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THE RED DRAGON AWAKENS

In the East, EBSIS takes advantage of rival Marxist China PRC that has been busy dealing with domestic disturbances & later on EBSIS forces grab Outer Mongolia region & trespass over Manchuria to take over Sino-allied but grievously stricken North Korea. The sudden militaristic venture by EBSIS catches UEG off-guard, more so of rival China PRC. The Chinese Marxists, plagues by internal disturbances, appeals to UEG to send forces to repel Soviet incursions into Manchuria.

Unable to help the Chinese in terms of manpower, UEG sends UEF military advisors or consultants to China PRC. Sino-Russo border clashes intensify as Red Chinese army has begins to strike back to reclaim Manchuria. Unlike the Soviets, despite internal disturbances from aftereffects of post-Rain of Death, China PRC still retains its massive industrial & agricultural capacity, with a sound capitalist economy despite its Marxists ideology. The bloody conflict lasts 4 months with substantial casualties on both sides, but the Chinese are bless with numerical superiority in terms of manpower & war machines over EBSIS forces that are thinly stretch. Facing a determine Sino opposition, the Soviet line in Manchuria is broken, & significant Soviet forces are divided in North Korea & the other driven back to Outer Mongolia steppes.

EBSIS forces trapped in North Korea are to face annihilation by Sino forces as they can not retreat into UEG-held South Korea which will ultimately require UEG military involvement. In August 2016, a cease-fire & a peace treaty is ultimately worked out by both Marxists politico apparats, in which EBSIS will have to relinquishes Manchuria back to China PRC & retains Outer Mongolia as EBSIS territory while North Korea will be jointly administered by Sino-Russo Politburo apparats. Later on, mutually beneficial treaties will follow through in terms of economic, trade & development. Soon, props by China PRC massive economy & gains the largest trading partner, EBSIS is on the path of economic recovery as Chinese products lessen the hardships of EBSIS citizens. China PRC in return becomes the largest importer of EBSIS military equipments.

In military cooperation defense between the two Marxists nations, Sino-Russo campaigns in Siberia & Xinjiang-Kazakhstan borders against rogue Zentraedi yield excellent results. This later cements China PRC alliance with EBSIS proper in 2018AD. With the inclusion of an Asian economic powerhouse that rivals UEG Protectorates of Japan & South Korea, EBSIS can now competes with UEG economically. Despite the alliances, China PRC still maintains cordial ties with UEG, who continues to be its largest trading partner & vice versa. China PRC is the main channel for UEG diplomats in maintaining diplomatic contacts with EBSIS officials. The only strain part of UEG-Sino relations will be limited to China PRC involvement with North Korea administration, & a slight furor over Taiwan occupation* by Red Sino forces in
2017AD.

*Taiwan was reoccupied by Chinese PRC, but it was granted autonomous status alongside SAR Hong Kong & SAR Macau."

NEO ZENTRAEDI – THE NEW IMPERATIVE

As mention earlier, during early period following the destruction of New Macross City in 2014, Zentraedi hostile forces are nothing more than disorganize & clandestine rebel groups fighting a lost cause. However, as rogue Zentraedis begin to become more localize & have adapting well to their environment, these aliens has begin to see Earth in a new light. These former warrior soldiers have seen Earth as their new home, & aspire to lord over its inferior species, the micronians.

This belief stems from previously Imperative engrams. Many rogue Zentraedi later begin to review Dolza’s true objective, for Zentraedi to become Master of their own destiny, rather than subject as Masters slaves to their bidding. So much so, old adage Imperative which compells most rebel Zentraedi to fight & die under Masters order & the glory of the Imperium, are consider as an anathema to the success of the new breed of ‘liberated’ Zentraedi. The new dogma, which is the revision of the age-old Imperative, reinvigorates the Zentraedi to fight & die as free Zentraedi, to achieve supremacy above the detested micronians, if it means to enslave humanity or obliterate them for the greater good of Zentraedi race.

This fascist ideology has spread like wildfire amongst every hostile Zentraedi, now mostly have reorganize into capable guerrilla forces. Not only that, with ample funds that come from the illegal Southlands drug trades & Indochina’s poppy fields (where the Zentraedi have become the overlords of the drug trade by deposing the micronian drug barons), the Zentraedi are gear up to strike at humanity yet again. This time around, these neo-Zentraedi, or Malcontents are far more capable, & enterprising from their old selves.

It is not long in late 2014AD, the rogue Zentraedi has begun planting their successfully assimilated spies & contacts their sympathizers within UEG & other local Terran establishments for sensitive information. As UEG is more concern with the rise of EBSIS & has erroneously believes that Zentraedi armed movements has been successfully contained or eradicated in mop-up operations carry out by Southern Cross Task Force, the sudden lapse in security in UEG’s micronised Zentraedi population centers have given the loophole for rogue Zentraedis to infiltrate & successfully assimilate themselves among the UEG’s allied Zentraedi populace. Slowly but surely, these moles begin to create distrust & doubts amongst UEG’s Zentraedi peaceful subjects, & follow later by social instability. Nothing, not even UEG nor EBSIS can stand in their way to the top chain of Earth’ as its new master & overlord!

From this point forward, the Malcontent Uprisings begin in earnest.

MALCONTENT UPRISINGS Part I (Indochina Quadrant)

- WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING – INDOCHINA INCIDENT

The 1st crisis attributes to the top level Malcontent infiltration into UEF military establishment come in a form of Lt. Zaria Kiyora, a micronised Zentraedi who has been in charge of UEF reconnaissance mission in Indochina Quadrant. Affiliating with UEF Zentraedi Recon Regiment, she has lead several successful scouting missions in locating hostile Zentraedi bases in the Southlands.

As her recon units establish foothold in lawless Vietnam in mid 2014, a coastal UEF military base is set up, & in part, her job in supervising the base logistics & supplies procurements places her in strategic position in assessing the actual UEF unit capabilities in the region. Not long after that, several break-ins occurred at the protoculture storage depot in the base are reported to Lt. Zaria. Her findings are reported back to UEF-Pacific HQ, which reasons that lax security as main reason of such incidents. As she begins falsifying records on the actual number of protoculture cells & ammunitions supplies storage at the base, Lt. Zaria & several of her units often end up missing on unauthorized missions from the base, in which she claims are routine recon missions into uncharted Indochina tropics in search of malcontents.

Curious staffs at the base begin thumbing around with procurement records, & find several inconsistencies regarding the actual number protoculture cells, & discover that a large amounts of missing protoculture supplies & ammunitions from the base supply depot. Their action are later leaked to Lt. Zaria, who imposes Emergency Law in the base, in which she termed as attempted mutiny by disloyal UEF military personnels, who by then she accuses as EBSIS agents. Her loyal units waste no time in rounding up the base personnels, & later destroy the base commo center. The UEF-Pacific HQ, acts upon sudden communication lost with the Indochina base, send commando troops aboard Prometheus class-super carrier CVS Phoebe in fear of the Indochina coastal base is under siege or occupied by hostile forces (either Zentraedi rebels or EBSIS crack team).

This naval task force enters South China Sea, & the UEF commandoes raid the Indochina’s UEF coastal military base, only to find it utterly destroy & abandon while the entire base’s personnels, sans Lt. Zaria Kiyora & her loyalists, safe & sound, albeit in the base detention center. The UEF-Pacific Theatre Commander launches massive ai
r campaign to flush out the traitorous Zaria, & her assumed Zentraedi allies. However, the campaign is short-lived, & in order to cover up the possible scandal that a malcontent mole has infiltrate UEF, the carrier group is recall back to join the Pacific Fleet, & UEG propaganda arm trumpets news of malcontent successful surgical strike against UEF Base in Indochina. Lt. Zaria is considered KIA alongside the rest of her units in defending the base, as reported by UEG news agencies, but she & her cohorts’ true whereabouts remained unknown.

Her treachery later set the more xenophobic elements in UEG to doubt the loyalties of its micronised Zentraedi citizens. In 2015AD, as a direct result following this covered up event, the UEG begin what most term as the discriminatory policies against micronised Zentraedi. Little do UEG politico apparats know; they have provided the very excuse to Zentraedi rebel groups to recruit more disenchanted Zentraedi.

MALCONTENT UPRISINGS Part II (Indochina Quadrant)

– DEL RAIJAN CONFLICT

In early 2015AD, Global Military Police, a new intelligentsia agency under UEG, uncovers shadowy plot between the new drug cartels & their relationship with the Zentraedi malcontents. UEF, under direct orders from the Prime Minister, send a Southern Cross Task Force to contain Zentraedi elements in Indochina Quadrant. In order not to repeat the Indochina incident from the previous Zaria & her cohorts’ treacheries, the Zentraedi UEF personnels are excluded from the mission alongside with human officers who are suspected as Zentraedi sympathizers. Many ally Zentraedi officers, who’re ordered to transfer under UEF space forces, notice this political move.

The plan to contain Indochina Quadrant is carried forward in the Operation Formosa, where UEF terrestrial naval assets in the Pacific sector carry aerial carpet-bombing operations even deeper into Indochina. The Southern Cross Task Force attempts a beachhead at Indochina coastal area, pushes ahead with ground offensive. However, the local populace, who resents the UEG ‘invasion’ retaliates back, thus UEF finds itself fighting the local Vietnamese, who have violent history against foreign Terran invaders. The conflict turns messier as Zentraedi rebels take the opportunity in the confusion to move deeper into Indochina wilderness & innermost remote region, in their stronghold that is the site known as the Golden Triangle.

The Zentraedi warlord cum Indochina drug baron, Lord Raijan Cyran of former 25th Cyran Armored Infantry Division with support from even local populace that depending their livelihood from the poppy fields - consolidated his base of power. Armed with his Zentraedi rebels (now known as Armies of Cyran) & enslaving the humans as slaves in his occuppied region, he establishes his fiefdom in the Golden Triangle. The warlord, who submits to the new fascist Imperative Dogma, is fanatical in his beliefs as most of his followers. His forces, entrench deep in the region, are well equip with mechas, & even more, well verse in jungle combat.

Lord Raijan’s forces defend their position well from the UEF aerial onslaughts, which claim many VF-1s & advanced UEF fighters through effective AA defence system salvage from down Zentraedi vessels. His forces also conduct hit & run guerilla raids against Southern Cross Task Force military outposts in Indochina. Not only that, another mysterious Zentraedi outfit, make up by all Meltrandi force, even manages to strike against UEF naval assets in South China Sea. Zaria, with her former Zentraedi force - known as 3rd Intara Armored Recon Wing Division – strike a crippling blow to UEG maritime trade in South China Sea as her Intara commandoes board UEG affliated cargo ships & loot precious protoculture supplies destine to UEG territories in East Asia.

Meanwhile, catch between both Zaria & Raijan forces; UEF High Command decides to scale back its operation in Indochina. Unwilling to commit to bloody tropical campaign against Raijan’s Armies of Cyran, UEF has to simply protect UEG economic interests in South China Sea. By late 2015, Operation Formosa is over, & UEF limited terrestrial naval assets in the Pacific are tasked to escort duties to protect maritime trade route in China Seas.

It is not long, however, a new powerbroker arrive in Indochina, EBSIS to muscle its way there. Hampers beforehand in Sino-Russo conflict, EBSIS decides that it too wants a bigger slice of the Indochina pie. Having begun their offensive against Zentraedi malcontents in protracted guerilla Siberian campaign, EBSIS is far more confident in clearing UEG mess in the Quadrant.

MALCONTENT UPRISINGS Part III (Southlands)

– THE STINGER’S STING – BRASILIAN INCIDENT

Berated for its failure to contain the Zentraedi threat in Indochina, the militaristic United Earth Interim Government finds its authority challenged. Several riots in Zentraedi population centers grow more violent, & reports of growing Malcontent movements unsettle the UEG. The policy against free movement for the naturalised Zentraedi citizens & force relocation of micronised Zentraedi away from the suspected rebel hideouts only worsen the matter. Many loyal UEG Zentraedi citizens feel their rights are taken away, & no thanks to malcontent provocateur agents, the assimilated Zentraedi grow more restless with UEG discriminatory policies.

The matters come ugly in the UEG Protectorate of Brasilia. Under orders from UEG Central Government in Monument City, a sizable Southern Cross Task Force garrison is ordered to pull back to North America following the threat of a new Zentraedi rebel group known as the Stingers. This led to worsening civil situation in the Protectorate; as large number of Zentraedi is discontent & openly defy the orders from the provincial government. The Brasillian Governor, Anatole Eli Leonard – a former UNDF military ground commander pre-Rain of Death era – is hard pressed to find a solution to ever increasing social unrest in his province. He has to fill the gap by pressing former militias & contracted armed mercenaries as stopgap measure to ensure security in Brasilia. He tries to make amends with loyal Zentraedi by appointing a Zentraedi, Captain Seloy Deparra as Head of Security in Brasilia. Along the way the two are engaged in romantic liaison, which helps to reduce tension in Southlands.

However, unknowingly to the Governor’s knowledge, Seloy Deparra is actually a high level Zentraedi mole that is responsible in instigating riots to destabilize the region & to steal access to top-level provincial government files. She has access to those files, especially UEG troop deployment in Southlands & most notably, the capability of the Southern Cross Task Force that is removed to North America to track & destroy her group active in that region, the Stingers. However, the time to execute her most daring plan has presented itself in the form of her former comrade, Miriya Paarino-Sterling.

The infamous Zentraedi ace comes to Brasilia alongside many Zentraedi & human right activists to engage in massive peaceful rally in Zentraedi occupied Federale district against the injustice of UEG anti Zentraedi policies. As head of security, Seloy Deparra orders the security forces, to break the rally & deal with the protesters with extreme prejudice. It is during this heighten tension in July 2015, the rally turns violent as the security forces deal harshly with the protesters, & such encounters turn bloody as from full blown riot becoming ethnic blood bath as both human & micronised Zentraedi practically prey on each other. In its aftermath, nearly 1100 Zentraedi lay dead alongside 79 humans. This also includes severely injured Miriya Paarino, who accuses Leonard’s administration as incompetent in failing to protect the local Zentraedi citizens.

The incident attracts a lot of media attention & broadcasts all over UEG territories. However, the fall out of the incident, no thanks to the enterprising Global News Network, is that Leonard’s lover is actually a leader of a malcontent group, & even the previous Zaria cover-up by UEG in Indochina is exposed. Both scandals rocked the UEG, & forced the UEG Cabinet to resign en-masse follow by a 2017 election. Even Anatole Eli Leonard & the upper civilian provincial Southlands government tender their resignation following what is then later known as ‘The Brasillian Massacre’. It is, in August 2015, the Emergency is formally declared in the Southlands & UEG civilian Government is suspended. The Malcontent Uprising has intensifies by this time.

MALCONTENT UPRISINGS Part IV (Southlands)

- ZENTRAEDI BREAKOUT

Seloy Deparra who escaped during the Brasillian Incident, met with disgruntles micronised Zentraedi in the Amazons & makes alliances with Zentraedi drug warlords controlling the American cartels. Under fruitful deals, Seloy Deparra supplies the vaunted rebuilt recondition Quadrono Armors, known as Stingers, to Zentraedi rebels & provides security to the Zentraedi drug bosses, & her Stingers gain a monopoly to market drugs in North America. Concluding the agreement, soon after, she disappears into anonymity.

The Zentraedi radicalism increases tenfold after Brasilian Massacre. Terrorism is rife, claiming both loyal Zentraedi & humans alike, where security situation go down into the gutter. Mechanised Zentraedi units remain active again in the Amazons, & raids to protoculture supply depots increase. The situation in the Southlands has turned desperate as social stability & security are deeply compromised. The infamous Skull Squadron, lead by Lt. Cmmdr Maximillian Sterling is stationed in Southlands temporarily to deal with the situation there, while a crack UEF Centaur Hovertank units under Major Jonathan Wolfe is responsible for ground offensive. However, most importantly will be the appointment of former Brasillia’s Governor - Anatole Eli Leonard as the Commander for UEF-Southern Cross Task Force, South American Theatre. This time around, Leonard is adamant to correct his past mistakes during his short-term civilian stint, & he is a good & relentless Commander for the Task Force.

The Commander uses all resources he can muster up to combat the Zentraedi menace, so in 2016, as the insurgency intensifies, Leonard’s relentless assaults, using the armored Centaurs & recruits local militias to driven the Malcontents back into Amazonian jungle. The Southern Cross proved so effective under his tutelage (which is much better during the dismal operation in Indochina) - eventhough Sterling’s Skull Squadron later recalled back to head a space operation against Zentraedi space pirates - the operation against the Zentraedi gains him fame. Anatole Eli Leonard never shows mercy towards rogue Zentraedi, thus his ruthless tactics against hostile malcontents earn him the name ‘Little Dolza’ amongst his critics.

Meanwhile Seloy Deparra, relocates with her Stinger units in South America as UEF Task Force in North America has stepped up security surveillance to her clandestine missions. At this point, her rebel outfit becomes the de-facto leader within Southlands Zentraedi Malcontents. Under her tutelage, the Zentraedi even prove to be more cunning. This time around, they collaborate with EBSIS agents posing as mecha pirates to provide them with information of UEF troop movement in the Southland. In turn, the EBSIS ‘consultants’ will be rewarded with UEG’s captured or stolen mechas & the malcontents willingness to acquire EBSIS weapons. GMP, arms with the information, launches covert operation to stop such dealings but fell short of their objectives.

Leonard, believes he is running out of time, launches a massive aerial assaults carpet bombing to the poppy fields in the Americas, even if it meant violating Southern American Baronies airspaces. His bull headed approaches lead to significant head through in the campaign, & by forcing South American leaders to simply allow him to use their territories for UEF units to launch offensive against malcontents power bases. The 2 years long operation will later exhaust the Zentraedi malcontents, which is follow by military alliance between EBSIS, UEF & South American Independent baronies into SASTRAC Alliance in 2017AD. During these periods, Zentraedi Control Zone is identified in Amazon ZCZ, Borneo ZCZ, Congo ZCZ & Indochina ZCZ. However, it is the Amazon ZCZ where the fighting are more ferocious & bloody which the campaign given a long lasting images of humanity tenacity to combat Zentraedi aggression.

In late 2017, GMP operatives with the help of Miriya Paarino Sterling, locates the Stingers base in Southlands in which the Zentraedi druglords & Zentraedi rebel commanders are attending a secret meeting, & this tip leads to the infamous ‘Leonard’s Ambush’ to the rebel’s HQ by Leonard & his forces. The entire Amazonian ZCZ malcontent leaders are killed during this mission, alongside Seloy Deparra herself. This final offensive marks the success of Commander Anatole Eli Leonard & the Southern Cross Task Force based in South American Sector to halt the Zentraedi aggression in the region.

Finally in 2019AD, the entire ZCZ Amazon is declared free of hostile Zentraedi insurgents.

MALCONTENT UPRISINGS Part V (The Red Campaign)

- FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

EBSIS begin flirting with the Zentraedi shortly after the Zentraedi Uprisings. As more loyal Zentraedi UEG subjects become disenchanted with UEG heavy handedness in carrying out injustices against assimilated Zentraedi, EBSIS on the other hand offers stability & fair status quo to them. In the long running ‘Military Service for Citizenship’ campaign by EBSIS, has lead to mass exodus of micronised Zentraedi to EBSIS territories. Many Zentraedi crave to fight again & live the Zentraedi way, find such offer irresistible.

In 2017AD, not surprisingly, every 7 to 10 micronised Zentraedi are of EBSIS citizenry. EBSIS allows Zentraedi communities to spring in their expansive territories, & free to continue practicing with their alien Spartan-like culture. EBSIS armed forces swell with professional Zentraedi troops well verse in the art of warfare, thus reducing EBSIS reliance towards poor quality conscripts soldiers. The Zentraedi in EBSIS Armed Forces are allowed to keep their original Zentraedi military structure & units. This lead to undying loyalty amongst the Zentraedi to EBSIS political higher ups - match only by those formerly under Dolza Command. EBSIS on the other hand, now has in their disposal a ready made, indoctrinated Zentraedi troops that hate UEG plus together with Zentraedi mecha supplies which serve as a leverage against more powerful robotechnology-equipped United Earth Forces.

Surely enough, those Zentraedi enroll into EBSIS military find combat to their liking. In Siberian Front, fighting against fellow Zentraedi rebels only whet the appetite of these ‘Red Zents’ as they are later known. Their exploits in Siberia earn them respects amongst their human EBSIS peers, & as Siberian campaign drawing to a close, the casualties also pile up as most of these Red Zents fight with the barest of equipments, often fighting fanatically charge only with automated rifles. The EBSIS High Command decides not to risk more of these loyal Red Zents, & later excludes them from the upcoming Indochina Campaign. However, in the 2020s, the Red Zents will be recalled in the bloodiest fighting in the African Campaign, while others are chosen to establish the first ever EBSIS space forces in mid 2020s.

The EBSIS takes advantages of the current events transpire in the Southlands, which Zentraedi Uprisings differs than that in other parts of the world. Many EBSIS covert units pose as mercenaries, or mech-pirates, contact local Zentraedi Southland warlords & provide the rebels with intelligences & technical assistances. These make the hostile Zentraedi in the Southland as proxies of EBSIS, however, in 2017 as situation in South America worsens, EBSIS cut ties proper with the malcontents & help forming SASTRAC Alliance with UEG & provides military assistance & hardwares to South American Independent Baronies against the Malcontents. Not surprisingly too, after the Southlands Uprisings concludes, many former Zentraedi malcontent guerillas are recruited into EBSIS payroll & offered safe sanctuaries into EBSIS territories.

MALCONTENT UPRISINGS Part VI (The Red Campaign)

- FROM INDOCHINA TO AFRICAN FRONTS

As UEF forces pull their forces out of Indochina in 2016AD, EBSIS, already flushes with the currently concluded peace agreement with China PRC & possible ally, find Indochina Quadrant simply irresistible. Thus plans to contact the rebel Zentraedi that foils UEF forces a year earlier in hope of converting them to EBSIS cause become paramount, or at very least, become EBSIS proxies in the region. Unfortunately, Indochina Quadrant situation differs than that of Southlands Uprisings, as such, EBSIS is in for a shock.

EBSIS first contact with Armies of Cyran proves disastrous as the Zentraedi fascists kill the envoys on sight while Intara Meltran rebels under Zaria’s command prove too cunning to be sway by sweet promises (even EBSIS is aware of Zaria’s treacherous nature). EBSIS, more determine than ever to add Indochina to its plate, find the support of local Indochina’s populace as a popular cause to be win, whose has past long history with Marxism. EBSIS forces readily move into Vietnam proper, unopposed by local population, & steps are made in establishing EBSIS puppet regime. Meanwhile, EBSIS military assets & personnels begin their forays into impenetrable jungle of Indochina.

The Armies of Cyran prove their mettle yet again against the micronian foes. Unwilling to let the EBSIS to encroach into their fiefdoms, EBSIS forces are bogged down in guerilla warfare, which wear down its forces. EBSIS aerial campaign also prove naught, as Armies of Cyran deploys effective AA laser defence system which prove their mettle against previous UEF Veritech squadrons a year earlier. Dispirited, EBSIS High Command begins plan to re-scale their operations in Indochina, but EBSIS is there to stay. As African campaign looms, in 2018, after 2 years of vicious tropical jungle war in Indochina, EBSIS, with the new ally China PRC, begin to cooperate in Indochina campaign.

Both Sino-Russo troops have earlier conclude successfully joint operations in mountainous Kazakhstan-Xinjiang border against clandestine hostile Zentraedi. With China PRC become proper ally of EBSIS, Sino troops begin their push towards northern Indochina borders to open a new front while Russo troops continually push from Eastern side. Armies of Cyran, find themselves boxed in, fight with such ferocity so much so that despite Sino-Russo alliance, casualties begin to pile up. Taking advantage of the tropical & jungle terrains, the Cyrans under Lord Raijan forcing the EBSIS operations to come to a stalemate in 2020AD, thus limiting EBSIS operation into irregular COIN missions. Along the way, Zaria & her Intaras continue to plunder both UEG & EBSIS affiliated cargo ships & ply her trade to supply the Cyrans. She also from time to time manages to become double agent to both EBSIS & the Cyrans, thus later designating her as the most wanted Zentraedi leader in the world’s intel communities.

Locked into a stalemate with the rogue Zentraedis in Indochina, EBSIS, from their Aswan base, begin their African Campaign. Many units from Vietnam front are recalled to attempt the largest EBSIS expansion in the African continent. This time around, EBSIS soldiers in the campaign are not exclusively from New Marxist Socialist Republic, but drawing from New German Republic & Polish descents, together with Arab & Persian troops supply by the Islamic Republic, alongside Sino & Korean personnels. These coalitions of EBSIS forces are known as International Liberation Armies (ILA), push deeper into Africa, meeting little resistance. However, the ILA find themselves face to face with Zentraedi entrenched in Congo ZCZ, & fight a bitter & bloody war reminiscent of Indochina campaign.

Unwilling to lose yet another war, EBSIS pool resources to defeat the insurgents lodged in Congo. Mechanised units are being fly directly straight from EBSIS mecha production centers in EBSIS territories into African continent. New advances in the latest military technology are developed following EBSIS war machines performances against Zentraedi rebels. New military doctrines & tactics evolved, follow by ever-effective coordination between ILA multinational forces. Even UEG chips in by sending Southern Cross Task Force from South Africa to assists EBSIS overly stretch force in the continent. The situation in Africa unfortunately degenerated at a fast rate as casualties mounted on both sides for the conflict in 4-5 more years, & finally, EBSIS ‘released’ its precious Red Zents to stomp the yard in Congo. Unrestrained, the Red Zents push suicidally into the heart of Congo ZCZ, & the African Campaign pull nearly to a stop as the EBSIS High Command lobs a strategic nuclear warhead at the final location of rebel Zentraedi HQ upon request of Supreme Commander Dhyron Broger, EBSIS-Zentraedi Command. The incident, occurs 1st May 2025, is forever known as ‘Dhyron’s Burn’ shocked most of the world that Earth has not one but TWO superpowers capable of dealing against hostile aliens.

The effect of Dhyron’s Burn marks the ability of EBSIS that stun even UEG. The world’s political climate will never be the same again.

MALCONTENT UPRISINGS – THE FINAL YEARS

The effects are immediate. The success of Southern Cross Task Force in the Southlands will catapult UEG standings in the eyes of its subjects, so much so UEF renaming its field army in 2020 proper as Armies of Southern Cross, reflecting the courage of the Southern Cross Task Force combatants. In the same year, Anatole Eli Leonard, after such success is appointed as the Supreme Commander of UEF by UEG High Command eventhough there is limited opposition to his exploits during the Malcontent era. Following the militaristic Interim UEG and its blunders & scandals back in the 2010s, follow by delayed popular election scheduled in 2017 well into 2020AD, a civilian government under Prime Minister Wyatt Patterson Moran wins more than 2/3rd majority in UEG Senate put the trust of UEG back to its citizens.

Meanwhile, during the tenuous years of mid 2010s when Malcontent Uprisings rages, many nations declared independence from UEG, however, UEG manages to rein these nations, at the price of awarding them with autonomous concessions. The debacle in Brasilia Protectorate forces UEG to make concessions to its provincial governments, where local UEG Governors have the right to create a standing reserve army (Territorial Armies) in time of crisis where SCA may not be available. These mark the lasting effect of feudal mindset prevalent in UEG until up to final closure of 2nd Robotech War in 2031. Also in 2020AD, with the setting up of the new UEG cabinet, United Earth Forces (UEF) – the UEG’s military arm – also undergo internal restructuring, with the UEF terrestrial elements & UEF space force responsible for Earth & Sol-System defence are grouped together & renamed as United Earth Defence Force. UEDF, alongside Expeditionary Force (EF) are the main sword & shield for the new era of humankind.

Dhyron’s Burn Incident in Congo ZCZ (1st May 2025) marks the Soviet capabilities that shock even the UEG. Eversince EBSIS relentless expansion in every major continent, UEG has been wary of its intention. The Dhyron’s Burn also leaves lasting effects to most Zentraedi insurgents still active in other parts of the world of their futile insurgencies. EBSIS, which has lost 2/3rd of its Red Zents in Congo ZCZ military campaign, will acquires new Zentraedi recruits, with both Intara rebels & Armies of Cyran finally accepting EBSIS overlordship in Indochina. Both Zentraedi groups, will later amongst remnants of the Red Zents, form the 1st ever EBSIS space force, which astounded UEG in 2026AD. The infamous Zaria will go on to become the 1st Zentraedi Fleet Admiral in serve of EBSIS space fleet. Of Lord Raijan, he will later become the Chief of Communist Party in EBSIS-hold Indochina, & maintains his fiefdom. EBSIS also by this point fields a highly experienced armed forces, & gains technological advantage in a decade of combating hostile Zentraedi by developing Robotech mecha of their own.

The effects of Malcontent Uprisings also leave a lasting mark to many micronised Zentraedi. After two-thirds of their race renounce UEG citizenship to EBSIS in mid 2010s, the remaining UEG Zentraedi loyalists have packed up to resettle off-world colonies under Gloval’s Initiative Plan, which begin in earnest in 2015 to 2023 onwards. Many enlist into Expeditionary Force, while others begin life anew in many Terran colonies both in & out of Sol System. Away from the horrors of Malcontent Crises on Earth, the micronised Zentraedi alongside their human brethrens find common cause to strive on hostile alien frontiers, & become more assimilated & integrated with human colonists. By 2040AD, many 2nd generation Zentraedi colonists regard themselves as part of humanity, as do most human colonists, so much so these colonists develop a distinct culture of their own, with social ideals that set them apart from those humans still remains on Earth.

The Expeditionary Force that lead humanity to colonize deep space to pave the way for humanity, as SDF-3 in December 2022 launches & marks the Pioneer Mission to search for Robotech Masters homeworld. Many former Malcontent Uprisings outstanding personnels, are transferred over EF along many Destroids formerly in reserves. This policy severely impedes UEF terrestrial forces for the early part of 2020s, as many capable officers have to be trained. However, due to joint operation with EBSIS forces in African Campaign & fast track officer programmes offered by Robotech Academy, SCA is able to replace the brain drain losses during the culling of their staffs to the EF mission.

CONCLUSION

Many historians will put the era of Malcontent Uprisings from 2014 – 2019 AD, but this is erroneous in nature given the fact that these particular historians will simply gloss over the abortive early UEF campaign in Indochina & put more emphasis of UEF exploits against Malcontents in the Southlands. So much so, other Malcontent Crises along the way will be forgotten much like Korean War in Earth mid 20th era. Furthermore, radical Zentraedi armed movements will significantly change the entire post-Rain of Death on Earth’s social landscape, from international borders to social-economic relations to international politics.

The only belligerent Zentraedi on Earth, specifically the tattered remnants of hostile malcontents in Congo ZCZ will lay their arms proper in 2028AD, leaving only both UEG & EBSIS to decide the Earth’s fate. But never do both super powers realized, a powerful fleet under Robotech Masters has inched closer to Sol-system. Both UEG & EBSIS will have to rally humankind to defend its homeworld for the second time against alien invasion!

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GENESIS – 2ND ROBOTECH WAR

BY: COLONEL (ret) MAHMOUD ABBAS (CONSULTANT- UEEF Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Kommandatura Section)
RFS DIGEST, NOVEMBER 2044 EDITION

INTRODUCTION

When one reviews on the final two decades shortly after “Rain of Death” in 2011AD, that includes subsequent turbulent period of Malcontent Uprisings during Reconstruction era, one simply has to address the humanity struggle against a second impending alien invasion of Terra & Sol system, this time by the Zentraedi former overlords, the enigmatic Robotech Masters. This chapter of humanity interstellar history, in which humankind has to once again defend its homeworld from alien invasion, known to most as Second Robotech War.

Much documentation on this very era has been published prior to this very article, whereby the author wishes for the readers not to rely solely on information contain herein. The purpose of this article is to provide readers with various insights during this era of humankind prior to the Invid Invasion & Third Robotech War.

THE DECAY OF AN EMPIRE – THE MASTERS EXODUS

With the destruction of Gorg BoDolza Fleet (Dolza’s Grand Fleet) in Sol System during 2011AD & subsequent capture of Zentraedi Factory Satellite by UEF space force in 2013AD effectively crippled the Robotech Imperium defence capacity from hostile forces. The entire 4th Quadrant & the vast Robotech Masters Empire, instability & lawlessness slowly prevail as result of deteriorating security situation & most notably protoculture crises that hit the Empire from 2012 – 2018AD.

To fill the vacuum leaves behind by Zentraedi Regular Armies that perished alongside Dolza in Sol-system, the vaunted far-flung Zentraedi Borderers (of Tyrolian Border Forces) are recall back to defend the Empire. But the Robotech Masters citizens in its Imperial colonies, even Tyrol & many other alien species whose homeworlds are part of Imperium colonial assets, never actually realized the severity of the security & protoculture crises that are going to jeopardize the Empire’s future into the gutter. As for Robotech Masters, preparation has begun to finish the job that Dolza & his Zentraedi have never been able to finish, the retrieval of the last protoculture matrix aboard SDF-1.

Robotech Elders, the triumvirate figureheads on the Empire throne, decree that for the sake of the Empire, the protoculture matrix retrieval mission is critical & paramount. Robotech Masters are given free hand to use all readily available resources that the Empire has, including limited protoculture supplies still available at their disposal to organize the mission. However, the Tyrolian Border Forces (whose 2/3rd of its personnels are comprised by Zentraedi Borderers) are held back to defend the Empire from external threat, in order not to repeat the same debacle that befallen the Zentraedi Regular Armies, a possible widespread cultural contamination. This time around, only the emotionless Robotech Masters artificial triumvirate clones will be the ones to reclaim the lost Robo-Grail half a galaxy away.

The mobilization of the best triumvirate clones are organized throughout the Empire, with the elite Imperial Bioroid Forces taking the lead in matter of future conflict with the accursed micronians. Robotech Masters mobilize atleast 12 Azashar class flagships, alongside hundreds of Assault Cruisers & even Taul-Detrel System Destroyers in tow. As the best & finest of the Empire military machines, with the last protoculture supplies that the Empire still has & crewed by the Masters own clones assemble near their homeworld, the Masters Imperial Armada disappears from the Imperium in 2014AD & travel to Sol-System through a 15 year journey by impulse drive, in order to minimize their already depleted protoculture supplies.

The race towards Earth has begun.