Dark Powers
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Tesla arrives at Optera and is battling his way to the Regent. Edwards arrives and is able to help chase Tesla off. The Zentraedi arrive and Breetai and the Regent die together, forcing the remaining Zentraedi to leave.
Exedore arrives on Haydon IV with the council’s peace proposal for the Regent.
The Sentinels move against Peryton. Tesla arrives and attacks the sentinels with his remaining forces to sneak down to the surface.
Tesla realizes his destiny while being devolved from the Fruit of the flowers and sacrifices himself with Burak in order to save the planet Peryton from its curse. Peryton is liberated.
2029-2030 A.D.
The battle for Optera. As the Sentinels fight to remove Edwards from power in Optera, Edwards, Arla-non, Teal, and Janice die.
Dr. Lang makes a series of Shattering discoveries about the spacefold generators designs his teams have been using since the Jump to Tirol. Due to the Temporal miscalculations the Earth’s actual date is corrected and the time left to help protect the Earth has passed.
The Ark Angel begins a slow return to Tirol.
Breetai’s son Drannin is born to the Zentraedi Kazianna Hesh.
The Ark Angel arrives at Tirol. Dr. Lang informs the crew of the temporal miscalculations.
Dana Sterling and Bowie Grant turn 17, graduate from the Academy, and are assigned to the 15th Alpha Tactical Armored Corps, which includes Sean Phillips, Angelo Dante, and Louie Nichols.
The Robotech Masters Arrive in Earth-space, and the Second Robotech War Begins.
Major Carpenter’s ship returns from Tirol.
Zor Prime is introduced to the 15th ATAC.
Roy Hunter is born on Tirol. The REF and the Karbarrans begin work on the main fleet of ships. Lang’s Robotech Teams develop an integrated system of body armor and reconfigurable cycles, known as Cyclones.
End of the Second Robotech War. 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 Regess’ sensor nebula.
Lazlo Zand Dies.
Jonathan Wolfe’s ship returns to Earth. An Anti-Invid underground is established before the Regess arrives. Dana Commandeers Wolfe’s ship after the drives are retrofitted with a device perfected by former 15th ATAC whiz kid Louie Nichols.
The Robotech factory satellite returns to Earth space.
2031 A.D.
The Invid “disappear” from Tirol’s corner of the galaxy. It is assumed that the Regess 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 Protoculture matrix created by Rem, who has managed to tap some of his progenitor’s-Zor’s-memories.
Max, Miriya, and Aurora Sterling arrive on Tirol from Haydon IV
The Invid Regess arrives on Earth. Her newly hatched army of soldiers and mecha destroys the factory satellite and easily defeats Earth’s depleted defenses. Hives and farms are set up worldwide, and some Terran captives are forced to work in labor camps, harvesting Flowers and processing nutrient for use in the Regess’ terror weapons and battle craft.
Arrival of Dana Sterling on Tirol. With her are Bowie Grant, Sean Phillips, Angelo Dante, Musica and Allegra, and many of the Masters’ clones.
2038 A.D.
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.
2040 A.D.
Lancer joins the shattered resistance in the Americas. Traveling 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
2042 A.D.
The Mars Group leaves Tirol with Scott Bernard aboard.
Shadow Fighters and Neutron “S” missiles are developed by the REF for use in the assault against Earth. Nearly instantaneous spacefold becomes a reality for the main-fleet ships
Arrival and defeat of the 21st Mars Attack Group sent by the REF.
Scott Bernard and his ragtag band of freedom fighters—Rook, Rand, Lancer, Lunk, and Annie—begin a journey toward the Regess’ central hive complex, known as Reflex Point.
2043 A.D.
Marlene, Sera, and Corg are sent out by the Regess.
2044 A.D.
The Jupiter attack wing arrives in Earth-space. Photojournalist Sue Graham dies on Earth.
The REF main-fleet ships are folded from Tirol to Earth. The Regess and her children take leave of the planet in the form of a phoenix in the form of psychokinetic energy. Annihilating the returning ships in the process and ending the Third Robotech War.
On Haydon IV, Veidt and Exedore are present at the reawakening of the planet’s artificial sentience, the Awareness, (Max and his family are also on-planet. Cabell is on Tirol.)
The SDF-3 fails to remanifest in Earth-space. Rick turns 44 Lisa turns 49. Both have been affected by the time Dilation and are actually younger by almost 3 years as is most of the REF.
Aboard the Ark Angel, which has been spared the fate of the rest of the main-fleet of ships, Scott Bernard and Vince and Jean Grant commence a search for the missing fortress.