List of Macross Frontier Terminology - Creatures, Fighters and Ships of The Vajra

Creatures, Fighters and Ships of The Vajra

• Vajra Larvae or Stage 1 Vajra - Smallest and most harmless of Vajra species, they are lime green with 3 eyes, with cute squeals, and a squirrel-like body (including the tail). The Larvae do not appear to have any insect-like qualities at first. Definite non-mammalian morphological features include the uneven number of eyes on the head, as well as six small legs. Ranka Lee unknowingly had one as a pet and named it "Ai-kun".

• Vajra Flyers / Dandiform or Stage 2 Vajra - Second smallest known Vajra, they are 2.5 meters long with retractable wings, 6-8 limbs, a flat head and a beak that can chop a human in two. They fly very fast and use their beaks as rams or crush their opponents by trapping them with their legs. While these creatures do have exoskeletons, they aren't made of energy conversion armor like that of the larger, combat Vajra although they do wield a pair of bio-energy lasers for shooting targets that are far off. These creatures are known to fly and attack in swarms similar to locusts.

• Vajra Walker or Stage 3 Vajra - 3rd largest Vajra which evolves from the Larva stage, which becomes a large mecha. While it has a large flat head like the Stage 2 form, it also has an extended long body, no wings, pincers, and approximately 6 legs and 2 arms. It wields a pair of bio-energy powered lasers emitting from its flat disk-like head. They are primary used as ground assault troopers. Stage 3 Vajra may be the early stage that leads to the Vajra Space Mecha-Drones.

• Vajra Fighter-Drones - The most common of the Vajra in space that also act as main fighters for the species. They are the same size as non-transformed variable fighters and are incredibly fast and agile. Their arsenal includes powerful energy weapons and biologically grown missile-type weaponry. The drones are hatched from eggs laid in derelict spaceships or asteroids. They are yellow in color and more insect looking than their previous forms, now having wings and an exoskeleton in addition to its multiple appendages as well as a dangerous bio-energy tail or flagellum that can be used by them efficiently as a close-range weapon. Vajra drones don't seem capable of folding by themselves, so they are usually seen following the bigger Vajra Space Mecha-Drones or inside Vajra Battleships and Motherships.

• Vajra Space Mecha-Drones - These large bio-mechanical Vajra drones perform as enforcers and assault troops. They can fly swiftly with or without an atmosphere and can fold without the need of a mothership to transport them. Twice the size of a variable fighter, they have insect-like exoskeletons with large arms and legs that they can fold up when not in use. Their external structure is made of a very strong energy conversion armor similar to the one found in most valkyries that also makes them highly resistant to many types of weaponry. They are red colored and have several yellow colored "spiral" shaped marks in their armor. These large Vajra are strong enough to tear a mecha apart and have bio-energy weapons, lasers, bio-missiles, and an incredibly powerful cannon capable of destroying a NUNS capital ship with a single shot. On the ground, these creatures can act as a ground-assault tank on legs. It was revealed later in the series that the Vajra units have the ability to transmit the damage they receive to the whole species before they die, so their "hive" may create a better adapted or evolved version of the destroyed unit.

• Vajra Destroyer Mecha-Drones (In the Macross Frontier Movie) - Largest mecha-type Vajra that resembles a wasp in its appearance. They have the ability to fly swiftly with or without an atmosphere and has the ability to fold without the help of a larger Vajra vessels. Its 'armaments' consists of multiple bio-missiles as well as two large claws which also can fire anti-ship grade energy beams. They also appear to have the ability to transport a small object within their stomach part of the body as seen in the movie where it captures Ranka Lee and trys to escape to a Vajra Carrier stationed just outside the protective dome of Island 1. One of these Destroyer Mecha-Drones were destroyed by Michael during the ambush on the Frontier Fleet.

• Small Vajra Queens - These creatures are coordinators of all the Vajra thinking processes for large swarms and fleets of the species. They are usually found on Vajra Motherships and are directly controlled by the main Vajra queen. Small queens superficially resemble the main queen except in their size, color and possibly in their overall mobility. They also can produce baby/larvae eggs through crane like appendages.

• Vajra Carrier/Cruiser - Bio-mechanical warships used as the Vajra's heavy gunships in their 'fleet' of ships. They can fold by themselves and are slightly larger than the main S.M.S.'s warship, Macross Quarter. The warship's primary weapon is a heavy converging energy beam cannon (mounted within its forward bow), many secondary bio lasers for anti-fighter/starship defense and its known to carry many mixed-sized Vajra drones. It can fly swiftly in air and space, and can fold to reach intergalactic destinations. Whether the Vajra battleship is an evolved type of Vajra or just an organic extension of their hives is still unknown.

• Vajra Mothership - Very large bio-mechanical vessel, built to be vertically longer than it is wide, with a central "eye" structure. No apparent weapons have been seen to be used by this ship. It is known to carry a hive with thousands of drones aboard it as well as a small Vajra Queen which coordinates the Vajra fleet it is attached to and also spawns more Vajra by producing their eggs. This type of ship was first seen lifting off from planet Galia 4 where it abandoned the derelict Macross Class SDF Global where it was hiding, destroying it in the process. It also can fly swiftly in air and space, and can fold itself to any desired destination.

• Vajra Super-carrier/Super-battleship (In the Macross Frontier Movie) - Extremely large Vajra super-carrier/super-battleship that is same in size to Battle Frontier if not bigger. Its main weapon is the triple-barrel supercharged energy beam cannon mounted on the top of the ship, capable of firing energy beam with the power equal to the main weapon of Battle Frontier's main cannon. The ship also boasts many energy cannons ranging from point-defense cannons to large-calibre anti-ship cannons. It also has the capacity to carry large numbers of mixed-sized Vajra drones as well as the ability to fold rapidly. This ship is also capable of generating 'Fold Barrier' which acts as a defensive shield powerful enough to withstand a direct hit from the Battle Frontier's main cannon. A large Vajra fleet led by one of these ships ambushes the Frontier Fleet, but it is destroyed after receiving a combined attack from Macross Quarter and Battle Frontier.

• Vajra Queen - Resides in a massive artificial ring that encircles an Earth-like planet which is the Vajra homeworld. The ring around the planet is suspected to act as an amplifier for the Vajra Fold Communication Network with the Vajra Queen in its center. The main queen is physically twice the size of both the Battle Frontier and Battle Galaxy transformable battle carriers in their battroid/mecha mode. Its body is green/white with a giant, rounded, legless lower abdominal body, a smaller yet slightly longer torso with 4 feathered wings, a long neck with an insect-like head with multiple eyes and a long extended mouth/feeder. Like all Vajra, the Queen's head does not contain its "brain", rather it is located in the abdominal part of her body which contains a mass of fold crystals. The large quantity of fold crystals allows it to be become the command node in the Vajra Hyperspace Communication Network which allows the entire race to think as one. It is not known if it gives birth to Vajra spawn like lower grade queens or if she houses drones to defender herself with. It appears to have complete control over her race in real-time. The main queen can also create a super-dimensional rift which can be used as an impenetrable barrier which only her own Vajra drones can breach. This rift ability can also be used to fire "super-dimensional" fold blasts which can atomize anything other than a super-dimensional rift field (which only the Vajra are capable of producing). She also sings a song which is translated as a love song to court other Vajra lifeforms to breed. She, in fact teaches Ranka Lee this very song through her connection with Ranka due to the V-Type infection. The queen's wings are also very similar to those seen in the gigantic protoculture Bird Man mecha which was seen at end of Macross Zero, showing how the protoculture imitated the power of the Vajra. Grace O'Connor, in episode 24, merges and overcomes the queen's will and compromises the Vajra fold network hivemind with the unwilling aid of Ranka Lee. The queen and the rest of her race become slaves to Grace and her organization's will, with O'Connor commanding the Vajra Queen to send her drones to attack all of humanity at multiple fronts at the same time, from the Macross 11 Deep Space Colony Fleet to Macross City on Earth. Only through the efforts of Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee was O'Connor's control over the Vajra network overwhelmed, freeing the Vajra drones to liberate the queen. The queen's head, where O'Connor placed her body, was severed and then destroyed by Alto Saotome. The queen was later seen ascending into space flapping her four enormous wings, apparently leaving with her Vajra spawn for elsewhere, their former homeworld now under the care of the people from the Macross Frontier colony fleet.

• Battle Frontier/Vajra Queen (In the Macross Frontier Movie) - Appears at the end of the second Macross Frontier Movie (Wings of Goodbye). Battle Frontier was used to merge with the Vajra Queen, in order to control the queen directly and thus allowing the control of Vjra without the use of the Implant system. It is armed with multiple pinpoint defense beam-based turrets, but its main weapon is the oversized Macross Cannon fused with Vajra Queen's materials, which dramatically increased its firepower. It is powerful enough to destroy multiple warships with one blast, but also have extreme range, allowing the blast to hit targets in orbit even if it was shot from the surface of the planet. It is also capable of folding on its own, due the to combined fold systems of the Battle Frontier and the queen.