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Wings of a New Dawn

Book 1 of the New Macross Saga

A Robotech Story brought to you,

By

William R. Woods

"Deathzealot"

Chapter BGM is the Earth Government Theme (Earth Government Debriefing) from the Robotech Perfect Soundtrack

Part 05: Homecoming

After the Battle of Lagrange One the First Robotech War went into a several month long intermission with the Zentradi pulling back from the main Earth-Luna System under Supreme Commander Dolza's Orders, and the SDF-1 on Earth ending up in a Civil War with the United Nations Government. While this intermission sported barely any major combat between the SDF-1, its Robotech Defense Force Fleet, and the Zentradi Forces, it sport several major combat actions during this so-called Civil War. However those first weeks after the SDF-1 landed on the planet where quiet peaceful, which would not last for long.

Taken from A Brief Overview of the First Robotech War
Published July, 2014AD

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Mess Hall 3
SDF-1 Macross
April 6, 2010
Off the Coast of California

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On the coast of the state once know, as California was a strange sight for a large human figure floated in the vast ocean, shining under the afternoon sun. The figures arms were spread wide like a priest or a surrendering enemy. This figure is the SDF-1 Macross or just called the SDF-1 by its crew and the civilian refugees being carried by said ship. After a long-drawn out fight across the solar system it would finally make back home on the planet that has become its new home. Right now the large battlefortress underwent numerous repairs suffered thanks to the Battle of Lagrange One that had happened over a week before. The ship sported several large scaffoldings and such around its head or the command superstructure which had taken heavy damage during the mentioned battle.

In one of the several major mess halls of the ship a uniformed form leaned against a railing looking out through the mess hall's large window that took up one wall and through the window the ocean sparkling under the sunlight. This man happened to be Commander Rick Hunter who had recently been promoted to command the ship's fighter group after the previous one Commander Roy Fokker had been found to be MIA or Missing in Action after the Battle of Lagrange One. With a groan the young commander stretched and looked around at the Mess Hall seeing various low-ranking pilots turn away from staring at him. Covering a flinch at this Rick decided to get out of here before someone asked for his autograph or something. He had come here to relax after a long day of meetings he had gone through trying to get the Flight Group back into shape, but maybe it was a bad idea due to the new rookie pilots awe and admiration of him. Granted there where a few veteran pilots here and there who only nodded respectfully at him or gave him a smile of support.

With a sigh Rick started to make his way through the mess hall heading towards the exit ignoring the handful of rookies trying to get his attention or something. As he did so he wondered what he should do know for thanks to Lisa accompanying Captain Gloval to report to the UNG Council at Alaska Base he couldn't see her, and his best friend Max was off chasing some girl through Macross City. However as he passed by a few veteran Skull Squadron Pilots he figured out what he should do.

'Claudia should be out of the hospital by now; maybe I should swing by and see if she needs any help or something,' he thought to himself with a small sad smile on his face thinking about the girlfriend of his missing big brother and superior Roy Fokker. Someone who had become an almost older sister to him during the time he had spent on board the SDF-1. After exchanging a nod with the Skull pilots he left the mess hall behind making his way to the Macross City Hospital where many of the remaining wounded military personal from the battle where looked after thanks in part to the Hospital being more comfortable then the ship's main infirmary. As he left the mess hall behind he never noticed the young woman that bore some resemblance to him staring after him wondering what she should do.

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Main Briefing Room
Alaska Base, Alaska Sector
North America, Earth

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In the freezing and cold place known as Alaska happened to be a small collection of buildings and a few runways in the middle of nowhere. Around the base behind a large series of fences were a series of giant humanoid machines patrolling making sure nobody got a look at the so called headquarters of United Nations Government and its military the United Nations Defense Force. Located underground was the main part of the sprawling base and in one of larger rooms of this labyrinth of rooms, factories, barracks, storage warehouses, and other such places were a pair of officers one a women, the other an much older man stood. In front of the two were a series of Video Screens, which were now active showing the council of leaders of the planet.

"That is all Captain Gloval, but we have one more issue to discuss with you before you go," the leader Chairman Maxwell Russo said with his usual sneer around his ever-present cigar that hanged from his lips.

"What would that be Chairman?" Gloval asked barely concealing his anger at what had been going on, for it seemed like the council gave little care to the situation of the SDF-1 or the threat of the Zentradi Fleet. They also hadn't said anything at all about the refugees aboard the ship as they finished the debriefing by giving him his new orders. He knew at his side his XO Commander Lisa Hayes couldn't conceal her anger so it was showing all over her face.

"Your request to disembark the remaining civilians of Macross City is denied," the man said in an almost bored tone making both officers gasp in surprise and shock at this announcement. With gritted teeth the veteran Captain could only calm himself before looking up at the video screen of the Chairman.

"Is there any reason for this sir?" he asked calmly as he could while he laid a hand on the shoulder of Lisa who looked ready to explode and was looking betrayed at another screen.

"Yes we already announced to the world that they have been killed thanks to an Anti-UN Terrorist Attack on Macross Island. We couldn't possible take that back, especially with this being an election year," the man mentioned with an oily smile on his face as he blew out smoke from his cigar at the camera. Both RDF Officers couldn't believe this but held back from saying anything.

"Sir if I don't disembark the civilians I am going to have riots on my hands," the Captain responded trying to make the man see reason.

"Well captain that is your problem not mine. Now if that is all I have a news interview in a few minutes," the man in charge of the entire planet and its handful of colonies replied without any care in the world before his screen went dark as he signed off. The two officers stared at the darkened screen in shock before looking around at the other screens showing the other members of the UNG Council and a couple of UNDF Flag Officers

"Father why are you doing this?" Lisa finally exploded looking at one of the screens showing one of the mentioned flag officers and also happened to be her Father. However this man sure didn't act like the father that she knew and loved.

"Lisa!" Gloval snapped out beside her with a glare over at her, but it was not as harsh as her father's reply for as he started to turn red in anger.

"Commander Hayes that is enough! While you are on duty you address me by my rank is that clear Commander!" Admiral Hayes yelled out to her. Lisa flinched but saluted like the good officer she was and turned away from him.

"Crystal clear Admiral," she said as tears started to run down her face that Gloval saw but her father didn't for he signed off from the view screen soon as she answered leaving the room dark as the other screens shut off soon after. Gloval threw an arm around Lisa's shoulders and started to lead her towards the elevator that would take them to the surface. As they did so Gloval wondered what had happened to make his old friend do this to his own daughter, the daughter he tried so hard to keep out of the military and safe at home. With a sigh he wondered what would happen now.

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Admiral's Office
Alaska Base, Alaska Sector

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Elsewhere in the large and unending base Admiral Hayes sighed as he sat heavily onto his chair staring at the monitor on his desk which moments before showed the betrayed face of his daughter and the disappointed face of his old friend.

"Oh god I am so sorry Nadia, I just made our daughter hate me," Hayes moaned out as he looked at the picture of a younger Lisa, his wife Nadia and himself. He then turned to various view-screens on the wall to see the Star Goose Shuttle in RDF livery take off from the tarmac on a course towards the SDF-1. He closed his eyes and said a small prayer to keep his daughter safe, and hoped that she would in turn forgive him.

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Room 37-A
Recovery Ward
Macross City General Hospital
Macross City, SDF-1

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Back on the SDF-1 Rick slipped into the hospital room of Claudia to see her sitting on the bed looking out of the window towards Macross City, almost in a daze. With a sigh the young Commander took a seat on of the only chairs in the small room. As he did he noticed that the dark-skinned woman had left arm in a sling and sported several small bandages all over her arms.

"Yeah Claudia," he said with a smile on his face making the woman turn to look at him with her own smile, one that was sad and sorrowful. For while Roy was considered MIA, not many believe him to be alive including Rick but he still held some hope that he is alive which is what kept him going.

"I'm doing fine Rick," Claudia answered but Rick sensed that she wasn't so he sat down on the bed by her side and threw an arm around her shoulders.

"No you aren't what's going on Claudia?" he asked her with a frown and she sighed turning to look out the window again.

"It's just I miss him Rick, while I know he is missing that only means no one saw him going down," she said with a single tear falling down her face. Rick didn't have to guess who she was talking about.

"It's alright Claudia, yes Roy is missing in action therefore hold onto that hope that he is still alive. If he did die, well he went out the way he wanted to in the cockpit," Rick replied sadly remembering once when Roy told him about how he wanted to die.

"Your right, so how have you been?" she asked with a sigh looking over to Rick beside her, who just chuckled nervously as he stared over at her.

"Well I'm fine just nervous about being the commander of the Veritech Flight Group," he replied with a nervous smile as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Well I now that Roy would be proud to see him commanding in his stead," she replied with a smile and he blushed in response at the attention. Both had a laugh about that and when they finally calmed down they stared out the window at the simulated sunset over Macross City.

"So how is your relationship with Lisa going?" Claudia asked after a few moments with a teasing tone which made Rick blush once more this time in embarrassment.

"It is going great, but the techs thought it will be funny to combine our two quarters since my new one was right next to hers, but we didn't mind and decide to play on the techs rules and left it like that," he replied still blushing as he recounted what happened. Claudia was trying so hard not to all out laugh at this.

"So you want some help taking your stuff back to your quarters," Rick said trying to change the subject since her bags were by the door waiting to be taken out. However Claudia didn't answer so Rick turned and saw that she was looking out of the window again as she rubbed her belly for some reason. So he shrugged and started to pick up the bags, being the gentlemen he was he picked up the largest bags.

"Rick I'm Pregnant," Claudia said out of the blue that made Rick drop a heavy suitcase he was going to pick up dropping it on his foot making him jump up but quickly moved back over to bed. Ignoring the immediate pain from his foot he kneeled in front of her with a deep frown, both concerned over this and a bit excited.

"I thought you guys weren't going to do anything about a child till after the war," Rick asked with a frown remembering a conversation he had with Roy once.

"I guess we didn't try hard enough," Claudia said with a frown rubbing her belly as she looked down at the floor.

"So what are going to do with the baby then Claudia?" Rick asked her curiously a little excited about being an Uncle to the young Fokker, yet a little scared that Claudia didn't want it.

"I was going to abort it when I first heard about it, but now that he is gone I want to keep it since it is the last thing that connects me to Roy, but I'm scared that the Captain may not approve," she said sadly as she continued to rub her belly.

"Don't worry about Gloval I know you know him better than that and you will have the help of myself, Lisa and the Trio you now that," he said with a smile that succeeded cheering her up making her smile down at his kneeling form.

"Well let's get this to my quarters shall we," she said happily as she got up from the bed to pick up one of the shoulder bags.

"Yeah hold on soon as I recover from the suitcase landing on my foot," Rick said with pain evident in his voice now that the immediate problem dealt with making pain flooded his awareness. Claudia looked back at him confused and eyes widened when she saw Rick looking down at his throbbing foot.

"Oh my god I am so sorry Rick!" she said as she rushed to his side to help him up from the floor and called for a nurse.

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Quarters of Rick Hunter and,
Lisa Hayes

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After getting his foot inspected Rick and helping Claudia with moving all her stuff back into her quarters he decided to go back to his quarters to relax. He had a bag full of ice on his foot as he watched the evening broadcast on the TV. Just when he got comfortable while watching a rerun of an old favorite show of his the door buzzed which made him get up to answer it flinching at the pain from his foot. When the door slid open a vaguely familiar female veritech pilot stood they're waiting for him.

"Yes Lieutenant…" Rick said looking at her rank and waiting for her to fill in her name, but the pilot just looked confused at first then smiled saluting him.

"…Hunter sir!' she replied excitedly which made Rick's jaw drop to the floor as it became clear who the pilot was.

"Oh my god Rachael!" he called out immediately pulling her into a hug that was long overdue for the two siblings. A long drawn out hug that started the two on the path to heal from several years of separation, disagreements, and a few fights between the two Hunter siblings. While he had found a family on board the SDF-1 during it journey in the form of Lisa, Max, Roy, Claudia, and even the Trio, he did miss his own family. As the two continued to hug tears and sobs started as the two comforted one another with their sheer presence.

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Bridge
Quaedol-Magdomilla Class Ship
Earth-Luna Lagrange 2

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In endless void of space around the planet of Earth was the Zentradi Pursuit fleet in charge of capturing the SDF-1. Onboard one of the larger vessels was Azonia thecurrent commander in charge of the fleet. She sat watching a Projecbeam of the fortress docked on Earth. She was inching for a fight, but she had her orders to wait till further orders from her superiors. As if on cue another Projecbeam appeared showing an image of Dolza the Supreme Commander of the Zentradi Fleet. Shocked the giant commander saluted her superior as she stood up from her command chair.

"Hail Dolza!" she cried out with the few members of her crew that were in the sight range of the Projecbeam.

"Commander Azonia I know it has taken a while to respond to your report but several events have happened that demanded my attention elsewhere. With that said I need to inform you that your fleet will immediately move to the systems forth planet and adopt an observation only approach to the Battlefortress. Thanks to this I am recalling the remainder of the 67th Scout Division," the even larger commander mentioned looking down at something off screen. Azonia could only stare in shock at the Projecbeam, wondering what is going on for the Supreme Commander to do this. She knew that without the 67th Minor Scout Division, once commanded by Breetai in the search of the Battlefortress she was down to only the remaining ships of the Botoru Battalion and the handful of ships she had brought with her to this system from her own 10th Special Force Battalion which was being rebuilt after a past mission put her fleet at half strength.

"Lord Dolza may I be so bold and ask the reason behind these orders?" Azonia asked hoping she didn't anger the Supreme Commander. However he simply looked up at her and actually shook his head at something or another.

"Commander Azonia thanks to the recent rise in Invid Attacks and some sort of new enemy that suddenly appeared out of nowhere our resources are a little thin. While I could take the Grand Fleet to smash this new enemy it will take too much Protoculture for an operation of that scale therefore I am left with the remaining Imperial Class Fleets, a handful of Special Operations Groups, and the remaining Independent Combat Divisions as my only major mobile units able to fight this new enemy. However with the losses suffered by the 1st Imperial Fleet, and the recent total loss of the 5th Imperial Fleet and 1st Independent Combat Division I am left with few options," the large Zentradi replied making the younger Commander blink once more in surprise at this, especially the news of a total loss of one of the large Imperial Fleets which numbered anywhere from five thousand to ten thousand warships. The 1st Imperial Fleet, still recovering from the battle to defend the Battlefortress and the Protoculture Matrix onboard her from a major Invid Hive Fleet, while the 5th Imperial Fleet was the major offensive formation against the Invid Hive World, Optera and numbered over five thousand warships of various classes and hundred thousand mecha. The 1st Independent Combat Division on the another hand was another elite unit like hers, though the 1st was mainly elite thanks to them being chosen as the personal guard force of the Robotech Masters.

"Lord Dolza what about the retrieval of the Protoculture Matrix and the Battlefortress? Won't we deplete the protoculture reserves fighting this new enemy?" Azonia asked after managing to recover from her shock over the news delivered to her by the Supreme Commander.

"Like I mentioned earlier you are only to observe the Battlefortress for now till such time that I can re-task another fleet to support you. To assist you in this mission I am assigning you the 69th and 70th Minor Scout Flotillas which is all I can afford to give you at this time. As for Protoculture, thanks to the Robotech Masters and their scientists we now have a small Lesser Matrix, though it will not last for long it shall allow us to go through with a campaign against these new enemies," Dolza explained further making Azonia nod at this while she was kind of angry at now fighting anything for a time she wasn't going to let it affect her and it did make sense.

"Very well Milord, however what about the Botoru Battalion shall they be recalled as well?" she asked hoping that they would be since they had given way to much trouble. The Supreme Commander frowned angrily at the mention of the Botoru and looked off-screen for a moment before returning his attention to Azonia.

"Yes they shall be recalled as well for the Masters are looking forward to punish Khyron over this fiasco, and I will need the expertise of the Botoru for the battle ahead. That is all Commander you have your orders," the Supreme Commander mentioned making Azonia salute him once more before the Projecbeam went dark as it disconnected. With a shake of her head and a frown she turned to relay the orders to leave this planetary system behind. She briefly wondered who this new enemy is and hoped they would be crushed very soon for she wanted to get back into the fight. Several minutes later saw several flashes announcing the retreat of the Zentradi Fleet from the Earth-Luna Planetary System, however they would be back.

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Post Chapter Notes:

Well there is Part Five of the Wings of a New Dawn, and yet another filler chapter but one that has some very important information. First I have re-did the character of Russo slightly and made him the Chairman of the UNG Council, and the second part of the deadly duo from Frozen shall be his appearance very soon changed as well. Secondly we have the Zentradi Fleet pulling back from the Earth-Luna System towards Mars. Before I get people yelling at me that the Imperial Fleet was a million ships allow me to explain. I have totally rebuilt the Zentradi Fleet into what I have mentioned here. For one I really couldn't imagine the entire fleet of the Zentradi being the Grand Fleet, a single smaller Imperial Fleet, and a handful of special operation units like the Botoru. You have to remember that in Macross there are hundreds of Zentradi Fleets spread across the galaxy all a near copy of the Grand Fleet which attacks Earth. Therefore in this story the Zentradi Fleet is a bit larger then it appears to be in Robotech.

To further explain the Zentradi Fleet:

1 x Grand Fleet (5,000,000 Ships)
7-8 x Imperial Class Fleets (5,000 to 10,000 Ships)
25-30 x Independent Combat Divisions (500 to 1,000 ships depending on mission)
50-100 x Special Operation Divisions (50 to 500 ships depending on mission)
50-100 x Major Scout Divisions (500 Ships, Picket and Scout Ships mostly with some cruisers backing them up)
100-200 x Minor Scout Division/Flotillas (50 to 500 ships, primarily scout ships)

Basically the fleet is separated into smaller formations mainly to prevent total protoculture depletion of the entire fleet. The Imperial Class Fleets are usually the main offensive formations for the Zentradi and usually number around six to seven though currently there are five active Imperial Fleets with the as mentioned the 5th totally destroyed and the 1st rebuilding. Then we have the Independent Combat Divisions which are small fleets for dedicated missions and basically secondary combat missions. The Robotech Masters Elite Guard is considered to be a ICD, and for those asking I got the Guard from the Robotech: Megastorm Comic. (Thank you Robotech Wiki!) Then we have the Special Operation Divisions which are the elite of the Zentradi Fleet and take the difficult missions and such. Both the Quadrano and Botoru Battalions fall under this category. Finally we get to the major scout divisions these fleets do the day to day stuff (patrols, convoy escort, etc) around the Robotech Empire. They mainly sport scout and picket ships with a handful of cruisers backing them up. The fleet Breetai initially took to the Sol System is a Major Scout Division. The Minor Scout Divisions on the other hand are pure scout formations and as such scout for the more major fleet formations.

Anyways there is my version of the combined Zentradi Fleet, this doesn't count the Border Fleet which is a totally different thing and won't be introduced till the third story if I ever get around to it. Hopefully this answer some questions some people have over the fleet. I shall post a more dedicated quick and dirty overview of the Zentradi Fleet later.

That done I need to get some sleep and I should hopefully get the next chapters cranking out in the next few ideas so expect a deluge of chapters. I am trying to get caught up so I don't have to take valuable NaNoWriMo Time to finish this. Till then Ciao!

No Omake Tonight, for I can't think of one. May add one later.