SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT...

It was 2020.  Six years had passed since the destruction of the Super Dimentional Fortresses 1 and 2, that final tragedy of the First Robotech War.  But Earth was on the mend now, and from the wreakage of those ships the Robotech Defense Force had succeeded in fashioning a new battle fortress - the SDF-3.  Its mission: to cross the galaxy and make peace with Tirol's Robotech Masters.

It sounded straightforward enough; but unknown to Admirala Rick and Lisa Hunter and their crew of thousands, the Robotech Masters were already on their way to Earth!

Nevertheless Tirol would have a greeting in store for the Expeditionary Mission: an incendiary salute from the warlord whose hordes had conquered half the galactic Quadrant - the Invid Regent!  Threatened with a swift and violent end, and suddenly torn by internal struggles for power, the RDF would find itself thrust into...

A SAVAGE WAR FOR SURVIVAL!

DESPERATE ALLIANCE!

The Robotech Expeditionary Force had been stranded on the far side of the galaxy as the result of damage to their Super Dimensional Fortress during the battle with the Invid hordes.  Their chances for survival were slim.

Suddenly, a starship unlike anything that had ever flown before appeared - manned by an incredible assortment of beings who meant to challenge the might of the Invid Regent himself!

REF volunteers signed aboard, with their mighty war mecha in tow, for a campaign that would either mean the total destruction of the freedom fighters or liberty for the planets of -

THE SENTINELS

MAROONED ON A DOOMED WORLD!

Four months passed without a word from the Sentinels, and the members of the Expeditionary Mission to Tirol were beginning to fear the worst.  This, even as they entered into truce negotiations with the being who might have been responsible for the destruction of the Sentinels' starship - the Invid Regent himself.

Meanwhile, the survivors of the Farrago remained hopelessly stranded on Praxis, a planet in cataclysm, hastened to endtime by the dark designs of the Invid Regis.  But deep within that world's transferred core were answers to the Sentinels' prayers; if they could only reach them before Praxis tore itself apart.  For Rick and Lisa Hunter, Cabell, and the others, the moment had arrived for desperate actions...

AND TIME WAS RUNNING OUT!

GO TO GUNS!

The bearlike Karbarrans and the swashbuckling amazons from Praxis, the feral natives of Garuda and the Human Robotech heroes - these oddly met champions banded together with other races, from other planets, to form the Sentinels.

Yet what fighting force could hope to dislodge the Invid hordes from Haydon IV, ethereal world of superscience and hidden emotional conflict; or Spheris, crystalline globe of living minerals and murderous resonances?

The Sentinels launch their attack nevertheless; they've come too far to surrender to tyranny.  But the treachery of a megalomaniac Human general and a mutating Invid P.O.W. make the war seem hopeless.

The Sentinels battle on, though, because for them it's...

VICTORY OR DEATH!

A WORLD APART...

Optera!  Birthplace of the Flowers of Life and their agents of retribution, the Invid... nexus for an unfolding of events that had left the galaxy reshaped and redefined... and now the focal point of the Sentinels' long campaign to liverate the Quadrant from the Regent's tyranny.

Edwards is on his way to Optera, in flight from Tirol with his prisoner Lynn-Minmei and a handful of Invid Inorganics under his control.  So too are Bretai's Zentraedi - closing on the very world the Imperative bade them defoliate generations ago - and the renegade forces of Tesla, mutated beyond recognition by the fruits of the Flower.

The Sentinels themselves are not far behind.  However, they have Peryton to deal with first - a godforsaken planet cursed by fate and time itself.  But what awaits Rick, Lisa, and the Human Sentinels there is a mere primer for what is to come: the realization that they have journeyed across the galaxy...

TO WAGE WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER!