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The Game Background
Story
The People Developers
The Links Other RPG's
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The Comback of the century I think now is a good time to start with some history. For those of you who have not seen Macross 7 the Varuta might be a bit of a mystery to you maybe even a point of confusion. Varuta is a generic term applied by most when talking of the Protodevlin and the forces they had captured, did capture, and utilized against the Macross 7 fleet. A more proper name for this group would be their Protoculture name of the Supervision Army. Varuta was simply an ice planet in which the Protoculture originally captured the Protodevlin. It is assumed that the Spritia Anima put them into their prison tomb of ice on Varuta but I have not seen anything clearly illustrate except for words from the always-enigmatic Sivil. So, who are these Varuta we are facing now? Depends on who's Varuta you are used to dealing with. Lord Tiamet a common enemy at one time on both the MRN and MRC was actually a Protoculture. He picked up the slack of the now galaxy departed Protodevlin, brainwashed himself some more victims reinitialized the EVIL project and used the Supervision Army resources at his disposal to actually wage war on his own people! He simply fights the humans because once they are defeated his success against the Protoculture will be assured. This race of Varuta being proposed here is quite a bit different. During the Macross 7 and Supervision Army war Lord Gepernich went to extremes to try to prevent Sound Force from freeing his forces from the brainwashing employed. The power levels used were typically expressed in numbers and the final number listed before giving up on humans as weapons of war against the Macross 7 and Sound Force was mind control level 9999! So to make this all flow together, what is to say that when the Protodeviln left the galaxy that this mind control just magically disappeared without any ill effects? Sure you see Basara's music free people from that mind control but the best you see is the freed pilots in a total daze. But what of those who were not freed by Basara music or what is to say that Basara's music truly lifted all effects of the mind control safely. Hence our new, slightly more deranged Varuta are born. They are fully free willed, they are no longer under the mind control of their former masters but, they all suffered damage to the mind in a way that left them changed. Their personality forever altered, and their desire for power insatiable. And when in Rome, do as the Romans do right? So they take to the stars in their recently obtained Supervision Army technology. Highly advanced technology, remember the Macross was a Protodevlin gunship and here we have an army of vessels built by the same individuals that are larger and stronger. Those who came out of this mental brainwashing more "enlightened" to their great destiny quickly found each other. And as expected these more enlightened individuals decided upon their rank in structure in the best way possible, by combat. The strongest ruled and the weak died. With that small piece of nature/evolution out of the way, it was time to make things happen. Emperor Gabriel Atkins set out with a campaign of Guerrilla warfare. Simply annoy the enemy like a mosquito, hit, do damage, and yet walk away with as full a belly as possible. To make this work right though, they had to be a bit better than the average mosquito and make sure not to get squashed in the attempt. Low and behold
though, this is where they excelled and the beginning of the end came about.
Using the information from they scavenged from the Supervision Army databases
they located hidden stores of weapons, ships, mecha, technology galore,
and their most important find, cloning and genetic manipulation tools.
They made their raids against U.N. supply fleets, colony fleets, galaxy
patrols, commercial vessels, and anything else they could find. Always
getting in, stealing resources or
With resources and technology, from both the Protodevlin and the U.N. in their hands they began their secret military build up. Developing new technology and producing their own perfect soldiers. Genetically perfect and geared toward each of their positions, much like the Zentraedi of old. The founders of this new empire began to create new bodies for themselves and transfer their conscious about. Making them not only immortal but also more powerful. From the Emperors point of view it only further insured that his greatest threats would never betray him for fear of losing their immortality. A vicious power struggle between the Lieutenants had always existed but this new development only made it stronger. It may perhaps be one of the U.N. greatest exploitations if they knew of it. As expected though, the Varuta could not remain totally hidden from the searching eyes of the U.N. When mosquitoes linger, a nest could not be too far away. Intelligence began to be able to put together bits and pieces of the puzzle. Discovering of the buildup, the cloning, the massive R&D in progress. How much they really knew will remain a debate for the scholars of the future but in the current grim times, it would seem they did not know enough. The mosquito was no longer merely an annoyance but a serious threat now more akin to a hornet. Expansion of their armies was going too quickly to be supported by their pirating and utilization of already heavily used Supervision Army sites. They desperately needed new territories to expand and build in, and what better way to kill two birds with one stone but to hit the colonies of the U.N. One after one, the colonies began to fall to the swarm. Tei Tenga, Avernus, Crythania, Erigone, Ositsho, Centarui III, Ceres, Ymir, Proxima Seven, no one was safe and no one was truly prepared for the forces they could and did bring to bear. Finally their legs stretched with their enemy hurting, scared, and them now with even more immense resources at their disposal began to further mobilize, this time at rates at which they had never yet obtained. U.N. technology was further cannibalized and the colonist now POW. Treated no better than cattle, many found themselves killed in order to keep from wasting too many resources. From those that were left alive, a labor force was created to continue to rape their world for resources. While the remainder found themselves brainwashed and in service of the military or part of some terrible experiment to further Varuta technology. The time was now ripe to further their destiny. Eden became the target of opportunity and great deception. Heavy losses would be incurred, but they were easily replaceable and in the end, it was more important to setup the feint that would bring down Earth and seal their rightful dynasty. The details of that attack, the subsequent buildup that once again occurred, and the final feint that ended it all is well documented and does not need to be repeated again. In the end the dream had been reached, but the cost had been extremely high. The final clever and secret attack of the humans with the Ghost X-9 fighters had more than just hurt the incredible military force; it had significantly whittled it. With Earth now captured though, the brunt of the U.N. forces scattered about or in shambles, the very healthy and large reserves of the Varuta came to life. Resulting in the securing of Eden and other colonies at a leisurely pace. Fighting off the foolish U.N. remnants left who were seeking to be merely be a hero and buying time for the primary force to rebuild itself into its former glory. And so the story
begins, but the tale for the U.N. is quite a bit different.
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