Robotech is the critically acclaimed animated series about mankind's first contact with warring alien races, and the use of alien technology to defend Earth. The series was broken into three chapters, The Macross Saga, The Robotech Masters, and The New Generation. Released in 1985, Robotech was the first anime (Japanese animation) series that many fans had seen, and is often accredited as the cause of the anime fandom that continues to grow today in the United States.
Ten years after a mysterious alien ship lands on Earth and is rebuilt with its technology adapted, the alien warrior servants (the Zentraedi) of the ship's owners arrive to retrieve it.
The Earth is invaded by a race of aliens calling themselves the Invid to cultivate Earth's vast supplies of Protoculture.
The 'Robotech Masters' have come to the Earth to claim a mysterious substance known as Protoculture.