The Gathering Storm of Change
2202 A.D. Anno Domini
It is January 1, 2177 supposedly January 1, 77 of the Cosmic Era until many people started using the old calendar again, like they are wanting to leave behind an Era of man that gave them nothing but pain and misery.
It is also this day, that a newly minted Major Ranma Saotome, was awarded the Silver Star (adopted from the former U.S. military decoration for gallantry in combat) in front of comrades and families and in front of the newly christened Earth Alliance new battleship, SBS-1 Macross.
In his speech after the award, Ranma revealed to world of who he is really. A relic from the distant past discovered by explorers on their way to Mars and enlists into the EAF before their return to Earth.
His claims was verified by his government, that he is a man born before the 'Age of Resource Management' before the cataclysmic 2010 AD before the world's oil reserve was destroyed by a petroleum-eating bacterium.
They tell of a warrior fighting a Phoenix God wannabe in the Mountains of Jusenkyo and the sign of its demise when the mountain exploded to the high heavens along with him, imprisoned in the ice, Ranma Saotome.
Now some will say that the story was too outrageous or too far fetch that is, until Ranma demonstrated to a global audience, the most powerful techniques of the 'Anything Goes School of Martial Arts' and the vast knowledge of all the Martial Arts lost thru the centuries and even what is considered forbidden, like Ranma creating a ball of energy or a coherent beam at the palm of his hands which took half the side of the mountain. Even better, he cut a land battleship into two with a 'vacuum blade' then finish it with a 'breaking point' turning the land battleship into scrap metal.
He demonstrated what is barely half the power of a Grand Master of the Martial Arts to an astounded world and he told them that, it took him a lifetime of training, of sheer will, determination, dedication, conviction, courage and the enthusiasm for the arts made him what he is today.
(That of course living in the madhouse district of Tokyo called Nerima, along with the constant attacks and challenges of rivals and the fiancées brigade almost every day and a certain tomboy who keeps sending him off into LEO or Low Earth Orbit from time to time when she gets annoyed by him.
With all the demonstration he did, people still are somewhat skeptical of Ranma claim but all agrees that he's an extraordinary individual and the Conspiracy Theorist and UFO nuts are out in force, spouting out numerous and sometimes outrageous ideas about Ranma past ranging from an alien infiltrator to another genetically engineered experiment most likely gone right.
One thing everyone is sure about him, Major Ranma Saotome very existence is stirring a great change across the world resulting in, good, bad and chaotic outcome.