From: visser@convex.com (Lance Visser)
Subject: Re: ROBOTECH
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:42:20 GMT
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In <EeP0QD200iUxM1Gb8w@andrew.cmu.edu> "Carol A. Buckner" <cb30+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

+>Anybody out there remember this cartoon?  I used to watch it with my
+>brother when we were younger.  It always reminded us of a cartoon
+>version of Battle Star Galactica because a whole civilization saved
+>itself by taking off from their doomed home planet in search of a new
+>place to live.  I don't remember who the nemesis was that chased the
+>robotech gang???  We haven't gotten it here in Pittsburgh for a good
+>while.  Does it still come on anywhere?  Just curious.
 
	Robotech was actually three different series of Japanese 
shows hooked together with a made-up common plot.

	The series to my knowledge is not being shown anywhere, but
is available on video.  There was a planned all-original sequel to
the series called Robotech II: "the sentinals" which ended up not
happening because of financing difficulties.  The bits of the new
series that were finished have been released as a one-shot video.

	The "nemesis" your probably thinking of is the Zentradi(sp).

	The show's plot (at first) was as follows:  An alien ship
crashes into earth.  The crash of the ship leads to the formation
of some sort of world government based upon the threat of alien 
invasion.  The ship's technology is adapted and the ship is gradually
restored.
	On the day the ship is to launch, its owners show up in the solar
system wanting it back.  They are giants called the Zentradi.  The
Zentradi attack the location where the ship is (a south pacific island)
and the ship trys to escape via a "fold" operation to the other side of
the moon.  The problem is that the "fold" mechanism is untested and they
end up folding the island (and a hunk of ocean) with them.  The fold
also doesn't put them on the other side of the moon, it puts them near
pluto.  And to top it off, the fold mechanism has disappeared.  The people
aboard the ship were the people from the Island were the ship was launched
from.  The first half of the series concerns itself with their attempts
to get back to earth (with the alien fleet fighting them all the way).

1.	Eventually they get back to earth and eventually the aliens
quit fooling around and start attacking the planet with their fleet.
The fleet eventually gets destroyed at a very high cost.
The second part of the series deals with the reconstruction of the planet
and how things develop.  At the end the main surviving characters
decide to go off into space to try and head off any futher invasion.

2.	The series shifts gears entirly and deals with a 
second invasion a few years after the first.  There is a whole new
set of characters and all new aliens. 

3.	After the serond set of aliens is defeated, we shift again
to a third set of aliens.  This part of the series starts with
a successful invasion.  The children of the people who went off into space 
(in 1) to head off a futher invasion come back and try to re-take the planet. 

	The series was turned into a set of books under the general
title of robotech.  The books continue the series beyond the end of 
the television show and give it a sort of conclusion.