the Regess decides on the human form as the model for the pending transmutation of her race.

Invid assemble a massive force to attack and destroy Point K, as well as the near-by towns that had kept it supplied with food and other goods.

Invid simulagent, Ariel, is transmutated and inserted near the ruins of Point K. Her deployment is a failure, as she loses her memory upon landing and attempts for the Regess to communicate with her are unsuccessful.

Ariel is discovered by Lt Cmdr Scott Bernard’s group and is taken along with them as an amnesia victim.

Invid Princess Sera and Prince Corg are transmutated, and are assigned to track down and destroy resistance groups.

A crippled destroyer from the Expeditionary Forces, with an aging crew, destroys a key Invid broadcast tower in the American West in a suicide run.

A crippled destroyer from the Expeditionary Forces, with an aging crew, destroys a key Invid broadcast tower in the American West in a suicide run.

Corg begins a genocidal rampage in New York City against Sera’s direct order. Resistance fighters in town to raid the protoculture warehouse located in Carnegie Hall destroy the local Invid hive, and the attack is suspended.

Large numbers of ground troops from the fleet and the resistance forces assemble near Reflex Point for a major assault.

The main fleet of the Robotech Expeditionary Force returns to Earth. The fleet assembles at ALuCE, at the edge of the far side of the moon, and awaits the arrival of the flagship, the SDF-3, which fails to defold with main group. The SDF-4 takes command in Admiral Hunter’s absence.

The Robotech Expeditionary Force launches its final mission to reclaim the Earth from the Invid. Suffering heavy losses, a surgical strike comprised of stealthy Shadow fighters and drones are dispatched to Reflex Point.

Lieutenant Commander Scott Bernard and his group of resistance fighters is granted an audience before the Invid Regess at the initiative of Ariel. When it becomes apparent to the Regess that the continuation of battle would lead to the mutual destruction of both races, she makes preparations to leave to an undisclosed location.

Invid Prince Corg is killed in battle by Lieutenant Commander Scott Bernard.

Fearing that this final Earth Reclamation Mission might end in failure, the SDF-4 orders the use of the Neutron-S warheads to kill all life on Earth’s surface. The resistance and the Invid join forces to counteract the Expeditionary Force’s assault on Reflex Point to give the Regess time to depart.

The Invid leave at the command of the Regess. During their departure, the Neutron-S warheads and much of the Expeditionary Force’s fleet is also destroyed.

A concert is held near the ruins of Reflex Point to celebrate the end of the Third Robotech War. Lancer reveals his identity to a shocked crowd.

Lieutenant Commander Scott Bernard leaves Earth to join the remainder of the Expeditionary Forces at ALuCE.

Operation is begun to locate the missing SDF-3 and Admiral Hunter.