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The Sian Macross-class Border Fleet Battlefortress (シアン・マクロス級ボーダー・フリート・バトルフォートレス, Shian Makurosu-kyū Bōdā Furīto Batorufōtoresu), prototype modular space battlefortresses that were originally intended to serve as the new capital ship for the Tirolian Border Fleet. In the year 1999 A.D., the first ship of the line, the Macross, crash-landed on Earth under strange circumstances and it would be rebuilt by the local inhabitants as the SDF-1 UES Macross, flagship of the Robotech Defense Force.My design for the Sian Macross-class was heavily inspired by the Meltrandi Gun Destroyer (aka the ASS-1 - Alien StarShip One) from Macross: Do You Remember Love? www.macross2.net/m3/macrossdyr… Information thanks to the Robotech Reference Guide: www.robotech-reference-guide.o…
Production Information:
- Manufacturer: Tirol Orbital Shipyards
- Line: Prototype Modular Transformable Super Space Battlefortress
- Model: Sian Macross-class Border Fleet Battlefortress
- Developed From:
Sian Dereta-class Border Fleet Battlefortress
- Developed Into:
Macross-class Super Dimensional Fortress
Macbeth-class Super Dimensional Fortress (Next Generation Type)
Pioneer-class Super Dimensional Fortress
Liberator-class Super Dimensional Fortress/Shadow Dimensional Fortress
New Macross-class Super Dimensional Fortress
- Ships of the Line:
Macross (Commissioned 1979, Crashed on Earth in 1999 and rebuilt as SDF-1 UES Macross)
Nezium (Commissioned 1980, Missing since 2005)
Aippa (Commissioned 1980, Total loss and scrapped at Tirol, 1993)
Ronarak (Commissioned 1980, Crashed 2019, wrecked)
Badeval (Commissioned 1981, Missing since 2021)
Splaney (Commissioned 1981, Destroyed by Invid in 2021)
Lugmor (Commissioned 1981, Destroyed by unknown forces, most likely DoZ remnants, in 1982)
Eicass (Commissioned 1982, Crashed 2021, wrecked)
Nasices (Commissioned 1982, Cannibalized by the Robotech Empire-in-exile fleet in 2013)
Noziroh (Commissioned 1982, Destroyed by Invid in 2021)
Basilts (Commissioned 1983, Destroyed by Invid in 2021)
Raflawem (Commissioned 1983, Destroyed by Invid in 2020)
- Length: 1,201 meters
- Height: 312 meters
- Width: 339 meters
- Mass: 18,000,000 metric tons, operational (typical)
- Fuel Mass: 1,980,000 metric tons, maximum (typical)
- Engine Units:
14 Fusion-plasma reaction thruster clusters with steerable nozzles (maneuvering thrusters)
6 RRG HPC-2 fusion-plasma reaction thrusters with Protoculture energizer (reaction-mass thrusters)
8 RRG VFR-2 fusion-plasma reaction thrusters with Protoculture energizer (secondary thrusters)
9 RRG VFR-3 fusion-plasma reaction thrusters with Protoculture energizer (secondary thrusters)
7 RRG VFR-4 fusion-plasma reaction thrusters with Protoculture energizer (secondary thrusters)
- Space Fold System: RRG YS-2 space fold drive
- Power Plant: RRG Mk.1 Protoculture-fueled Reflex furnace cluster
- Shielding: XS-1 Barrier Defense System "Pinpoint Barrier/Full Barrier System"
- Hull: Space Titanium Alloy
- Anti-Gravity System: 15 RRG Olympic anti-gravity pods
- Armaments:
Makral Ever-248 Reflex cannon
8 Makral Deim-773 particle cannons
Makral Deim-869 plasma cannon
4 Gluph Tacim-56 heavy railguns
16 Makral Mossil-996-3 particle cannons
12 Deuawhaug Rasar-89 torpedo tubes
48 Touwhang Rasar-481 missile launchers
- Compliment:
300 Bioroids
Blue Nous'dohl "Warrior" bioroids
Green T'siendral "Sentinel" bioroids
Red Gister'dohl "Warlord" bioroids
T'sienramp "Observer" bioroid scouts
5 Roil Destrin-class assault corvettes
10 Roil Tiluvosen-class assault corvettes
12 Raditzs Regult command pods
24 Glaug officer battle pods
24 Glaug Eldare officer armored vehicles
72 Lotzor (with other variants) battle pods
242 Regult (with other variants) battle pods
350 Nousjaedul-Ger or Quaedluun-Rau mobile battle suits
12 asteroid mining craft
4 Liewneuatzs-class personal shuttles
- Crew: 48 Tiresian elite officers (Robotech Master War Triumvirates), 48 primary bridge crew (Tirolian and/or Triumviroid officers & enlisted), 15 secondary bridge crew (Zentraedi and/or Meltrandi officers & enlisted), 1,132 Tirolian and/or Triumviroid officers, 12 Zentraedi and/or Meltrandi officers, 2,002 Tirolian and/or Triumviroid enlisted crew, 23 Zentraedi and/or Meltrandi enlisted crew, 100 bioroid pilots, 240 bioroid maintenance personnel, 120 battle pod/battle suit pilots, 300 battle pod/battle suit maintenance personnel, 450 Tirolian and/or Triumviroid soldiers (rotational & in stasis), 700 Zentraedi and/or Meltrandi soldiers (rotational & in stasis)
- Radar System: Cross-Dimensional Radar
- Communication System: Advanced Fold Communication System
Usage Information:
- Roles:
Battlefortress
Capital Ship
Assault Carrier
Diplomatic Vessel
- First Deployed: August 1979 A.D.
- Last Deployed: December 2021 A.D.
- Affiliation:
Tirolian Robotech Mercantile Empire
Tirolian Border Fleet
Design Notes:
Around the mid-1970s, the leading ships of the Tirolian Border Fleet, the Sian Dereta-class battlefortresses, were requiring increasing amounts of maintenance due to the relative age of their components. Many general fleet designs were even older, but those ships operated in close proximity to repair and refit stations, and the maintenance requirements could be met. The Border Fleet required a new run of ships, preferably from an updated design. The result was the Macross-class battlefortress.
The Sian Macross-class was designed by the Tirolian Design Bureau, also responsible for designing the Tou Salaam-class exploration cruiser and the Bioroid assault carriers. As such, the design shared several features with the former craft, but it also had a large number of unique features. Among the features the Macross-class battlefortresses had in common with their older brethren were the reaction engines, which were more angular looking, the Micronian-sized command spaces located in a tower-structure above the central part of the vessel, and a more "non-organic feel" to the rest of the ship. However, the primary hull morphology and internal arrangement clearly showed its descent from the Sian Dereta-class that had come before it.
The Macross-class vessels were of a modular design; the ship was made from ten main sections. The central section, called the main hull, was the main connection point for the rest of the modules. Inside the main hull were the fold drives and a number of main compartments: four Tirolian-sized crewdecks, four Zentraedi-sized crewdecks, and three large holds that contained machinery and cargo space. The two engine sections (aka "legs") naturally contained the reaction engines, the reaction mass supplies, Reflex furnaces, and such, all stored in ten large holds, five per leg. It was also here that the manufacturing centers were located, as Border Fleet ships operated at the end of very long supply lines and were thus required to be as self-sufficient as possible. The fabrication installations could, given sufficient raw material, construct any spare component, expendables, and even small numbers of replacement mecha. The RDF significantly benefited from this, particularly during the Pluto-Earth voyage of the Macross. However, the production lines on board were not geared for mass production, as some have speculated, and wore out very fast if used for this purpose.
The central vertical thruster sections are attached to the engine blocks on either side of the main hull, to which the main gun sections and outboard hangar/rail gun sections are attached. The main armament was built into the two forward sections of the ship. These two booms would not open up vertically, as had been the case with the original Reflex Cannons, but horizontally. The outer sections of these cannon booms remained upright during the firing maneuver, and the secondary mecha launch bays of the ship were placed in the outer hull layers of these sections. The central landing bays were located in the large sponsons, which also mounted the rail guns. The final section of the vessel was the command citadel, which was located on the rear dorsal of the main hull. The ships sported a command tower on top of the citadel, in which the main bridge and CIC were located; the Terran design for this tower came from the ship's computer, as the original command tower of the SDF-1 had mysteriously been ejected sometime between the death of Zor and its arrival on Earth, only to reappear from hyperspace and crashing on the Ptolemaeus Lunar Crater in August 3rd, 1999 (17 days following the arrival of the SDF-1).
The armament of the Macross-class was the heaviest ever mounted on a ship of its size. The Reflex Cannon was by far the most powerful that ever put into space. The only installation more powerful was the Terran Grand Cannon built in Alaska in the early 2000s. In addition, the Macross-class vessels carried eight heavy anti-ship cannons, more than the larger Queadol Magdomilla. On top of these systems, two experimental weapon systems were built into the design, though more for testing purposes than for operational deployment. Four rail guns were mounted on the shoulder joints, and a medium particle cannon was installed on the most forward part of the main hull. The particle turret systems were improved on the Zentraedi battlecruisers by mounting three cannons together in a more heavily armored housing. Sixteen of these turrets were mounted, giving the class the firepower of the far larger Thuverl Salan-class cruiser. The class also carried a standard torpedo and defensive missile fit.
One of the most remarkable features of the Macross-class was that they could reconfigure their layout. The engine sections could telescope outward to the rear, the cannon booms could rotate to the sides, and originally the main hull could rotate 90 degrees downward. This was designed so as to make maximum use of the modularity, as it simplified repairs immensely because of the better accessibility of the various sections, and it also made it possible to replace entire sections if needed. However, it soon became clear that the 90-degree main hull rotation would leave the structural strength of the ship suspect. Initially, this was acceptable since the transformation was only meant for spacedock, but later, it was decided that field-repairs and refits should be possible, and the hull was refitted to rotate 180 degrees and reconnect to the engines for increased power and stability in repair configuration. Because of the loss of the fold-system in the Terran refit Macross and the associated loss of conduit connecting the main guns to the engines, this configuration, redubbed as the "Storm Attacker Mode" by the SDF-1's RDF crew, was maintained for most of her operational life.
History:
The Sian Macross-class Border Fleet Battlefortress was designed as the new backbone ship class of the Tirolian Border Fleet squadrons and was the most modern (and also last) design in the Zentraedi/Meltrandi and Border Fleet lineages.
The first vessel of the class, the Macross, was completed on schedule in August 1979. As originally planned, this class would have twelve prototype vessels by 1983, and be in full series production in 1988. An initial run of 25,000 ships was planned. However, as the Robotech Empire became more and more drained of Protoculture resources, the plans for series production had to be put off indefinitely. Consequently, the twelve prototypes have remained the only Tirolian ships of this class, and the program never moved out of its experimental phase, with the ships never reaching the intended users.
Some prototype ships were then given to VIPs for use as their personal craft, and also some special forces combat groups made use of one of these rare vessels. In 1982, the class suffered its first loss when a Tirolian diplomatic flotilla commanded by the Lugmor was attacked and destroyed completely by unidentified forces, although remnant groups of the self-proclaimed "Disciples of Zor" were the (usual) suspects. A Tirolian Governor Triumvirate had been traveling aboard the Lugmor, and the ship was lost in the engagement. The Aippa was lost next when it was sent to pacify insurrections on an indentured planet under Imperial control. As the ship entered orbit, it was suddenly hit by a kinetic projectile fired from a mass-driver on the planet's moon. While the Aippa did survive, it was considered a constructional total loss. The records do not reveal the fate of the race responsible.
Then came the greatest blow to the Empire. By 1995, the first ship of the line, the Macross, had been converted into a vessel specially suited for Zor's seeding attempts on other planets, seedings that were the only source of Protoculture for the Robotech Empire. Consequently, a large Zentraedi force had been assigned to guard Zor and his ship, which was equipped with Zor's original Protoculture Matrix, the only thing in existence that could produce fertile seeds of the Invid Flower of Life. However, Zor had managed to modify his battlefortress without the Robotech Masters' knowledge, replacing much of the Tirolian crew, apart from a Bioroid and Triumviroid soldier detachment specially assigned to guard him and a skeleton crew, with Zentraedi guardsmen. Using their gullibility towards advanced technological items, he had also placed his personal computer AI assistant E.V.E. (Note: E.V.E., or Enhanced Video Emulation, was the Terran designation, the correct transliteration of the Tirolian designation is Ih’va) on board, disguised as the ship's main computer. This gave him almost total control over the ship. By means unknown and for reasons unknown, he had located the homeworld of the Terran race (Earth) and instructed the computer to travel there--without him or his crew.
During an Invid raid on a Tirolian scientific outpost on the remote planet Varauta on February 2nd, 1999, Zor was killed, taking the secrets of Protoculture replenishment with him to the grave. The Macross, controlled by E.V.E., mysteriously ejected the command tower and folded for parts unknown to the Masters. A faint fold trace detected by the hyperspace sensors on one of the Masters' Motherships could only give the roughest indication of distance and direction, but a large majority of the Zentraedi Imperial Fleet was sent after it, or more precisely, after the Protoculture Matrix hidden inside it, as soon as possible. As is widely known, the Macross did make it to Earth, where it crash-landed. Because Zor's Tirolian and Triumviroid escorts died with him, there were no Bioroids or Assault Carriers on board the wreck, and these weapons would, therefore give the Armies of the Southern Cross a nasty shock 30 years later. The exploits of the Macross, as it would be then rebuilt, refitted, and rechristened by the Terrans as the SDF-1 UES Macross, are well known, as is its final sortie during the Battle of New Macross City in January 8th, 2012, after which the legendary battlefortress would then be decommissioned as a simple museum ship.
In 2005, the Nezium went missing after a standard fold operation. Nothing has ever been heard of her since. The Nasices was cannibalized for Protoculture in 2013 by the fleet of the Masters, prior to their sublight trip to Earth. Efforts to locate the completely undamaged hulk have so far proven fruitless, but it is known that she is somewhere in a radius of 23 lightyears from Earth. Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, the prototypes started running out of Protoculture. The Ronarak crashed on a remote planet, and most of her mass was vaporized during atmospheric entry, while the rest fell into an acidic ocean and was soon dissolved. More spectacular was the fall of the Eicass, which crashed on an inhabited alien planet, but unlike the SDF-1, it was utterly destroyed and left completely unrepairable. The Badeval went missing under circumstances like the Nezium's, but the educated guess is that her generators failed in mid-fold. The four of the remaining ships, the Noziroh, the Splaney, the Baslits, and the Raflawem, were destroyed during the Invid advances into the Robotech Empire's core worlds. They quickly fell to the numerically superior Invid Hive Fleets in close neighboring star systems to Tirol after their fold engines had become inoperable due to low generator performance.
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