Summary:
Robotech is the critically acclaimed animated series about mankind's first contact with warring alien races, and the use of alien technology to defend Earth. The series was broken into three chapters, The Macross Saga, The Robotech Masters, and The New Generation. Released in 1985, Robotech was the first anime (Japanese animation) series that many fans had seen, and is often accredited as the cause of the anime fandom that continues to grow today in the United States.
COMMON TERMS
Robotechnology
Refers to technological systems that operate using protoculture.
Veritech
Refers to a series of personal war-machines that can change their configuration between at least two modes.
Destroid
Refers to a series of personal war-machines similar to Veritechs, but are limited to one configuration (usually somewhat humanoid).
Mecha
Refers to the generic term for any personal war-machine used.
Battloid
Refers to the generic term form any mecha with/in a "humanoid" form.
Zor's Battlefortress
Also known as the SDF-1. The Tiresian scientist Zor (angry over what the Robotech Masters had done to the Invid), destroyed all of the Tiresian data and production facilities for the creation of protoculture; except for the last remaining protoculture production matrix that he hid aboard the SDF-1. He was critically injured in an Invid attack. His final attack was to have the SDF-1 abandoned and set on a course that would eventually take it to Earth.
Flower of Life
Refers to a plant that was native to the Invid homeworld before it was defoliated by the Zentraedi acting on orders from the Robotech Masters. The plant is as essential to the survival of the Invid as flowers are essential to the survival of bees. The Invid use it for both survival and evolutionary purposes.
Protoculture
Refers to a substance derived from the the flower of life. It is used as the main source of power for the majority of the technology scene in the series.
Alien Races
Tiresian
The Tiresian scientist Zor was given the secrets of creating protoculture during a first contact mission with the Invid ruler - the Regis. From their homeworld of Tirol, the Tiresians built an entire empire based on protoculture and robotechnology. At some point the Tiresian rulers (the Robotech Masters) decided that they should have exclusive control over protoculture, and ordered the Zentraedi to defoliate the Invid homeworld of Optera.
Zentraedi
The Zentraedi race...
