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1) What is the life expectancy of a Zentradi?
1b) Does this expectancy change if they are micronized vs full scale?

1), 1b) .
For Robotech, unknown. However, the novels had many Zentraedi in failing health as Micronians, because they didn't keep up nutrient supplements, and genetic damage.
For Macross, it would appear that full-size Zents don't age, micronians age much more slowly than humans. And, any human subjected to the sizing process (like Max did for the filming of DYRL, as it is by Macross canon a docu-drama style movie within the Zero/original series/Plus/Seven/Frontier timeline) is similarly affected, due to the changes imparted in the process (could be a case of cell age effectively beign reset to zero, by being deconstructed and reconstructed by the process)

2) Outside of Breetai, Exedore, Dana, Maia and Miriya, do we have any examples of Zentradi/descended characters within any of the further stories?
2b) Were Zentradi welcomed (or at least allowed to join) in the REF and/or ASC (Beyond the above mentioned characters)?

2) Besides those characters, there were several comics characters, and Rook Bartley's potential "Aunt" Vala from the Crystal Dreams game (whom, amazingly, looks a LOT like Rook - perhaps the game writers, with maybe HG's permission, had been planning on making Rook half-Zentraedi, and having her "Sister" & "mother" either be via adoption, or through a later marriage of the R:CD main character. Where's Opus (one of the people involved with the game) when you need him?
2b)Most definitely the REF. The only anti-Zentraedi bias came from the Novels. The ASC probably had a sizable Zentraedi complement (micronized) as part of the space forces (not necessarily as pilots, though), and most likely most of the space colonies had significant Zentraedi populations. One can theorize that the pre-SDF-3 difficulties from Zentraedi probably came from the fact that most of the Zentraedi that DID join Human society, left for the colonies in 2014-2020 (we know there were already large ships leaving earth as early as 2015, if not 2013 - 2015 for Carpenter, 2013 from shots of destroyed ASC-style non-fold-capable ships destroyed in another star system, where they stuck some Southern Cross footage into the Macross footage for Robotech), leaving only those that were risks of violence.

3) What are the most accepted dates for the Invid Occupation? I have had several different ranges given, and I am looking for the fan consensus.
As others have said, there is no consensus.
Prior to the current regime at HG, the accepted date ranges were based on everything HG had supplied to licensees in the 80s & 90s. This effectively was an Invid invasion within 3-18 months of the end of Episode #60, and Reflex Point occurring somewhere in the range of 2035-2037. In fact, all series dialogue before the Protoculture Collection/Remastered supports such dating, other than the Narrator (who similarly botched the time away from Earth by the SDF-1 in Macross, having it range from several months to two years, when Lisa, giving an official report, had it a little over 13 months). Similarly, all licensed products prior to the Antarctic comics reflected the same timelines. For that matter, even the Narrator's lines are only an issue if one treats the SDF-3 as the First, or ONLY source for the REF personnel (which we know from Carpenter's comments in "Outsiders" to be fundamentally flawed, since his ship had been that crew's home since about 2015).
The Current official timeline started out as a timeline for a fan group's FANFIC (see the uRRG, who used to call themselves the Robotech Technical Files until they were caught passing off their fanfic as canon). They became good friends with Tom Bateman at Robocon 1995, and eventually, HG took their timeline (despite holes big enough to fly Dolza's base through) as the basis for their canon, and have been tweaking it ever since in a vain attempt to make it work) as a means of simplifying their desire for official site data (the RTF work was used as the starting kernel of the material on robotech.com, simultaneous with their discarding nearly every existing bit of established series canon to make room for it). After being used as a quick, cheap, source of material, the uRRG got tossed to the curb, after HG had rights to play with their work. Eventually, novel reprints and new products started using the revised timeline, as did the remastered DVDs (all the while, some of the sets of old and remastered DVDs shipped with the bonus material DVDs that disproved that timeline and other alterations to canon)


4) Is "Venus Division" an accepted name for the 1st Reclamation force during the 3rd, or do we have another name for them?
4b) Was Jonathan Wolfe considered commander of or part of the 1st wave, or is his arrival (Before the Storm) separate?

4)There's no official name, unless one has been added on robotech.com. Venus Division has been used in enough sources, and some sources have used Mercury for Carpenter (after all, he was acting as a messenger).
4b) There is more reason to believe that Wolfe arrived before the Invid, with the same force that set up the basis for Point K, than with an actual reclamation fleet. No one from the obviously earth-trained forces appeared to know who Wolfe was, when Scott started waxing nostalgic about him, and Scott also said that no one knew what foe, if any, awaited the Point K forces at time of launch. This would not have been true for a reclamation fleet - and if the flashback is to be believed, Wolfe also fought the Masters somewhere, in addition to the Invid, before returning to Earth.


5) How much ASC equipment would still be around by the time of the Mars Division Disaster? Would it be conceivable that freedom fighters could have access to Sparta Hovertanks, AGACS, or Battleoids that they had salvaged?
5b) What is the proper name for the ASC's heli-veritech? I've seen it called AJAKS, AGACS, Aurora, Ajax, and several other names. What is it's proper designation?
Most ASC equipment would probably be Civil Defense and GMP stuff - all the heavier air stuff got destroyed fighting the Masters, and the TC (and related forces) probably met the same fate against the Invid's initial invasion. Conceivably, if they kept their heads down, the ASC Navy and Marines (a power armor and a small mecha, both used as EBSIS mecha in the original RPG, at about 5-6 times their real height), would be the largest forces, but were designed for seagoing fights and assaulting beachheads via walking out of the surf after an off-shore drop-off, and would have been of limited effect in the war. HOWEVER, if they did put up a fight, it would be one of the reasons the Invid eventually clamped down on long-distance travel by humans (especially by sea).


6) Geographically, Reflex Point covers the Great Lakes region, but where was New Macross City and Monument City? Within the same region or elsewhere?
WAY Elsewhere. The SDF-1 came down somewhere that a VF-1, that had flown out of the Grand Cannon at Alaska Base, could see it reentering, and were able to identify it by eyesight. Most of the original (pre-robotech.com) official sources put the original landing site in Canada, with a possible relocation further south after intial landing (as most sources put it either in Alberta (Province) Canada, Montana (US State) or along the border of the two. The fact that (New) Portland (Oregon - we know WHICH Portland, from all the Chamber of Commerce-like ramblings by the Narrator during the fight) and Monument City were relatively easy commutes by air (and the Black Hills were sufficiently close for Monument to be a rebuilt Rapid City), but two other cities mentioned by name In Illinois (an industrial suburb of St. Louis) and Michigan (New Detroit) were LONG flights away, indicates that New Macross was NOT in the Ohio Valley.

7) Did the Invid employ slave labor camps to harvest FoL, or did they do so themselves?
7b) Anyone have a good reference pic(s) of the FoL?
They needed slave labor for some things, apparently. There's some decent reference art of the FoL in the Robotech Art Books - especially some of the fan art of Robotech Art 2.

Beyond the famous personalities (See Hunter, Fokker, Sterling's), how wide spread was custom paint schemes for Mecha?
8b) What about Tail art?
Macross material (and some licensed Robotech material) indicated that anyone that was an officer or NCO could customize their paint scheme during that war (though it's likely that aircraft pilot NCOs were probably a stop-gap measure used only by the SDF-1, and that elsewhere they were all officers). There are also some screencaps from the Macross episodes that indicate that even some of the tan VF-1s had tail art, that might have been colored over prior to filming (as it might have been an artist whimsy, an easter egg, or just an optical illusion brought on by the quality of the video tape - An irony is that it turned out that Harmony Gold's masters of the Macross episodes were in better shape than the Japanese, because HG had kept theirs in a climate controlled film vault after duping them to make Robotech)

9) (Technical question) What is the total missile payload of a standard VF/A-6z, without rearming?
9b) of a Beta?
9c) Do we have fuel consumption data on them?
a. OSM sources say 60 for an Alpha, but we see additional missiles not in the data, firing from the "face" in Battloid mode. We also see an additional launcher in some of the models, designed to fit between the two top launchers in Jet mode (and hang from a shoulder after transformation), and of course there are also the 2 12-shot launchers found only on the drone versions.
b. The Beta has even worse issues - half its armament isn't in written japanese sources.
there's -
I. The two 40-shot launchers (1 per chest, 2 rows of 4 that pop up to fire, presumably each with 4 sets of reloads)
II. Two 10-shot launchers located in front of them (2x5, larger missiles, that the front areas open to fire - most likely usable only in Battloid mode, due to drag and aerodynamic issues).
III. Two racks of Bombs (could also be missiles) in the cargo/passenger area (8 per rack). (can be seen in at least one episode, dropping bombs - don't have a screencap)
IV. THREE forward facing cannon in Jet mode (one in Body, 1 each in tops of legs) that usually fire together (alternating bursts body/legs)
V. Two 3-linear-barrel cannon groups on the arms of the Beta (presubably only usable in Battloid, though potentially rear-firing in Jet, like the missile launchers from "Firefox"). These weapons are used in Episodes #82 & #83 - especially the latter, where they down the mecha that shows them that the "human" pilots are really Invid.
Every one of these Beta weapons is seen firing at least once in the series footage.

I. II. IV.


10) Where is Space Station Liberty situated in relation to Earth and Tirol?
10b) As of the 3rd War, what is the condition and location of the Factory Satellite?
One can only wonder. Most likely deeper in the solar system, or it folded elsewhere - if the two aren't one and the same as some theorize


11) IIRC, the Zentradi and Invid had fought for sometime prior to the events of 1999. Do we have any details on this conflict other than it resulted in the death of Zor and the razing of Optera?
Just comics.

12) Is there an exact date for the Battle of Reflex Point ever given?
No, but most people tend to think the cues from the series indicate sometime in the spring of whatever year.

13) Is there an estimate of what percentage of Invid received the evolutionary treatment that resulted in Sera and Korg?
no - at best we see a few dozen in the last two episodes. Apparently the conversion only began in any numbers during episode #83

14) What is the current status of Robotech:The Movie (Megazone 23 version) within Canon? Are Hargun type mecha fair game or off limits?
off limits, darnit. I did a fairly decent redo of the movie as a fanfic, that would actually be fun to make (and I had fans approach me wanting to do it)

15)Resources: I need some of the following, if possible:
-Detailing on the labeling of various mecha
-Ship names (Mainly 3rd war era)
-Clean line art of various mecha (Chiefly Alphas and Betas)
-Uniform references (REF and ASC, but Others welcome too)
As much as I disagree with them the uRRG is pretty good for their art and some of their gear descriptions.


And one last one that bugged me...
X) How/Why does Scott's group come across from South America, eventually to Denver, then go AROUND Reflex Point to visit New York before going BACKWARDS to join the final battle?

The Artists were using places they'd gone as tourists....
Oh, you want an in-series answer.... It was probably the least guarded approach (at least, until they stirred up a hornet's nest in Manhattan). And, if you actually follow their route by the EPISODES, they appear to have come up the PACIFIC side of Mexico into the Sierras, across California & Nevada, ran into the old geezers in Utah, found the frozen city in Colorado, and had Annie's birthday in Arkansas. Where Hired Gun could have been is up for grabs, but trust me, once you get from the coasts, it wouldn't take TOO much global devastation to make anywhere in the Southeast US looking like it was from a Spaghetti Western (more droughts there, even now, than in California). That actually puts them a lot closer to NYC than you'd think.

All the attempts to claim they came over the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean ignore that the geography doesn't match, the waves Rand surfs on don't match, and they would be going around in circles several times to go the places they do once in North America, if they came in that way. But the DO match for going up the Pacific side. An easy way to see how they could make a mistake is to look at Panama - where it is possible to see the sun rise in the east over the PACIFIC and SET OVER THE ATLANTIC. If they weren't paying any attention, they could have found those boats they used in the episode where they first ran into Sera, THOUGHT they were going out into the Gulf/Caribbean, and found themselves going up the Pacific coast - after expending too many resources to turn back. And, those maps we see Scott and the others talking over appear to have some sort of construction (Flower Farms?) near the lakes south of Las Vegas (Mead & Powell?), so going across Arizone would have been out of the question. Personally, I suspect they ended up in Donner Pass, during the misnamed "Midnight Sun" epsisode, when one of those Fall Brizzards the pass is prone to hit them. If they hadn't flown out after the fight with the invid, well, Mint Roast, anyone?