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spawned came home to roost. War with the divested Invid was soon a reality, and there were
incidents of open rebellion among the ranks of the Zentraedi, that pathetic race of beings
deprived by the Masters of the very essence of sentient life-the ability to feel, to grow, to
experience beauty and love.
Nevertheless, Zor ventured forth in the hopes of redressing some of the injustices his own
discoveries had fostered. Under the watchful gaze of Dolza, commander in chief of the Zentraedi,
the dimensional fortress embarked on a mission to discover new worlds ripe for conquest.
So the Masters were led to believe.
What Zor actually had in mind was the seeding of planets with the Invid flower. Dolza and
his lieutenants, Breetai and the rest, easily duped into believing that he was carrying out orders
from the Masters themselves, were along as much to secure Zor's safety as to ensure the Master's
investment. The inability to comprehend or effect repairs on any Robotech device and to stand in
awe of those who could was programmed into the Zentraedi as a handicap to guard against a possible
grand-scale warrior rebellion. The Zentraedi had about as much understanding of the workings of
Robotechnology as they did of their humanoid hearts.
So, on Spheris, Garuda, Haydon IV, Peryton, and numerous other planets, Zor worked with
unprecedented urgency to fulfill his imperative. The Invid were always one step behind him, their
sensor nebulae alert to even minute traces of Protoculture, their Inorganics left behind on those
very same worlds to conquer, occupy, and destroy. But no matter: In each instance the seedlings
failed to take root.
It was at some point during this voyage that Zor himself began to use the Flowers of Life
in a new way, ingesting them as he had seen the Invid do so long ago on Optera. And it was during
this time that he began to experience the vision that was to direct him along a new course of
action. It seemed inevitable that the Invid would catch up with him long before suitable planets
could be sought out and seeded, but his visions had revealed to him a world far removed from that
warring sector of the universe where Robotech Masters, Zentraedi, and Invid vied for control. A
world of beings intelligent enough to recognize the full potential of his discovery-a blue-white
world, infinitely beautiful, blessed with the treasure that was life...at the crux of transcendent
events, the crossroads and deciding place of a conflict that would rage across the galaxies.
A world he was destined to visit.
Well aware of the danger the Invid presented, Zor programmed the continuum coordinates of
this planet into the astrogational computers of the dimensional fortress. He likewise programmed
some of the ship's Robotech devices to play a part in leading the new trustees of his discovery to
a special warning message his own likeness would deliver to them. Further, he enlisted the aid of
several Zentraedi (whose heartless conditioning he managed to override by exposing them to music)
to carry out the mission.
The Invid caught up with Zor.
But not before the dimensional fortress had been successfully launched and sent on its
way.
To Earth.
Subsequent events-notably the Zentraedi pursuit of the fortress-were as much a part of
Earth's history as they were of Tirol's, but there were chapters yet to unfold, transformations
and reconfigurations, repercussions impossible to predict, events that would have surprised Zor
himself...had he lived.



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