Section III: "Robotech Spinoffs and Sequels"

3.1: ROBOTECH THE SENTINELS

Source:
Robotech FAQ 0.99
Dec 30th, 1999

3.2: THE McKINNEY BOOKS

Source:
Robotech FAQ 0.99
Dec 30th, 1999

The Macross Saga aka First Generation:

#1 Genesis

As the Global Civil War was about to wipe out Humankind, a dying alien genius dispatched the abandoned Super Dimensional Fortress to Earth - and put Humanity's future in the hands of a corps of untried, resolute young men and women: the Robotech Defense Force. Then the most feared conquerors in the universe attacked, and the real war began...

#2 Battle Cry

Henry Gloval, Human captain of the alien spacecraft called the Super Dimensional Fortress, was a practical man - he only asked himself once or twice a day how in the world he had ended up in commend of the stupendously powerful SDF-1. After all, he had more important things on his mind - for now the Zentraedi had come to claim the alien space fortress as their own...

#3 Homecoming

For more than a year, the Humans aboard the SDF-1 had fought and eluded an endless armada of Zentraedi warships. Now the space fortress would have to battle her way back to Earth. But villains came in human form as well as alien - and the treachery of power-hungry men might be the most lethal threat of all...

*** These first three books have also been recently published as a '3-in-1' volume. ISBN: 0-345-38900-X ***

#4 Battlehymn

For two years, the SDF-1 had been chased through the Solar system by a race of giant alien warriors, only to be made to feel like unwanted relatives when they finally returned to planet Earth. But after three months of inactivity, the SDF-1's Captain Gloval took matters into his own hands. In direct violation of Council dictates, he ordered the SDF-1 airborne. After all, the fate of the Earth was at stake...

#5 Force of Arms

The giant Zentraedi had given up their efforts to capture the SDF-1 intact. Now they wished only to destroy it - along with its Human crew, the whole Human race and its homeworld, and those aliens who had defected to the Terran side. Supreme Commander Dolza mobilized the largest fleet of Zentraedi warships the universe had ever seen... and all their weapons were aimed at Earth.

#6 Doomsday

It was a war without victors - one that had brought two species to the brink of extinction. And it was a war without spoils, save for the devastated Earth itself. After the final battle, Humans began the painstaking process or reconstruction. The Zentraedi would help them - for the two former enemies new shared a common goal: survival. But all was not well in this bravest of new worlds... for one Zentraedi had vowed to lead his race back to their former glory - at any cost.

*** Del Rey has collected books 4-6 into one '3-in-1' volume as with 1-3. ISBN: 0-345-39145-4 ***

Southern Cross aka The Robotech Masters aka Second Generation:

#7 Southern Cross

Twenty years after the First Robotech War, the Robotech Masters came to Earth to finish the conquest their Zentraedi warrior-slaves had begun... and a battle-ravaged Earth had to defend itself once more. And young Dana Sterling, half-Human, half-Zentraedi commander of an elite Hovertank unit, stepped into the spotlight of interstellar history!

#8 Metal Fire

An alien fortress had crashlanded on Earth - brought down deliberately in the struggle between the Robotech Masters and Earth's Human inhabitants. Now the fortress sat silently overlooking Monument City, daring someone to penetrate its dark mysteries. And who better to brave the ship than Dana Sterling's 15th Squadron ATACs - after all, they had brought the thing down to begin with!

#9 The Final Nightmare

The war for Earth had become even more desperate: the Robotech Masters' Protoculture Matrix was degenerating, transforming into the Flower of Life, which was sure to draw the savage, merciless Invid across the galaxy. But the Army of the Southern Cross vowed to wage war for Earth to the bitter end. And Dana Sterling, half-alien commander of an elite Hovertank unit, waged a desperate war of her own to uncover the meaning of her strange visions and the secret of the alien heritage...

*** Del Rey has collected books 7-9 into one '3-in-1' volume as with 1-3. ISBN: 0-345-39184-5 ***

The New Generation aka The Invid aka Third Generation:

#10 Invid Invasion

The Invid Regis had succeeded where the Robotech Masters had failed - her warrior horde had gained control of Protoculture and laid claim to Earth. It was up to the space-weary Human veterans of the Expeditionary Force to retake the planet - a world most of them had never seen. And the counterinvasion would be more difficult than anyone could imagine...

#11 Metamorphosis

There had never been a less conventional band of champions: a downed pilot who was a stranger on his own homeworld... a former biker hellion... a young forager obsessed with the vanishing heritage of Humanity's lore... a lethal Robotech warrior... an irrepressible adolescent convinced that the world owes her a Great Romance... and a cloned enemy Simulagent who couldn't recall who she was. And somewhere ahead of them lay Reflex Point, nerve center and stronghold of the Invid conquerors - and the destination of the group that was Earth's last hope.

#12 Symphony of Light

It had been a long, hard road for the ragtag band of Robotech irregulars, but Reflex Point was finally close at hand, and preparations were underway for a full-scale assault on the Invid stronghold. But the Invid Regis would not surrender so easily the world she had come halfway across the galaxy to claim. And no one had thought to ask whether Protoculture might have something to say in these matters. But indeed it did, and the final encounter of the Robotech Wars would be more mystifying than anyone had imagined...

The Sentinels:

#1 aka #13 The Devil's Hand

It was 2020, and the Super Dimensional Fortresses 1 and 2 had long been destroyed. But Earth was now on the mend, and the Robotech Defense Force had fashioned a new battle fortress: the SDF-3, tasked with a trip across the galaxy to make peace with Triol's Robotech Masters. But unknown to Admirals Rick and Lisa Hunter and the SDF-3's crew of thousands, the Robotech Masters were already on their way to Earth. And at Tirol, the SDF-3 would face the galaxy's fiercest warlord: the Invid Regent!

#2 aka #14 Dark Powers

Stranded on the far side of the galaxy after battling the Invid hordes, the Robotech Expeditionary Force's chances for survival are slim. But suddenly, a starship unlike any other appeared - manned by an incredible assortment of beings determined to challenge the Invid Regent himself! REF volunteers signed on, their mighty war mecha in tow, for a campaign that would mean their total destruction - or liberty for the planets of the Sentinels!

#3 aka #15 Death Dance

Four months had passed without a word from the Sentinels, and the members of the Expeditionary mission to Tirol feared the worst - even as they began truce negotiations with the Invid Regent himself. Far away, the surviving Sentinels were hopelessly stranded on Praxis, a planet in cataclysm, at the mercy of the Invid Regis. But deep within that world's core were answers to the Sentinels' prayers - if they could only reach them before Praxis tore itself apart.

*** Del Rey has collected books 13-15 into one '3-in-1' volume as with 1-3. ISBN: 0-345-38901-8 ***

#4 aka #16 World Killers

The bearlike Kabarrans and the swashbuckling amazons from Praxis, the feral natives of Garuda and the Human Robotech heroes - these oddly match champions banded together with yet other species to form the valiant Sentinels. But no fighting force could hope to dislodge the Invid hordes from Haydon IV, ethereal world of superscience, or Spheris, crystalline globe of living minerals and murderous resonances. Nevertheless, the Sentinels launched their attack...

#5 aka #17 Rubicon

Optera - birthplace of the Flower of Life and its agents of retribution, the Invid - was to be the site of the final confrontation between the Sentinels and Edwards and his Invid allies. Edwards, with Lynn-Minmei prisoner and a handful of Invid Inorganics under his control, had fled Tirol for the distant planet. Breetai's Zentraedi were headed there as well - and so were the renegade forces of Tesla, mutated by the fruits of the Flower. The Sentinels themselves were not far behind... and it was a battle the Sentinels had to win!

The conclusion to the series:

#18 The End of the Circle

The SDF-3 manifested from spacefold, but no one aboard had the slightest idea where they were - the ship appeared to be grounded in some glowing fog, ensnared by the light itself. And the ship's Protoculture drives had disappeared. Meanwhile, in Earthspace, the Ark Angel had been spared the destructive fate of the REF main fleet, and a mission set out to locate the SDF-3. Elsewhere, mysterious events were being set into motion, and the ultimate conflict was imminent...

Additional side-stories:

#19 The Zentraedi Rebellion

Not every Human was eager to share the planet Earth with the Zentraedi survivors of the First Robotech War, and there was little prospect of a lasting peace. The tensions in the Southlands had given rise to two opposing groups: the Army of the Southern Cross, and a loosely organized brigade of Zentraedi insurgents, driven by the Imperative to continue the fight - until one race or the other was eradicated. Caught between those rivals was the Robotech Defense Force, which would play a crucial role in what would be called the Malcontent Uprisings...

#20 The Masters' Gambit

The Robotech Masters had come to Earth, to reclaim the precious Protoculture Matrix. But poised on the edge of Earthspace, the Masters discovered their mission would not be easy. For Earth's Robotech defenders had vanquished the Masters' clone army, and the Super Dimesional Fortress that concealed the Matrix lay inaccessible beneath the ruins of Macross City.

#21 Before the Invid Storm

The Second Robotech war ended without victors. The Masters have been defeated, but the Army of the Southern Cross had suffered devastating losses, with Earth's cities reduced to rubble. A heavily armed warship arrived from Tirol nad instantly became the object of intense rivalries. To he survivors of the UEG, it was a spear they could hurl into the Invid Sensor Nebula. To the decimated Southern Cross dorces, it was the weapon they needed to use against the impending Invid invasion.

3.3: THE COMIC BOOKS

Source:
Robotech FAQ 0.99
Dec 30th, 1999

• Macross: 36
• Masters: 25
• New Generation: 25

Comic book adaptation of the Robotech episodes.

• Penciling by Neil Vokes
• Inking by Ken Steacy
• Coloring by Tom Vincent

Gloval, Edwards and Fokker explore the newly-crashed Battlefortress in 1999

• Book One: 16
• Wedding Special: 2
• Illustrated Handbook: 3
• Book Two: 21
• Book Three: 8

The REF departs to Tirol to confront the Robotech Masters, but find Invid there instead. With the aid of the Sentinels, aliens formerly in the Masters' empire now under the Invid yoke, a group of REF soldiers set off to defeat the Invid. A retelling of McKinney's novelization of the never-completed TV series.

In separate adventures, Max Sterling and Johnathan Wolff, and Miriya Sterling discover a plot by Zentraedi malcontents to avenge themselves on humanity for atrocities committed against them by mankind, and work to prevent it. This series is set a number of years after the destruction of the SDF-1.

Zor sets off from Tirol and discovers the Flower of Life. The Robotech Masters seize power on Tirol, and order the defoliation of Optera by the Zentraedi. The story ends with Zor sending his Battlefortress to Earth.

A couple of years after the departure of the SDF-3, the Southern Cross testing its new Alphas. But something goes wrong; an outside force is taking the planes over.

During the years before the arrival of the Zentraedi, an assassin stalks the SDF-1, and a rogue submarine from the Global Civil War tries to capture Fokker and Edwards and hold the RDF hostage. Meanwhile, Breetai and Khyron are sent on a mission to investigate an alien ship, as they look for Zor's missing battlefortress.

The first twelve issues detail the early days of the Invid occupation of Earth, centering around Nova Satori, Johnathan Wolff, Lancer, and John Carpenter, especially Satori's systematic attempt to expand her personal powerbase on Earth, and preparations on Moon Base to assist Earth. The later six chapters detail adventures of Scott Bernard and his band between episodes of the TV show, up to the departure of Scott in search for the SDF-3.

In the years after the departure of the Invid, Lancer, Sera, Annie, Rand and Lunk build an oasis among the devastation, called Bellmont. Eventually, Nova Satori, with the assistance of Scott Bernard and Rook Bartley, takes over the city and establishes herself as tyrant. Meanwhile, a starving army of Zentraedi is closing on the city, with the firm intention that their demands will be met.

3.4: THE MOVIES