EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ROBOTECH AND MACROSS . . .
This is my most ambitious project ever, it's my attempt to put together months of research, months of careful study, months of looking at hundreds of websites and bringing everything I found to one place. Yes, it is also my ambition to make it one of the coolest sites dedicated to the series. So I hope you like it. It has taken me awhile.
I’ve been cruising the web for awhile now, collecting a lot of information about ROBOTECH and the MACROSS series which started it all for me. I got a lot of cool pics thanks to all the people on the web. You guys have some wonderful sites!! Well, I gleaned all these pictures from the web. Special shouts out to Joe for all his help and support. Because of him this site will be getting better and better.
This site is dedicated to all the pioneers and to all the lovers out there. Well, I have so many fond memories of ROBOTECH growing up. It captured my imagination and was my first real link to science fiction. It expanded my mind and made me curious about the possibilities of the universe. There are cheesy parts of the original MACROSS, and the drawing are at times inconsistent. So many of us out here love it the same.
Macross has come to mean so many different things to so many people. For some, Macross is mecha. The mecha in Macross is not your standard piloted robot but transformable into realistic fighter planes. For others, Macross is a war saga. It is about humanity’s struggle to survive despite the odds. It is about human courage and perseverance. For others, Macross is about love. Macross is about finding love despite how messed up the world is. For others, Macross is about music. Macross is about how music ties us all together and reminds us of our hopes and aspirations.
The Macross universe is diverse. Each Macross series has a different tone. Super Dimensional Fortress Macross was funny, exciting, tragic, and romantic all at the same time. The original series had good and bad mixed up with it. It had bad animation mixed in with some excellent artwork. The original Macross had some sweet songs mixed in with some that were, well . . .eh. It had bad storyline mixed up in there also. But it won so many people’s hearts. Macross: Do You Remember Love was excellent animation and got to the heart of all the Macross lovers. It retold the story of the humanity’s first space war. It did a good job in its short two hours. Macross II was the hope and dreaming of so many fans to see Macross again. Macross Plus was excellent animation, great music, and good story all combined. New characters were introduced and their story was complex. Macross Plus took us to the darker side. Macross 7 is full of life and love for music. It is funny, ironic, playful, and at times sad. Two of the original Macross’s heroes are brought back as supporting characters. It is the lighter side of Macross. Each one can stand on its own. Each Macross series is memorable.
The entire planet was embroiled in the darkness of a global war, but in the year 1999 A.D. an alien spaceship plunged through the atmosphere. The ship crashing through the atmosphere left so much damage in its wake and landed on an island in the South Pacific. This alien ship galvanized the people of Earth to settle their differences now that they knew alien life forms did exist with super technology. The Earth government managed to salvage and remodel the craft which they discovered was a battle fortress. Remodeling the craft they learned alien technology, and what they discovered was variable configuration machinery. Applying the alien technology to human know how, they built transforming jets and tanks. After ten years, the alien starship was complete. They called this ship the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. This ship was had the technology to open the curtain of space and jump dimensions through hyperspace, hence the name Super Dimensional.
The entire Island of Macross which was built up around the fortress during its development celebrated its inaugural flight. That day was the human triumph of alien technology and the Variable fighter was unveiled. Before the Super Dimensional Fortress One (SDF-1) could even take off, an alien race came in search of the space ship. These powerful Zentraedi had been battling the owners of the SDF-1. With the fortress perhaps being the last vestige of this super technology, the Zentraedi were intent on capturing the ship and gaining its secrets. The city of Macross was attacked by strange alien mecha. The civilians evacuated to air tight shelters and the untried pilots battled the hordes of Zentraedi. It didn’t take long for them to learn that the alien aggressors were giant humanoids standing over 50 feet tall.
In order to avert the fighting from Earth, the virgin crew of the SDF-1 attempted a hyperspace-jump to the Moon. However, they jumped to Pluto’s orbit and took up much of the island and ocean including two battle carriers along. The entire population of Macross was incorporated inside the SDF-1. They tried to rebuild their lives knowing how long their journey back home would be. The human pilots and their advanced mecha were only matched by the sheer numbers of Zentraedi mecha. The elite pilots had to fight tooth and nail as the SDF-1 journeyed home.
The Zentraedi were a race of warriors and a product of a highly advanced society called Protoculture. Protoculture was so advanced many thousands of years in genetic engineering. And the Zentraedi were a cloned race who somehow broke away from their mysterious masters. The Zentraedi were without culture, without fraternization, and without love. With highly advanced cloning, there was no need for love. For thousands of years they had no contact with culture besides war. But watching transmissions from everyday life aboard the SDF-1 they began to fear the power of humans. Seeking to understand the humans aboard the SDF-1, the Zentraedi sent spies. The everyday life and passions of humans began to affect the Zentraedi. They began to fear that humanity had the power to make one not want to fight. Some soldiers put down their weapons and joined forces with the humans to defend all they found beautiful aboard this ship.
Seeing the corruption of Zentraedi troops, the command gave up their goals of gaining the fortress. The Zentraedi armada set out to destroy Earth, the SDF-1, and their own soldiers who were affected by humanity. The Earth was devastated in the battle between the human-Zentraedi alliance and the Zentraedi armada. With the help of pop culture, the SDF-1 was able to confuse the armada and destroy the command center. With the help of the beloved pop singer aboard the SDF-1, humanity prevailed.
The story continues as humans try to rebuild Earth and share their lives with new neighbors, the Zentraedi . . .
Soon after Macross aired in Japan,
Carl Macek brought the series to the United States. Since it didn’t make
the episode allotment for a season, he combined it with two other shows,
Super Dimensional Southern Cross and Mospeada Genesis Climber. He changed
the story line so that there would be continuity and named it Robotech.
Protoculture became a mysterious energy source that was the cause of all
three space wars. So Robotech became an epic about three generations of
human survival and hope.
MACROSS
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SUPER DIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS was released in the early 80s in Japan and was very popular. Shortly after Carl Macek brought the series to the US and combined it with two other unrelated series to produce ROBOTECH. ROBOTECH aired some time between 1983 and 1985 in the US in syndication. In Japan, MACROSS spawned a movie, twenty minute video and four sequels. In the US, three episodes of ROBOTECH II: THE SENTINELS were produced before the project was dropped. However, there are twenty one novels , several comics and RPGs based on ROBOTECH. ROBOTECH came back on the air in the Bay Area on public television. The cartoon network picked up part of the Robotech series and it still attracts a larger fan base. Many fans of ROBOTECH go on to learn more about the original MACROSS series.
Go to my MACROSS RELATED SERIES PAGE.
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