Khyron
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In the fictional Robotech universe, Khyron is the unconventional leader of the Zentraedi Botoru Battalion. He is known as Quamzin Kravshera in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the series which was adapted into the first saga of Robotech.
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Sometimes known as Khyron Kravshera or Lord Khyron, he was a brilliant but often insubordinate and mentally unstable Zentraedi commander during the First Robotech War. Khyron earned the nickname Khyron the Backstabber because of his habit of attacking his own men when angered or drunk.
Khyron's Botoru Battalion was summoned to the Solar system by Commander Breetai, against the advice of Exedore, to assist in the capture of the SDF-1 Macross. While his unorthodox tactics kept the RDF off balance, he was often rebuked by both Commanders Breetai and Azonia for risking undue damage to the fortress. On one occasion, Breetai was forced to use the nebulizer in order to forcibly recall Khyron from an unauthorized attack. When Breetai's forces joined the RDF in battle against Dolza's Grand Fleet, Khyron showed his self-serving nature by deserting.
Several years after the Zentraedi Rain of Death, Khyron and Azonia reappeared and stole a protoculture chamber from New Detroit which they used to resize the growing number of disaffected Zentraedi back into warrior giants. After a failed attempt to kidnap Lynn Minmei and ransom her for the SDF-1, Khyron then restyled himself Khyron the Destroyer, firebombed Macross City, and stole a protoculture storage matrix which he used to refuel a Zentraedi warship.
In 2014 during a final suicidal attack against the SDF-1, Khyron and Azonia crashed their battlecruiser into the fortress, destroying both ships, killing themselves, Admiral Gloval, and almost all of the SDF-1's command staff.
In the Del Rey Robotech novels by Jack McKinney, Khyron's behavior was believed to be a side effect from ingesting the petals of the Invid Flower of Life. It was even indicated that this behavior led to his instability and madness and that he had not always been that way. Also it was suggested that Khyron's final assault on the SDF-1 was an inspiration to many Zentraedi during the malcontent uprisings in 2015.
Khyron is one of the most dangerous of all Robotech warriors, and probably would have killed Rick Hunter had he not been recalled at the last minute but the nebulizer device.
