Downfall and Invid Occupation

MASTER'S EMPIRE;

B.C.E. c.445000 I.C.
A Ci'Vonian fleet arrives on Tirol and launches a massive offensive against the Robotech Empire. The Tirolian patricians, long stifled by the Triumvirates, throw their lot in with the "Disciples of Zor".

The Zentraedi loyal to the Empire are sufficient along with the new Bioroid armies to defend the homeworld.

The Ci'Vonians are driven back, but at great cost.

The Elders and Masters force the Tirolian patricians go into exile among the retreating Ci'Vonians.


DOWNFALL AND INVID OCCUPATION;

B.C.E. c.450000 I.C.  c.PC 2875
Elders' empire is broken. Robotech Masters seize reins of power from Elders, who remain on as figureheads. Though the foundations are weakened.

The network among each colonized planet disintegrates.

Loyal Zentraedi crush the rebels and are programmed to remember the danger of contact with micronian races. Control of the Zentraedi faction is lost and the reissuing of the prime directive "Do not interfere with Micronian Worlds" becomes policy.

B.C.E. c.545000 I.C. c.PC 3000
Dissolution of Robotech Empire. Opposition between the Supervision "Disciples of Zor" and Zentraedi begins.

Ci'Vonian stronghold is annihilated by the Zentraedi fleet. Remaining rebel fleet limps away into the darkness, led by surviving Ci'Vonians.

Protoculture dangerously low. Imperial renaissance founders because of the power crisis.

B.C.E. c.553000 I.C c.PC 5000
In what still remains of the Robotech Empire, only a small number of separated colonized planets, colonization fleets, space colony clusters, and other populations at the edge of the galaxy are left.

Zor Derelda sent to seed other worlds with Flower of Life.

B.C.E. c.486000 I.C. c.PC 25000
Invid military campaign intensifies, taking advantage of the chaos caused by the Ci'Vonian War.

Near annihilation of the Robotech Empire.

B.C.E 380,000
Annihilation of automated reaction weaponry production plants, Robotech Factory Satelites.

B.C.E 280,000 cycles before the present
Destruction of Glaug automated production system by all-front Invid attack on Roiquonmi weaponry plant.

B.C.E 3700 cycles before the present
Almost new Glaug units recovered from an opened weapons storage facility.

A.D. 999 A Rouge Zentraedi crashes on Earth.

A.D. Feb, 1999 c.574300 I.C.
Zor killed by an Invid ambush on a seeding mission.

Zor's battlefortress, The Alus(S.D.F.-1)activates the super-computer E.V.E. and sets on auto-pilot, sending the ship to Earth.

Invid closing on Imperial core systems.