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Robotech ii exedore
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In spite of Harmony Gold's statements about not planning to do so, the petition had received 6,911 signatures, as of September 29, 2007.ĭespite its cancellation, Harmony Gold provided the unfinished Sentinels source material for adaptation by several different parties, resulting in several different versions of the same continuity. In 2001, an online Petition to Finish The Sentinels was started by a Canadian fan for Harmony Gold to animate the rest of the planned episodes. The disc includes the option of a voiceover commentary by Macek (mostly read directly from the comprehensive Robotech Art 3: The Sentinels), in which he discusses some of the aspects of the production. The Sentinels feature was included on DVD as an extra with the third volume of the Robotech Legacy Collection and the complete Protoculture Collection, from ADV Films. Macek's own Streamline Pictures released it again in 1992. Macek collected the usable footage from the aborted Sentinels project into a feature film that was first released on VHS in 1987 by Robotech RPG publisher Palladium Books.

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Since Harmony Gold lacked the funds to produce the series on its own, production ceased after only three episodes. Macek blamed the cancellation of the series on the crash of the Dollar/Yen exchange rate in the mid-1980s, which caused toy partner Matchbox to withdraw from the project due to the increased cost. When the animators focused on new characters instead of Rick Hunter and the other characters derived from the original Macross series, Macek ended up reassigning the scriptwriting to American writers, headed by script supervisor Kent Butterworth to refocus the project. According to director Carl Macek, the Japanese animators initially tried to relate the project to the original versions of Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada, until Harmony Gold explained the differences made in Robotech's adaptation with diagrams and charts. The Tatsunoko Production animation studio assigned the first script drafts to writers Sukehiro Tomita ( Macross, Mospeada) and Hiroshi Oonogi ( Macross). It was only with the third attempt in 2044, which involved all available REF forces (now equipped with new technology obtained from the Haydonites) that the Invid were dislodged from Earth. In 20, the REF sent the 10th and 21st Mars divisions to try and retake the planet, but both ended in complete failure. In less than a week, the Invid seized control of the planet, and began utilizing the human population for slave labour and scientific experiments. The United Earth Forces (including the elite Army of the Southern Cross) had been severely weakened by the Second Robotech War and were only able to offer limited resistance.

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In 2031, the Invid under the control of the Regis, invaded Earth. In June 2030, the final battle of the Second Robotech War caused a release of the spores of the Invid flower of life across Earth, which soon attracted the Invid. The mission soon became preoccupied with the liberation of worlds under the control of the Invid Regent. The expedition was led by Lisa Hayes aboard the SDF-3 which was launched in 2022 in search of the Robotech Masters. It took place concurrently with the 2nd and 3rd Robotech wars.

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The Pioneer Expedition was a mission to confront alien forces in space to prevent interplanetary war on Earth. Edwards, who was first introduced in Comico's Robotech: The Graphic Novel.

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The story also introduces a human adversary in the form of T. Emil Lang, a supporting character in the Macross Saga, would return as a main character. Among the newly-created characters were young cadet rivals Jack Baker and Karen Penn, whose early love-hate relationship mirrored Rick and Lisa's Vince Grant, brother of Claudia Grant, and father of Bowie Grant and the Invid Regent, the villainous leader of the Invid. The significant events in the film include Lynn Minmei making peace with Admiral Lisa Hayes well enough to sing at her wedding to Major General Rick Hunter and the Invid's brutal invasion of the Robotech Masters homeworld of Tirol.īeing a sequel/spinoff to the combined series, The Sentinels featured characters from all three Robotech sagas, including Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes (later Lisa Hayes-Hunter), Max Sterling, Miriya Parina Sterling, Exedore and Breetai from The Macross Saga, Dana Sterling and Bowie Grant from Masters, and Jonathan Wolff, Scott Bernard and the Invid Regis of The New Generation. The title refers to the Sentinels, an alien resistance movement encountered by the Robotech Expeditionary Force (REF) that consists of races subjugated by the Robotech Masters or the Invid. It introduces the SDF-3, along with its crew, and gives an overview of their new mission. The feature-length pilot is composed of the first three (and only) episodes that were produced for the series.















Robotech ii exedore