Haydonites - History

History

In the distant past, the Haydonites destroyed the surface of the first Invid homeworld. The true reason for this was never explained beyond the fact that they feared Protoculture. This encounter between the two races would result in the Invid referring to the Haydonites as the Children of the Shadow.

According to the original Sentinel comics, Zor communed with the planetary intelligence of Haydon IV on one occasion before his first death. These comics also stated that the Invid managed to occupy the planet through duplicity and only Janice who activated the planet's defenses managed to force the aliens off the planet. However, the Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles comics show that Haydon IV was already freed from Invid occupation before the REF arrived.

The next noted encounter with the Haydonites was when the Robotech Expeditionary Force arrived around Tirol to make peace with the Robotech Masters. Instead, they found the Invid Regent and his forces which attempted to form their own empire in that region of space. The Haydonites were one of the many races that formed the Sentinels which joined forces with the REF to combat the Invid. The Haydonites provided technological assistance to the Robotech Expeditionary Force during its fight against the Invid Regent during the Sentinels War. The Haydonites claimed to have suffered at the hands of the Invid in the past, and used that to explain why they wanted to assist the REF. At the same time, the Haydonites asked that details of the Haydonite assistance be kept secret as the Haydonites wished to live in peace and not be disturbed by other races.

At the end of the Third Robotech War, the Haydonites, known to the Invid as the Children of the Shadow, betrayed their allies and attempted to destroy all races that used Protoculture as a power source as seen in Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. According to the Invid Ariel, the Haydonites attempt to destroy any race that uses Protoculture energy (which they call "protoculture addicts") because the Haydonites "fear its awesome power...".

For the final REF assault on Earth, the Haydonites provided humanity with weapons and defenses against the Invid, including the deadly Neutron-S warhead. The Neutron-S warheads were effectively weapons of mass destruction and would kill millions of civilians as well as devastate half of Earth. But it was anticipated that if the REF ground assault against the primary Invid hive at Reflex Point failed, then the warheads would be needed to destroy the hive. However, the catastrophic results of the Deukalion weapons test, as well as comments by the Invid Regess, suggest that the Haydonites concealed from the REF exactly how powerful the warheads were. The Haydonites expected that the REF would use the Neutron-S weapons and wipe out the Invid on Earth. The Regess foiled that plot when she decided to take the Invid to a new world, and destroyed the Neutron-S missiles as she left.

While it is unknown exactly what would have happened to the Earth if the Neutron-S warheads had hit Reflex Point, the Deukalion weapons test (which appears to have caused the creation of a new black hole) suggests that Earth (currently the only known location where the Flower of Life can properly grow) may very well have been completely destroyed. Further, the Regess recognized the warheads as weapons that had been used against the first Invid homeworld, and a vision from Ariel of the first Invid homeworld revealed a completely ruined world.

With the Invid having fled, the Haydonites decided to focus on the REF. They attacked the REF fleet at Space Station Liberty, and it was revealed that the technologies that the Haydonites had provided to the REF had hidden weaknesses that the Haydonites were able to exploit to catastrophic effect. Most of the REF ships defending the station were wiped out, but one of the Neutron-S warheads stockpiled at Liberty was set to self-destruct, and the resulting blast was large enough to wipe out the entire Haydonite fleet.

The Haydonites' plans following the battle at Liberty are currently unrevealed. But it is known that they were searching for the SDF-3 and its Protoculture Matrix (the only way for the REF to generate more Protoculture energy), and had expected to find it at Liberty Space Station. It is logical to assume that locating the SDF-3 is still a Haydonite priority.