- Author's Note -

I am sorry that this story has been virtually abandoned for the past 8 years. I hit a point where I just couldn't figure out where to take the story. Most Ranma / Robotech crossovers have the same plots and reusable clichés. Ranma gets trapped on board the SDF-1 when it launches, becomes an ace veritech pilot, usually beats up or shows up Rick Hunter, marries Lisa Hayes, becomes Miss Macross and becomes the hero of the war instead of Rick Hunter. While I love these clichés and the stories they are in, I did not want this story to go that way. Of course, the whole reason I started this fanfic in the first place all those years ago was to write a story where Ranma and Lisa get together. This is still probably going to happen, but I want this story to be able to stand out a little bit from the rest of the crossovers. Unfortunately I had no idea how to do this, that is until I started reading Tail Kinker's new fanfic Wednesday's Child. That is an excellent story and a great example of a different way to get Ranma into the Robotech Universe. This gave me the inspiration I needed to finally flesh out the barest whispers of the plot I started so many years ago. Another great story that I like to read is Dragon Lady of Macrossby Lisa Grey (Calamity-Queen of Cordite), that story really explores how Ranma-chan could excel in Robotech.

Currently I have rewritten chapters 1 and 2 of Recovering Hearts. The changes are mostly minor and cosmetic, except for the Robotech time period, which I had never really been firm about except that it was a year or so from the launch. Now I have written an entire timeline for the story and it starts less than three years after the Visitor arrived.

Amazingly enough, I have also finished chapter 3, the bane of this story, a chapter that I wrote and rewrote so many times all those years ago that I finally gave it up in disgust.

I've started attempting to delve deeper into the technical details of the Robotech universe, because frankly, it's a series that thrives on the mechanical details. Unfortunately there are so many differing 'official' specs and timelines that it's ridiculous. There are books and comics that are no longer part of the mainline universe, there is an old RPG that I was going to use for technical details all those years ago that is completely different than anything else I can find and there are other series and movies that have nebulous connections to the original series. That's not even going into the whole Macross / Robotech differences. This story is going to be Robotech, but I reserve the right to use some of the names and ideas from Macross, if I feel like it will help advance the story. For the technical specifications, I finally decided to use the Unofficial Robotech Reference Guide website. They have enough details in there to satisfy me and it is in one place.

One of the details about Robotech that I have always been bothered by is the way Rick Hunter went from a showboating civilian to a Lieutenant Commander (I believe at the end of the series) in around 3 years. Sure there are a lot of deaths and they have to replace pilots and officers, but he never even went to any kind of Officer Training, or even Basic Training to learn how to follow orders.

Anyways, I'm going to try and avoid showing such blatant favoritism to Ranma.

I hope you guys stick around for the story and enjoy it. I will be posting it as a new story, instead of fighting with FFN to replace the old chapters already posted with the new rewrites. I probably won't start posting it until I've written at least two more chapters though, maybe more. Frankly it's much easier to write now that I have a basic timeline to follow, but I still want to make sure that it keeps flowing and I get some of the basic premises of the plot put down before I start reading reviews, lol.

If anyone is interested in being a beta reader for me, someone I can bounce ideas off of, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Queberjeque