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The air show over the Marcoss Island EarthForce Base was in full run, when the new standard Starfury of the Fighter Corps appeared from the direction SDF-1 Macross. After the Aurora and Thunderbolt Starfuries had been obsolete with the advancement of Robotech, EarthForce had needed new kind of Starfury that combined the best of both technologies. The result was the Veritech Starfury. The Veritech completely broke with the 'classical' designs of the Starfury, combining the agility of a classical Starfury with the poweful appearance of a F-14 Tomcat. In the tests, the Veritech could outmaneuver a normal Starfury.
Than the sixteen Starfuries stopped over the field in front of the audience. Hoovering ten meters of the ground was something noone had ever seen a Starfury doing. Than something else happened as the engines dropped to the ground to form legs and arms. The wings and cockpit disappeared into the body. The whole transformation ended, as sixteen humanoid figures hoovered over the ground and saluted to the audience. It was followed by another transformation, stopping somewhere between the humanoid form and the normal form. In this form the sixteen Veriteches shot into the blue sky over Macross Island, a few seconds before a large blinding white beam left the now split bow of the SDF-1 Marcoss.
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The incomplete G.O.D. system above Earth was the first to notice the appearance of an enemy EarthGov had waited for over sixteen years. The network of forty satellites and two docking station with AI controlled fighter drones, started to nearly burst with information as the single AI's, controlling the satellites, started to gather the data and compare it with the ones from their databanks, taken from the original computer of the SDF-1 Macross. As one of the satellites started to relay the gathered data, after one minute, the two stations began to deploy their Starfury-sized fighter drones, each controlled by an individual AI.
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"What?" asked Marcel Donniger, General of the Navy, as he stared at the red 'Alpha Alarm' screen on his personal computer. He stared at the screen for a second, before the Alarm was sounded through Babylon 5. He entered his special code and opened a new screen, showing the data following the 'Alpha Alarm'.
"God damn %§!$%@&%$," he swore as he saw the large number of unknown contacts that had appeared below GEO (Geostatioary Earth Orbit).
At the same time, the red phone on his desk rang. He took the receiver of the phone and part of his mind wondered who the heck had installed something that cliche anyway. He took a deep breath as he spoke into the receiver.
"Mrs. President."
He listened to the womans voice on the phone. He nodded
"Yes, Mrs. President. I can affirm that."
He closed his eyes for a moment before he answered to the next part of the conversation.
"As you mean, Mrs. President."
He breathed in deep.
"I will order the fleet to move into defensive position around Earth and the L5 space complex. - Yes, Mrs. President, no actions that could be interpreted as agressive moves from our side. - Good bye, Mrs. President."
He put the receiver back on the phone again and cursed silently. Why did the first female President be that defensive? At least she hadn't cut the budget for EarthForce. Than he cursed again as a second 'Alpha Alarm' announced that some kind of hidden trap on the Macross had been activated by two of the unknown vessels.
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Slowly Breetai observed the situation in the commando bowl of his flagship. His eyes were directed to a tactical display of the area of space they had defolded. He was a bit surprised about the number of unknown contacts, but it didn't really matter. He had fought many battles against unknown forces and the Invid to know that this small number of ships wasn't a threat to his fleet.
He had watched the beam of the Reflex Cannon belonging to Zor's ship destroying two of his scout ships. He ordered his fleet to move into formation, to move closer to the planet and recapture the battle fortress. It wouldn't matter what kind of weapons the unknown vessels had, they wouldn't be a threat to his ships.
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While the Zentraedi fleet gathered and slowly moved into formation around Breetai's ship, the ships of EarthForce moved towards earth and the space complex around Bablyon 5, consisting of a Hyper Gate and several space docks. Two finished ships left from two of the five space docks. It would be a shock when Breetai would see them, as they were the two terran-build sisters of the upgraded SDF-1 Macross, the SDF-2 Midway and the SDF-3 Pioneer.
Not just the two Marcoss-class Battle Carriers moved into a position, but also the rest of the fleet in the gravitational well of Earth. Seven hundred ships build from plans found on B5, upgraded with other technologies found in the databanks of Bablyon 5, like the Minbari Quantum Reactor and artificial gravity, followed by Robotech after the crash of the SDF-1. All ships deployed their Aurora, Thunderbolt and Veritech Starfuries, while their targeting computer worked to create firing solutions.
The atmosphere around Earth tensed as a few smaller Zentraedi ships tried to bypass the G.O.D. network.
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