Army of The Southern Cross - Technology

Technology

Although it is commonly understood that the Alpha fighters used by the Robotech Expeditionary Force were produced prior to the departure of the Pioneer Mission, the ASC opted to develop its own Veritech mecha which saw heavy use against the forces of the Robotech Masters, including the:

• VF-8 Logan, a fighter designed for air-to-air combat;
• VHT-1 Spartas Veritech Hovertank, a heavily armored mecha unit designed for ground and urban combat; and
• VFH-10 Veritech AGAC, a space fighter-helicopter produced late in the war to accompany the Tristar-class warships that formed the core of the ASC space fleet.

Although the Logan found itself outclassed by the bioroids that made up the Robotech Masters' forces and was almost entirely supplanted by the AGAC as the theatre moved primarily to space combat, the Veritech Hovertank proved more durable than might have been expected and by the end of the war had been upgraded and fielded for space as well as ground combat. Unfortunately, the widespread damage to physical infrastructure brought on by the Masters' invasion, and particularly by the events seen in Catastrophe, left the Southern Cross with neither the production capacity nor the energy reserves to rebuild its strength in the wake of the Second Robotech War. Most ASC mecha that survived the Masters was annihilated by during the Invid Invasion less than a decade later.