
"In 1999, an alien spaceship crashed onto
Earth. Hidden on board were the secrets of a unique science
known as Robotechnology. Databanks found in this ship were
transferred to the Earth Robotech Computer Complex. In 2009,
an alien search party arrived from hyper-space to reclaim
their lost databank. The United Earth Government was forced
into an Intergalactic war. Earth forces were able to win the
first battle... But at a great cost. The planet was
virtually destroyed. New population centres grew out the
ashes… It is now 2027. A second armada sent by the aliens is
nearing Earth. They have come to recapture the secrets of
their lost technology... And then destroy the Earth".
- The narrator's opening monologue to "Robotech
the movie".
Some
16 years after the events of episode 36 of "Robotech" (the
final episode of the "Macross Saga" arc), the Earth has begun
to rebuild and is peaceful again. However the Robotech Masters
have arrived to retrieve the memory matrix from the computer
that was on board the SDF-1, which crash landed in the Pacific
in 1999. A platoon of Bioroids is sent down to battle the
humans. Todd Harris, a solider from the Northern Province of
the Far East Sector and his squad members, fight off the
attack. But something strange is happening. Civilians are
being captured alive by the enemy. Colonel B.D. Andrews joins
in the battle and fights along side Todd's unit. However
Andrews is captured, and the enemy retreats much to the Earth
Defence Forces puzzlement.
On
their flagship, the Robotech Masters make the surprising
discovery that one of the captured humans, Andrews, is a high
ranking officer at the Robotech Research Centre where the
memory matrix is being held. The Masters decide to make a
bio-genetic twin simulant of Andrews, who will be able to
follow their orders to the letter. The Masters dispose of the
real Andrews and the other captured humans, then send the
cloned Andrews down to Earth before any suspicion is aroused
to the Colonel's whereabouts. Upon arrival, the clone manages
to gain control of the Robotech Research Centre, and goes on
TV to deny rumours that the Earth is again at war with another
alien race.
Mark
Landry, a teenager who works at a motorcycle repair shop,
receives a phone call from his friend Todd Harris. Todd is a
little agitated, and asks Mark to meet him in an underground
car park. There Todd shows Mark a large motorcycle called the
MODAT 5. The machine is in fact a new piece of Robotechnology
and acts as a database terminal to a giant military computer
as well as transforming into a robot. Todd tells Mark that he
stole it from the military in order to expose cover-up about
the new invasion by Supreme Command and Colonel Andrews. He
tells Mark they they must contact "Eve", but their
conversation is cut short when Andrews' men come to retrieve
the bike. In the confusion Mark escapes with the MODAT 5 and
unbeknownst to him, Todd is killed by Andrew's men. An attempt
is made to search for Mark and the bike, but he has already
disappeared and gone back to the motorcycle repair shop. There he gets
the bike repainted red and tells the story to disbelieving
workmates.
The next day Mark
picks up his girlfriend, Becky Michaels, on his bike to take
her to an audition, but the couple fight as he is late.
However she forgives him and lets him take her to the audition
as he can easily get through the heavy traffic on his bike. He
also manages to convince her to give him the number her
filmmaker friend, Kelly Stevens, so that he can be cast in her
film. Meanwhile a strike force is sent out to battle one of
the Robotech Masters flagships. For the Earth forces the
battle is a complete disaster. Most of the squad is completely
wiped out. The Robotech Masters were forewarned of the attack
by Andrews. After the battle, Andrews' proposal to get the
alien computer found on board the SDF-1, named the E.V.E, to
provide counterattack solutions is given the go-ahead by
Supreme Command. He is now in complete control of the memory
matrix and gives orders to transmit the entire computer's data
to an old abandoned satellite. He explains to his team that
this is just to warm up the computer, but they have their
doubts. The signals are in fact being intercepted by the
Robotech Masters, who store the information in their own
databanks.
Kelly
Stevens convinces Mark to use the MODAT 5 in the filming of
her movie. But Mark is having second thoughts about it. As
Mark and Becky film a scene together, pop star Eve appears on
a giant screen bellowing out her new hit single and as a
result ruins the take. Mark wonders if she is the "Eve" Todd
was referring to. Becky is worried about Mark's attitude and
wonders if he is in some sort of trouble. After the shoot,
Mark decides to ring into Eve's TV talk show to see if she
knows anything about Todd and the MODAT 5. But the call is cut
short on TV, even though Mark continues talking to Eve for
several minutes assuming his call is still being broadcast.
Eve suggests that he brings the MODAT 5 to the studio, but on
his way there several of Andrews' men in civilian clothes try
to capture him. They fail, and soon transformable bike mecha,
known as Harguns, and military vehicles are sent in to
apprehend him. Mark once again eludes capture after a fight on
a highway which destroys most of his pursuer's equipment and
sends Mark and the MODAT 5 crashing into a neighbourhood
playground.
Mark is unsure if
Eve set him up, so he disguises himself as a delivery boy and
searches the TV studio for her. What he finds shocks him. Eve
is not a real person, but a hologram programmed by a computer.
Mark ponders what to do next, but Eve contacts him via the
MODAT 5. Eve tells Mark that she is actually a supercomputer
called the E.V.E. and that the Robotech Masters have come for
her. Supreme Command is trying to cover up the new invasion,
but Todd Harris got wind of it, stole the MODAT 5 and
attempted to make it public. Someone is sending her data to
the Robotech Masters, but she doesn't know who. What she does
know however is that once the Robotech Masters have the data,
they will destroy the Earth. Eve pleads with Mark to help her
and guides him to the underground base where her physical form
is.
But once Mark arrives there Eve's transmissions
are jammed. Andrews' men discover him and attack in their
Hargun mecha. He defeats them, but Andrews himself challenges
Mark and both of them end up in a space simulator. But Mark
manages to damage Andrews' mecha whicj leaves him vulnerable
inside the simulator, which it's gravity core could crush him.
Mark makes a deal; if he saves Andrews from being crushed in
the gravity core of the simulator, Andrews has to tell him
everything. He naturally agrees. Andrews tells Mark that Todd
had snapped in battle and wasn't telling the truth, and that
he was currently in a military hospital undergoing psychiatric
care. Mark refuses to believe him and tells Andrews that he
had been talking with the E.V.E. Andrews claims that he
created the message to get him to return the MODAT 5. Mark
doesn't know what to believe anymore and takes off with the
MODAT 5 despite Andrews trying to reason with him to surrender
it.
Mark
contacts Becky and tells her that she and her friends could be
in danger. Becky tries to get more information out of him, but
he just tells her that he doesn't want to get her into
trouble. Later Mark goes to the taping of TV show where Becky
is preforming as a dancer. But Mark is a little miffed when
the director of the show, Roger Burke, seems to be putting the
movies on Becky. Mark decides to spy on Becky using the
equipment on board the MODAT 5. She is staying with the other
dancers in hotel, but Roger enters the room and tries to make
love to her. Mark is a little enraged at this and uses the
MODAT 5 in robot form to break into the room to save Becky.
Becky is rather shocked but pleased Mark saved her, but Mark
is upset that she thinks that it's all a joke, and slaps her.
Becky tells Mark off and walks home.
Meanwhile
the Earth Defence Forces try a second attack on the Robotech
Masters. Unfortunately since they used the E.V.E. to formulate
their battle plan, their enemy already knows the moves they're
going to make. It is soon evident that the battle is a
failure, and the retreat order is soon given. But the only way
out for the Earth battleships is to make a jump into
hyperspace as the E.V.E. is in complete control of the main
battleship and they can't override the system. The decision to
stop transmission of data from the E.V.E. is taken by the
staff, but a very angry Andrews forces them to start
transmitting the data again. But the staff are very nervous
that the enemy could be infiltrating the E.V.E.'s signal and
call the head of the Ministry of Computer Science, Professor
Daryl Embrey. Professor Embrey immediately orders them to stop
transmissions and attempts to have Andrews removed from the
project. Andrews responds by ordering his military officers
stage a coup d'état against the government. Once he is in
complete control, he starts up the transmissions of the E.V.E.
to the abandoned satellite again.
Mark
decides to make up with Becky. But while they are out having a
good time at the flat where Becky and her two flatmates live,
Kelly is shot and killed by Andrews men as she completes her
film. They take the film of the MODAT 5 and leave Kelly to
die. Later, Stacy Embrey (Becky's other flatmate), Mark and
Becky discover her body and are horrified. Mark is incensed
and vows to kill Andrews. He takes off the MODAT 5 in search
of him. Becky comforts Stacy, but her father, Professor
Embrey, calls and tells her that they'll have to leave the
country for a while. In a last ditch attempt to stop Andrews,
Professor Embrey plans to fly to the Robotech Alaska Base
where there is an override for the E.V.E. computer. He sends a
car for Stacy, leaving Becky all alone. Little do they know,
Andrews' men are tailing the car.
Mark travels to
the Robotech Research Centre were the E.V.E. computer is. He
battles many of Andrews' troops despite being low on
ammunition, but eventually he is beaten and left for dead by
Andrews himself. Andrews then turns his attention to Professor
Embrey, heading to the airport to ambush him and his daughter.
Eve wakes Mark and tells him of Andrews plans. The MODAT 5 can
no longer move, but Eve tells him that there is a fighter ship
close by which can use. Though he is badly injured, Mark
manages to defeat the soldiers guarding the fighter. Eve helps
to start and launch the the fighter and regretfully tells him
that Todd was killed. Mark is angry but she explains that she
thought he would be reluctant to help her if he had known the
truth. On the way to the airport Becky sees Mark's fighter fly
past. Not knowing exactly what it is, and concerned about
Stacy's safety, she heads to the airport.
The Robotech Masters have grown impatient
with their cloned Andrews and decide to take matters into
their own hands. They descend in their flagship to defeat the
humans and destroy the planet. But by now E.V.E. has regained
full consciousness and forms a battle plan for the Earth
troops, who eventually down the flagship and thwart the
Robotech Master's plans. The remaining ships in the Robotech
Master's fleet retreat and leave the Earth's orbit.
When Stacy arrives at the airport, Andrews begins
his attack, taking out not only the tanks protecting Professor
Embrey, but the control tower too. But Mark arrives in his
fighter and begins attacking Andrews' platoon of military
hardware including tanks, robots and other assorted machines.
Mark is eventually shot down by Andrews in his Hargun robot.
The fighter spins out of control and before bursting into
flames, Mark ejects inside his Hargun robot which was hidden
inside the fighter. His robot emerges out the flames, but one
of Andrews' troops in a Hargun stands in his way. Mark quickly
dispenses with him and moves onto Andrews. After a quick but
very intense fight, Mark brings him down, and fires a single
shot into the cockpit which destroys Andrews and his robot.
The fighting has damaged Professor Embrey's jet which has
caught fire and is exploding. Stacy is trying in vain to
remove a large piece of rubble that has fallen on her father.
Mark rescues them both from the wreckage as Andrews surviving
men leave in defeat. Becky walks through the rubble looking
for Stacy, but to her surprise sees Mark. She runs towards him
calling out his name. They embrace, happy that their ordeal is
over.
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