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Episode 1: The Passing
[Episode starts of with the Robotech Theme and then
fades in to show the REF fleet preparing to fold.]
Narrator(VO): The Robotech Expeditionary Force Fleet is preparing to
fold to the Sol System to liberate the planet Earth from the
Invid Regis, unknowing the strange fate that was stowed upon the
SDF-3 as it is prepared to fold.
[Ext. shot of the SDF-3 and fades into the bridge scene
where General Rick Hunter stands in the middle of the bridge
with Admiral Lisa "Hayes" Hunter at his side.]
[A young male crew member in REF uniform approaches the two
with a flat clipboard like imager in his hand.]
Crew Member: General Rick Hunter, I have the reports of the fleet that you
have requested and many say that they are ready to begin the fold
to Earth and the Sentinels Soldiers are prepared and ready. They just need your orders sir.
[The Crew member hands Rick the imager and Rick views the
reports.]
Rick Hunter: Good, this will be a great day for the anti-invid rebels on Earth
when we arrive to eliminate the Invid threat. Tell the fleet to begin schedule at Fold minus seven minutes on my mark. Fold order remains as per operational plan Bravo, with the SDF-4 and Task Force Chixilub folding after the assault force, followed by the SDF-3. Stealth measures are not to be engaged until after our forces and the pre-positioned forces are brought together as per Plan Bravo, at which time zero time for the assault plan will be set.
[Rick Hunter gives back the imaging device]
Crew Member: Yes sir.
[Crew member leaves and Rick Hunter turns toward Lisa "Hayes"
Hunter.]
Rick: So we'll finally liberate Earth from the Invid Rigis after all of those
failed attempts huh Lisa?
Lisa: Yes, we'll finally return home.
Rick: I still don't trust those things.[Rick Hunter points towards the Izumo SDF-4 and its group of ship sized Neutron-S weapons.]
Lisa: Remember Rick, they are to be used as last resort only. Many of us don't think that we actually need them but only as a treat.
Rick: Yes but, I have a bad feeling that we will be using the Neutron-S weapons. How's Roy?
Lisa: He's in good care with Minmei, I just hope that the fold doesn't do anything to him.
[Rick turns toward another Crew member at Fold Navigation]
Rick: What's our status?
2nt Crew Member: We are full power and ready to begin folding process.
Rick: Good[Turns to communications officer]Officer Yuni, give me the fleet.
Officer Yuni: Ready sir.
Rick: Attention REF fleet, we will begin on my mark.[looking at his wrist watch]Now. We'll meet you on the other side.
[On a small, unnoticed screen on the far side of the bridge, there is
a message on the screen that reads "Warning: unknown energy
factor inside fold generators" and then the screen went blank.]
[Rick receives a call from Maxamillion Sterling on his personal
comlink on his uniform that Cabell had made for Rick.]
Max: General Rick Hunter, this is Captain Sterling of the Skull
Squadron. Do you read, over.
Rick: This is Rick Hunter, over.
Max: So were finally going to return to Earth, Huh Rick.
Rick: Yah Max we are, and didn't I tell you that the comlink isn't
suppose to be used unless there is an emergency with the
communications net.
Max: I'm just calling to say hello, plus the communications net was
busy and was unavailable at the time.
Narrator(VO): Far from the fleet but still detectable, a large mushroom
shaped ship secretly appears from a Dimensional Rift and observes
the REF fleet and eagerly awaits orders from the ship's superiors.
[While Rick was having his conversation with Max, Lisa was
called by another Crew member at the Scanners. When Lisa
arrived, there was an unknown blip on the screen.]
Lisa: Report.
3rd Crew Member: Admiral, I just found an unknown ship near the fleets scanning
perimeter and it's too far away to identify the ship.
Lisa: Is it an Invid ship?
3rd Crew Member: Unlikely since there are not any Invid bases in this region of space
and Invid fighters are never out alone. Should we send a squadron
to investigate?
Lisa: The fleet is about to fold in less than six minutes and the squadron
can't return in time. I'll report this to the General and see what he
suggest that we should do.
[Lisa began walking back towards Rick and he was finishing his
conversation with Max.]
Rick: ...and so if you don't have any important to report, you ha-
Lisa: General Hunter, we have an unidentified craft at the perimeter
of our scanners. I believe that we should investigate the
craft, wouldn't you agree General?
Rick: I think so too, lets send an Ikazuchi cruiser to investigate, it has the
fire power, man power and enough fighters to back it up if there is
any trouble from the unknown craft.
Lisa: Do you think that much firepower is necessary? What if it's just
some harmless transport or maybe it could be an ambassadorial
cruiser?
Rick: Well guessing isn't going to help us so I say send an Ikazuchi
cruiser to be safe and if it's harmless, we should just contact the ship
for any mutual agreements if any.
4th Crew member [VO]: Attention all ship personnel, the fleet will fold in exactly five
minutes and twenty seconds, I repeat, the fleet will fold in
exactly five minutes and twenty seconds.
[Rick and Lisa are still discussing about the idea of sending an
Ikazuchi cursor to investigate the unknown blip.]
[Camera fades to the Fold Generator room and the generator is
beginning to pulsate brightly which is normal for folding. Dr. Lang
enters the room with the chief generator engineer talking about
the generator.]
Narrator(VO): Elsewhere in the Fold Generator room, the Fold Generator
is being filled with unknown energy from an unknown source and
becomes unstable to be used, but not at the moment.
Chief Engineer: ... and then we got strange fold readings and then we got folding
spiked coming from the generator but it wasn't folding entirely
and we have been getting this every fifteen seconds and we have
no idea what's happening here Dr. Lang.
Dr. Lang: It is good that you have reported this strange phenomenon to me
immediately, Chief Martenzocky, and you say it has been doing
this for how long?
Chief Martenzocky: Since we started the fold count down fifteen minutes ago, it was
small at first, hardly noticeably but then we saw the spikes seven
minutes ago.
Dr. Lang: And did you checked the other ship's folding generators?
Chief Martenzocky: Yes and they reported nothing like this. Do you think that the
generator is going to disappear like back on the SDF-1?
Dr. Lang: It is possible, but it is a possibility and even now we have not fully
understand how the fold truly works and we still have no idea how
the first fold generator on the STF-1 disappeared in the first place
and there weren't any reports of this activity back then, but we
were rushing to fold at the far side of the moon and so this event may
mach that of the disappearance of the first fold generator.
4th Crew Member [VO]: Attention, the fleet will fold in exactly three minutes and ten
seconds, repeat, the fleet will fold in exactly three minutes and
ten seconds.
Dr. Lang: There isn't much time to investigate thoroughly, do you have a
connection port near by.
Chief Martenzocky: Yes there is, it's right at the system scanners over there.
[Dr. Lang and Chief Martenzocky walked toward the council and
Dr. Lang inserted a plug into the connection port and started
analyzing the data into his portable computer as quickly as he can
and soon his computer screen started to draw up an image.]
[Back on the bridge, Rick and Lisa were in their command seats
and watched as a Ikazuchi cruiser began to break formation and
headed straight toward the unknown craft.]
4th Crew Member [VO]: Attention, the fleet will fold in exactly one minute and
fifty-nine seconds, repeat, the fleet will fold in exactly one
minute and fifty-nine seconds.
[Camera comes back facing Dr. Lang and Chief Martenzocky
starring at the screen showing the space plane with the REF fleet on
one end and Mars on the other. Then it showed the plane starting
to curve and then fold and then there was a tunnel forming from
the REF end of the fold but then the tunnel then jolted straight out
and made many sharp turns as if it was avoiding something and
then finally reached another space plane that was no where near the
other plane. Both Dr. Lang and Chief Martenzocky were shocked
and there eyes were wide open.]
Dr. Lang: My God, there is a malfunction in the fold system and we're
going to fold in another dimension!
Chief Martenzocky: Are you sure Dr. Lang, that can't happen, can it?
4th Crew Member [VO]: Attention, the fleet will fold in exactly thirty seconds, repeat,
the fleet will fold in exactly thirty seconds.
[There was a sudden jolt in the fold room and then a large
explosion like sound. Both Chief Martenzocky and Dr. Lang
turned around and saw the fold generator surrounded by blue and
red energy fluctuation bands and lightning began to strike at the
walls. Dr. Lang and Martenzocky ran toward the door and rushed
out to avoid the lightning bolts.]
[Int. shot of the bridge and with the 4th Crew Member looking at
her screen.]
4th Crew Member: The SDF-4 and Neutron-S missiles have folded and- [there was a pulsating sign on her screen that read: "Warning abnormal fold spike inside SDF-3's fold generator.")4th Crew Member turns toward Lisa]Admiral "Hays" Hunter, there is an abnormal fold spikes emerging from the fold generator.
Lisa: What's wrong with the fold generator?
[Rick's personal comlink started beeping and then Dr. Lang's
voice was on the comlink]
Dr. Lang: General Rick Hunter, this is Dr. Lang, you must abort the fold. I
repeat, abort the fold immediately. The fold generator is going
critical and we are about to-
[Dr. Lang's connection broke. Camera goes to the outside with the
entire SDF-1 was on the screen. The hull of the ship began to glow
very brightly, triple shift and only the outline of the ship remained
and lightning bolts began to shoot out from the hull.]
[Int. shot of the bridge and everything began to unfocused like
seeing a double of one object and soon the SDF-1 entered hyperspace but
then directly in front of then was a bluish diamond shaped rift and
they were being pulled in.]
Rick: W-what's H-happening!!!!!
Lisa: W-What is t-that thing?!
[Then suddenly they entered a blue tunnel with red streak and
outside the streaks where huge spheres and the bridge crew was
flung toward the back of the bridge from high velocity from the
rift.]
[Ext. shot of the Ikazuchi carrier heading straight for the
Mushroom shaped ship. The Mushroom ship powers up its
"Stem" and fires an energy beam at the Ikazuchi carrier and utterly
obliterates the carrier in a great fire ball of energy and explosion]
[Ext. shot with Mars in the background and there was a sudden
flash and then the REF fleet wrinkled back into existence exept for
the SDF-3]
[Ext. shot of a bridge in a Ikazuchi carrier and zooms in on the
captain]
Captain: Ensign, where is the SDF-3? I don't see it on the screen.
Ensign: We don't have the SDF-3 on scanners anymore.
Captain: What?! Then where the dam blazes is the SDF-3!?!?
[Int. shot of the bridge of the SDF-3 with the crew stuck on the
wall from the velocity and on the screen, it shows the tunnel flying
pasts the spheres and making sharp turns and sudden drops.]
[Ext. shot of the SDF-3 dropping inside the tunnel]
Narrator(VO): The SDF-3 flies uncontrollably in the strange tunnel that has pulled
the ship into it and in high velocity. At the end of the tunnel in a
different universe at the edge of the Kipper Belt, a ship observes
the nothingness of space and the Oort Cloud beyond for any
sighs of hostile invasion, especially from an alien race known
only as the Crongus.
[Int. shot of a bridge of a totally different starship, zooming in on
the captain in his chair drinking some tea.]
Captain: Ahh, nothing like tea in an afternoon. [sighs]Too bad nothing ever happens on recon.
[The captain takes a sip of his tea and then there was a flash of light
followed by a subspace entrance shock wave. The captain suddenly
was knocked off of his command chair.]
Captain: What the hell was that?!
[Int. shot of the SDF-3 bridge with bridge crew still suspended
against the wall and then there was a sudden jolt and the crew
members were then flung forward and then normal space appeared
with a small image of a ship at the far left but then the crew, who
were still in the air, were slammed back into the wall and still fell
the intense velocity of their speed.]
[Int. shot of the other ship pointing towards the view screen with
the SDF-3 appearing from a flash of light, standing still for a few
nanoseconds and then zoomed across the screen at an angle that
was a mile from the edge of the ship.]
[Close up shot of the captain.]
Captain: Scanners Report!
[The Captain looks towards an officer at a screen that had an image
of the ship in the middle of an oval shaped grid and the blip of the
SDF-3 going straight across the grid]
Scanner Officer: Sir, the object has missed us by a mile but it shows that the object
is entering the Sol System at very high speed, almost to Light
Speed without any sighs of slowing down.
[The Captain turns toward an Ensign at a Navigation station near
the front of the view screen.]
Captain: Navigation, where is that object heading?
Navigation Ensign: According to the navigational computer, the object is heading
straight towards the Mars Colony in exactly.... five minutes and
thirty seconds.
[The View Screen changes to have a face of a woman in her mid
forties.]
Women: Captain Jean Harlock, the Pluto observation base saw a fast
moving object heading straight for Mars. You were the first
one to saw the object first because it appeared in your area, did you get
a reading on it?
Captain Harlock: No Admiral, it was going to fast to get an exact reading but it
shows that it's a solid object surrounded by energy at speeds
almost a the speed of light. What should we do Admiral?
Admiral: Don't worry Captain Harlock, we've already dispatched a small
fleet squadron of MBCs with Velocity shields to slow down the object so we can
capture it.
[Ext. shot of the Asteroid Belt facing Mars and there was a fleet of
one kilometer long ships in several square formations with a blue
square in the middle of the formation that looks like a tunnel
aligning with Mars.]
[Ext. shot of Jupiter's Red Spot and the SDF-3 streaking across the
screen heading toward the fleet of MBCs]
[Int. shot of the SDF-3 Bridge zooming in on Rick Hunter's
face and suddenly he was flung across the room but very slowly as
sudden flashes of blue light streaked across the bridge and in a few
minutes prier to the first blue flash, Rick and the Bridge Crew
made a one foot drop to the floor and then they viewed the planet
Mars, terraformed.]
Rick: Lisa, I don't think were at the right Mars.
[Camera then zooms in on the screen and shows a ring of blue
light and then a white flash and then two huge, ten miles long,
Starships armed with weapons appeared and slowly headed
straight toward the SDF-3]
[The screen then changes to show an African American man in a
jumpsuit uniform with a cape on with several medals and ribbons
on his left breast sitting on a command chair.]
African American: This is Admiral Marcus Warren The Third, of the Galaxy
Destroyer Flagship "Battle Scar" to unknown vessel, you have
invaded United Colonies of Earth homespace at high velocity. You
are ordered to stand down and surrender your vessel to be boarded
or we will open fire. I repeat, stand down and surrender your
vessel to be boarded or we will open fire.
[The Battle Scar's Plasma Cannons began to glow bright
purple/pink]
Admiral Warren: This is your last chance, surrender your vessel to be boarded or we
will open fire.
[Closeup of Rick and Lisa and then a "to be continued"
shown upon the screen and finally faded.]
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