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#REDIRECT [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]] {{R from fictional element|Anime and manga}}
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| above = SDF-1 ''Macross''
| image = [[File:SDF-1 Macross Ship Small.jpg|250px]]<br>The Super Dimension Fortress One (SDF-1) ''Macross'' in Cruiser mode.
| headerstyle = background:#87CEEB
| header1 = Description
| label2 = Original Designer
| data2 = Kazutaka Miyatake
| label3 = Preproduction name
| data3 = Megaroad / Megaload<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha">{{cite web | title=Mecha Data | url=http://www.animeigo.com/Liner/MACROSS.t#3 | work=The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes | publisher=[[AnimEigo]] | date=2001-12-21 | accessdate=2009-04-28}}</ref>
| label4 = Length
| data4 = 1210 m<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label5 = Operational Mass
| data5 = 18,000,000 t<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label6 = Main Machinery
| data6 = Overtechnology Macross heat pile system cluster, Overtechnology Macross gravity control system, Overtechnology Macross fold system cluster (lost during maiden voyage)<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label7 = Main Thruster
| data7 = Overtechnology Macross nozzle cluster<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label8 = Vertical Thruster
| data8 = Overtechnology main nozzle cluster<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label9 = Vernier Thruster
| data9 = Overtechnology vernier thrusters<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label10 = Complement
| data10 = 20000; 76000 civilians (reduced to 56000 and then 40000 by attrition)<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| header11 = Armament
| label12 = Main Cannons
| data12 = Overtechnology Macross bow-firing super-dimension-energy cannon with beam polarizing converging system.<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label13 = Auxiliary Cannons
| data13 = 8 Overtechnology guided converging beam cannon systems, 4 high speed 178-cm-diameter electromagnetic rail cannons.<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| label14 = Missiles
| data14 = Main: large automatic anti-ship missile launchers. Auxiliary: various missile emplacements.<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
| header15 = Mecha
| label16 = Variable Vehicles and Other Mecha
| data16 = 212 VF-1 Valkyrie (2009 February 7, 120 VF-1A, 12 VF-1D, 50 VF-1J, 30 VF-1S). 300+ VF-1 Super Valkyrie (2010 February 11). Destroids: 587 Destroids initially stationed on docked SLV-111 Daedalus, including 2 HWR-00-Mk. II Monster, 85 MBR-07-Mk. II Spartan, and approximately 500 MBR-04-Mk. VI Tomahawk (reduced to 440 subsequently). A third HWR-00-Mk. II Monster, 40 ADR-04-Mk. X Defender and over 20 MBR-04-Mk. XII Phalanx built in onboard factory.<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha"/>
}}
The '''SDF-1 ''Macross'' '''{{IPAc-en|m|@|'|k|r|Q|s}} is a fictional interstellar transforming spacecraft from ''[[The Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', a [[science fiction]] [[anime]] series that aired in Japan between 1982–1983. It was later edited and amalgamated into the American animation series ''[[Robotech]]'' (1985).<ref>{{cite book |title=Watching Anime, Reading Manga |last=Patten |first=Fred |authorlink=Fred Patten |coauthors= |year=2004 |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |isbn=1-880656-92-2 |page=254 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GwuNHE-RWAC&pg=PA254&dq=SDF-1+macross#PPA254,M1 }}</ref><ref name="Mechanic">Mechanic of Macross: SDF-1 ''Macross''. Pages 135-147. ''Macross Perfect Memory''. Reference Book. 260 A4 pages. Minori Library, Japan. Y2800. 1983, October 10.</ref> Mechanical designer [[Kazutaka Miyatake]] of [[Studio Nue]] created the original SDF-1 design for the first ''Macross'' anime series.<ref name="Designer">{{cite book |last1= Miyatake |first1= Kazutaka |authorlink= Kazutaka Miyatake |title= Macross and Orguss Design Works |accessdate= 2009-04-20 |date= 2005-06-01 |publisher= Mobic |location= Japan |language= Japanese |isbn= 4-89601-629-7 |pages= 03–07}}</ref>

==Background==
'''SDF''' (Super Dimension Fortress) refers to the titular space battleship being like a space fortress capable of space-folding, a means of travelling [[faster-than-light]] in [[Hyperspace (science fiction)|subspace]].

Due to the popularity of the series, Macross has also appeared in many video games set in the ''Macross'' universe.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://macross.anime.net//production/software/index.html |title=Software |publisher=Macross Compendium |accessdate=2009-04-06}}</ref><ref>[http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Macross_2036.htm NEC PC-Engine Compatible CD-ROM2/Super CD-ROM2 Video Game. ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross 2036''. NSCD-2007. Nihon Computer System/Masaya. Japan. Y7400. 1992, April 3]</ref>

In February of 2009, a special event,''Macross: The Super Dimension Space Launching Ceremony'', was held in [[Akihabara]] to commemorate the fictitious launch of the SDF-1 Macross in the original anime series.<ref name="Chronology">Official Macross Chronology. Page 54. ''Macross Perfect Memory''. Reference Book. 260 A4 pages. Minori Library, Japan. Y2800. 1983, October 10.</ref> During the event, toy manufacturer, Yamato, displayed the prototype for a 1/2000 scale replica toy of the SDF-1.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-02-21/yamato-toymaker-reveals-000-sdf-1-macross-toy |title=Yamato Toymaker Reveals 1/2000 SDF-1 Macross Toy (Updated) - Anime News Network|publisher=[[Anime News Network]] |accessdate=2009-03-07}}</ref>

==Fictional History==
In the fictional ''[[Macross]]'' anime universe, [[Protodeviln#The Supervision Army|a massive alien spaceship]] totaling 1210 meters (3,970 feet), had crashed on the unsuspecting Earth in 1999. It crash landed on South Ataria, a fictional island in the Pacific Ocean.<ref name="Chronology"/><ref name="ps2 game manual">[http://macross.anime.net//production/software/index.html Sony PlayStation 2 Compatible DVD-ROM Video Game. ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross''. SLPM-65405. Sega-AM2/Bandai. Japan. Y6800. 2003, October 23]</ref> The island is located at the extreme end of the [[Bonin Islands|"Ogasawara Island chain"]].<ref name="AnimEigo_Ataria">{{cite web | title=Translation & Cultural Notes | url=http://www.animeigo.com/Liner/MACROSS.t#1 | work=The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes | publisher=[[AnimEigo]] | date=2001-12-21 | accessdate=2009-04-24 |quote=In real life, the southern tip of those islands is Minami Ioo Jima, otherwise known as South Iwo-jima. Though the island is a good several hundred kilometers from the center of Tokyo, it's considered part of the city and under the Tokyo/Japanese government's jurisdiction.}}</ref> Upon detailed inspection of the wreckage by an international team of experts, it was revealed that the spaceship was manned by [[Zentradi|giant aliens many times larger than humans]] and that their technology was far beyond that of Earth at that point in time.<ref name="Chronology"/>

The alien spaceship was revealed to be a [[Military spacecraft in fiction|war vessel]].<ref name="Official Macross Chronology p 1">Official Macross Chronology: Alien Star Ship 1 (ASS-1). Page 54. ''Macross Perfect Memory''. Reference Book. 260 A4 pages. Minori Library, Japan. Y2800. 1983, October 10.</ref> As a result, humanity realized that there was a real threat beyond Earth. Many believed an international government should be established to unite the world against any potentially hostile aliens. The unification led to a new world war, called the [[Macross Zero|U.N. Wars]]. Those nations that resisted fought but ultimately lost the battle to remain independent.<ref name="ps2 game manual"/><ref>Official Macross Chronology: The U.N. Wars. Page 54. ''Macross Perfect Memory''. Reference Book. 260 A4 pages. Minori Library, Japan. Y2800. 1983, October 10.</ref>

The crashed ship was rebuilt to be operated by humans. As workers and their families required accommodation near the work site, a settlement called Macross City flourished around it.<ref name="ps2 game manual"/> During the reconstruction, the gigantic spaceship was given the [[hull classification symbol|hull number]] '''SDF-1''', for "first ship of the Super Dimension Fortress type" and the name "''Macross''".<ref name="AnimEigo_Mecha">{{cite web | title=Mecha Data | url=http://www.animeigo.com/Liner/MACROSS.t#3 | work=The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes | publisher=[[AnimEigo]] | date=2001-12-21 | accessdate=2009-04-22}}</ref><ref>Official Macross Chronology: SDF-1 "Macross". Page 54. ''Macross Perfect Memory''. Reference Book. 260 A4 pages. Minori Library, Japan. Y2800. 1983, October 10.</ref>

In 2009, as the ship, now manned entirely by humans, was preparing for its maiden voyage to seek out alien cultures and promote peace (the initial goal was never to start a fight), giant alien humanoids called the [[Zentradi]] suddenly arrived in the Solar System with a force of several hundred ships. They were tasked with the mission of seeking out and destroying the spacecraft.

During the first battle with the Zentradi, the SDF-1 attempted to draw the enemy away from the island, and its civilian population, by using its space-fold capability to travel to the far side of the Moon. There they could rendezvous with U.N. Spacy orbital fleet. However, the space-folding not only transported the ship but also the entire Macross Island and its surrounding sea to the orbit of [[Pluto]]. As with the anti-gravity system, the space-fold system was lost after initial use. After rescuing the civilians from the island, the ship underwent a refit from February to March 2009.

==In Macross==
In the original ''Macross'' series, the SDF-1 ''Macross'' is the flagship of the [[U.N. Spacy|United Nations Spacy]].<ref name="UN_Spacy">{{cite web | title=Mecha Data | url=http://www.animeigo.com/Liner/MACROSS.t#3 | work=The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes | publisher=[[AnimEigo]] | date=2001-12-21 | accessdate=2009-04-28 | quote=After a mysterious alien spaceship crash-landed on Earth in 1999, a worldwide consortium of researchers began to study and reverse-engineer it. The effort led to the ten-year reconstruction of the ship into the flagship of the new United Nations Spacy.}}</ref><ref name="AnimEigo_Char">{{cite web | title=Character Notes | url=http://www.animeigo.com/Liner/MACROSS.t#2 | work=The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Liner Notes | publisher=[[AnimEigo]] | date=2001-12-21 | accessdate=2009-05-19 | quote=Bruno J. Global rose through the ranks of the United Nations Forces thanks to his exploits during the Unification Wars. He helmed ships ranging from a naval submarine and space destroyer to the flagship of the infant Spacy: the ''Macross'' fortress.}}</ref>

In the final episode of the series, the ''Macross'' is the target of a [[kamikaze]] run by rogue Zentradi Captain [[Quamzin Kravshera]] (Khyron in ''Robotech''). His assault does not completely destroy the ''Macross'', but results in severe damage to the ship - including the loss of its main cannon and the ''Daedalus'' landing craft. The ship is repaired and refitted. returning to service as UN Spacy's headquarters. The missing ''Daedalus'' and remaining ''Prometheus'' carrier are replaced by a pair of ARMD-class carriers. The bridge crew also survive almost unscathed (in the ''Robotech'' storyline, the crew perish at the end of Khyron's attack, with Lisa Hayes being the sole survivor) and Macross City is evacuated, due to radiation contamination from the attack.

==In Robotech==
In the [[United States|American]] ''[[Robotech]]'' [[adaptation]], the fictional spacecraft was originally the flagship of an alien scientist named [[List of Robotech characters|Zor]], who was killed as he sent the spacecraft to Earth. A race of aliens called the "Robotech Masters" wants Zor's battle fortress because it holds the Protoculture generator (a fuel source Zor cultivated from the Invid flower that led to further development of the Robotech Masters and Zentraedi technologies that were fundamental to interstellar domination which, in order to maintain them, all depended on the Protoculture fuel source). The Robotech Masters sends the Zentraedi, their army of cloned warriors, to find Zor's ship.

On Earth, there has already been a massive and bloody "global civil war" going on throughout the 1990s when "the visitor" first arrives in 1999. "The Visitor" motivates several of the warring factions to put their differences aside to create the "United Earth Defense Council", which serves as the head of a global military government. After the creation of the UEDC, there are a few minor skirmishes with dissenting nations, but it is not on the scale of the "global civil war" that came before it, nor is it on the scale of the U.N. Wars in the ''Macross'' version. After dealing with those minor skirmishes, work proceeds to rebuild "the visitor" which is eventually renamed SDF-1. In ''Robotech'', Macross is the name of the island in the South Pacific that the spaceship crashes on. Hence, in ''Robotech'', Macross City is named after the island it is originally founded on.

The ensuing war between the Earth forces and the Zentradi is retrospectively labeled the [[First Robotech War]] ([[Space War I]] in ''Macross'').

In February 2014, [[Khyron]] ([[Quamzin Kravshera]] in ''Macross'') the leader of the Zentraedi rebellions, attacks Macross City with the intent of destroying the SDF-1. However, the SDF-1 manages to fire a single shot from its main cannon using all of its remaining power and severely damaging Khyron's battle cruiser. Khyron - determined to have his revenge even at the cost of his own life, pilots his ship into a collision course with the SDF-1. The SDF-1, drained of power and unable to move, is damaged beyond repair in the subsequent collision and explosion. The [[List of Robotech vehicles#SDF-2|SDF-2]], the SDF-1's sister ship which is to be under Commander [[Lisa Hayes]]'s ([[Misa Hayase]] in ''Macross'') command, is also destroyed. (The SDF-2 did not exist in the original ''Macross'' storyline of this episode.) Admiral [[Henry J. Gloval]] ([[Bruno J. Global]] in ''Macross''), Commander [[Claudia Grant]] ([[Claudia LaSalle]] in ''Macross''), bridge operators Vanessa Leeds, Kim Young, and Sammy Porter (Vanessa Laird, Kim Kabirov Shammy Milliome in ''Macross'') and the rest of the SDF-1's crew are killed in the attack - the only survivor being Commander Hayes, who is ejected by the Admiral himself in the only operational escape pod at the last possible moment. New Macross City became too radioactive to be habitable, and is abandoned. Portions of the SDF-1's radioactive hulk are buried under three gigantic mounds and the city surrounding it is completely leveled, although not before everything that can be salvaged from the wreckage of the three ships is recovered for further use in the rebuilding of Earth and the construction of the SDF-3 Pioneer.

Unknown at the time, a Protoculture matrix is buried within the wreckage of the SDF-1. When the Robotech Masters realize that the Zentraedi have failed to retrieve it, they begin a 15-year journey in their motherships to find it themselves. When they arrive in Earth orbit in 2029, it marks the beginning of the [[Second Robotech War]].

==Merchandise==

===Toys===
The first toy replica of the SDF-1 ''Macross'' was made by [[Takatoku Toys]] during the original series' run. It completely resembled its anime counterpart, but with the addition of landing gear on the underside of its ship mode. This toy was imported into the U.S. by [[Matchbox (brand)|Matchbox]] in 1985 as part of the ''Robotech'' line. A smaller version of the SDF-1 ''Macross'' toy was imported to the [[Convertors]] toy line in the 1980s as a ''Maladroid'' character.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

In 2007, Wave released a new ''Macross'' toy replica under the W.H.A.M.! (Wave High Advanced Model) banner. The 1/5000 scale SDF-1 ''Macross'' stood at 9&nbsp;inches tall in Storm Attacker mode and was designed after its appearance in ''Macross: Do You Remember Love?''.<ref>[http://www.hlj.com/product/WAVMC-41?nav=rss HobbyLink Japan - 1/5000 W.H.A.M.! SDF-1 Macross (Transformable)]</ref> In late-2010, Yamato Toys released a 1/3000 scale replica. Originally, they previewed a larger 1/2000 scale prototype, but due to production costs, the company opted for the smaller size. The 1/3000 toy is the first to feature a miniature replica of Macross City, which is located in the Storm Attacker mode's left leg.
==See also==
*[[SDF-2 Megaroad-01]] - The successor to the SDF-1 ''Macross'' in the ''Macross'' universe.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
'''Macross:'''
*[http://macross.anime.net/wiki/Macross_Class Macross Class] at Macross Wiki
'''Robotech:'''
*[http://www.robotech.com/infopedia/mecha/viewmecha.php?id=6 SDF-1] at Robotech.com

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