Robotech Armed Forces

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The Robotech Armed Forces are the fictional military force depicted in Robotech.

1 Robotech Defense Force: 2005-2019
2 Robotech Expeditionary Force: 2019-onwards
3 External links
4 See also

[edit] Robotech Defense Force: 2005-2019

The Robotech Defense Force was the unified combatant command primarily responsible for the defense of the planet Earth from the Zentraedi invasion of 2009, during the First Robotech War of 2009-2011.

Because of Robotech's unaltered reuse of footage from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, distinctive signage reading "Robotech Defense Force" or "RDF" never appears in the show, instead reading "UN Spacy" (the fictional military force depicted in Macross; the term "Spacy" is an extrapolation of the terms 'Army' and Navy' - though some Japanese sources also use the term 'Space Army' and some English-language sources use the term 'Space Navy,' suggesting that the term is a contraction).

After the events of The Macross Saga the Robotech Expeditionary Force is formed and leaves Earth to hunt for the Robotech Masters; returning during the 2030s and 2040s to battle the Invid.

The Robotech Defense Force's primary air and light infantry mecha during the war with the Zentraedi was the VF-1 Valkyrie Veritech fighter. At this time its primary ground mecha were the Destroid series: MBR-04-VII Tomahawk, MBR-07-II Spartan, ADR-04-X Defender, HWR-00-II Monster and SDR-04-XII Phalanx.

[edit] Robotech Expeditionary Force: 2019-onwards

The REF departs Earth in a quest for the Robotech Masters' homeworld of Tirol; they become involved in a long-running battle with both a faction of the Invid led by a male leader known as the Regent, who claims to be a fragment of the same entity that is known as the Regess (or Regis), and a renegade faction of the REF itself which follows the power-mad General Thomas Riley Edwards, a former member of the Anti-Unification League. In 2038 the REF learns that Earth is under occupation by the Invid when surviving Southern Cross refugees reach the main fleet, and two hurried expeditionary missions, the Luna and Mars Expeditions, are sent to Earth with less than total success. Fearing the worst - that the Invid have slaughtered the entire population of Earth and now control the galaxy's only source of Protoculture - Admiral Rick Hunter apparently orders the annihilation of the Earth with Neutron-S missiles as a last resort. Fortunately, the missiles are stopped and the Earth spared when the Regess'(or Regis) forces abandon the planet in 2044.

The Robotech Expeditionary Force's primary ships include the SDF-3 Pioneer, the SDF-4 and large numbers of Ikazuchi class battlecruisers, Garfish class light cruisers and other miscellaneous warships. Its primary mecha are the VFA-6 Alpha and VFB-9 Beta Fighters. The Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles comic series and the upcoming Shadow Chronicles sequel introduces or is expected to introduce the Shimakaze class (a battlecruiser slightly larger than the Tristar class), the Crusade-class dropship, and the Ark Angel-class colony ships.