Macross 30: Voices Across The Galaxy

A/N: As you've probably surmised, this is something of a novelization of the recently of the PS3 game Macross 30. Why? Why not? :)

In all seriousness though, the game was awesome enough that I just kind of felt the need to do this. I know that game adaptions can be somewhat boring, especially if you've already beaten said game. So I decided to add a few twists to this one to give it its own unique flavor. I am in no way saying that Macross 30 was a bad game, I'm just trying to make this something worth reading, as I said.

There will be a few changes but all relatively minor, such as adding in the Macross 2 characters as well as a few others. Also a few of the Valkyries that oddly absent from the game such as the VF-4 Lightning III and the VF-5000 Star Mirage. Might even toss in the VA-3.

Also, since Macross is so intrinsically connected to music, I'll be making recommendations every so often, sometimes at the start of chapter, sometimes within it. For the beginning part of this chapter, I would recommend "Voices" from Macross Plus.

Lastly, I'll be having some bonus chapters after the main story, DLC if you will.

Now, without further ado, Macross 30.

ADDENDUM: AS OF 11/1/21 THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN UPDATED.

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Prologue: 2060 AD

The year is 2060 AD, fifty years since the great war between Earth and the alien Zentradi. Since that time, humanity has joined together with their Zentradi brothers and sisters and spread across the stars, seeking new worlds to settle. It was on one of those new worlds, Sepheela, that my sister and I were born. However, this expansion wasn't without sacrifice. Space is vast and home to new and strange forms of life. Recently, the Macross Frontier fleet clashed with an alien civilization known as the Vajra. Though the fleet was faced with destruction, heroes arose to drag them back from the brink. Those heroes didn't come from the Unified Forces though; they came from a private military company known as SMS or Strategic Military Services. Their actions in the war against the Vajra not only revealed the treachery of the Galaxy Fleet Conspiracy and saved the people of Frontier but also uncovered the truth of the Vajra's hive-mind. This, among other reasons was why I chose to join SMS. My name is Rion Sakaki.

One year has passed since that war and the galaxy has settled into a relative peace once more. My current mission is to deliver a control AI from the YF-25 Prophecy to the SMS branch on the planet Ouroboros. Little did I realize that this obscure backwater of a planet would be the site of a battle that would hold the fate of the galaxy in peril once again and the greatest adventure of my, or anyone's, lifetime. Ouroboros was also the place where I met them...

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The Ouroboros solar system was home to many natural wonders. Situated in what had once been a planetary nebula, the last wisps of the stellar gasses glowed against the black of space and the innumerable stars.

There were a couple of planets in the system, besides the only habitable one. One was a rocky wasteland, notable only for an enormous collision that had taken place in the past, gouging out a huge, cratered scar in the planet's surface. The other was a beautiful gas giant with green and gold swirled clouds and a faint ring, just like Jupiter's. But the centerpiece was of course Ouroboros itself, standing out boldly against the black, all blue, green, white and brown that was the universal indicator of a world capable of bearing life. A quintet of moons orbited the planet; the largest and most dramatic surrounded by an intricate ring system very much like Saturn's. Two of the moons were a binary pair, orbiting each other as they orbited Ouroboros.