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The Zentradi (ゼントラーディ人,
Zentorādi-jin?)
are a fictional militaristic extraterrestrial race of giants and often the main antagonist
in The Super Dimension Fortress
Macross anime series[1]
and its Robotech
adaptation.
It is transliterated as Zentradi, Zjentohlauedy, Zentrady and
Zentraedi for the Japanese Macross series, with the Zentraedi
spelling being the one most used commonly in the Robotech
adaptation.[2]
The Robotech novels and comics would add the occasional spelling
T'sentrati. In both the Macross and Robotech
universes, humans and Zentradi are capable of
interbreeding due to being genetically equivalent.[1]
Physically, most of them also resemble humans, though some have
unique skin and
hair colors. Prior
to their first encounter with the human race, all members of the
Zentradi race were artificially created through cloning.
In the original Macross japanese anime series (Big
West/Studio Nue,
1982) the Zentradi were created as a spacefaring
race of giant
humanoid
proxy
warriors by the first civilization in the galaxy, the
Protoculture, 497,500 years
ago.[3][4]
They contributed greatly to the expansion of the Protoculture
Civilization's sphere of influence and the creation of a
Protoculture
Stellar Republic that controlled most of our
galaxy.[1][5][6]
As war broke out with The Supervision
Army centuries later, the Zentradi entered into
combat with their fearsomely powerful force of millions of space warships and mecha produced in
thousands of huge automated
factories scattered across the galaxy and legions of
expendable clone
troops.[5][6][7]
After the end of the war with the Supervision Army, the Zentradi
fleets travelled the galaxy in search of Supervision Army survivors
until they encountered the human race, an event that caused Space War
I (2009–2010).[1][5][6][8]
In order to better maintain control of the Zentradi, the
Protoculture trained them only in the limited mix of skills which
were necessary for the soldier's particular role in the Zentradi
military.[9]
It seems that no Zentradi were trained in the repair and
maintenance of their equipment, making them dependent on easily
controlled supply stations and factory asteroids.[1]
The Zentradi were also segregated so that males and females could
not mix, which might lead to love and/or natural
procreation.[1][9][10]
Male Zentradi are also called "Zentran", which means "male" in the
Zentradi language. Also, Female Zentradi are called Meltrandi, the word "Meltran" meaning
"female" as well. Finally, the Zentradi were forbidden culture, and
were instilled with orders to never interfere with culture-bearing
planets and civilizations, again apparently to
suppress independent thought and keep an iron loyalty in all the
Zentradi forces.[1][9][11]
The downfall of the Zentradi nomadic warrior civilization came
during Space War I (2009),[6]
when the technologically inferior but culturally and spiritually
superior "Miclones" (humans) were able to reach the buried
emotions of the Zentradi through terrestrial culture and humane
actions, especially music and acts of love and kindness.[1][10]
After 2012, the Zentradi are estimated to have 1000-2000 fleets
of sizes similar to the 4.8-million-ship Boddole Zer Main Fleet in
Space War I.[3][4][9]
However, the UN government of allied Humans and Zentradi became the
reigning hegemony in near-Earth galactic space.[6]
In the original Macross TV series, it was revealed that
Commander Type Zentradi are bigger,
stronger and more intelligent, while some of them are even able to
survive in the vacuum of space for limited amounts of time. This
makes it possible for them to endure hand-to-hand
combat against human mecha like the VF-1
Valkyrie.[12][1][9][11]
The average Zentradi are five times the size of Earth Humans,[1][3][9][11]
but some of them use ancient miniaturizing cloning technology known
as the micronization process (maikuro-n ka in
Japanese) to coexist with humanity.[1][4][9][13][14]
Many integrated into each other's population where many families
became a mix of both Human and Zentradi individuals.[10]
Before the Zentradi and modern Humans made contact, the average
Zentradi had the equivalent intelligence of Human primary school
children.[3][4][9]
Since their exposure to Human society and knowledge, their
potential intelligence and learning capacity has been shown to be
higher.[11]
In the original Macross TV series the Zentradi
possessed a fictional alien alphabet which
was developed by Kazutaka
Miyatake of the Studio Nue
staff but their dialogue was automatically translated into Japanese
language.[9][15][16][17]
However, in the
Macross: Do You Remember Love? animated film the
Zentradi were actually shown speaking a fictional extraterrestrial
language (that also was developed for the movie by the Studio Nue
production staff) as subtitles were provided for the
audience.[18][19]
The Zentradi alphabet from the original Macross TV
series and the spoken form of the Zentradi language from the
Macross: Do You Remember Love? film appeared again in the
Macross 7:
Encore OVA and the Macross
Frontier T.V. animated series.[19][20][21]
Both the fictional Zentradi language and its alphabet have been
used in several video games that take place in the Macross
universe.[1][22][23]
In Macross
7, the Zentradi are noted to be especially fearful
towards other alien creatures known as the
Protodeviln to the point of it
being an instinctive
reflex.
During the latest Macross TV series, Macross
Frontier, Zentradi are shown to live among humans
in both macronized (giant) and micronized (normal sized) form in
the outer space colonies. This includes having Zentradi sized
buildings and facilities, including shopping malls (with similarly
sized products). They also seem to change sizes at will using the
cloning technology described before.[10][20][24].
In the new series, some Zentradi-Human hybrids also share the
ability to have their hair move on its own according to their
feelings, as well as having an above-average resistance to space vacuum.[25][26]
Notable Zentradi/Meltrandi:
Britai
Kridanik | Exsedol
Folmo | Boddole Zer
| Quamzin
Kravshera | Milia
Fallyna | Moruk Lap Lamiz | Loli Dosel | Conda Bromco | Warera Nantes | Veffidas
Feaze | Commander
Chlore | Advisor
Tranquil | Moaramia
Jifon[27]
| Major Ohgotwhai | Tehmzin | Richard Bilrer | Elmo Kridanik | Clan Clang
Notable Zentradi-Human Hybrids:
Komilia Maria
Fallyna Jenius |
Silvie Gena | Guld Goa
Bowman | Mylene Flare
Jenius | Emilia Jenius | Ranka Lee
The history of the Zentraedi is different in Robotech
(Harmony
Gold, 1985), the American-edited adaptation of the first
Macross TV series along with Super Dimension Cavalry Southern
Cross and Genesis
Climber Mospeada. In Robotech, the Zentraedi were
created as slave clones to the Robotech
Masters, first to be used as miners in the planets of their empire
and later trained to be their perfect warriors and guardians.
Seeing their effectivity as soldiers the function of the Zentraedi
within the Masters' empire was mostly to subjugate worlds for them
and to battle their enemies, most notably the Invid.[28]
To control them, the Robotech Masters psychologically impaired
them by orienting nearly the entire population to the sole purpose
of war to the exclusion of all else. They had no arts, no learning
beyond what was directly related to war; even sophisticated medical
and technical skills were denied which restricted any advanced task
with these skills to the automatic functions at special bases built
by the Masters. In addition, the sexes were strictly segregated to
minimize the chance of sexual reproduction which could profoundly
alter the worldview of the race. To that end, the population was
indoctrinated to view any sexual activity disgusting and
dangerous.
In 2009, Dolza, the supreme commander of all
Zentraedi
forces in the galaxy, is ordered by the Robotech
Masters to find and recover the lost spaceship that had
crashed on Earth in 1999. He orders his second in command, Breetai, command
a fleet of ships to track down a lost battlefortress, the SDF-1, which
contains the last remaining supply of Protoculture in the universe. In 2009,
Breetai's forces arrive in Earth's solar system and discover that
the battlefortress, which had crashed on Earth 10 years earlier has
been rebuilt by the planet's inhabitants, which are referred to by
the Zentraedi as humans, or Micronians, due to their small
size. However, the humans refuse to return the fortress and a two
year battle begins between the humans and the Zentraedi (known as
the First Robotech
War) over the SDF-1.
Initially it appears the Zentraedi's far superior numbers will
ensure them an easy victory. Although the pilots of the SDF-1, who
utilize veritech
fighters (which are derived from technology taken from the SDF-1)
are highly skilled, they are constantly endangered of being
overwhelmed. However, an unexpected element comes into play that
changes the entire course of the war - Human culture and emotions.
The Zentraedi have no exposure to human emotions and culture and
its introduction causes many Zentraedi to rethink their austere
lives as soldiers. As the war drags on, more and more Zentraedi
defect to the SDF-1. The first are Rico, Konda and Bron, who after
infiltrating the SDF-1, decide to defect after becoming enamoured
with human culture. A short time later, more and more Zentraedi
defect. In April 2011, Miriya
Parina Sterling, the finest Zentraedi warrior in the
fleet, defects after having a Human Ace
pilot falling in love with her and marrying the Human
Ace. At that moment, Dolza, disturbed at the growing contamination
of that fleet's personnel, ordered an all out attack to destroy the
SDF-1. During the resulting battle, Miriya convinced her husband to
attack specific points of Zentraedi mecha to disable them rather
than kill them out as a gesture of goodwill. Although Max's
superior, Lt. Rick Hunter
realized what he was doing, Hunter decided to take the same
approach as a final gesture for peace in the face of hopeless odds,
while other Terran pilots began to join in. This gesture turned out
to be far more productive than any hoped with a significant portion
of Breetai's fleet deciding that they cannot fight against the
Micronians and began to mutiny to stop the battle. Breetai, alarmed
at the disintegration of discipline in the ranks, called a cease
fire in direct defiance of his orders.
Eventually, the entire Zentraedi force under Breetai and Exedore
change sides after realizing that human emotions have made them
incapable of further conflict with the humans (after soldiers
throughout Breetai's forces, who have become enamoured with human
culture, refuse to fight and turn on their superiors, Breetai
realizes that a truce with the humans is the only way to stop his
fleet from tearing itself apart).
Dolza, realizing the situation and the
threat that human emotions pose to his command, and that if this
continues, the entire Zentraedi military could be affected, and
decides to take decisive and brutal action. Dolza orders the 4.8
million capital
ships in the Zentraedi Grand Fleet, along with his
planetoid homebase, to fold into Earth's solar system and destroy
the SDF-1, the defecting Zentraedi forces, and the Earth itself to
eliminate the threat of the humans once and for all. After folding
into Earth orbit, the Grand Fleet fires on Earth, causing horrific
damage - cities, houses, soldiers and children are all vaporized as
the 4.8 million ships fire relentlessly. No area of the planet is
spared by the barrage. All major cities are destroyed and the human
population is reduced from 6 billion to only 70,000.
As the Zentraedi fleet prepares to fire again, The Alaska base,
which survived the initial attack, fires the massive Grand Cannon
which destroys a large portion of the Zentraedi Grand Fleet. A
subsequent assault by the SDF-1 and the allied Zentraedi manages
allows the SDF-1 to penetrate into the core of Dolza's homebase and
launch its missiles at the base's power source - its massive
reflect furnace. The explosion of the base destroys the rest of the
Zentraedi fleet. This marks the end of the First Robotech
War.
The assault by the Zentraedi on Earth marked the sudden and
almost complete end of the Zentraedi race. Between the firing of
the massive Grand Cannon by the Alaska Base, direct casualties of
the enormous engagement between Zentraedi, and the massive
explosion resulting from the destruction of Dolza's planetoid base,
losses are overwhelming. Only a few hundred warships survive the
battle, mostly drawn from Breetai's forces.
The surviving humans and Zentraedi then begin to work together
to rebuild Earth from the ashes left by the First
Robotech War and many Zentraedi are able to integrate
into human society, many of whom are micronized to human size. In
October 2012, Max
Sterling and his Zentraedi wife Miriya
Parina Sterling give birth to a daughter, who the name
Dana
Sterling. Dana is the first child born from a
human-Zentraedi union.
Most of the remaining Zentraedi join their commander and the
humans in a subsequent operation against the last remaining
Robotech Factory Satellite, an automated production center built by
the Robotech Masters to supply their giant warriors with mecha at
the height of their expansion. The Satellite is defended by a large
under the command of Reno, but his forces prove just as susceptible
to "micronian" culture as did those of Breetai and Dolza's fleets.
In June 2013, Reno's fleet is destroyed in battle, pushing the
Zentaedi to near-extinction apart from those on or allied with
humanity.
Although many Zentraedi successfully integrate into human
society, many others are unable to overcome their life-long lust
for war and a rebellion begins under Khyron and Azonia
late in 2013. In January 2014, in the battle of New Macross City,
Khyron and Azonia, along with most of the rebels, are defeated,
although the SDF-1 is destroyed and the city is left in ruins. The
entire area is then sealed off. The attack also kills many
Zentraedi who were aboard the SDF-1 at the time. Further Zentraedi
rebellions are eventually put down by 2015.
The Zentraedi under Breetai discovered their tragic origins in
2013 (one year before the destruction of the SDF-1 and
the death of Khyron) and swore enmity to their
former masters. However, the latent hatred held by humans due to
the Zentraedi holocaust proves to be much of a strain on relations.
In 2022, all of the remaining Zentraedi on Earth join the Robotech
Expeditionary Force (REF) on a mission into deep space
to find the Robotech
Masters and prevent another war on Earth. The Zentraedi
who do not join the REF take up residence on the Zentraedi
Satellite Factory. By 2023, the only person on Earth with any
Zentraedi blood is Dana
Sterling, who was judged as too scientifically valuable
to join her parents on the REF mission. Dana would play an
important role in the Second Robotech
War when the Robotech
Masters arrive in Earth orbit in 2029. Her skills as a
pilot and tactician are critical to the eventually defeat of the
Robotech Masters by the Southern Cross human forces, although the
human victory is a pyrrhic
one.
The Zentraedi who join the REF fight alongside the humans
against the alien race known as the Invid
on over a dozen planets as well as against General T.R.
Edwards when he betrays the REF. During the mission,
many Zentraedi, including Breetai and Exedore, are killed.
By the end of the Third Robotech
War in 2044, only a few of the REF Zentraedi are still
alive. Among them is half-Zentraedi soldier Maia
Sterling, the second child of Max and Miriya, who serves
as a skilled pilot against both the Invid and the Haydonites.
The Jack
McKinney novels and Robotech comics such as The
Malcontent Uprisings limited series developed a Zentraedi
language which was different from the language which was developed
for Macross DYRL and was not as completely developed as the Macross
version. Unlike in Macross, the language for the Robotech Zentraedi
was dominated by more harsh, guttural sounds very similar in nature
to Star
Trek's Klingonese.
Notable Zentraedi:
Breetai |
Exedore |
Dolza | Khyron | Miriya
Parina Sterling
Notable Zentraedi-Human hybrids:
Dana
Sterling | Maia
Sterling
