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toward her goal. By utilizing a percentage of Humans to cultivate and harvest the Flowers, she was
free to carry out her experiments uninterrupted. The central hive, which came to be called Reflex
Point, was to be the site of the Great Work, but secondary hives were soon in place across the
planet to maintain control of the Human sectors of her empire. The Regis was willing to let
humankind survive until such time as the work neared completion. Then, she would rid herself of
them.
There was, however, one thing she had not taken into account: the very warriors she had
fought tooth and claw on those worlds once seeded by Zor. Enslave a world she might, but take it
for her own?
Never!


CHAPTER ONE
The armada of Robotech ships T.R. Edwards had amassed for his planned invasion and conquest of
Earth would be put to that very use years later when Admiral Hunter sent them against the Invid.
Adding irony to irony, it should be mentioned that the warships had serious design flaws which
went unnoticed during their use on Tirol. Assuming this would have been the case even if Edwards
had managed to persevere, the invasion would have failed. Destiny failed to deliver Edwards the
crown he felt justified to wear and likewise failed to deliver Hunter the quick victory he felt
justified to claim.
Selig Kahler, The Tirolian Campaign

A fleet of Robotech warships moved into attack formation above the Moon, a mixed school of
gleaming predators, radiant where the distant sun touched their armored hulls and alloy fins. Each
carried in its belly a score or more of Veritech fighters, sleek, transformable mecha developed
and perfected over the course of the past thirty years. And inside each of these was a pilot ready
to die for a world unseen. War was at the top of the agenda, but in a narrow hold aboard one of
the command vessels a young man was thinking about love.
He was a pleasant-looking, clean-shaven youth going on twenty, with his father's long legs
and the wide eyes of his mother. He wore his blue-black hair combed straight back from his high
forehead-save for that undisciplined strand that always seemed to fall forward-making his ears
appear more prominent than they actually were. He wore the Expeditionary Force uniform-simple gray
tight-fitting pants tucked into high boots and a short-sleeved ornately collared top worn over a
crimson-colored synthcloth bodysuit. The Mars Group patch adorned the young man's shirt.
His name was Scott Bernard-Lieutenant Scott Bernard-and this was a homecoming of sorts.
That fact, coupled with the anxieties he felt concerning the imminent battle, had put him in an
impassioned frame of mind. The fortunate recipient of this not-so-sudden desire was a pretty, dark-
eyed teenager named Marlene, a good six inches shorter than Scott, with milk-chocolate-brown hair
and shapely legs enhanced by the uniform's short skirt.
Scott had Marlene's small face cupped in his hands while he looked lovingly into her eyes.
As his hands slid to her narrow shoulders, he pulled her to him, his mouth full against hers,
stifling the protest her more cautious nature wished to give voice to and urging her to respond.
Which she did, with a moan of pleasure, her hands flat against his chest.
"Marry me, Marlene," he said after she had broken off their embrace. He heard himself say
it and almost applauded, simply for finally getting the nerve up to ask her; Marlene's response
was a separate issue.


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