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Secret Cybernetic Cabal

This conspiratorial cabal (whose official name is never revealed in the series) has been lurking within the confines at least two colony fleets. It appears to be manipulating the encounters with the Vajra. Its members been shown to be adept in using the advanced cybernetics and virtual technologies that Macross Galaxy Colony Fleet was known for. The cabal's roots originated from the lost 117th Large Scale Research Fleet and government/corporate elements of Macross Galaxy, which was deeply linked to General Galaxy and Critical Path Corporation. Some of the survivors of the 117th migrated to the Macross Galaxy Fleet where the high use of cybernetics of the fleet benefited antagonist Grace O'Connor's cause. This is when the cabal/conspiracy began to take shape. The cabal compromised a large portion of Macross Galaxy's military through cybernetics and enslaved them to it. Like the 117th, the Macross Galaxy fleet was a sacrificial experiment to lure and manipulate the events with the Vajra. Many of the cabal's members appeared to be in government and media positions and were seen to be, at the time, seeking to use the bio-energy/influence of music for some mysterious reason. For this purpose, the cabal had involved itself in the careers of intergalactic media stars (singers) Sheryl Nome, "The Galactic Fairy", and newly discovered Ranka Lee. Its true intentions remained an unknown mystery and knowledge of its existence was a secret to the majority of the population of the Macross Frontier Colony Fleet until the end of the series.

Scheming Chief of Staff Leon Mishima is manipulated by O'Connor visible a member of the cabal, who helped him take over the Macross Frontier fleet government. However, after achieving his own goals, Mishima severs ties with the cabal members which he personally allowed to stay in Frontier after learning of the Macross Galaxy fleet's apparent destruction by the Vajra.

Near the end of the series it is revealed that most of the cabal objectives revolved around controlling the Vajra fold communication network for controlling the whole galaxy, and that it was willing to destroy all the Vajra and the Human/Zentradi populations to achieve its goals. O'Connor, who was part of the original research team of scientists of 117th Large Scale Research Fleet, was proven to be part of this secret cabal. It was revealed that her wish was to take over the hive mind using Ranka Lee to channel her will through the Vajra network and create a human-collective hive mind to dominate the whole galaxy and achieve what the Protoculture could not for thousands of years.

Over the course of the series, it was shown that the cabal had already achieved a cybernetic collective of minds based on Vajra research. At least five voices are heard throughout the series (four male and two female including O'Connor's) as part of this group. Other than O'Connor, none were ever identified by name nor physically shown. Series creator Shoji Kawamori has recently revealed that they are in fact the executive directors of the Macross Galaxy fleet. It is through this link and the use of cybernetic implants that they were able to enslave unwilling individuals like cyborg Brera Sterne to act as their agents. It is believed that it was only with the arrival of O'Connor with her research theory of the Vajra being a collective space life-form that their objective rose to a galaxy-wide scale. Also, O'Connor's apparent death at the end of the series did not mean that it was the end of the conspiracy, since it was stated that her real "body" was still on the intact Main Galaxy Island according to the novel adaptation of the series.