Macross Galaxy Long Range Colony Fleet
The 21st Long Range Colony Fleet, which was sent coreward on a similar course as Macross Frontier Colony Fleet to the center of Milky Way Galaxy. The fleet departed several years before the Macross Frontier and was designed by private corporations and had the latest technology available. The main ship, the Macross Galaxy consisted of two main sections: the Battle Galaxy, a modified Battle class Battle Carrier with a command bridge in the shape of an oversized VF-27 head, and the Main Galaxy Island, the primary residential area where the civilians lived. Main Island design is radically different from other colony fleets, it is a unique design not seen before or since its launch. Along with Macross Galaxy several Deneb class cruisers and Dulfim class cruisers served as escorts of the fleet. The main fighter used in the fleet is the VF-27 along with the advanced automated V-9 Ghost Attack Drones.
Macross Galaxy's culture and standard of living are shown, from what is seen in the series, to be not as good as Frontier's. Its government also does not regulate or restrict the use of cybernetic technology and is more dependent on it versus Frontier's pro-biological only cultural set-up. Galaxy Fleet was known to be home of Sheryl Nome, the famous intergalactic pop singer, as well as the home of V-Type virus researcher/Sheryl's manager/series antagonist Grace O'Connor, a survivor of the 117th Long Distance Research Fleet. Some of Galaxy fleet's population were shown to have lived in poverty in the streets (which Sheryl formerly lived before she was discovered by O'Connor), while the colony was described as a hermetically sealed chemical plant.
The fleet was supposed to have been destroyed by a Vajra War Fleet in 2059 just prior to a scheduled rendezvous with the Macross Frontier Colony Fleet. Only the Dulfim was rescued by the Macross Quarter and the Antares squadron was later added to the Frontier fleet forces. In episode 16 it has revealed that part of the Macross Galaxy fleet survived the attack and was hiding in an asteroid belt.
In the final battle against the Vajra, it is confirmed that at least the Battle Galaxy and several escort cruisers survived the Vajra attack and were behind the attacks on the Macross Frontier fleet. The secret cabel O'Connor belonged to, compromised the majority of Macross Galaxy colony fleet's military including its flagship, Battle Galaxy which was destroyed after the Macross Quarter and Battle Frontier performed multiple Macross Attacks/Daedalus Attacks against it. The location of the rest of the civilian fleet and any other surviving cruiser during the final battle is unknown.
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