We should all do it again sometime.ĬHAPTER ONE "Beware the skies, for the cerulean raiments of that sweetscented realm mask a darkness and evil that know no bounds. More than seventy thousand strong have been aided and abetted in their efforts by the following, to whom the author wishes to express his heartfelt gratitude: Comico Comics, especially Markalan Joplin, who died shortly before completion of the illustrated series Eternity-Comics, which has inherited the mantle and is currently pub-lishing twice-monthly issues of the Sentinels Kevin Siem-bieda and the staff at Palladium Books for their role-playing games Kay Reynolds and Ardith Carlton, creators of the Starblaze Robotech Art Books Kevin Seymour of Books Nippan and a special thanks to Claude Pelletier, Michel Gareau, Alain Dubreuil, and the staff at Protoculture Addicts, the official Robotech fanzine. But perhaps Robotech's most important contributors have been the fans themselves, who have kept this project vital for five years running. The result would have been an additional sixty-five ep-isodes of animation detailing the exploits of the Sentinels, and who knows how many more devoted to the material cov-ered in this final book, presented here for the first time. It is a source of continuing disappointment that the project, as envisioned by Mr. Together with a talented team of writers, voice-over artists, and production personnel, Robo-tech Master Macek found an overall grand visual theme in the Japanese series and redefined both Robotechnology and Protoculture. Credit for this unique accomplishment goes to Carl Macek, as well as Harmony Gold U.S.A. As most readers of Robotech are aware, the eighty-five "continuous" animated episodes (which still show up inU.S.television markets) were actually a complete reworking-in terms of music, dialogue, and storylines-of three separate anime series that appeared inJapanover the course of several years: Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeda. With nearly one million words of print in the Ballantine/Del Rey series alone, eighty-five episodes of powerful ani-mation, an equal number of comic book adaptations, numerous art and role-playing books, and supplemental source material-including several college theses-it should be clear that Robotech has traveled a great distance since "HAL," Haruhiko Mikimoto, sat down at his desk one day and inked the first sketch of raven-haired songbird, Lynn-Minmei. Some of this material is in fact already being covered by other sources. The story now spans five decades, from 1990 to 2040 or thereabouts, save for a period of "lost years," covering the rise ofMon-umentCityand the Army of the Southern Cross, an account of which may yet see the light of day. The publication of The End of the Circle, the eighteenth book of the series, concludes the Robotech saga. Book 18 of the Robotech Series Copyright 1989 by Jack McKinney
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