[Digital Dreamer]

I never understood anything of the robotech storyline

The problem with the Robotech is that I they really have not clearly defined what PROTOCULTURE is.
Like it's the fuel for the Jets. It's in MinMay's Singing. It's also the creates life.
It think I have any easier time explaining THE FORCE[TM] from Star Wars (before Episode I F***ed that one up)

If I just bury all the protoculture references to just "IT'S CREATES LIFE" as appose to all those things, it's not so bad.

At least RoboTech does not have a pilot that uses an Electric Guitar to pilot his Mecha. There is a lot of things that I did not like about Macross 7.
I guess that short of silliness died along with The Silverhawk with western cartoons long time ago.

However Macross 0, PLUS and II did make up for it in the end.

I did 10 years ago. If I'm gonna watch SC, I think I'm gonna have to break out my old Robotech books first :P

Those novels are hard to get and long time out of print. I know 2 people that have fullset of those. And they do not lend out to any one. (Like me with my set of 3 Gundam Novels)

From what I have been told, reading up on the events of The Robotech Masters and ROBOTECH : NEXT GENERATION would be useful. And there is the comic series that acts a prologue to the shadow chronicles.

What you would need to know is (the following is about the last 2 chapters in Robotech)
2022 - SDF-3 launches and takes its position as the flagship of the Robotech Expeditionary Force, marking the official start of the "Pioneer" mission to find the homeworld of the Robotech Masters. Its intention was to avert another war by confronting the threat before it arrived on Earth. This was lead by Rick Hunter.
2031
While the Expeditionary Force was spending most of his time in hyperspace, the Third Robotech War begins as the Invid arrive on Earth in an event known afterwards as the Invid Invasion. The battered and beleaguered forces of the Army of the Southern Cross are completely destroyed and Earth falls quickly to the alien onslaught.

2044
Admiral Hunter regroups the Robotech Expeditionary Forces and coordinates the campaign to retake the Earth. However, during the final battle in 2044, Rick Hunter’s flagship, the SDF-3 never materialized from its final hyperspace fold disappears without a trace.
Part of Shadow Chronicles will be about the fate of Rick Hunter and the crew of the SDF-3. I have been told that this plays a rather large role in the Shadow Chronicles.

I have no idea where and if ROBOTECH : THE SENTINALS is still suppose to be linked into the Chronology. After all, it was uncomplete.