Third Robotech War
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| Third Robotech War | |||||||||
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| Part of Robotech Wars | |||||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||||
| Robotech Expeditionary Force, Earth-based resistance cells | the Invid | ||||||||
| Commanders | |||||||||
| Resistance cells have no real commander; REF commanded by Admiral Rick Hunter | the Invid Regess | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| Possibly as many as several thousand to tens of thousands of resistors worldwide; exact REF strength unknown but up to one million men and women under arms, hundreds of space warships and thousands or tens of thousands of combat mecha. | Unknown number of Invid | ||||||||
| Casualties | |||||||||
| Unknown; Terrestrial records of the period are too fragmentary to give a solid estimate of human casualties during the Invid invasion and subsequent Third Robotech War. REF casualties on the order of several thousand. | Unknown; certainly less than one million | ||||||||
The fictional Third Robotech War (2031-44) is the final known event in the Robotech science fiction universe. Unlike the previous Robotech Wars, which were fought by Earth-based human forces against invading alien enemies, the Third War was fought by the returning Robotech Expeditionary Force to liberate the occupied Earth from the alien Invid.
[edit] Roots
The crash-landing of the SDF-1 on Macross Island in 1999 was the root cause of all of the Robotech Wars: see First Robotech War for further details.
The Second Robotech War left the industrial and political infrastructure of the Earth in tattered shape. With the Japanese centers of Robotech research disrupted and the North American center of the United Earth Government nearly destroyed, the defensive capabilities of the Army of the Southern Cross swiftly degraded from advanced mecha and starships to late 20th century (pre-SDF-1) technology. Because of this damage, the defense forces put up only a token fight against the Invid when they invaded in 2031, barely a year after the Second Robotech War's end.
The Invid Invasion in 2031 left Earth completely devastated. The back of civilization was completely broken, reducing mankind to squabbling factional states and shattering what little remained of the old United Earth Government. The Robotech Expeditionary Force (REF), fortunately, had been designed to operate completely independently of planet Earth, and was only minimally hampered by the loss of Earth. Unfortunately, events in deep space kept the REF away from Earth for another decade, until the Venus, Mars and Jupiter missions of the early 2040s.
In 2044, a full-scale assault on Reflex Point drove the Invid from Earth and reclaimed the planet for humanity. The returning main fleet consisted of at least dozens of Ikazuchi-class battlecruisers and hundreds of Garfish-class light cruisers, led by the massive battlefortress SDF-4. The SDF-3 folded with the fleet but misfolded, becoming lost in deep space. A large portion, although not all, of the main fleet was lost in the assault and during the departure of the Invid Regis. This is the point from which Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles is set to start from.
[edit] External links
- The Invid Connection (Beyond Reflex Point) - Information on Robotech and Macross
