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Aeon Lanack (AL) begins as the era of Tiresian time. All years from this point are referenced in their history as AL, as we would reference years BC or AD.
501 AD (1171 AL)
Zor is born on Tirol.
586-821 AD (1256-1490 AL)
Quadrant exploration by the Tiresian techno-voyager sleeper ship Azstraph--the Venture.
In the Microverse, Arcturus Rann begins a journey of exploration through the far reaches of the Microverse, and is first exposed to the powers of the Enigma Force.
In the Microverse, Baron Karza discovers the secrets to cloning and begins expanding his power base.
In the Microverse, Baron Karza engages in battle with Dallan Rann, the first Force Commander of Homeworld. Dallan Rann is slain, followed by his wife, Lady Sepsis. Karza, backed by his Acroyear allies, conquers Homeworld and the known inhabited systems in the Microverse.
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851 AD (1520 AL)
The Azstraph enters the Tzuptum system and inserts itself into orbit around Optera. Zor encounters the Flower of Life, makes contact with the Invid, and seduces the secrets of the Flower from the Queen Mother, the Regis. The Regis believes Zor to be Haydon returned, and Zor seduces her.
1028 AD (1697 AL)
The Azstraph returns to Tirol. Zor begins to experiment with the Flower specimens he has brought with him from Optera.
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1086-1167 AD (1755-1836 AL)
Zor conjures Protoculture from the Flower and eventually falls victim to the Compulsion placed upon him by the Tiresian Council of Elders. Origin of the Cult of the Three-in-One and ascendancy of the Robotech Masters. Fall of the Great Hall, as the period known as the Great Transition commences.
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1251-1346 AD (1920 AL - 16 AR)
Development of the spacefold drive.
Aeon Robotech (AR) begins, replacing Aeon Lanack in Tiresian history.
Creation of Tirol's clone population and the development of the Zentraedi.
1418 AD (88 AR)
The defoliation of Optera by the Zentraedi.
1485-1827 AD (157-500 AR)
Engus' remains are exhumed from the Great Hall and are studied for genetic experimentation and cloning. The clone emerges from the Protoculture chambers calling itself Ingues. Ingues is extremely disoriented and is confused. His lack of complete memories and his vast powers combine to make his mind unstable.
A rebellion against the Cult of the Three-in-One is led by Ingues, who tries to wrest control of the Robotech Empire from the Masters. Seemingly insane with delusions of godhood, he leads a civil war, with the support of some of the Zentraedi that he has cloned, along with clones piloting advanced mecha of his own design that differ from the bioroids of the Masters’ Empire. Despite his technological superiority, his forces suffer heavy losses and are eventually forced to retreat. The aftermath of the civil war leads to the exodus of a fraction of the Tiresian military and citizenry, along with a portion of the Zentraedi fleet, all under the command of Ingues. His fleet is never seen again in this dimension.
Consolidation of the empire of the Robotech Masters. The Invid, after a burst of monocellular reproduction, declare war on the Robotech Masters. The Invid use a combination of organic and inorganic technology in their war machine. The Regis chooses to stay at the evolved humanoid form she shared with Zor; the Regent devolves to feel his emotion of revenge.
1893 AD (566 AR)
Zor's voyages deliver him to Haydon IV, where he has a profound encounter with the planetoid's artificial sentience, the Awareness, and realizes the source of the Flower of Life. Zor receives a vision of the Invid transmutation and realizes what he must do.
Zor designs and builds the starship that will come to be called the SDF-1 to carry out his Flower of Life reseeding program (hoping to return the Flower to the planet it had originated from, Earth), and backed by a group of loyal Zentraedi-begins his "quiet rebellion" against the Masters.
Zentraedi commander-in-chief Dolza forms an uneasy alliance with Zor, who has by now become hopelessly addicted to the dried leaves of the Flower.
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In an alternate dimension, Ingues’ people face their own internal struggles as his apprentice Tyrus leads his own revolt against the Cult of Ingues. Tyrus, like Ingues before him, is forced to flee with his followers, both Tiresian and Zentraedi, and commandeers Ingues’ original Mothership to make their escape. Ingues gives chase in his new Mothership/base and cripples the vessel as Tyrus’ forces begin their fold.
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1907-1967 AD (580-640 AR)
Zor's clandestine seedings attempts take him to Peryton, Karbarra, Praxis, Garuda, and Spheris. The Flower of Life, however, once planted, calls to the Invid across the stars. The Invid Regis engineers the Sensor Nebula to broaden and pinpoint the range of the Invid's awareness of the planets that may have the Flower of Life on them. Each planet makes the Flowers mutate, becoming useless to anyone but the Invid.
1977 AD - 1994 AD
Arcturus Rann, son of Dallan Rann and Lady Sepsis, returns with Biotron from his thousand-year voyage through the Microverse.
Prince Argon dons the sacred armor of the Force Commander to rally the people against Karza.
Rann leads the Micronauts in civil war against Baron Karza.
Argon is defeated by Karza, just as Dallan Rann had been one thousand years before.
Arcturus Rann defeats Karza when his knowledge of the Enigma Force rises from his sub-conscious mind.
The Micronauts struggle to maintain order while battling Karza and his dog soldiers for control of Homeworld and the Microverse.
After several defeats in the Microverse, Baron Karza resigns himself to conquer Earth.
Baron Karza is eventually defeated by the Avengers of the Marvel Universe and is cast into a dimensional gateway by Thor.
1998 AD (671 AR)
Zor steals the single extant Protoculture Matrix from Tiresia and conceals it within the main Reflex drives of the SDF-1. The fortress, with its skeleton crew of loyal Zentraedi, is folded from Tirol's corner of the galaxy.
During a Flower of Life seeding attempt, the Invid takes knowledge of Zor's position and begins a raid. In the threat of the battle fortress falling into the Invid's posession, Zor sends his battle fortress to Earth, manned by a skeleton crew of Zentreadi loyal to him. Zor is killed and Commander Breetai is wounded during the same raid.
Commander-in-chief Dolza orders Commander Reno to return Zor's body to the Robotech Masters on Tirol.
Interstellar war with the Invid, whose homeworld, Optera, had been defoliated by the Zentraedi, continues to chip away at the fringes of the Masters' galactic empire.
In the DC Universe, Wayne Manor disappears during the summer solstice. The Batman is never seen again in the DC Universe.
1999 AD (Robotech Earth)
An alien spaceship crash-lands on Earth, effectively ending almost a decade of global civil war. Originally called "The Visitor," the ship is dubbed Super Dimensional Fortress I--the SDF-1. The starship destroys many cities by its shock wave before it crashes onto Macross Island.
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Dr. Emil Lang, after an initial recon of the ship (in the company of Roy Fokker, Henry Gloval, T.R. Edwards, and others), begins to unravel the secrets of an extraterrestrial science known as Robotech. Dr. Lang is accidentally subjected to raw Protoculture, giving him a mindboost and making him an agent of the Protoculture. Macross Island becomes the focal point of Robotechnology and reconstruction commences on the SDF-1.
The Denver Six Complex is built into the Colorado mountains for U.S. leaders in case of a thermonuclear war, but later abandoned.
2002 (Robotech Earth)
Destruction of Mars Base Sara. Lisa Hayes's fiancee, Carl Riber, is killed. Lisa turns 17.
Development of the reconfigurable Veritech Fighter.
On Tirol, Cabell "creates" Rem by cloning tissue from Zor. The Masters, too, have their way with Zor's body, cloning tissue for their own purposes and extracting from the scientist's residual cellular memories a vision of Earth--destination of the fortress and Protoculture matrix he has stolen and spirited from their grasp.
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2003-08 (Robotech Earth)
Rise of the United Earth Defense Council under the leadership of Senator Alfonso Napoleon Russo, Admiral Hayes, Col. T.R. Edwards, and others. A secret base is made with Robotechnology in Alaska, which will become the Grand Cannon.
Roy Fokker and Claudia Grant become fast friends.
Lisa Hayes is assigned to the SDF-1 project on Macross, under the command of Captain Henry Gloval.
Tommy Luan is elected mayor of Macross City.
Formation of the Robotech Defense Force.
2009 (Robotech Earth)
On the SDF-1's launch day, the Zentraedi (after a ten-year search for Zor's battle fortress and the missing Protoculture matrix) appear and attack Macross Island. The fortress makes an accidental hyperspace jump to Pluto, carrying the island and its population of 75,000 along with it. 15-year-old Lynn-Minmei and 19-year-old Rick Hunter are caught up in the spacefold.
Space battle platforms Armor One and Armor Ten are destroyed by the Zentraedi.
Lisa Hayes turns 24.
2009-11 (Robotech Earth)
The SDF-1 battles its way back to Earth with Macross City rebuilt inside its massive holds.
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Rick Hunter joins the RDF.
The Battle at Saturn's Rings. The Daedalus Maneuver is executed to destroy the Zentraedi ship commanded by Commander Zeril. Rick Hunter's first mission.
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Breetai calls up the Botoru Battalion, led by the notorious Khyron the Backstabber.
The Battle at Mars Base Sara.
Rick Hunter receives the Titanium Medal of Valor and earns the rank of lieutenant after rescuing Lisa Hayes from Base Sara before the destruction of the base. Ben Dixon and Maximilian Sterling are assigned to Rick's newly formed Vermillion VT Squadron.
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Exedore arrives aboard the SDF-1 for peace talks.
The Zentraedi's main fleet appears in Earthspace and lays waste to much of the planet.
Commander Breetai joins forces with the SDF-1. At Alaska Base, the Grand Cannon is fired at Dolza's fleet once, vaporizing roughly one million ships. A retaliatory attack by Dolza destroys Alaska base. Admiral Hayes is killed.
Rick Hunter falls into an early re-entry of Earth's atmosphere during the battle and rescues Lisa Hayes from Alaska base where she was assigned to a new position by her father. Unknown to Rick and Lisa, T.R. Edwards sees them, but is left behind in the base; he swears for personal vengeance against them.
The severely damaged SDF-1 defeats Dolza's armada of four million ships with an assist from Lynn-Minmei's songs, and returns to the ravaged Earth.
Captain Gloval is promoted to the rank of admiral.
Lisa Hayes and Rick Hunter both are promoted to the rank of captain.
2012 (Robotech Earth)
A period of reconstruction begins, with Humans and Zentraedi working side-by-side.
The Robotech Masters lose confidence in their race of warrior clones and begin a mass pilgrimage through interstellar space in superluminal city-ships to Earth to recapture Zor's Protoculture matrix.
2013 (Robotech Earth)
Dana Sterling and Bowie Grant (son of Claudia Grant's brother, Vince) are born.
Captain Lisa Hayes is promoted to admiral.
The Robotech Factory Satellite is captured from Commander Reno by using baby Dana Sterling as a diversion and is then folded to Earth orbit.
Dr. Lang and Professor Lazlo Zand begin work on a secret project involving artificial intelligence. Zand takes a peculiar interest in Dana Sterling after undergoing a Protoculture mindboost.
2014 (Robotech Earth)
Khyron makes a surprise appearance and holds Minmei and Kyle hostage in exchange for the battle fortress. Rick Hunter successfully leads his veritech squadron in operation "Star-saver."
Khyron's forces manage to steal a Protoculture Chamber, the device by which the Zentraedi can mironize themselves or resize to full stature.
Female Zentraedi Power Armor Ace Khrystle joins the RDF.
Admiral Lisa Hayes is given the command of the newly built SDF-2 to go on a mission to Tirol.
The Destruction of New Macross, the SDF's 1 and 2, along with Khyron's cruiser; Henry Gloval, Claudia Grant, Sammie Porter, Vanessa Leeds, and Kim Young are among the casualties. The remains of the three ships are buried under tons of earthen debris dredged up from Lake Gloval.
End of the First Robotech War
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