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Macross Universe Timeline
Macross Zero (UN Unification Wars): 1999-2008
Macross (SPACE WAR I): 2012
Macross Flashback 2012: 2012
Macross Plus (Sharon Apple Crisis): 2040
Macross 7 (Varauta War): 2045
Macross 7 Encore: 2045
Macross 7 Movie: 2045
Macross 7 Dynamite (Zola Incident): 2047
Macross Frontier: 2059
What are Zentradi/Meltran?
They are genetically designed race for combat for the ancient civilization called Protoculture.
The name refers collectively to the male gender of this race. Females are collectively called Meltran, who are similar, but have long hair and feminine features.
Anatomy identical to human, in two arms, two legs, one head, two nipples and respective male and female sexual organs.
The original characteristic is green skin and an average height of 1354cm.
Typically Zentradi/Meltran have the following genetic traits that are consistence in the Macross universe.
Skin Colour Hair Colour Eye Colour
Dark purple Blue Blue
Light purple Green Brown
Light blue Purple Green
Grey Black
Pink (Caucasian) Brown
Green Red
Spoiler for Zentradi involvement in Space War I :
Due to the psychological affect of culture, specifically Music on Zentradi/Meltran who have been indoctrinated to avoid at all cost.
Eventually weaken the psychological hold Boddole Zer,The Supreme Commander of a Protoculture Fleet, had on the command structure.
Sub-Commander Vrlitwhai Kridanik was accused of "contaminations" and was sentence to death, was forced to defect to Humanity cause, seizing a portion of the Fleet to turn on their allies, the genocide of Mankind was averted by a joint alliance which ensure the survival of the remain humans on the SDF-1 gunship. ( that had crash landed on earth, which was a remnants ship of the Protodeviln subservient of the Protoculture Military force.). Narrowly escaping a surprise attack by the first wave of Zentradi skirmish/recon they escaped the Earth surface, only to encounter the secondary wave of attackers.
In desperation they first testing of the "Fold" engine, an faster then light interstellar drive system malfunction, hyper-jumping them to the orbit of Jupiter, thus avoided the first crucial & genocidal attack that effective sterilized the earth.
This result in peaceful relationship with Humans
The Zentradi/Meltran with the aid of cloning technology was able to shrink (effectively transfer conciousness from the original body to a human sized clone body) thus engaged in equal partnership.
Humans and Zentradi were first discovered to be genetically compatible with the first mix-race couple
Which is part of the main characters in Macross 7.
The pairing discovered that Zentradi/Meltran genes are dominate in a mix-race pair, thus a Zentradi/Meltran dominate will only produce male/female offspring with trademark Zentradi hair and a variety of the green/grey skin tone (although for female mixed race skin tone is more human natural)