Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
In the last chapter of Robotech: We got caught up with events in the Local Group up to Colonel Wolff’s arrival. Then we got political grandstanding as a senator decided now is a good time to wave his beam saber around (wait, wrong mecha war series) and take control of Wolff’s ship away from the Army Of The Southern Cross, who wants to use the vessel on a mission Dana still hasn’t told anybody the Zentraedi insist is a waste of time. Now instead of coming together to prepare for the Invid it looks like what remains of the structure of civilization in the shadow Robotechnology and its Protoculture power source is about to fall apart. Already I’m beginning to understand why the Invid won.
We already know that there will be a number of factions involved. Apparently the government will be fighting among themselves between the senators and the military. We also have the Shimada Family who think they can maintain their power base by making friendly with the Invid, a plan that might have worked with the previous two groups except Zor forced the hands of the humans in the first war and retcons have tried to turn a fool into a power monger xenophobe that led to the second. Meanwhile we have the Starchildren, who so far have only been mentioned in passing, and you can bet Dana is going to pull some shenanigans of her own with the goal of getting the Tirolians back home. Frankly I’m only interested in this story because of the characters involved. Usually this really isn’t my kind of tale. Still, we’re here so let’s find out where it’s headed.
