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Well, you have to understand two things to see why things are the way they are:
1) The people now alive are almost all from the SDF Macross, the moon base, and survivors from the two Grand Cannon bunkers. The former were basically exiles due to the heartless puppetmasters who kept them from leaving the ship in the first place, and as a result they ended up being 'the lucky ones' since they survived the holocaust.... one that was both brought on them by the ship they were on, as well as stopped by it. And then they realized that they WEREN'T alone in the universe, and the Supervision Army, if not the Zentradi, would've come on them sooner or later to wipe them out or enslave them.
Basically, the Macross was their lifeline as much as anything - they got the technologies needed to spread out, allies, and also knowledge about the hostile universe they were in. The automatic defense system, IIRC, didn't kill anyone except the Zentradi, due to the way the Macross Cannon's beam had bottled itself up, to the point where people DIRECTLY under the beam (which, must be said, included most of South Ataria's population) were unharmed. The only deaths caused directly by the SDF were the ones from the devastation caused by its landing, the people in Canada who got nuked when the barrier overloaded under Quamzin's relentless assault, and those who died in the anti-UN Spacy brush wars fought between the two groups.
The BIG killers were the Zentradi, and more specifically Quamzin's and Bodole's fleets.
2) There's a good propaganda machine going. Minmay was part of it, and even now 'reports' from the Megaroad-01 come through even though the ship itself was lost along with its heroes some 30 years before. Given some of the anti-UN Spacy revolutions that have gone on in recent memory, they need to keep the propaganda going... and playing up the heroism of the original crew and survivors of the SDF Macross is one way to do so.
The SDF Macross' crew are modern-day legends - especially the dead ones. Focker, Global, and the rest are enshrined in a new mythology of a new Prometheus which saved humans from going extinct... which would've eventually happened anyways, once the Supervision Army stumbled upon Earth and its inhabitants. For all we know, if the Zentradi hadn't arrived, the Vajra would've eventually shown up on Earth's doorstep if the Supervision Army hadn't, and wiped everyone out. Given this knowledge, people would see the original Macross as a good thing... even if the Zentradi who followed it nearly killed everyone.
Hell, they're STILL doing dramas around the original love triangle. If that still captures the imagination (or is seen as useful for doing so) some forty years later...
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