Editing Robotech (section)

=Races=
'''Humans:''' Good old humanity. Notable in this series as being the only species that still has a culture outside of warfare, although ironically they become increasingly militarized and aggressive as alien races keep kicking the shit out of them. Weirdly, human DNA is remarkably similar to that of both the Zentraedi and their Tirolian makers; in the base material, this is because they were all different branches of a long-shattered precursor race, the "Protoculture", but in Robotech canon this is chalked up as just an incredibly unlikely but ultimately happened chance.

'''[[Zentraedi]]:''' Giant humanoids engineere by the Tirolians - originally as super-sized laborers, then repurposed as warriors. Are strictly segregated into one-gender ships, reproduce by cloning, and have no culture outside of warfare and military functions. This is one of the Tirolian control methods to keep them in line. The other is strictly modulating just how well they understand the technology they rely upon - Zentraedi can ''use'' robotechnology, but they can't ''fix it''. They depend entirely on the Tirolians to repair, restore and replace anything that can't be crudely patched up. Humanity's ability to build and create fascinates them, even if they do initially fail to realize that a lot of the shit humanity is doing aboard the SDF-1 is wild guesswork and a lot of dumb luck. Humans ultimately manage to subvert many Zentraedi to their cause by showing them the existence of a world outside of fighting, although in the long years of peace after the First Robotech War, many of those converts ultimately fail to handle peace and go back to fighting.

'''Tirolians:''' Master scientists who live in a culture where everyone is part of a triad, and/or a biomechanical entity. The pioneers of Robotechnology.

'''Invid:''' Hive-minded alien bugs that could consciously mutate themselves by consuming the Flower of Life. Initially believed extinct when the Tirolians took all the Flowers of Life, they survived, mutated into combat forms, then came after them for revenge. Then came to Earth when the Flowers of Life bloomed again. Ultimately, they evolve into energy beings and fuck off into deepest space.

Sentinels species':
 
'''Kabarrans:''' Big Bear-people. 

'''Praxians:''' Amazons who reproduced through cloning via otherwise-lost technology. 

'''Garudans:''' Fox-people from a world with an atmosphere basically laced with LSD and Magic Mushroom spores, leaving the population in a constant state of psychoactive awareness. In order to live off-world, Garudans have to wear rebreathers that mico-dose them with tiny puffs of their atmosphere. 

'''Haydonites:''' A mysterious race of robots. 

'''Sepheians:''' Crystal-rock people 

'''Perytonians:''' Horned coneheads who seem to practice honest-to-Gygax magic. Their world suffers from a cursed never-ending battle from ancient times that rages randomly across the planet. Anyone who gets caught in the conflict and dies is doomed to join it.