Timeline: Second Robotech War

## 2028

**June**

* Robotech Masters' fleet arrives in the Sol system, taking up position around Saturn. They find and destroy a marooned Zentraedi Boturu Battalion ship.
* The Masters send an advance force the conducts a probing attack on the Far East Sector outside Neo-Tokyo. During the attack, the Robotech Masters' forces capture GMP Colonel B.D. Edwards. The Robotech Masters create a clone of him for the express purpose of acting as an agent.
* After being returned to Earth and taking the place of the real Colonel Edwards, the clone takes it upon himself to transfer data from the SDF-1's main computer in the Robotech Research Centre to the Masters' Mothership.
* Information transmitted to the Robotech Masters includes (but was not limited to) the locations of the SDF-1's remains, interstellar communications network, satellite systems and equipment capabilities.

**July**

* The clone of Colonel Andrews secures access to the SDF-1's computer core by impounding all of the MODAT prototypes. MODAT-5 is stolen and falls into the hands of Mark Landry, a transfer student.
* The clone of Colonel Andrews stages a military coup and takes control of the Far East sector with the support of GMP and Southern Cross forces. The coup ultimately fails and the clone is killed by Mark Landry. The UEG reasserts control over the Sector.

**December**

* VFH-10 AGAC begins operational testing with the Tactical Armoured Space Corps. Teasting is headed up by the 12th TASC Squadron (Black Lions) commanded by Lt. Marie Crystal.

## 2029

**January**

* An Earth force (including prototype AJACS) comes under attack by an unidentified foe around Saturn. When additional Earth forces arrive, the enemy fleet retreats, having collected their battle data.
* **Start of the Second Robotech War**

**February**

* Annie LaBelle is born in Panama.

**April**

* Moon Base Luna is attacked and destroyed by the Robotech Masters.
* Robotech Masters' mothership arrives in Earth Orbit. Communications with Space Station Liberty is lost due to heavy jamming by the fleet.
* CDU captain Maury Kommodo launches a hyper-cobalt missile strike against the Masters' mothership. In response, the Masters reply with an attack on forces outside Monument City. Though the attack is repelled, the Mothership remains in orbit.
* The Army of the Southern Cross prepares a counterattack and the people of Earth prepare for war.

**May**

* Army of the Southern Cross launch their offensive against the Flagship of the Robotech Masters, but they take heavy losses. The Masters retaliate, waging war against the military base near Monument City. Once again, the attack is thwarted, but the ASC realize their weaknesses are apparent.

**June**

* Earth launches a mission to reestablish a communications link with Space Station Liberty and the United Earth Expeditionary Force in deep space. Though the Robotech Masters attempt to prevent this, the mission succeeds.
* Robotech Masters forces attack the ASC launch complex and shipyard at Seville.

**July**

* The Robotech Masters launch a secret excavation of the ruins of the SDF-1 at SX Point 83 in an attempt to recover the Protoculture Matrix. The excavation is discovered by members of the 15th ATAC on patrol. One soldier, Bowie Grant, is captured by the Masters. Dana Sterling, commander of the 15th, leads an unauthorized mission to rescue him. Reinforcements arrive on both sides, resulting in the Masters' retreating but not before inflicting considerable losses on ASC forces.

**August**

* The Robotech Masters launch am attack on a settlement near Monument Ciy, taking Earth citizens captive.
* Under public pressure from Prime Minister Wyatt Moran, Supreme Commander Anatole Leonard orders an immediate retaliation, against the counsel of his advisors. The attack ends in a catastrophic loss for the Army of the Southern Cross, while the Masters' mothership is undamaged.
* Members of the 15th ATAC discover a weakness in the Master's Mothership. The unit launches an attack on the ship and manage to disable it, causing it to crash outside Monument City.
* The 15th ATAC are sent to infiltrate the ship and in the process, they capture a Bioroid mecha.

**September**

* Examination of the captured Bioroid by the UEDF reveals more information about the Masters' technology and clones.
* Constant patrols begin around the downed flagship as debate within the general staff continues regarding the Masters and their true objectives toward Earth.
* Robotech Masters launch attacks on the civilians of Monument City. More than two hundred prisoners are taken. Many of those prisoners are converted into Bioroid pilots.

**October**

* The downed Mothership is recovered by the Masters
* In their quest to find out more information about the humans on Earth, the Robotech Masters decide to insert Zor Prime, into human society as a spy, using a Neurosensor implanted in his brain. He is captured by the Global Military Police, who mistake him for an amnesiac human.
* Recon-1, a UEEF *Tokugawa*-Class ship under the command of Major John Carpenter, arrives from deep space, but is destroyed when it rams into a Robotech Masters Mothership. The event makes it apparent to Generals Leonard and Rolf Emerson that they cannot expect help from the United Earth Expeditionary Force.
* Robotech Masters launch probing attacks across the world, targeting ASC Bases and other sites of interest. Targets include a Southern Cross base in Brazil, leading to the destruction of a nearby farming community.
* Robotech Masters engage in salvage efforts across the world aiming to recover Protoculture from derelict Zentraedi vessels.

**November**

* Many populations blame micronized Zentraedi for the attacks or assume they are in collusion with the Masters. Lynchings and attacks become common, leading to many Zentraedi fleeing into remote regions across the world.

## 2030

**January**

* At the order of General Emerson, Zor Prime is assigned to Dana Sterling's 15th ATAC in hopes that military life will bring back parts of his memory that could be of valuable intelligence.
* Zor Prime overhears General Emerson’s comments that an attack by the Earth fleet is in preparation, and this information is intercepted by the Masters.
* Full production of the VFH-10 AJACS begins.

**March**

* Thanks to the intelligence from Zor Prime, the Robotech Masters easily repel the Earth's first major offensive against their fleet, inflicting massive losses. The few surviving ships of the Earth's First Assault Wave fleet fall back to Moon Base ALuCE.
* Supreme Commander Leonard orders a second assault wave to rendezvous at the moon with the other forces and launch a combined attack.
* Dana Sterling and Zor Prime discover the Invid Flower of Life within the ruins of the SDF-1

**April**

* With Zor Prime as their unwitting source of information, the Robotech Masters are able to ambush the relief forces sent to aid the First Assault Wave before they can link up. Despite the ambush, and with help from Veritech Fighters sent from the Moon Base, this flotilla is able to force the Robotech Masters to withdraw.
* General Rolf Emerson is appointed by Supreme Commander Leonard to lead the second major offensive against the Robotech Masters. This appointment is largely a move by Leonard to eliminate his opponents.

**May**

* As part of the Second Assault Wave, General Emerson's battlegroup heads to the moon only to be attacked by a battlegroup of capital ships belonging to the Robotech Masters and their complement of Bioroids. Emerson employs a dangerous maneuver called an "Orbital Warp Blast" to defeat the enemy force and is able to complete his voyage to Moon Base ALuCE.

**June**

* General Emerson's Second Offensive launches a combined attack on the Robotech Masters fleet, allowing the insertion of the 15th ATAC into the alien mothership. The Robotech Masters reassert their control over their clone, Zor Prime, and succeed in capturing the insertion team. Dana Sterling and her team manage to escape and rescue Zor Prime while also destroying the Masters' mothership in the process.
* Both sides withdraw as a final decisive battle looms on the horizon.
* The situation for the Robotech Masters has become desperate. Their clones are becoming harder to control and increasingly unreliable while most of their protoculture pods have become infected by germinating Flowers of Life. The Masters resolve to recover the protoculture factory, locked within deep recesses of Zor's battlefortress.
* The Invid Sensor Nebula arrives in Earth space, alerting the Robotech Masters to the imminent arrival of the Invid.
* Triggered by being inside the ruins of the SDF-1, Zor Prime regains the memories of the original Zor, founder of the great Robotech civilization and creator of Robotechnology. Zor Prime vows to destroy the Robotech Masters and the protoculture matrix once and for all.
* Robotech Masters deliver an ultimatum to Supreme Commander Leonard demanding that he evacuate earth immediately. In response, Leonard gathers his forces and launches a final assault on the Robotech Masters' fleet.
* Robotech Masters bombard Monument City. Anatole Leonard, Wyatt Moran and most of the leadership of the ASC and UEG are killed.
* General Rolf Emerson is killed in action.
* Robotech Masters launch attacks across the world. Targets include Denver, New Portland, Mexico City, Brasilia, Rome and the Central African Union.
* Robotech Masters forces attack Neo-Tokyo in a last-ditch effort to recapture the SDF-1's mother computer. Faced with the risk of losing the computer, GMP forces order the destruction of the computer core. The remaining Bioroid forces are destroyed, but the Southern Cross forces suffer severe losses.
* Robotech Masters' mothership takes advantage of the situation to reach the ruins of the SDF-1 and excavate the Protoculture matrix.
* Dana Sterling, Zor Prime and other members of the 15th ATAC infiltrate the Robotech Masters' flagship. Zor Prime kills the Robotech Masters.
* 15th ATAC evacuate the remaining Tirolian civilians from the Robotech Masters' mothership.
* Zor Prime attempts to destroy the protoculture matrix by detonating the Masters flagship over the ruins of the SDF-1. However, Zor's last valiant act only succeeds in releasing the spores of the Invid Flower of Life into the sky, spreading the spores of the flowers worldwide.
* **End of the Second Robotech War**

**Late June**

* Most remaining Robotech Masters' forces across the world are defeated or destroyed. Some remnants continue to fight on, however.
* Survivors of Monument City evacuate the city.
* Cities across North America, including New Detroit, Denver and New Portland, close their doors to refugees.
* Surviving Tirolian civilians encamp around the ruins of Monument City, under the protection of the 15th ATAC.
* Southern Cross forces under the command of Gavin Murdock flee Mexico City.
* GMP Commander General Nigel Aldershot gives himself broad emergency powers.
* ASC forces rescue Captain Ezekial Saloon from Bioroid forces in the Central African Union.

**July**

* Leaderless and with their morale shattered, many units desert from the Southern Cross.
* Gavin Murdock's forces take control of Brasilia and rename themselves the Stone Men. Their action trigger a wave of successions across South America and a breakdown of broader authority.
* Surviving UEG officials meet in Neuva Mesa. Senator Bath Constanza appoints himself new chair of the UEG. General Vicenzia is appointed acting commander of the Southern Cross.
* Shimada Yakuza take control of Neo-Tokyo. Far East Sector succeeds from the UEG. Population is relocated entirely underground.
* Flower of Life continues to spread across the globe, taking root worldwide.

**August**

* UEG continues to fragment. By the end of the year, the UEG's control will be limited to North America and parts of Western Europe and Africa.
* Formation of the Defoliators, a group dedicated to the elimination of the Flower of Life (which is generally assumed to be an alien weed) and all of Earth's Protoculture reserves. The group is led by Johnathan Wolfe Jr.
* Rogue Bioroid forces led by Dalmeric Khane destroy a number of settlements in the South-West of North America before being destroyed by the 15th ATAC. They represent the last Bioroid forces left in the continent.
* Hagana Bohsq and Kosiya Menz bring together a large number of Zentraedi refugees in the jungles of Brazil, creating the nation of Jungaru.

**September**

* The Flower of Life continues to spread, aided by an unusually mild northern hemisphere autumn.
* Remaining TASC forces build up a reserve force of Mecha on Moonbase ALuCE II under command of Major-General Desmond Nobutu. The force includes a thousand early-model VF/A-6 Alpha Veritechs that have been in storage since early retirement.

**October**

* Arrival of UEEF Relief Force headed by Colonel Johnathan Wolfe in Earthspace. The force is made up of a number of vessels including brand-new *Garfish*-Class ships. Other assets include brand-new Cyclone mecha.
* **Operation Jaws.** A combined UEEF and GMP force lead by Wolfe destroys last major Robotech Masters holdout in Vietnam.
* Wolfe begins assessment of Earth's defenses in preparation for a likely Invid invasion. He forms alliances with John Carpenter and Dana Sterling. Investigation reveals that about 80% of post-war ASC has deserted or defected to other states.
* ASC begins conscription to make up for losses.
* Pinnacle Base Summit. All remaining UEG territories, as well as a number of non-UEG states attend to discuss the state of the Earth and plans for the future. Wolfe aims to unite the factions to plan for an Invid invasion.
* Remaining ASC forces refuse to follow Wolfe's lead. Behind the scenes, there are clashes between the ASC and the UEEF, with the former distrustful of the latter.
* Many states refuse to take Wolfe's lead and claim that the Invid are a hoax. Presence of the Defoliators undercuts Wolfe's credibility.
* Summit breaks up with no clear plan. Remaining UEG and ASC leadership essentially retreat to Pinnacle Base, giving up on the rest of the world.

**November**

* Wolfe works with his allies, along with the GMP, to lay plans for a post-invasion resistance movement. A number of ASC units, including 15th ATAC and TASC Black Lions join his forces.
* Clashes break out between various nations across the world.

**December**

* Unusually mild northern hemisphere winter continues to aid spread of Flower of Life. By this point it has taken root on every continent save for Antarctica.
* UEEF and GMP forces take control of a number of space launch facilities across the world. Some clashes occur between UEEF and ASC forces, most notably at Fokker Field.
* Wolfe is given command of Valhalla, a former ASC base in Amazonas, Brazil Quadrant.
* Jungaru forms an alliance with the Sendero Luminoso, a Communist insurgent group in South America. The insurgents attempt to betray Jungaru, leading to a war between the two groups. Within two weeks, Jungaru have wiped out the insurgents and claimed their territories and supplies.