What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (Jasonc) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:21:08 GMT

How is it that somehow, the two series (Macross and Robotech) always seem to get mixed up. Protoculture, in Robotech's world is a very loosely used term. The only explanation that may hold that I see, is that if it took exuberant amounts of protoculture (the energy source), to create zentraedi, and clones, perhaps what humans do to produce offspring was defined as the same thing due to the same, roundabout outcome??? For the Invid, if they're the original "users" of this...

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (rtsurfer) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:46:35 GMT

Both contain protoculture and both plug in, so most likely they are very similar technologies.

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (medmapguy) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:04:20 GMT

I do have issues, especially in that last SSL show about what I believe to be the "streamlining" of the series. People seemed quite certain that the PC canisters have already been used in the Macross era. It's also been insinuated that these canisters were contained in large scale furnaces like this or something.

Now, I'm all for...

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (rtsurfer) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:03:20 GMT

They called it "protoculture" in all three sagas. It's possible that commercial applications used other names or that it was known by a more common usage/name but I don't recall one being used in the series.

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (Protoculture) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:55:36 GMT

CavScout wrote:
I'd say they called them "reflex" something or another. If we suppose the Mars base power plant ran off Protoculture that is.

Something like that. The RT: Mars Base One comic miniseries from Wildstorm (canon by RT.com, specifically) stated Mars Base Sara is experimenting on a new power production generator baseed on the techlonology gleaned from the fallen SDF-1, known as reflex...

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (medmapguy) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:22:25 GMT

Lordgoodber, it's all very interesting to bring up the OSM (Original Source Material) to explain why Robotech fans have such a disjointed definition for protoculture, but I would think that this sort of thing usually pops up at the very end of a long and strained Robotech canon debate, where nobody could agree on anything.

Could Zor's people before the Robotech Masters be the Protoculture? Just a...

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (ShadowLogan) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:27:18 GMT

Dolza's use of the term Protoculture could mean he thought he was seeing a drug based use of the substance called Protoculture. We know PC has biological applications.

I think if humans did have a proper term for Protoculture prior to "FOA" a canidate would be HBT. In NG we that PC is labeled as such in containers. Now its possible the Invid labled it as such, but it could also be a hold over from the old days.

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (CavScout) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:22:36 GMT

I'd say they called them "reflex" something or another. If we suppose the Mars base power plant ran off Protoculture that is.

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (lord goober2) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:15:54 GMT

It has to do with the fact that Protoculture means two COMPLETELY different things in Macross and Robotech. Protoculture is a term that comes from the original Macross series and it literally means "first culture." The Protoculture in the original Macross is the race that created the Zentraedi and were eventually I believe destroyed by the Protodevlin's Supervision Army. The Zentraedi in the original series were chasing after the Macross because the Macross was originally a...

Re: What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (Legioss) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:14:43 GMT

Dolza recognizing the Protoculture from Macross is a palimpsest, just like Minmei having a song called "My Boyfriend is a Pilot".

Could Zor's people before the Robotech Masters be the Protoculture? Just a theory. I'm not saying to pull stuff out of Macross into Robotech for no reason, but why else does Dolza think a fuel is related to men and women kissing?

What was Protoculture called (Macross-era)

feeds@yuku.com (medmapguy) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:47:23 GMT

There's been some discussion as to just how much PC the REF and Earth forces actually had during the periods during and after Southern Cross. I did hear however someone suggesting that Protoculture did exist during the Masters saga, however under a 'different' name. It's not that the found the PC factory, but they probably found a large stockpile of this new clean efficient energy source within Zor's battlefortress.

Now the Zentraedi arrive, they're looking...