

Troops under the Andrews clone’s command accost the pair, and Todd dies in an escape attempt before he can fully explain everything to Mark. Suspicious over the military’s decision to hide the Masters’ existence from the populous, soldier Todd Harris steals the " MODAT 5" - a mobile terminal remotely connected to the mother computer in the form of a motorcycle - and seeks help from his friend Mark Landry, telling him to contact “ Eve”. When his proposal is approved, he secretly begins beaming the contents of the computer’s database to the Masters, after which they plan to destroy the Earth. Following a disastrous attack by the ASC on the Masters’ flagship, the Andrews clone proposes that the military take charge of use the mother computer to formulate a defense against the Masters. Andrews of the Army of the Southern Cross and secretly replacing him with a clone. The Masters launch a covert attack on a small human settlement, killing Colonel B.D. Now, in 2027, the Robotech Masters themselves arrive in Earth’s solar system aiming to recover the ship’s still-functional mother computer, being studied at Earth’s Robotech Research Center in Japan. The First Robotech War erupted over the vessel, ending with a victory for humankind, at the cost of the SDF-1 itself. In the year 1999, the alien spacecraft SDF-1 crashed on Earth, followed ten years later by the alien Zentraedi, seeking to reclaim the vessel for their rulers, the Robotech Masters. Macek later denounced the film, saying that despite the intrigue it simply wasn't worth seeing. The film was produced by Cannon Films, which demanded changes at the last minute after studio heads saw the film and complained that it had "too many girls, not enough guns." This forced Macek to entirely rewrite the script from the ground up, changing the timeline of the film and inserting footage from Southern Cross to add more fight sequences as requested by Cannon.Īfter one test run at a movie theatre in Texas, the film was officially canceled, although it was released on VHS and Laserdisc in several European and Spanish countries. It was adapted by Carl Macek into a spin-off of the Robotech series, with his intentions being that it would essentially serve as a prequel to the planned Robotech II: The Sentinels TV series, being set during the events of Robotech: The Macross Saga. " Robotech: The Movie", also credited as " The Untold Story", was a English theatrical adaptation of the Japanese OVA " Megazone 23, Part 1".
