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I've seen many pilots from the Prometheus being trained to fly Veritechs. One moment they're happy as a clam. The next, they're wiped out and the crews have to scrape them off before repairing the fighter for the next "hero".
One-shots / July 1995, November 1995, July 1996 / By William Jang
THE LOWDOWN
As the SDF-1 approaches its adopted homeworld in defiance of the Zentraedi blockade, young men and women from the ship's makeshift naval carrier arms, the Daedalus and Prometheus, continue to be pressed into service to man Veritech Fighters and Destroids to fill the thinning ranks of the Robotech Defense Force. One such pilot is Corporal Ken Sato, an Excalibur Destroid pilot reassigned from the Prometheus. As the newest member of of the Destroid team under Lt. Chris Hillary, Ken discovers firsthand how unforgiving mecha combat can be ...
BACKGROUND INFO
The way he describes it in his notes, Return to Macross artist William Jang did this truncated series of one-shots set during the First Robotech War in-between regular jobs and doing Bill Spangler's Mechangel series. Working from what little information he had access to, he managed to crank out one of Academy's better drawn and better scripted side-stories. Possessing only a few minor continuity bugs that actually have very little to do with the book's storyline and a couple of improbibilities that are slightly distracting (Chris Hillary kicking a hatch off of a Destroid and Ken Sato actually surviving his fate at the first issue's end--which I've heard was under orders from Academy Comics, no less), the Macross Missions saga has at least as interesting a cast as any of the Japanese Macross sequels or the numerous Gundam side story OAVs and a storyline that treats the reader with a little more respect than the more juvenile First Robotech War side-stories that Antarctic Press published.
Unfortunately, the series was cut short by Academy Comics' loss of the Robotech comic book license. Two more issues, continuing the Quaking Thunder storyline, were allegedly planned by Jang. What makes it all the more unfortunate is that stories like these, focusing on new characters and expanding the scope of the Robotech story, were publicly put down heavily by Ben Dunn upon Antarctic's aquisition of the Robotech license. He insisted that the series' fans would much rather see Rick Hunter, Lisa Hayes, Max Sterling, and the rest of the original cast in new side-story adventures rather than new casts of characters in all new adventures, whether they be set within the context of the original series or not (i.e. Clone and its kin). In light of how the original cast was treated in Antarctic's side-stories, though, an expansion of the Robotech universe such as this generally excellent series would have been far more welcome ...
MACROSS MISSIONS
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