Editing Robotech (section)

=Plot=
Long ago, a race of humanoid aliens (the Tirolians) landed on a planet of bug aliens (the Invid), and learned that a flower native to the Invid's homeworld could be transformed into both a superfuel and a genetic modifying agent. The Tirolians promptly ravaged the planet to claim all of this plant, which the Invid called "the Flower of Life" and the Tirolians called "Protoculture", using it to advance their own culture. Most prominently engineering a race of giant cloned warrior-slaves called the Zentraedi (or Zentradi, however you prefer) to go out and conquer worlds for them. Unfortunately for the Tirolians, the guy who found the Invid's homeworld (Zor) had his own agenda; he only gave them sterile cloned versions of the Flower of Life, and kept the real seeds for himself aboard his personal warship. Eventually, he grew sick of the other Tirolians, by this point now calling themselves "the Robotech Masters", and sent his ship off into deep space, result in both the Tirolians and their Zentraedi forces suffering a critical fuel supply shortage that would ultimately doom both races if not arrested, and resulting in the Zentraedi being sent out to find Zor's battleship... which also gave the Invid, newly transformed into a race of biomechanical killing machines, a chance to launch a devastating war against the Tirolians for the  remaining supply of Protoculture.

Nice going, Zor.

Zor's battleship crashlands on a deserted island on Earth in July 1999, interrupting World War 3 and causing humanity to get its shit together to study this new technology and form a united military in case whoever created the ship comes back from it. Reverse-engineering its systems gives them "Robotechnology", which mostly means energy weapons, forcefields, and [[mecha]] - the most impressive of which, during the first saga, is the Veritech; a space-capable jet fighter that can transform partially or wholly into a giant humanoid robot. They also repair and rebuild the battleship, finally getting it ready to travel back into space again in February 2009...

Which is when a Zentraedi fleet shows up on Earth and an automated attack from the "SDF-1", as the rebuilt ship is called, blows up some scouting vessels, causing the Zentraedi to discover that it's on Earth.

Nice going, Zor.

Thus begin the Robotech Wars...

===The First Robotech War===
The SDF-1, due to the ignorance of humanity knowing that you do '''not''' try to make a hyperspace dimensional jump in a planet's orbit, attempts to flee the attacking Zentraedi by "folding" to the Moon. Instead, they teleport the SDF-1, the entire city that had sprung up around it, and two aircraft carriers into orbit around ''Pluto''. Luckily, they manage to get the civilians and a plethora of useful materials into the ship, to the point of literally rebuilding the city in its cavernous interior, and weld the ships to the SDF-1's sides for added firepower. The first half of the war consists of the SDF-1 trying to fight its way back to Earth, followed by a devastating battle that ravages the Earth and the Zentraedi alike, resulting in a forced peace due to mutual near-annihilation. Cue a roughly 10-15 year period of rebuilding wherein the majority of Zentraedi fail to adjust to civilian life and retreat to the devastated southern hemisphere to rearm. Humanity decides not to leave things to chance and forms the Army of the Southern Cross to exterminate the Zentraedi, which they do.

===The Second Robotech War===
Learning about the existence of Protoculture (but not that the Flower of Life is hidden within the wreckage of the SDF-1, because the Zentraedi themselves didn't know this because of certain events in the First Robotech War making them think it had vanished from the battleship), and the Robotech Masters, humanity sends an expeditionary fleet consisting mainly of veterans of the First War(i.e.: The Macross cast) to Tirol to either sue for peace or, failing that, hit the Masters first on ''their'' territory... but ironically, the Robotech Masters have already set off for Earth. In fact, the Robotech Masters have had their collective asses kicked by the Invid, and want to seize the universe's last supply of Protoculture from humanity without alerting the Invid as to where it can be found. Instead, they cause a new war with humanity that ultimately ends with the Flower of Life being literally seeded across Earth, which alerts the Invid (currently battling the Earth expeditionary fleet and the remnants of the Tirolians left on Tirol) that they can find Protoculture on Earth.

It bears mentioning that this final disaster was caused by a clone of Zor, the Tirolian who started the Robotech Wars, called Zor Prime. So once again: nice fucking going, Zor!

===The Third Robotech War===
Invid divisions break away from the Tirolian war and invade Earth, crushing the devastated Earth military and conquering the planet. Soldiers are sent back to Earth from the expeditionary fleet to try and liberate their homeworld from the Invid... twice. Both times end in a devastating defeat for the Robotech Expeditionary Forces and leave the Earth devastated and depopulated. Survivors of the liberation forces go to ground and try to maintain a guerrilla war, eventually finding some success as the Invid become distracted with the possibilities offered by the Flower of Life and human DNA. Eventually, the Invid evolve into energy-based lifeforms that leave the Earth rather than allow it to be destroyed by a vengeful Robotech Expeditionary Force, who have returned with powerful new weapons and are willing to obliterate the Earth than allow it to remain under Invid control.

===The Sentinels and the Shadow War===
An incomplete, American-original story made to try and milk the franchise in the 90s, redone in the 00s, and revived in the 10s to try and reboot the franchise. When the Expeditionary Force(which included all the Heroes from the First Robotech War) left for the Robotech Masters' Homeworld, they found the remnants of their Empire under siege by the Invid. While fighting them off, they also met the Sentinels, a group of freedom fighters from alien races that had been conquered by the Robotech Masters, then the Invid in turn. Bascially, the reason the Expeditionary Force didn't immediately turn right back around to return to Earth the second they found out the Masters had left was because they were stuck fighting both the Invid as well as some evil assholes in their own ranks. 

As the Third Robotech War came to a close, however, the Haydonites betrayed the Expeditionary Force. The weapons they provided the EEF, the Synchro Cannons and Neutron-S missiles, turned out to be traps(basically, the Neutron-S missiles would've sucked Earth into a black hole had the Invid Regess not destroyed them on her way out).