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the Regent's army to "liberate" the Earth from the Invid Regis. Rick arrives in the now-rebuilt and upgraded SDF-3, and leads a team to rescue Minmei and the survivors of Grant's party. They capture Lazlo Zand and rescue Minmei, but
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while they are engaged combat. The death of the Regent gives him and his living computer control over all of the Invid forces. Grant's ship is left crashing into Optera's atmosphere. Edwards rounds up the survivors, including Vince, and brings them to the Invid hive, where he reveals his plan to use
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and his android assistant Janice Em try to investigate the Shadow technology, which is making
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854:Episodes
837:Robotech
642:Robotech
582:Icarus's
575:Icarus's
561:Robotech
506:Robotech
487:Robotech
426:Tokugawa
418:Tokugawa
290:Robotech
254:Inker(s)
167:Schedule
1075:Related
874:(1985)
689:Prelude
685:Prelude
681:Prelude
677:Prelude
629:Prelude
594:Exedore
571:Breetai
538:Prelude
510:Prelude
434:Breetai
366:Tiresia
171:Monthly
80:scholar
959:Novels
947:Comics
932:(2013)
924:(2006)
916:(1988)
908:(1986)
430:Icarus
393:Icarus
378:Icarus
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1052:music
897:Films
362:Tirol
87:JSTOR
73:books
627:The
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276:ISBN
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196:No.
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