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Rank: Bioroid Pilot
Age: Not determined

Zor Prime is a classic example of the unpredictability of the Robotech cloning process. Created by the Robotech Masters from genes of the original Zor, father of Robotech, Zor Prime is the last hope of the desperate Robotech hierarchy, if they are ever to regain the secrets of Robotechnology and the production of protoculture. The original Zor put safeguards into the system by hiding all of his notes along with the only protoculture seed factory in the Reflex Furnaces of the SDF-1. He then sent this Space Battle Fortress on a one-way trip into a remote area. Zor Prime is used as a spy by the Robotech Masters to gain information on the extent of the human's knowledge of protoculture, but the plan backfires, and he becomes obsessed with destroying the entire Robotech Masters' society.

• Zor Prime in Bioroid pilot's uniform (line art)
• Zor Prime in Southern Cross uniform and battle armor (line art)
• Zor Prime in Southern Cross uniform and battle armor (color)

"The original Zor put safeguards into the system by hiding all of his notes along with the only protoculture seed factory in the Reflex Furnaces of the SDF-1. He then sent this Space Battle Fortress on a one-way trip into a remote area.

First, notice that this passage states that Zor sent the SDF-1 on its merry way himself, something which has been taken for granted by licensed sources for years, but is never explicitly stated in the TV series. Since he is described earlier in the Guide as being "ancient", this would appear to create a discrepancy. However, the simple way to gloss over this fact is to examine Exedore's profile on page 1-22; it reads, "To Exedore, the SDF-1 is the physical embodiement of the future of Robotech. It indicates the way in which immortality can be realized." As Zor was the father of Robotechnology and knew its deepest secrets (all of which were, as stated above, apparently locked somewhere in the Reflex Engines), he may have discovered the secret of immortality through Protoculture; after all, recall that in the Robotech Masters episodes of the series, the Masters do often refer to the Protoculture Factory being the key to immortality. Of course, this is only one interpretation of the facts presented in the Guide and is not explicitly stated to be as such; using cues from the TV series, other interpretations of the facts are possible.

For instance, in "Boobytrap" the narrator says the SDF-1 escaped from the Zentraedi "by slipping through the time-space continuum". By this token, one could say that the ship made a hyperspace fold jump from Tirol in the distant past--Zor's "ancient" times--to Earthspace circa 1999. This would paint the SDF-1 as the last desperate hope of an ancient and dying civilization, something which Breetai's dialogue in "The Messenger" to Azonia and the Masters' dialogue throughout the second generation episodes suggests. While there are some holes in this interpretation, such as the fact that in this scenario it's taken the Masters far too long to get around to trying to clone Zor in order to reclaim his secrets by that avenue, it demonstrates that there is more than one way to interpret the ideas concerning Zor that the guide illustrates which do not appear in the TV series.