WORLD OF ROBOTECH 3000
The Complete Story of Robotech 3000
by Khyron_Prime...23 May 2004
Your brother in protoculture,
Khyron_Prime
Setting: A geological research outpost within the Galactic Alliance
The Story: Suzy Kramer is a diligent geologist studying the patterns of life on the outpost when she finds that the matter in the ground is terraforming at a speed that is quicker than normal. Kramer requests that further research personnel, specifically a Spherisian due to their connections with planetary tissues. The Alliance sends Arroq, a Spherisian, and he is transported by the ship of Captain Noble and protected by fighter pilot Brent Hawkins, whom he has known for a long time and trusts to escort him safely, as they have been in some hairy situations before.
OPENING ACTION
A researcher known as Lorna is attracted to Brent Hawkins upon his arrival. Her affections are returned and they quickly develop a plutonic relationship. When Lorna is outside studying the area, she is attacked by a protoculture-powered mining machine, and Hawkins must leap into action to defeat the unmanned mecha.
The galaxy is stunned as more-and-more Robotech mecha begin to go berzerk. The Galactic Alliance's scientists suggest the removal of all protoculture from mecha until they can determine the reasons for this sudden outburst. However, the leaders of the alliance cannot listen--over 90% of all machines in the galaxy are protoculture-powered, and a shut down of that much mecha would mean a stand-still of life as they know it.
MIDDLE ACTION
The Galactic Alliance refuses to accept the idea that, despite all scientific reports, protoculture machinery is beyond their control. In a televised broadcast, the chairperson of the Galactic Alliance addresses the galaxy to inform them that the Alliance is working in their interests to find out what is causing this. However, he is interrupted--In the middle of the interview, a Veritech fighter that was parked outside on guard duty crashes through the walls; it grasps the Chairperson in its battloid hand, and crushes him on-camera in front of the audience across the galaxy.
The people of the galaxy practically riot, fighting to disable all of their protoculture-powered toaster ovens before their protoculture power explodes. The Alliance Military fights a frightened war against renegade mecha using their battloids, never knowing when their own mecha will eat them alive.
Brent Hawkins finds in the scientific records of the Alliance some old Robotech Forces records, including an interview with Dr. Emil Lang. In the recording made shortly before his death, Dr. Lang explains that he has recognised that the use of protoculture with machinery inherently mutates the substance--an osmosis, in which the pure substance that is protoculture takes-in the input of emotion, feeling, stimulus of the mecha users. By the end, Dr. Lang notes, protoculture will have been infused with so much living energy that itself will gain a self-awareness, producing disasterous results. Dr. Lang says that he knows, through an understanding instinct he once felt while on Optera, that the very first Flower of Life remains immortal in the center of that planet. However, despite his crazed interest in the possibilities, he says that the Robotech Forces have no mecha capable of tunneling that far into the ground, and thus cannot reach the center.
Brent Hawkins thinks: "They didn't have the technology in 2030, but we sure do now!"
Alliance rogue scientists follow Hawkins to New Praxis, where they must first convince the Praxians that they need to be allowed to make swiss-cheese of their planet in order to save the galaxy.
Slowly, word spreads about the galaxy regarding Hawkins' information and plan, and more people--civilians and soldiers alike, bring their mecha to New Praxis to dig to the center--they use drills, explosives, battloid beam cannons--whatever they can! The problem is that, not only are more-and-more mecha steadily going berzerk, but New Praxis' area seems to accelerate the process of protoculture-awareness.
Brent Hawkins, now as a mining squad mecha leader, realises that any and all half-breeds are able to continuously control their mecha, as opposed to the pure-bred amongst them, who are steadily losing control of their battloids.
Scientists report that Dr. Lang's files talk about how the insolence of each race--Zentraedi, human, etc.--to use protoculture for its own gain is dispicable, and in scientific studies, Lang found that the communication between a person that belongs to multiple races rather than one exclusively, seems to make "the protoculture leap with joy in the unconcerned bond of two beings because they love each other, throwing racial selfishness forever aside."
Brent Hawkins leads a new squad of all half-breeds and their mecha, and bores to the center of the planet.
CLOSING ACTION
Inside, a Flower of Life stands, the size of a large Invid hive. It glows with a beautiful, pure radiance. The half-breeds stand and all feel a warm feeling coarsing through their bodies--embracing the fact that they are alive; accepted as children of the eternal flower and its child, protoculture. Brent Hawkins, through all of his denials of rumours that he is part Zentraedi, finally recognises the truth, the beauty of his existence.
However, Brent snaps under this pressure.--A huge Flower of Life, his own existence in space and time, and a battloid that could kill him at any moment...He draws his Veritech fighter's beam weapon, pointing it directly at the Flower of Life.
Above the burrow, the people hear an explosion--a laser rifle shot.
From the center of protoculture's birth, the mecha arise, holding a dead body--Brent's veritech fighter. They carry him into the skies like angels of protoculture.
"The galaxy now needs to see that it isn't the power that Robotechnology has given us that matters, it is the love that protoculture has allowed us to discover that brings us a euphoria. Without the Flower of Life's ultimate plan, humanity would not have found the Zentraedi or the Invid or anyone else. But now we're together, bonded by the common fact that was Robotech. People may not have been ready to accept it then, but now is the time to show them that all of this was for a reason: Finally, we CAN find peace in our universe, and we will do it together."
--Brent Hawkins' Final Monologue
