As the bubble disappeared a large ship and a large piece of rock and frozen water started to float in space, with the slight gravity of the former island of Macross drawing at the ship floating eight kilometers away.
Several of the screens on the bridge of the SDF-1 Macross started to flare up, showing a bright red message, 'Collision Alert'. The 'Bridge Bunnies' of the Macross nearly panicked as they hadn't anticipated it. A few moments elapsed before the powerful minbaribased gravimetric engines pulled the SDF-1 around and away from the piece of rock and ice floating there. This was also the first time, the bridge crew got a good view at the former island.
"Thats Macross Island," Claudia Grand said as she stared out of the view port near her.
Glovals eyes narrowed as he followed the stares of the five women on the bridge.
"Lisa, send out all shuttles and Veritechs, we need to rescue as much people as we can."
Lisa nodded and just hoped that everyone on Macross had gotten into the airtight bunkers all over the island.
"Sammy, I need a com-channel to Babylon 5 ASAP."
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William Adama frowned as he looked at one of the large view screens showing the red swirls of hyperspace. Idly he listened to the album of Nirvana's 'Unplugged' concert on MTV 1993. It was something of a habit, when he needed a clear head to think.
First the higher ups had pulled his fleet away from the Caprica-colony on Ganymede to get to Earth ASAP to fight the Zentraedi. And now he was needed somewhere in the outer system to help the SDF-1. Ten ships under his command. His own Warlock, the Galactica, two Omegas, two Novas and five Hyperions.
He was needed near Jupiter, god damnit. God only knew what happened when the Zents came to Jupiter and started to attack the colonies there. He didn't wanted to think about it. Just two other fleets were left near the colonies, the 23th CDF around the Warlock Pegasus under Captain Samuel Cain, and the 3rd CDF, an amalgam of Novas, Hyperions and Olymus class ships under the command of Captain Justy Ueki Tylor. Through Adama wanted to know how someone like Tylor had gotten into EarthForce.
"Sir, we received a transmission from Babylon 5. The SDF-1 seems to have defolded near Pluto. And Macross Island with them."
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"No, Ma'am," Donniger said as he looked into the face of President Nora Clarke on the great view screen," We didn't start the battle."
The woman's eyes narrowed. It was easy to say that she didn't believe Donniger.
"If we didn't start the fight, General Donniger. How come that the Main Cannon of the SDF-1 fired at those two ships?"
"We believe it to be boody trap, hardwired into the systems of the SDF-1, by its original builder."
"And how do you think I should explain it to the press?"
"You simply don't, Mrs. President. Only the people on Macross Island know about the initial firing from the SDF-1 before her launch. And Macross Island is now in an orbit around Pluto. The crew of the SDF-1 is currently rescuing them. And aside from the people of Macross, only some people in my staff know about it."
"Which brings us to the disappearance of Macross Island, the biggest storm in recorded history and the Tsunami that just rolls over several Pacific coasts."
Donniger winced. It was something of a sore spot. He just hoped that enough people got away from the coasts, especially on Hawaii and the North American Pacific coast.
"We should declare it 'Top Secret' until further notice."
"That would get the press to breath down my neck about government cover ups."
"It's not bigger than Project 'Omega Fleet'."
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While the Macross crew rescued the survivors of Macross Island, Donniger talked to the President and the 24th CDF moved towards the Macross, another ship moved through hyperspace.
The ship was just a few dozen meters longer than the Olympus-class corvettes, but it was one of the most sophisticated active ships in the whole fleet. Shaped like organic arrow and covered in the same dull-grey shadow-derivated armor of all EarthForce ships, it was the closest thing EarthForce had to the original WhiteStar-class vessels. It also was the fastest ship and most stealthy ships in service. Outfitted with a Minbari Stealth system it could hide from everyone, while gathering data from the space around.
And exactly this was the order of this ship, the EAS Mata Hari. She was to fly to a system did a burst-FTL-communication with the largest of the Zentraedi ships. The military intelligence of EarthForce believed that this system was Tyrol, the home of the SDF-1 and the beings that called themselves Robotech Masters. EarthForce had known of the existence of the system since they had decoded the information in the SDF-1's original computer, but they hadn't been able to convert its stellar coordinates.
But as fast as the Mata Hari was, she still needed two weeks to reach Tyrol, the problematic navigation in hyperspace being a part of the problem. The first ship that had tried to do it, the Omega EAS Voyager had tried and gotten lost in hyperspace. Okay the ship had a folddrive, but they wouldn't use it because the Zentraedi would know that they would come.
So the Mata Hari speed trough hyperspace with the highest possible speed.
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