Well after all these years I'm reviving this thread.
Again the Macross Universe has expanded with two new races. From the planets Windermere and Ragna.
It seems the UN/NUN made contact with the native inhabitants a tech uplift.
We have yet to know more of Ragna other than being a race of Fish Humans but here is what we know of Windermere from profiles provided and episode 1.
The government of Windermere is a monarchy called the Kingdom of Wind and they have a King as head of state. Their fighter pilots are called Aerial Knights. They have an affinity to the Wind or Great Wind as part of their culture. They have apple exports reaching emigration fleets and planets. Their racial characteristic trait is the hair tentacles that glow. In the case of the Aerial Knights it glows with Newtype like spatial awareness. In Freyja Wion's case she can sense music and rhythms as colors indicating a form of Synesthesia.
The region of where Windermere and Ragna is at is described in the Forbes article as the Outer Rim. The Zolans from Planet Zola which were featured in Macross Dynamite 7 were located in the Rim Region. There is a probable good explanation for this. According to Egan Loo's Macross Compendium Macross Chronology where he interviewed Big West after the fall of the Stellar Republic there were still Protoculture remnants on the edge of the galaxy. With Earth all records went down with the Survey Ship that seeded the planet modifying its native primates to evolve like the Protoculture. Apparently they seed planets for future colonization.
In this region planets like Al Shahal have been colonized. Al Shahal caters to Arab or Muslim culture. Al Shahal also has a Zentradi garrison.
The major crisis in this region is the Var Syndrome which causes individuals to be violent. There is a Fold Wave component given a mysterious singer and abnormal Biological Fold Waves of victims which I believe saying Abnormal Spiritia condition. Song Energy, which is a manifestation of positive Spiritia, according to Macross Chronicle is a type of Fold Wave. It can be counteracted by Walkure's own songs. The prologue mentions trans-dimensional voices which can be inferred like Basara and the Nomes the members of Walkure have Space-Time Resonance ability themselves.
edit: Update
The NUN has become a Federation of races. An alliance between Humans and Zentradi has grown beyond that. But it doesn't mean it is all well.
Windermere
Ragna
Zolans
Other unnamed races.
Why so many races?
http://monkeybacon.mywebcommunity.or...ousPlanets.php
Quote:
Related Matter: The Peculiar Species Of Each Planet*
Mankind also encountered peculiar planetary species among the immigration planets they investigated. Among those species, even though the feature of the Zolans of planet Zola is a pouched shaped organ in their abdomen, as their other bodily functions and intelligence is equal to that of Earth's mankind, it seems possible that they could also mate with Earthlings.
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http://macross.anime.net/wiki/Before_1_BC
Quote:
PC 2870
A Protoculture survey ship stops temporarily on "Earth." By genetically reconstructing the native life, it plots the emergence of a sub-Protoculture adapted to the planetary environment, "Humankind," to prepare for future colonization. During its return to its home planet, the survey ship is destroyed by military ships opposed to the Stellar Republic. Records of Earth and Humankind are eventually lost. [PC 2900]
PC 3000
Dissolution of Stellar Republic.
Oppostion between the Supervision and Zentradi factions begins.
PC 5000
In what still remains of the Stellar Republic, only a small number of separated colonized planets, colonization fleets, space colony clusters [bunches], and other populations at the edge of the galaxy are left.
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The setting according to Shoji Kawamori interview for Macross Delta is at the Outer Rim of the galaxy. Which explains the number of Sub-Protoculture races if we go by the chronology.
Zola according to M7 Dynamite dialog is at the Rim. Whether there is a difference between the Rim and Outer Rim I'm not sure.