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Welcome to the ROBOTECH corner of Sentinel Productions! This page is all about the Robotech role-playing game from Palladium Books: the books, the three Robotech Wars, the mecha, and a few tools for Game Masters.
Strap in, check your protoculture gauge, and keep one eye on the radar. You never know when a Battle Pod is going to come over the hill.
What is Robotech?
Robotech is the animated series that brought transforming fighter jets and giant alien warriors to American afternoon TV in 1985. Carl Macek and Harmony Gold wove three Japanese series, Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada, into one 85-episode saga about three generations defending the Earth:
- The Macross Saga. The First Robotech War. A crashed alien battle fortress, the giant Zentraedi, and the pilots of the Robotech Defense Force.
- The Robotech Masters. The Second Robotech War. The Zentraedi's creators come to Earth, and the Army of the Southern Cross meets them.
- The New Generation. The Third Robotech War. The Invid have taken Earth, and a band of freedom fighters fights its way to Reflex Point.
In November 1986, Palladium Books published Robotech: The Role-Playing Game, Book One: Macross by Kevin Siembieda. It runs on Palladium's Megaversal rules: percentile dice for skills, a twenty-sided die to strike, parry and dodge, and mecha that can soak up a tremendous amount of punishment.
The Robotech Wars
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 1999 | The crash. An alien battle fortress falls out of the sky onto Macross Island in the South Pacific. Earth spends the next ten years rebuilding it as the SDF-1, and learns Robotechnology along the way. |
| 2009 | Launch day. The Zentraedi arrive to reclaim the ship, and the SDF-1's main gun fires on them all by itself. A desperate space fold throws the SDF-1, and the city of Macross with it, out to the edge of the solar system. |
| First War | The long way home. The SDF-1 fights its way back to Earth with a whole city in its belly. Human music and culture shake the Zentraedi to the core, and many of them defect. The war ends with the Rain of Death, when the Zentraedi Grand Fleet devastates the planet. |
| 2014 | Khyron's last attack. The SDF-1 and SDF-2 are destroyed. |
| The REF | To the stars. The Robotech Expeditionary Force leaves Earth aboard the SDF-3 to make peace with the Robotech Masters on Tirol. Robotech II: The Sentinels follows them. |
| Second War | The Masters arrive. The Robotech Masters come for the protoculture matrix hidden aboard the SDF-1. The Army of the Southern Cross meets them in orbit and on the ground. |
| Third War | The Invid Invasion. Drawn by the Flower of Life, the Invid conquer Earth. Freedom fighters and the returning REF fight to take it back, and it all ends at Reflex Point. |
The exact years after 2014 change depending on whether you ask the TV series, the novels or the Palladium books. Your GM has the final word.
The Palladium Robotech Library
Every Palladium Robotech book so far, in the order they hit the shelves. Check off the ones you own and your browser will remember. You own 0 of 14.
| # | Book | Type | Released | Got it? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Book One: Macross | Core rules | Nov. 1986 | |
| 2 | Book Two: The RDF Manual | Sourcebook | Mar. 1987 | |
| 3 | Book Three: Zentraedi | Sourcebook | Mar. 1987 | |
| 4 | Book Four: Southern Cross | Sourcebook | Sept. 1987 | |
| 5 | Robotech II: The Sentinels | Robotech II RPG | 1987 | |
| 6 | Ghost Ship | Adventure | Feb. 1988 | |
| 7 | RDF Accelerated Training Program | Adventure | Mar. 1988 | |
| 8 | Book Five: Invid Invasion | Sourcebook | June 1988 | |
| 9 | REF Field Guide | Robotech II | Mar. 1989 | |
| 10 | Book Six: The Return of the Masters | Sourcebook | July 1989 | |
| 11 | Lancer's Rockers | Adventure | Dec. 1989 | |
| 12 | Zentraedi Breakout | Adventure | May 1994 | |
| 13 | Book Seven: New World Order | Sourcebook | Apr. 1995 | |
| 14 | Book Eight: Strike Force | Sourcebook | July 1995 |
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Reviews of every book are coming soon. Really!
Think the RDF's Veritechs are too flimsy next to a Glitter Boy? So do The AntiKevs. Check out their RDF Stat Patch for house rules that beef them up.
Who's Who in the Robotech Wars
| Side | War | The short version |
|---|---|---|
| Robotech Defense Force | First | Earth's military in the Macross Saga. Veritech fighters, Destroids and the crew of the SDF-1. |
| Zentraedi | First | Giant warrior clones bred by the Robotech Masters. They know everything about war and nothing about culture, until they meet humans. |
| Robotech Masters | Second | The rulers of Tirol who created the Zentraedi. They want the protoculture matrix back, and they send Bioroids to get it. |
| Army of the Southern Cross | Second | Earth's defenders when the Masters arrive. Hover Tanks, Bioroid hunters and a lot of brass. |
| Robotech Expeditionary Force | Sentinels & Third | The fleet that left on the SDF-3 to find the Masters. It comes home to find Earth occupied. |
| The Invid | Third | Hive-minded aliens who follow the Flower of Life wherever it grows. They take Earth and build their hives across it. |
| The Sentinels | Robotech II | An alliance of alien worlds fighting the Invid Regent, with the REF at their side. |
| Freedom Fighters | Third | Resistance bands on an Invid-held Earth. Cyclones, stolen mecha and a lot of nerve. |
The Mecha Hangar
| Mecha | Side | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Veritech Fighter | RDF | A jet fighter that becomes a Guardian and a Battloid. The star of the Macross Saga. |
| Destroids | RDF | The Tomahawk, Defender, Spartan, Phalanx and MAC II Monster. Walking tanks and gun platforms. They don't transform. They don't need to. |
| Tactical Battle Pod | Zentraedi | The long-legged pod the Zentraedi field by the thousand. |
| Power Armor | Zentraedi | Battle armor for full-size Zentraedi. There's a male and a female version, and the female version is the one to worry about. |
| Veritech Hover Tank | Southern Cross | A hover tank that becomes a Gladiator and a Battloid. |
| Bioroid | Robotech Masters | Piloted war machines that ride hover sleds into battle. |
| Cyclone | REF | A motorcycle that becomes battle armor. Every freedom fighter wants one. |
| Alpha & Beta Fighters | REF | Two Veritechs that dock together into one heavy fighter. |
| Scouts, Troopers & Shock Troopers | Invid | The crab-shelled Invid war machines. Where there's one, there are fifty. |
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Campaign Hot Spots
| New Macross City The city that grows up around the SDF-1 after the Rain of Death. Humans and Zentraedi live side by side, and not everyone is happy about it. |
The Factory Satellite A captured Zentraedi robot factory in Earth orbit. Mecha, spare parts and some very large neighbors. |
| Monument City The big city of the Southern Cross years. Military parades by day, Bioroid raids by night. |
Reflex Point The Invid Regis's central hive. Every resistance band dreams of reaching it. Most never do. |
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