In the begnning the Earth was a simple place as it is now for many. Macross tells a story of a crashed alien battleship and the peace and unity that the threat of alien invasion created for humanity. But then aliens did come to Earth to reclaim this ship they believed to be rightfully theirs. The saga begins with Captain Gloval in charge of the vast alien battleship repaired and reverse engineered with a science that was called Robotechnology. Roy Fokker a veteran of previous Earth wars acted as humanity's ace pilot. With time the saga introduced other characters from simple backgrounds that were to make up the heart of humanity's defense against a mammoth alien armada numbering several million ships.

With song and the human spirit to succeed humanity is lead to victory again and again by the singing talents of a girl known as Lynn Minmei. A love triangle between Minmei, airplane pilot Rick Hunter, and bridge officer Lisa Hayes creates much conflict and a unique way of developing the character's respective traits. The Macross saga is a David and Goliath story. The aliens known as the Zentraedi are 50 feet tall and possess ships and technology much in excess of human capabilities. By contrast all humanity has for its defense is really a repaired and somewhat battered alien space vessel and an inventive crew capable of dealing with problems as they arise for them. And many problems to arise; from special anti gravity system pods lifting through the top of the vessel when first tested, to damage making it impossible to fire the ships main guns.

Such problems are dealth with inventively as all problems truly are. Macross is a character driven story with action, robotics, and incredible aerial and ground based combat scenes that follow a choregraphed precision that is the art of what battle truly is.