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Robotech Sentinels: The Devil's Hand
Book 13 of the Robotech series
Copyright 1988 by Jack McKinney


ROBOTECH CHRONOLOGY

1999 Alien spacecraft known as SDF-1 crashlands on Earth through an opening in hyperspace,
effectively ending almost a decade of Global Civil War.
In another part of the Galaxy, Zor is killed during a Flower of Life seeding attempt.

2002 Destruction of Mars Base Sara.

2009 On the SDF-1's launch day, the Zentraedi (after a ten-year search for the fortress) appear
and lay waste to Macross Island. The SDF-1 makes an accidental jump to Pluto.

2009-11 The SDF-1 battles its way back to Earth.

2011-12 The SDF-1 spends almost half a year on Earth, is ordered to leave, and defeats Dolza's
armada, which has laid waste to much of the planet.

2012-14 A two-year period of reconstruction begins.

2012 The Robotech Masters lose confidence in the ability of their giant warriors to recapture the
SDF-1, and begin a mass pilgrimage through interstellar space to Earth.

2013 Dana Sterling is born.

2014 Destruction of the SDFs 1 and 2 and Khyron's battlecruiser.

2014-20 The SDF-3 is built and launched. Rick Hunter turns 29 in 2020; Dana turns 7.

Subsequent events covering the Tiresian campaign are recounted in the Sentinels series. A complete
Robochronology will appear in the fifth and final volume.


CHAPTER ONE
I leave it up to the historians and the moralists to judge whether our decision (the Expeditionary
mission) is right or wrong. I know only that it is prudent and necessary-necessary for our very
survival both as a planet and as a life form. If the Protoculture has taught me anything, it is
that one must simply act! When all is said and done the inevitabilities and reshapings will have
their way, but to remain either complacent or inert in the face of those fatalities is to invite
catastrophe of a higher order than any of us dare imagine.
From the personal journal of Dr. Emil Lang

In the middle of the night on an alien world, an army of insentient warriors dropped from the sky.
Tirol, as this small moon was known, represented a prize of sorts-the end of a long campaign that
had taken the invaders through a dozen local star systems and across the varied faces of twice