I originally began this story in 2000 or maybe in the year 1999 ;O)
The basic premise is - what if Roy never died, what would change, what would stay the same?
In the original story, I branched off from Robotech canon when Rick, Max, Ben and Lisa escape the Zentraedi in Episode 12. Instead of taking a Battlepod I had them take a Quaedluun-Rau/Female Power Armour. This was mostly due to the fact that I absolutely love this mecha and I thought it would be cool if the humans got their hands on it.
To make a long story short, Roy ends up flying it (he is a test pilot after all) and events go from there.
However, upon reading this story some 7 years later I realised this wasn't quite the great premise I thought it was. For one thing, Roy, like Rick is a pilot, his strenght is flying planes (consider how often Roy turns into Battliod or even Guardian mode in Robotech -hardly ever) and for another, the writing was just plain bad.
So, I decided to scratch basically the whole tale except for the basics and start over again.
The only thing both stories have in common now is their obscene length, let me just say brevity isn't my strong suit.
I first put this story up on fanfiction.net, where it got a number of good reviews, so I figured I'd put it up here too.
Before I get onto the tale, just a brief word - I decided to make a timeline based burely on references in the animation, as a result it does not match the 'official' timeline available at Robotech.com. I've also placed Launch Day on 2nd July 2009, closer to the original date 1st July mentioned in Robotech: The Graphic Novel.
Also, I figured Zentraedi timekeeping would not match ours, so throughout the story they use the following terms:
MIL, which is 12 seconds
LON, which is 3 days
NOS, which is 5 years
Now that that's cleared up and without any further ado.... the fanfic!
