Macross Frontier: Meeting Along the Stars [MF/nBSG]

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Macross Frontier: Meeting Along the Stars
Part of the Wayward Family Series
A Macross Frontier and Battlestar Galactica Crossover Story


Written by,

William R. Woods
aka, “deathzealot” or “deathzealotzero” ​

Foreword:

To start things off, I like to welcome you all to the total rewrite of my old Lucky Miracle story, a Macross and Battlestar Galactica Crossover, which I decided to use as my project for this year’s National Novel Writing Month. It will be quite different from the original story with new ideas, and a new will being put into the story. Not to mention I am splitting the main story into two different shorter stories to make things a bit more varied. Both are going to cover a different point of view of a different faction and characters. However, both stories are going to be crossovers, with them being crossed with Macross and Battlestar Galactica.

This story is going to follow the canon characters from Macross Frontier and be based after the end of the TV Series itself. I am going to be playing a bit loose with Macross canon since it is kind of a given that it is quite a headache with the events of the original series and those of the movie Do You Remember Love kind of interact with one another which make things a bit tedious when writing for this fandom. That is not even considering the Frontier movies themselves, which introduce a completely different series of events for the series. Hence. I am warning you all now I am going to be mainly following both the original Macross series and the Frontier series. Though there are some things I am taking from the movies that I liked far better, for example, the characters of Alto Saotome and Ranka Lee had already met before the start of the Vajra War. Though I am not going to have them being close friends as the Frontier Movies had them, they just know each other mostly through Ranka’s best friend Nanase, who is Alto’s classmate. Not mention Ranka being acquainted with Alto’s other major classmates Michael and Luca, through her brother Ozma Lee who works for the private military contractor SMS. Other things I have taken from the movies are quite small that they really don’t matter all that much in the scheme of the story.

Another thing I am going to be following with this story is some of the background stuff from the Variable Fighter Master File books and the Macross Chronicle magazine. All of which I have gotten second hand from either the Sketchley’s Translation Website or one of the Macross Threads on the Mecha Talk forum. So those who have read these publications in their original Japanese and believe I have gotten somethings wrong then I do apologize, but like I said, I got it all second hand from another source.

With that, I am going to end these notes and get to the main event. I like to thank you all for reading, and I do hope you enjoy the story.

- William R. Woods
November 1, 2019

Prelude: Hard Contact

The Colony of Terra Nova was officially settled by the human’s 55th Long Distance Colonization Fleet, titled the Macross Frontier Fleet, on November 21, 2059, on the former homeworld of the Vajra Alien Race who had since mostly left this galaxy behind. Due to the very near Earth-like conditions of the planet, it would be named Terra Nova in honor of this tidbit.

While officially settled on November 21 the Macross Frontier Fleet landed on the planet on September 25 after a massive space battle in orbit against the alien Vajra and later the rebellious Macross Galaxy when it was discovered that they had somehow taken over the Vajra using them to launch attacks across the galaxy including the total destruction of another Colony Fleet. The Frontier Fleet’s Island One City Ship was then landed on the planet while the remaining six Auxiliary City Ships of the Fleet remained in orbit with the remainder of the Fleet’s Defense Forces. Before any construction on a new colony could begin however it will take around a month for the fleet’s various scientists and such to clear the planet for full settlement. While this happened, the colonists of the Fleet where housed in a place that started to be called Landing City on the coast of the inland sea, now known as the Aimo Sea, which was made from dozens of prefabricated buildings stored on the fleet.

It was on November 7 that the construction of Frontier City, on the opposite bank of the Aimo Sea from Landing, was started. The initial construction of the new city was quite quick thanks to transplanting numerous intact buildings from the landed Island One City Ship to the construction site. Finally, on November 21 colony of Nova Terra was officially settled which was celebrated with a three day holiday which included a concert by the joint talents of Ranka Lee and Sheryl Nome, a large carnival hosted by the Galactic Carnival Corporation, a series of Vanquish Valkyrie Races through the skies of the new colony, and finally a large air show which ended with a spectacular firework show that evening.

Outside of the normal, these celebrations were not just for new colonists of Nova Terra but the visiting colony fleets of Megaroad-09 and Macross Olympia who had arrived to not only help in the construction of the new colony but to help further secure the colony from any threats.

- Taken from a Galaxy Network News Article on the Settlement of the Terra Nova Colony
Published, Circa. November 28, 2059AD

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UNAS Horizon
Planetoid A-111-D
A-111 Solar System
Vilos Globular Cluster
September 16, 2061AD

The solar system known simply as A-111 wasn’t anything special just a few rocky planetoids, and a small Venus-like planet all orbiting a tiny brown dwarf star. It didn’t have any notable asteroids, there were no awe-inspiring gas giants, and did not have any habitable planets. It is just a tiny solar system out of the way of anything notable. Even then, it made an excellent place to use as a meeting point hence the reason for three ships to be sitting pretty much peacefully nearby one of the rocky planetoids that made up much of the system. Two ships were clearly warships with several weapon turrets gracing their hull and colored a dark gray while the third ship looked to be some sort of transport ship. It was painted in a yellow and orange scheme that clearly said it was not a warship if its stretched box-like form didn’t already say it. It also a bit smaller than the two warships escorting it coming out just shy of two hundred meters in length.

On the bridge of the transport, a single figure sat at the ship’s helm station could only stare out of the viewport with a starry-eyed look on their face. The figure was a young dark-skinned human male who clearly was not paying any attention to his station or anywhere else on the bridge like he really should be. He just simply stared out of the bridge viewport with a thoughtful almost starry-eyed look on his face as he was lost in his own thoughts about something or another. A second older figure quietly entered the bridge and could only sigh at the sight before taking a seat in the captain’s chair of the tiny bridge that served as the overall brain of the rugged transport ship. This figure took a moment to look at some information on his own station before turning his attention to the first figure.

“Travis!” he barked out at the young man making him nearly jump from his station due to the surprise. The young man, one Travis Mayweather, looked over at the older man with an embarrassed air.

“Dad…I meant Captain, sorry about that…just the Hampton launched a patrol, and I kind of got distracted,” the young lad managed to stutter out to the man who happened to not only be the ship’s captain but the lad’s father as well who only waved his son’s concerns away with a grunt and a thoughtful stare at the younger man. He knew that Travis was quite a fan of watching Variable Fighters and dreamed of piloting one in the future. Therefore, while he was surprised at his son’s dream he still supported him for it would help him in the future.

“I know you can’t wait till you enter the military flight academy back home but please son keep focused on your duty here on the old Horizon for now,” the older man mentioned with a stern frown before it morphed to a small, proud smile when his son only nodded with a wince at his rebuke before turning his attention back to his station. Travis had managed to get accepted to their colony fleet’s premier military flight academy where he would be trained to pilot variable fighters, and when he graduated, he would join the fleet’s defensive garrison fleet.

“That said, I just finished talking with Captain Fredricks. He has informed me that our escort to Terra Nova shall be here in an hour or two. When that happens, we shall be back on our way to the colony,” the man mentioned with a small grin on his face. Travis looked up at this with a curious look on his face.

“Oh? Are they sending anything more than just a couple more Northampton Class Frigates, or are they sending a full-on fleet of ships?” the young man asked as he turned back to his station, adjusting the ships position slightly. His father just shook his head with a broad smile on his face.

“Nope. Apparently, the Terra Nova Government is quite serious about making sure nothing happens to our cargo. They are sending the Macross Quarter herself out to escort us back to the colony,” he mentioned almost unconcerned and was quite amused when he saw his son jolt in some surprise at this statement.

“Really? The Quarter herself!” the young man mentioned in some excitement, making his father laugh in response at his eagerness. He was quite aware of his son had heard all about what that ship had done during the Vajra War. Not to mention the hero worship the young man had with the notable famous pilots who flew off the flight deck of the Macross Quarter.

“Yep like I said apparently Terra Nova is not going to let any chance of someone finding out our cargo and try to take it,” the Captain mentioned with a nod before sighing and once again eyed the display on his own station which his son saw making him calm down a bit from his youthful excitement.

“The cargo is still making you nervous, dad,” Travis mentioned out loud, looking up at this father in some concern. The captain sighed at this before turning his attention back to his son.

“I just think carrying Protoculture Artifacts is dangerous, and the sooner the Quarter arrives, the better,” the captain mentioned with a grim frown on his face making his young son nod in some understanding. However, before anything else could be said between the two a series of large flashes could be seen outside of the ship and the unmanned sensor station of the ship started to beep harshly for attention. The captain quickly brought up the sensor station’s readings on his own monitor and looked at them in some surprise. As outside the flashes resolved into a trio of unknown ships.

“This don’t make any sense,” he muttered in some surprise, “We should have detected them long before this!”

“Dad!” Tavis called out in some surprise as the three ships literally launched a literal storm of missiles at the small convoy. A moment later a cloud of fighters started to launch from the three ships, a cloud that the transport’s sensors were reporting to be somewhere around a thousand unknown fightercraft. Those fighters also launched several missiles apiece themselves filling the once empty space with a massive tsunami of missiles all heading for the three ships.

“Oh god,” his father whispered in dread and looked back down at the sensor readings before looking back up at the viewport. The patrolling VF-171 Nightmare Plus Valkyries turning to intercept the ships were caught flatfooted by the barrage, and numerous missiles slammed into them overwhelming their armor damaging or destroying them. A moment later, the paired Northampton Class Stealth Frigates escorting the transport suddenly erupted themselves as their point defenses started up while several further Nightmare Plus Valkyrie fighters launched from both ships. The approaching missiles soon started to die as between the transforming battleroids of the Nightmares and the ship's point defense weapons. Another closer flash could be seen as one of the frigates, the Hampton, opened up with its primary particle beam cannons which reached out and sliced right through one of the unknown ships with no effort at all destroying the ship while also destroying several of the quickly approaching fighters along its path. This was soon joined by another particle beam cannon from the second frigate, reaching over the top of the Horizon, as it destroyed the second unknown ship, while the Hampton managed to heavily damage the third ship with several hits from its smaller secondary particle cannons. This cheered up the watching men on the bridge of the transport, as the Valkyries slammed into the wave of fighters, destroying dozens of the attacking fighters as they launched their own missiles, but that soon changed as a few dozen of the unknown fighters suddenly disappeared in their own smaller white flashes before reappearing closer to the two frigates and the Horizon before firing off further missiles at the Hampton who happened to be the closet of the two frigates. The ship’s pin-point barriers flared at the destructive force of the exploding missiles, others simply flew past the ship as its ECM spoofed the missiles, and the point defense of the ship managing to take out the rest of the missiles.

The captain on the bridge of the Horizon looked down at his station at some further beeping from it and could only stare in sheer shock at the readings displayed there before with speed he didn’t know he had he grabbed the figure of his son now watching the growing fighter battle in some awe before he suddenly grunted in some surprise at his father grabbed him and with little effort, dragged him towards a nearby, red-colored hatch. With a smash of his fist, the captain slammed the glass covering a single red button next to the hatch and then threw his son bodily through the opening hatch, which led to the emergency escape capsule set aside for the ship’s bridge crew. Then a moment later, saw the hatch slamming shut, and the capsule launched out of the transport.

“Dad! No!” Travis cried out as his head started to clear from the rough handling of his father, and he looked through the small porthole just in time to see several missiles from above and to the sides of the Horizon slam into the ship’s hull. The fighters that launched the missiles soon disappearing in further flashes. Thanks to being only a humble transport, the Horizon didn’t have any armor, nor did it have any sort of barrier equipped. Therefore, the missiles easily breached through the thin hull of the ship before exploding.

“NO!” Travis screamed out as the transport, a ship that he had been born on and had lived on all his life, started to break apart from several internal explosions. He could see a few other escape pods being launched from elsewhere on the ship but nothing from the ship’s bridge much to his horror. That horror continued as he watched as a fourth enemy ship suddenly appeared in a flash literally next to the Hampton and unloaded a broadside of large anti-ship missiles into the vastly smaller ship turning the frigate into a floating burning wreck. The second frigate, the Axelrod moved around its stricken sister ship to fire its main battery at the fourth ship, which resulted in several explosions along the hull of the ship before it disappeared in another large flash. The point defense of the frigate claiming around a dozen further of the tiny attacking fighters as they tried the same trick as with the Horizon, attacking from several angles, but soon the Axelrod joined its sister as with several large flashes a few larger missiles suddenly slammed into the ship splitting it into two halves from a massive explosion from the missiles overloading the ships barriers. A few moments later Travis saw the unknown fighters disappearing in tiny flashes, leaving behind several damaged but intact Nightmare Plus fighters, and everything was quiet once more with only his own quiet sobbing being all the sound, he could hear as his tiny escape capsule peacefully floated along the gathered debris of the battle.

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Post Chapter Notes

Okay. That is the story’s quick little prelude chapter, and right off the bat, we see the Cylons for some reason decided to attack a New United Nations Government Transport carrying protoculture artifacts to the Macross Frontier Fleet’s new colony. This shall be further explored in the next few chapters with it being explained why such a cargo was being transported to the colony. That said, I kind of burrowed the character of Travis Mayweather, his unnamed father, and the name of the Horizon from the Enterprise TV show. This was mainly because I always thought that the idea of the Earth Cargo Services and their freighters were quite interesting. I just changed Travis's fascination from joining Starfleet to piloting Variable Fighters for a living.

Anyhow. I do believe that I am going to be using larger chapter prefaces then I usually do with my stories. This was mainly to somewhat copy how the Macross Frontier series had little infodumps before the start of several episodes. So, expect the majority of said prefaces from being quite long in the scheme of things and a bit of an infodump at times. That said, yes, I named Frontier’s new colony Terra Nova which I think is far better than just the Frontier Colony as some other post-Frontier Series authors do. The idea behind this name came from the second Frontier movie where one of the lines, when Island One made it to the planet’s surface, was that it has a biosphere pretty much exactly like Earth. Hence, I decided to name the colony Terra Nova in honor of that line, which I thought sounded better than just simple New Earth. Besides, I do believe we already have a colony named New Earth somewhere in the background fluff of the Macross series.

Meanwhile, the Macross Olympia mentioned in the preface and be mentioned a few times throughout this story and the series itself is said to be the other sister fleet of the Frontier in some of the background material for the series. It took part in Project Triangular, which was supposed to develop a new Valkyrie fighter for the use of the Frontier, Olympia, and Galaxy Colony Fleets. All of which would be based heavily on the downgraded YF-24 Evolution schematics given to them and other colonies by Earth. The Frontier would develop the VF-25 Messiah, the Olympia would develop the unnamed YF-26, which really didn’t get anywhere, and the Galaxy would develop the VF-27 Lucifer. It is pretty much a given that the Messiah would have ended up winning the development project thanks to the Galaxy’s leadership plan and a few other different things they did with the Lucifer. Thanks to that don’t be surprised to see Messiahs in the service of other colony fleets throughout this story and the series itself.

Anyway, I do think that is about it for these notes of mine. I am still working on the next chapter though once I finish that I am going to be seeing about moving over to the other story. Therefore, I shall see you all when I get that completed in a few days.