HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM THE “MACROSS” PART OF ROBOTECH?
Carl Macek made many modifications to the Macross story in order to mesh it with Southern Cross and Mospeada, some trivial, others grotesque. These are some of the more notable differences. The most important difference is the definition of “Protoculture.” It is not an energy source; it is not some biochemical substance that allows for mecha transformation; it is not some quasi-mystical force playing games with the Universe; it is not a god. “It” is not an it at all. The Protoculture were literally the “first culture” to evolve in the galaxy, circa 50,000 B.C. Circa 47,000 B.C. a Protoculturian exploration vessel visited Terra, presumably leaving behind humanity’s ancestors. As their Stellar Republic expanded they came into conflict with the Patrollers, that conflict eventually resulting in the destruction of the Protoculture and their republic. The “SDF-1 Macross” (originally designated “ASS-1: Alien StarShip-1”) belongs to an unnamed race that is at war with the Zentraedi. Britai Kri
