In series 2 of Robotech, The Robotech Masters the heroes of the story are part of the Armies of the Southern Cross.

* Second Robotech War, Robotech Masters attack Earth.

* Tirol — The homeworld of the Robotech Masters in the anime Robotech.

* Tirol ( fictional planet ), the homeworld of the Robotech Masters in the anime series Robotech

The Zentraedi were a race of clones, created by the Robotech Masters.

To ensure total control over them, the Robotech Masters limited their psychological and cultural development so that their entire population would believe that they existed only to wage war.

In 2009, Dolza, the Supreme Commander of all Zentraedi forces in the galaxy, is ordered by the Robotech Masters to find and recover the lost spaceship that had crashed on Earth in 1999.

Most of the remaining Zentraedi join their commander and the humans in a subsequent operation against the last remaining Robotech Factory Satellite, an automated production center built by the Robotech Masters to supply their giant warriors with mecha at the height of their expansion.

In 2022, all of the remaining Zentraedi on Earth join the Robotech Expeditionary Force ( REF ) on a mission into deep space to find the Robotech Masters and prevent another war on Earth.

Dana would play an important role in the Second Robotech War when the Robotech Masters arrive in Earth orbit in 2029.

Her skills as a pilot and tactician are critical to the eventually defeat of the Robotech Masters by the Southern Cross human forces, although the human victory is a pyrrhic one.

After the events of The Macross Saga the Robotech Expeditionary Force is formed and leaves Earth to hunt for the Robotech Masters ; returning during the 2030s and 2040s to battle the Invid.

The REF departs Earth in a quest for the Robotech Masters ' homeworld of Tirol in 2022 ( in the rebooted timeline ).

However, instead of facing the Robotech Masters, they become involved in a long-running battle with both a faction of the Invid led by a male leader known as the Regent, who leads half of the Invid Race.

In 2029, the Second Robotech War began when the Robotech Masters and their entire spacefleet arrive in Earth orbit to reclaim the protoculture matrix in the ruins of the SDF-1.

Prior to the release of the TV series, the name Robotech was used by model kit manufacturer Revell on their Robotech Defenders line in the mid-1980s.

The 1985 series Robotech is most often credited as the catalyst for the Western interest in anime.

* Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, a 1984 anime series from Japan brought to the USA as part of Robotech

* Rook Bartley of the anime series Genesis Climber Mospeada and Robotech

* Maia Sterling, a character from the Robotech anime series

Similar themes can be seen in the Japanese anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its Robotech American adaptation.

The most notable work were the television series like Astroboy and Speed Racer in the 1960s, Battle of The Planets and Star Blazers in the 1970s and Voltron and Robotech in the 1980s.

As a rule, the imported series were heavily censored to make them acceptable to children ; Star Blazers and Robotech were partial exceptions.

Although their impact on the art in North America was minimal for decades, the distinctive nature of the anime series created a cult following that grew gradually until the 1980s when Star Blazers and Robotech, with their complex storylines and frank depiction of violence, helped create the groundswell that would lead to the major influx of anime popularity starting in the 1990s.

* The Robotech Expeditionary Force will defeat the Invid at Reflex Point, marking the end of the Third Robotech War ( Robotech animation series ).

* VF-8 Logan, fictional fighter craft from the animated television series, Robotech

These programming choices were supplemented by a few 1980s animated series shown in the mornings such as Robotech, Bionic Six and G-Force, although they were dropped as the channel's line-up became more independent of the original US channel.

The reason for changing is unknown, but the naming convention is the same as the Macross series and there might be a conflict in getting an America copyright even though the Gundam series aired before the Macross series in Japan but later than the Macross series ( known as Robotech ) in America.

The founders of Streamline were Carl Macek, who had worked for Harmony Gold USA during the mid 1980s, most notably on the series Robotech, and Jerry Beck, an animation historian and film distribution veteran who had worked at MGM / UA, Orion and Expanded Entertainment.

The Robotech Defense Force ( RDF ), led now by Admiral Gloval, established itself as the planet's primary military force, leading the recovery efforts.

Although the Logan found itself outclassed by the bioroids that made up the Robotech Masters ' forces and was almost entirely supplanted by the AGAC as the theatre moved primarily to space combat, the Veritech Hovertank proved more durable than might have been expected and by the end of the war had been upgraded and fielded for space as well as ground combat.

* The markings of Roy Focker's VF-1S Valkyrie ( which was itself inspired by the F-14 Tomcat ) in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross is obviously inspired by the squadron insignia of VF-84, and his " Skull Squadron " is considered the equivalent of VF-84 ; in the Americanized version, Robotech, the squadron was also considered to be elite.

But the Regis recognizes as representing the dark tides of shadow that have engulfed them before, and sees that the Earth itself and the form of humanity are inseparable from the malignant spirit of the Robotech Masters, that her intended path can lead only to a conflict raging from generation to generation.

In the end, both parties signed into a co-licensing agreement and the Robotech name was adopted into the TV syndication of Macross combined with Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA.

Most of its animation ( with edited content and revised dialogue ) was adapted outside of Japan for the first saga of Robotech.

Twenty years later the Earth had recovered during the war with the Robotech masters, but even after Earth's victory the planet was then attacked and occupied by another set of aliens The Invid in 2031.

In 2042 the Robotech Mars expedition returned from deep space but was wiped out by the Invid during the battle to liberate the planet.

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross also became a worldwide success after being adapted as part of Robotech, and Megazone 23 also gained recognition in the West after it was adapted as Robotech: The Movie.

The first Macross series and its Minmay character was adapted as the first part of the Robotech television series.

In order to meet the 1980s daily syndicated minimum guideline of 65 episodes, for example, Robotech was created by merging three unrelated anime shows and their storylines rewritten so that they relate to each other.

In 1986, their song " In My Heart " was featured in Robotech: The Movie.

The Jack McKinney novels and Robotech comics such as The Malcontent Uprisings limited series developed a Zentraedi language which was different from the language which was developed for Macross DYRL and was not as completely developed as the Macross version.

Unlike in Macross, the language for the Robotech Zentraedi was dominated by more harsh, guttural sounds very similar in nature to Star Trek's Klingonese.

Macek intended to produce a sequel to Robotech, Robotech II: The Sentinels, but this project was canceled due to a number of circumstances.

He was working as a scriptwriter for the English dub of Naruto and Bleach for Viz Media, and consulting for Harmony Gold on Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles before his death.

After his death, a short documentary, Carl Macek's Robotech Universe, was produced.

The Macross operators — Vanessa Laird, Kim Kabirov, and Shammy Milliome ( Vanessa Leeds, Kim Young, and Sammy Porter in Robotech ) — were three minor fictional characters in the first Macross series ( which was adapted as the first story arc of Robotech ).

In the Del Rey Robotech novels by Jack McKinney, the single encounter between the operators and the Zentraedi spies Rico, Konda, and Bron was developed into an ongoing romance wherein the three girls each dated one of the Zentraedi.

is a fictional character from the Japanese anime science fiction series Macross ( which was loosely adapted as the first story arc of Robotech ) and the prequel OVA Macross Zero.