Discalimer: I don't own both charachters and story, they belong to Harmony Gold, Studio Nue,Tatsunoko Production, Shoji Kawamori & Haruhiko Mikimoto... (I surely forgot about someone) sadly not to me.

This fic is based on story and characters from Robotech-Macross Saga, SDF-Macross, Macross Zero, Macross-The First, Robotech-The Sentinels, Robotech-Battlecry. Lisa Hayes, Rick Hunter, Lynn Minmay, Max Sterling, Roy Fokker, Captain Gloval, Dr. Lang, Jack Archer, TR Edwards and so on... I planned this story to be pretty long, so... thank you for reading and if you like it, please leave a review.

Mao Nome.

Prologue

In 1999 a huge asteroid had crashed on the island of South Ataria in the Pacific halfway between the Californian coast and Hawaii. The governments of the United States of America and Japan, immediately bordering on the site of the impact, commented on the incident with short press releases that managed to hide the enormous extent of the event only for a few days. The celestial body entered our atmosphere at an impressive speed by momentarily moving the planet Earth from its axis. The night of June 3, 1999, half of the earth's population got a night of nearly 72 hours. Complete darkness on one side of the globe, luminescent twilight on the other side. Terrible earthquakes devastated the Pacific area as a swarm of space debris spilled from the sky like lava. An apocalypse that would be remembered as The Night of the Great Visitor.

What the inhabitants of Earth could not have known, and did not know until several years later, is that the great visitor was not a space body, an asteroid that had accidentally crossed the earth on his insane journey at hypersonic speeds, but a spaceship one kilometer long, a deformed and imposing biotechnological monster, equipped and armed to host operating units of a size disproportionate to the human being.

Command centers, weapons, control monitors, even living quarters were organized to house giants.

Although no type of alien life was found on the ship, it was clear that that sort of fortress was the work of a highly evolved civilization that somewhere in the galaxy was engaged in a conflict. "The Visitor" was a warship. A large, frightening spaceship that carried a sinister nameless threat in its belly, between its massive bulwarks and its endless and dark hallways. The governments of the Earth nations soon realized that The Visitor was a problem that could not simply be ignored.

After carefully hiding the vessel's identity from the inhabitants of Earth, they worked out a plan to learn how to master the alien technology in a desperate rush against time, before its rightful owners would come back for the ship, or had a reason to do it.

A team of scientists from the United States, Russia, Germany, England, Japan and France got together under the code name of OTEC to study alien technology and design weapons able to fight it. Within a year, UN and world leaders decided, after strenuous emergency summits, to establish a joint Earth government that would deal with the emergency of an alien attack whenever it would have happened.

In July 2000 the Global Unification Plan was officially announced: at the same time the military forces of all states would be contributing by enlisting their best combat and intelligence units in a new division especially created to defend the world: the RDF (Robotech Defense Forces). Academics and scientists enlisted in all ranks of the militia would have full access to the new Robotic Technological Systems created on the results of studies carried out on the Great Visitor.

In the future, expected as far away as possible, they would be responsible for the task of defending mankind. The earth's Unification was very hard, as many governments disapproved of this sort of political and military centralization, and riot and uprisings soon soon escalated into guerrillas warfare and terrorist actions around the world, which in the space of six months turned into a full-scale civil war that spread from east to west involving militarized governments, armoured political resistance groups and mercenaries working for multinational corporations and politicians against UEG (United Earth Government): so it started dark time ruled by terror and uncertainty: where the only common mark in the world was the terrible curfew that eclipsed cities and suburbs, villages, small towns and metropolises at every dusk.

Then, shores and oceans disappeared, swallowed up by a darkness with no ending and only the highest peaks of the centuries-old trees would see the pale light of the cold stars, millions miles away.

The windows and the doors were sealed, the dim light of LED lanterns guiding the nights of mankind during the long years of the terrible Unification Wars.

In this time, a bunch of people, coming from all over the world, would met: their fates, bound by a red thread that could never be broken, will take them to the stars... and beyond.