The SDF-1 has been in the midst of a long journey back to Earth. Along the way, the SDF-1โs Captain, Henry Gloval, was killed under mysterious circumstances and Lisa Hayes took over his positionโฆ Rick appears to have gone blind, but has somehow developed a different kind of vision โ possibly connected to the Protoculture that powers Robotechnoloy. He is now concerned that Minmei has also been affectedโฆ and she has indeed begun to display strange abilitiesโฆ
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Rick believes that his โbrotherโ Roy is dead โ unaware that Roy is being held prisoner by Dr Lazlo Zandโฆ Roy came across Gloval in a cloning chamberโฆ A small group of Zentraedi aliens decided to shrink themselves down and defect to the SDF-1โฆ Dolza threatened the people of Earth with destruction and then obliterated Los Angelesโฆ